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"I was told," said the princess, "that the point of fairy tales is not to tell children dragons exist, but that they can be killed." "Oh, absolutely!" said the dragon. "You agree?" "These rich, selfish, powerful, cruel beings that need killing, did you think they're literally dragons, princess?"

Tomorrow is MathsJam, happening online and in pubs all over the world! Find your local and join some people doing maths for fun by visiting https://mathsjam.com .

I just signed a petition to stop Big Oil killing cleaner flights. Planes can already fly on cleaner fuel made from waste, and the EU has a law to make it happen. But the oil giants like BP and Shell are lobbying to kill it. Add your name now: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09...

MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. Get involved at https://mathsjam.com !

Tomorrow evening is MathsJam, happening online and in pubs around the world! Find your local and join some recreational maths friends by visiting https://mathsjam.com .

Don’t forget that as well as being a monthly evening event, MathsJam also has annual gatherings! The UK one is 14-15 November in Kents Hill and online - details at https://mathsjam.com/gathering/uk

MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. See how to join in at https://mathsjam.com !

MathsJam is today! For anyone who wants to join in, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games for you to enjoy (no spoilers please!) https://mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf

For tomorrow's MathsJam, we've put together a pair of origami footballs printed with the design of this year's World Cup Ball (the Trionda) which you can print and fold! Thanks to Ottawa MathJam for the idea, and to Alice Zhang for putting the design together: mathsjam.com/assets/...

me on the elevator

Only one week until MathsJam - an opportunity to meet other maths fans, and do maths, in a pub or virtual pub. Find out more and join in at https://mathsjam.com

For this year's MathsJam UK Gathering, the early-bird cutoff is a number of tickets - the first 101 people to book will get a discount, so don't miss out! The Graph of Doom is already looking quite steep, and more than half the early-bird spaces are gone already...

Tonight's the night! For anyone joining in at home, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games to keep you busy (no spoilers please!) https://mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf

The UK MathsJam Gathering includes four sessions of lightning talks sharing maths puzzles and interesting things, generous coffee breaks, evening table activities, a bake-off, a sing-a-long, two lunches and dinner. Join other maths fans for a recreational maths extravaganza! mathsjam.com/gatheri...

As well as our monthly pub hangouts, there are also larger annual MathsJam gatherings - one in the UK around November, and one in Oceania (New Zealand) - for details visit https://mathsjam.com/gathering

Booking is now open for the 2026 MathsJam UK Gathering! Join us in Kents Hill on 14-15 November for a weekend of recreational maths, meeting cool people and sharing interesting maths! Details at mathsjam.com/gathering/uk

Tomorrow night is MathsJam, happening online and in pubs around the world! Find your nearest and join some people doing maths for fun by visiting https://mathsjam.com .

Only one week until MathsJam - an opportunity to meet other people who enjoy maths, and solve puzzles, in a pub or virtual pub. Find out more and join in at https://mathsjam.com

MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. Find your nearest at https://mathsjam.com !

For London UK @mathsjam.bsky.social I have table 5 big round table at the back

Tonight's the night! For anyone joining in at home, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games for you to enjoy (no spoilers please!) https://mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf

Happy new Chalkdust! Issue 23, featuring sleep, coffee and cheating at Tetris feature in our SS26 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns. Read it for free RIGHT NOW at chalkdustmagazine.com/.

It's on tonight, there is an online MathsJam if the tube strikes affect you. Also @chalkdustmag.bsky.social has a new issue published

Stupid idea about song "Stacey's mum" what if the lyrics was changed to "age appropriate adult for age appropriate....mum" or similar, I've seen other parodies of the song not sure I've seen a fix for the song

Came to Bedford. Was not disappointed. #heighthunt

Scraphead challenge might be back...kind of zaphead challenge all electric www.kickstarter.com/projects/zap...

ink & essence

As much as YouTube shorts get a bad rep scifri is pretty good youtu.be/FZTnxwGt1lM?...

Out of all the short films I watched last week, this one was great youtu.be/Jvqvo5OwCH0?...

Watching Loot, feels like a misleading title I have a better one "Molly means Well"

This short film (12 minutes) is labelled as a horror but it's very funny youtu.be/y3oLGASdXYE?...

Santa claus was on the naughty list? Most people have nothing to worry about then 😂 youtu.be/ndkpkUJQNx8?...