Adam Butterworth

I'm not used to having this many non-bot followers. Hello 👋 You can mostly expect to read posts from me about: - Rocks and climbing on rocks - Pictures of my dog - Occasional thoughts on films - Fun tidbits of mountaineering history I predict you will mostly engage with: - Pictures of my dog

Good morning to the fine people of Brazil and Serbia.

Tag yourself. I'm fetid mental anguish.

Always said Ash was a talented guy with exemplary taste. And you can be too 👉 alpineclub.org/shop/2026-al...

Thought I could make a decent go of this having interviewed Tommy Caldwell, but it turns out they never actually met, so I'm back to my old MP to Gordon Brown to Obama. Is that 3 or 4?

BIG JET TV is all fun and games until you have a flight back to the UK today...

Gotta be the first in line to wait at the baggage carousel for when your bag inevitably comes off last.

Regret to report that the Hofmeister bear guy is annoyingly good with pen and ink.

Approaching my third week in Mexico:

Theresa May has a back piece of Hayek.

Wish I could like this twice.

Wednesday reading 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

People will really log on to Al Gore's internet and try to tell you that Indian partition was bloodless.

I have no idea what a Malfoid is and you people can't make me learn.

Spending my entire holiday in Mexico pronouncing guacamole like it rhymes with whack-a-mole.

Am going to have a very hard time getting "These bikes are made for jousting, that's what they're gonna do..." Out of my head. So thanks for that, Aunty.

.oot em ot gnineppah s'tI

Turning Japanese by The Vapours. Horrendous on its own, but enters truly horrific territory if one half of the wedding is East Asian and it's sung by a new in-law.

catfishing.net #844 - 9/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐟🐈 I am going to become the joker...

Think a lot of other fields could learn from the thoughtful ways in which mathematicians are processing the changes being wrought by AI. One of the quotes in here had me thinking again about @doctorow.pluralistic.net's reverse centaur.

Looking up a Mexican crooner who was playing in a restaurant we ate at and I saw there was a 'more' link on his 'spouse' tab. Am now choosing not to read any more and simply inventing my own head canon for his personal life.

Having worked for an outdoor clothing brand in the past, it was an internal joke that all of the company directors wore our gilets year round (one of them with red trousers) and none of the rest of the staff even owned one despite them being available to us at cost.

Merida, Mexico.

Currently on holiday in Mexico and, having spent years noticing the point in the day when North America wakes up and logs on, that's now me. I look forward to failing to catch up properly with the discourse, being racist about British food and assuming everything is about North American politics.

People do famously switch which football team they support based on the composition of the management.

If I were Angela Rayner, I'd be having a hard time choosing my new profile picture right now.

This is pornography erasure.

Great opportunity for research funding into alpinism, mountaineering and mountain environments... @alpineclub.bsky.social @alpineclublib.bsky.social #Mountains #Mountaineering #EnvHist

Me and my 9 (okay, I used to have long hair and wear a lot of denim) albums.

Everyone is saying Nicolas Roeg's 'The Witches' and it's a great choice, but I'd like to shout out the audiobook version of it I had as a kid because I used to fast forward through the high witch's speech in terror. As ever, picture's better on the radio.

You fool, don't you realise I've already depicted myself as the triumphant Kemi Badenoch and you as the tiny, weeping Robert Jenrick.

Richard Curtis hearing this and immediately calling up Danny Boyle to pitch a movie.

Brian Wilson *writes melody of almost agonising perfection* This one's called "Gee Wilikers It's Netball Season"

Yes, this radical change from the Starmer administration which *checks notes* also kept going on about tree planting...

Ending the triple lock isn’t the same as cutting pensions. Thatcher linked the state pension to inflation rather than earnings growth with the result that the value of pensions fell relative to earnings. The triple lock was designed to reverse than trend. It’s done its job. Restore the earnings link

CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism