Adrian Bowyer

My new album, Cliff of Stars, is out today! Here's a sample track. Full album details from my publisher here: helichron.com/music.html www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHYA...

I mean. I have BOUGHT cars for less than 750 quid...

Cats are very efficient at internalising and obeying imposed rules. Their internalisations are all of the form: When there is a human being present, I may not do X.

The Wikipedia community has built a tool that makes it possible to embed our interactive Our World in Data charts right in any Wikipedia page. I have always admired Wikipedia and all the people contributing to it. And I'm very happy that our work now can get used this way!

Also, what's all the panic about "AI systems rapidly approaching human-level intelligence" going rogue? There are already eight billion systems on this planet with human-level intelligence. Some of them do go rogue, and all are A LOT more difficult to control. But we seem to manage by and large.

Instantly clear how it works from an engineering perspective.

They had a cast-iron security guarantee from the US, Russia and the UK under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum when they gave up their nuclear weapons. That worked really well, didn't it?

Christ! I can barely speak French*, and have even less German**. But I sometimes watch French or German TV with the subtitles off just for the hell of it. --- * Two lessons a week between 11 and 15; almost none seems to have stuck. ** One term university evening course; ditto.

Looked up just yesterday. "Who's that ancient bald bugger?"

Partly the fash at the Beeb, of course. But it's also the fact that Reform really understand something that the Libs and Greens seem not to. Live TV schedules are a continuous production panic of blank that has to be filled. If your party is doing a speech that's vaguely relevant they'll cut to it.

You can just imagine the person at the Bank of England on the other end of the phone. "Oh Christ! It's her and him again. They want to have Another Meeting about their batshit ideas. Shall we just do the usual? Take the uniforms off a few cleaning staff and send them."

3 y.o. grandson: "I'm just going into Grandma's Studio to do some painting." *closes door behind him* I have known Grandma since she was 19. I have seen Grandma come second in the 200m. I have never seen Grandma move so fast in all her life.

3 y.o. grandson: "I'm just going into Grandma's Studio to do some painting." *closes door behind him* I have known Grandma since she was 19. I have seen Grandma come second in the 200m. I have never seen Grandma move so fast in all her life.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Also. I initially parsed "miss World Pasta Day" as some form of beauty contest...

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Democracy has delivered: Vučić has conceded the Serbian election. ✅ Lula holds Brazil. ✅ Labour well ahead again in the UK. ✅ Now we need Netanyahu gone and the Democrats to take US House and Senate.

Once. Just once. I'd like to watch a dystopian science fiction movie or TV series that doesn't have someone welding or using an angle grinder with a shower of iron sparks.

Nothing makes me feel more like a citizen of the Earth than overhearing my half-Bangladeshi half-Indian British daughter chat to her best friends from Yorkshire, Germany, Italy, Russia, Jordan and Spain, nattering away in Catalan...

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

We have a 2 KVA generator and will shortly have 15,000 litres of rainwater storage*. So I suppose I just need a pack of sterilising tablets... --- * Nothing to do with the fucking Russians, but everything to do with the #ClimateEmergency

Incredible!! 🌈 And just in time for Halloween decorations… www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The water regulator should say that no water company can pay any dividends until all the infrastructure is updated and made robust against drought.

The replies to this joke are pure Bluesky.

It'll be interesting to see the debate around restoration...

A universal rule for life is: When it is not necessary to make a decision it is necessary not to make that decision.

I start emails Dear X, and end them with Best wishes Adrian or Yours sincerely/faithfully [as appropriate] Adrian I shall now redouble my efforts.

I have and still use a hole punch that was given to me by Father Christmas in my stocking sometime in the late 1950s.

😄 And another thing... Why not use non-rare non-expensive neon? A 30cm party balloon filled with neon should float.

Ignoring, for the moment, the terrible wrong, what did he THINK was going to happen, politically?

Tibetan prayer wheel.

We often take our 3 y.o. grandson to the supermarket. We do it because he likes riding in the trolly and seeing all the groceries and chatting with the ladies who make the sushi. But he is also a useful parking ticket...

A deserted Kelvin Way in the West End of Glasgow turned golden by autumn leaves stripped from the surrounding trees by Storm Boelo as it passes across the city this afternoon. #glasgow #kelvinway #stormboelo #autumnleaves #glasgowtoday

"Wright named the George Inn, of Norton St Philip, Somerset, as the oldest pub in England." Just down the road. Had a Guiness there a while back.

Liberace's Lavatory...

It has nothing to do with volume. It has to do with skill.

AAAAAAAGGGGHHH!!!!

Though it's a bugger turning out of a blind T junction.

The most frustrating thing for every scientist and engineer on the planet is that WE HAVE THE ANSWER to the climate crisis. But the fucking politicians will only implement about a third of it. If someone's on fire, you don't put a third of it out with a fire extinguisher then say, "Good enough."

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy

If it was bright enough, that is how it really would look. Which would be incredibly cool.

Used to live there, and still visit quite often. This is true.

In the long term this is way more destructive than Jackdaw, because it actively slows down electrification and weaning households off residual LNG consumption.

This is really dumb. Pylons cost about £1.5M per km. Underground £6.5M.