Mat Bowles (He/Þei)

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

We only have one clock in the house that doesn't automatically update in some way Fear me, for I have finally remembered to do the kitchen wall clock!

Just heard Always worth watching, even when he's being a complete git

RIP to this man. This is a really powerful 62 seconds of video.

Question: outside earlier, several houses had stacks of pumpkins outside Not carved—different sizes, shapes, varieties, piled up Is this some new trend that makes no sense? Pumpkins are easier to carve a Jack O'Lantern into than a fucking mangle wurzel, it's the lantern that's significant FFS

The border geek in me loves when Jonn does this stuff but this particular one I knew already :-D What was fascinating to the linguistics geek in me was the British to American translation at the bottom: we learn the actual objects, pavement/sidewalk, jam/jelly but colloquiallisms can be weird

When I was a high school student, I had to be judicious about reading mass market paperbacks in class but today I could fit whole libraries onto my phone and a phone must be easy to read in class.

In three days, it'll be the twelfth anniversary of this picture That'll do

Jennie is in That London again, so it's daily trips to the train station time Wait until a train arrives, she's not on it, we can leave then Um, I ain't waiting that long in this cold silly beast, I know she's not on it

Yes, we can have nice things. Thanks to gravitational lensing. nautil.us/nasa-shares-...

holy shit this is actually brilliant

If you read between the lines where you might see why I am so frustrated with The Rest Is History

Solar farms in the Gobi are cutting dust storms. A study of 17 farms found the panels slow surface winds by more than 9% and make soil up to 17% less erodible, reducing springtime dust by about 352,000 tonnes a month. RenewEconomy buff.ly/bambHT8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

As book adverts go, this is rather cool Bit niche, but so's the book

No matter what this image never fails to cheer me up

Now over to our PHP expert to explain what this all means:

This is genuinely embarrassing for the BBC and for anyone with "cyber correspondent" as a job title. Everyone involved with this should be cringing inside out.

when Baldur's Gate one launched, it was "AD&D", almost a laughing stock stuck with first generation RPG rules Gate, 3rd edition/D20 system and the Open Games Licence turned it around, but Gate opened it up to a different demographic in time for Ryan Dancey's rescue to turn it around

We come back to the idea of Execs who really don't understand art or why people make art, in any way, finding ways to absolutely annihilate those that do, in a death of a thousand cuts and then one big 400-person cut. It's heartbreaking. The western games industry kills a NIntendo every year.

This is fascinating, always thought the fast expansion from almost nothing was a bit much and very unusual Turns out it started way earlier, I'm loving the way science can now answer stuff we thought unknowable

Contender for #EarlyModern name of the day: Cobham Doves. Which was the name of a mariner of Dover whose will was proved in 1608, and also the name of a mariner of London whose will was proved in 1664. ⚓🕊️⚓🕊️⚓🕊️⚓🕊️⚓🕊️⚓🕊️⚓🕊️⚓🕊️⚓🕊️⚓🕊️⚓

Ooh says I, those seats look just like... Oh, they are those seats The closure of Paignton cinema was a ridiculous travesty and it's been neglected deliberately for far too long Used to claim being one of the oldest still going, 25 years shut kills that, but thank fuck someone's rescuing it

Not the stone age, it was the wood age

Sickening. This is what happens when you keep telling bigots their views are valid.

Scrolling down, see something that looks familiar, do a bit of digging and yes, it's her! Trish, formerly of Citadel/Marauder/ForgeWorld is sculpting her own stuff and some of it is so so good Always did love her treemen, even got a halfling Blood Bowl team just to justify owning another one :-D

these bikes are made for jousting and that's just what they'll do one of these days these bikes are gonna break your lance in two

In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows:— "I am great Ozymandias," saith the stone

council employee: oh hey you guys are back early archivist: archive's haunted council employee: what? archivist: *loading a pistol and getting back in the strongroom* archive's haunted

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like. Look, when I mention "my favourite beach" it's this one, used to go swim in when I finished my paper round

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Homesick just a little bit now Always love looking at a road/hedgerow that could be anything between a couple hundred and a couple thousand years old but no one's quite sure

Not now, mysterious ancient cauldron

Oh hell everyone beat me to that joke an hour ago. In my defense I just saw the news. Converting it to metrics for my British friends.