I decided to try out the solar filters on my smart telescope in advance of next week's eclipse. It worked. Sunspots imaged!

Today I discover Polish ambient elecronica collective Sundial Aeon thanks to a FSOL mix of their work, Stillness of Terrains. Recommended writing music of the day. Many albums on Bandcamp and your choice of streaming services. beatspace-impactstudio.bandcamp.com

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This has the glorious chaotic energy of the early Morph animations and I love it.

David K. Barnes@davidkbarnes.com · yesterday

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedOrDead, any bird with red in the capture but not on the bird or a photo of a bird on bare winter branches. There's an alt of #SummerVisitors. A swift photobombs the Red Arrows on a London flypast for a twofer. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #london #swift

Mr C of the Shamen gets a little political in his old age… youtu.be/Uj5LUE2LIGA?...

SHEMAN - Count Binface (Official Video) | Ebeneezer Goode Parody by Mr.C of The Shamen

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Had to go to the big Shepherds Bush Westfield to get my phone fixed at the Genius Bar. I don't think I've been anywhere like it since before the pandemic.

was alerted by a reader that the bloom county house is for sale, though apparently in some disrepair www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

2026 is absolutely layering on with a trowel the lesson that if you want a good obituary, lead a decent life

Here it is, folks: Ben Baldwin's classic cover for The Green Man's Debt. Pre-orders will start to open in a day or two. The book will be available on September 10th.

"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury's melancholy obituary for a dead world, is set today.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FabulousWaders. From the archives: on St Pete Beach in Florida, a sandpiper catches a crab for its dinner. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #florida #sandpiper

This is brilliant.

Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Possibly the best SF show the BBC ever did was about this! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Cops

Star Cops - Wikipedia

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John Shirley@johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 2d ago

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

From inbox 1700 to inbox 17. Ooof.

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I just told @marypcbuk.bsky.social that I quite like diluting concentrated cold brew coffee with chilled fizzy water and she is now slowly moving away from me.

Recent Reads: Titanium Noir. Nick Harkaway's SF thriller is a metaphor. A life-extending therapy makes giants, the titans. The process is controlled by one titan, its creator, and limited to a new, no-longer human, elite. A human PI is on the case of murdered titan. Dark secrets will come to light.

I find the choice of images used on obituaries rather telling about the person being described. I mean, it's very clear what position The National is taking here, and the BBC isnt that far away...

Today' s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Firsts, some of your earliest bird captures. So it's back to 2004 for my and @marypcbuk.bsky.social's honeymoon and a whale watching boat trip from Kaikoura in New Zealand, where I saw this petrel. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #newzealand #petrel

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BestOfJuly. From last week on Jersey, a pair of juvenile herring gulls fly along the tide line at St Clement's Bay. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #gull

Recent Reads: Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees - Rite Of Spring. It is eight years since serial killer bear Samantha dealt with the prospect of discovery. But now the obsessed sister of one of her victims is on her trail, with help from the internet. This is scary not Scarry, in Murdertown USA.

Maines are both food-motivated and smart. @onlyphrynes.com has worked out how to open the cat food storage bin…

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OverTheRainbow, any bird looking skyward. Alt #HedgingYourBets, any bird in a hedge or bush. Here's a house sparrow clinging to some bamboo and giving us a twofer. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #sparrow

Recent Reads: International Rescue Technical Operations Manual. Like the rest of Anderson Entertainment's illustrated volumes, this has the conceit of being an in-universe book, guiding new agents through the machines and people of Thunderbirds. Mainly machines, of course. A gorgeous, hefty read.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EgretsAndHerons, any egret or heron will do. The alt is #Yellow, any bird with yellow as part of its plumage. Do this little egret's yellow feet count as a twofer, exploring rockpools at St Catherine's on Jersey? #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #egret

Recent Reads: Slow Gods. Claire North's space opera is a fascinating read. FTL kills pilots, driving them mad. But one survives, not quite of this world. A supernova kills worlds and civilisations, but North focuses on little moments in the pilot's journey, the love that drives all and builds gods.

Recent Reads: The Scarab Mission. James L. Cambias' Billion Worlds is a posthuman far-future mundane SF solar system, where travel remains slow and expensive. But there is still scope for adventure, in tales like this one of scavengers in a dead habitat uncovering dark secrets - some of them theirs.

Looks like someone pirated Daily Science Fiction's entire output and posted them here, claiming to have author permission. At least a dozen authors to my knowledge have said they didn't grant permission. If you were published by DFS, you might wanna consider a Cease and Desist.