felt smart, might delete later

Ruin a song by adding "In my pants" to the title

Fun fact! Masking keeps the miasma at bay too!

And since I said it somewhere else, I’ll say it here: I want a future where the government doesn’t have a right to measure my hormones or chromosomes, and where I can access meaningful healthcare, where my health information remains private, is influenced by best practices and not politics…

Why hello there Bluesky. I’ve heard this is the place to go for people who finally got round to deleting twitter. I wrote this for @thebristolcable.bsky.social about last year's Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of 'sex' and how it has affected trans people: thebristolcable.org/2026/06/i-do...

This is fascinating and very unsettling. Not that it's an exposé of unethical practices or anything (though YMMV). Worth a read but take the topic as your warning.

It's called being human, maybe you've erred of it

Click the link to find out if the pic is Mr Wilson or Mr Archer

They're saying "Boo-urns unit!"

"Maple (fallen)", oil on unstretched canvas, 5 1/2 x 7", 2026 - $100(Cdn) #painting #art #canadianart

Staggered that I haven't heard of this before. This is *amazing* and I'm seriously considering making the trip out to Hannover to see it in person

Shittest Matrix reboot ever

We have begun an incremental rollout of Earth 2.0. Users who have been experiencing issues with their Earth 1.0 install should update as soon as possible as support for this system has already terminated.

Fantastic long read on the Lebedev-era Standard. Or as the Standard itself describes it (gleefully quoted in the piece itself), “a shameless attempt by a wannabe rival to denigrate London’s newspaper”. www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...

Fascinatingly literal translation from Czech here (would usually be labelled "pull")

Concerning

Great to see @eurcorrespond.bsky.social covering @jonworth.eu's longest train journey project. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/from-fi...

I was very sad to hear about the death of Cassandra Wilson. Saw her at Ronnie Scott's when I was a teen & adored her singing - a formative experience. Here's looking at you, kid.

Make a band deadly: Peter, Paul and Typhoid Mary

Make a band deadly: Taking Heads

Many years ago I was working on a story idea based around a God who was omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and responsive to prayer but nonsentient, with no judgement or awareness. I couldn't make the story work but wish I hadn't given up now.

These pots are stunning.

This Friday is my birthday! And my publisher just gave me some *audiobook codes* for The Dragon Has Some Complaints, so I'm celebrating with a giveaway. All you have to do to enter is 1) follow me on here 2) reskeet this post 3) reply naming one of your favorite monsters!

Ents on the move www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Oh shit the person who did this amazing work is (a) on here, (b) seems to have a load more great rabbit-hole content and (c) WHAT THE FUCK HAS HARDLY ANY FOLLOWERS. Alas I don't have any followers either but if you see this please boost them because going by the green bottles post they are boss.

I'm heartsore. To lose these two magnificent, beautiful people so close together... It feels desperately unfair.

Three things all around the same time: the Greenham Common Peace Camp. The Miners' Strike. And the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. My god it's like I was created by a lazy scriptwriter.

As a teenager I picked up an ARC from a secondhand bookshop in London that blew my mind. A few years later I had to buy a new copy as it was falling apart (I'd bought others as gifts, but not for myself). I was shocked to discover quite a lot of changes. I hadn't realised at all.

BARGAIN ALERT! To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the million-selling tv-bound infuriatingly-inaccurately named Dublin Trilogy, the first three books are a scandalous 99p/99c on kindle. Grab ‘em now and tell a friend! amzn.to/4wI7nhK

Long queue and passport checks at the Lithuanian - Polish border. Looks like the army as well as police ("Border Guard" hi-viz but military fatigues). A proper passport check, too, not just a glance at the covers. @aoifewhite.bsky.social

I must admit I thought this would finish at 100 but the beating off will apparently continue until morale improves

Of all the uncles out there, this man may have been the uncle-est. The uber uncle. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/the-limous...

Love it!

I like this idea. I've a suspicion there are some gaps in the numbers but a quick look at some of the big ones suggests it might have legs.

Bought before I forget again

Well it wasn't totality but that was way cooler than I expected. Admittedly being on a beach in Latvia didn't hurt. Nor did taking the boat out for a wee paddle in the waves in the strange light. Still, the sun and moon show took top billing. Good job those two, well done

Close encounter with the real Blackadder yesterday

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Not tagging cos I'm not that kind of dick but there's a poster I really like who's become addicted to the whole "roses are red..." meme and it's soooooo annoying. They're not even good at it.

Love will always conquer hatred. Unity will always conquer division. And lightness will always overcome darkness.

Sadiq Khan has a post sharing support for the queer community after the attack in Berlin. It's simple but beautiful. And comments and quote skeets are off, presumably because he knows London's Muslim mayor sharing such a message is going to be an inevitable magnet for hate. I feel sad.

A lot of concussed-kitten readings of that t-shirt today. The idea it was an actual threat, incitement to or endorsement of violence is idiotic. Obviously the fake outrage is to be expected but a lot of generally quite sensible people are being very very silly about it.

Today I saw a snake catch a fish! It must have been a grass snake, given where I am (Czechia).

Family of sparrows at the feeder today. One was clearly mummy's favourite: although the little ones can obviously all fly and feed themselves (and they're all as big as she is), mummy was still feeding just this one.

In honour of The Odyssey's release: you've heard of "Elf on a shelf". Here's...

If you read the rest of this thread, well, obviously you have only yourself to blame.

I gave Ajax this ball and in exchange he gave me one of my gel earplugs that has been missing for a week that he *somehow* knew was hidden in that specific plant pot under that particular leaf.

A few days before Christmas 2016, a grey Land Rover paused in front of a bank of mirrored windows at this checkpoint on the border between France and Switzerland. What happened next revealed just how looted art worms its way into museums. A 🧵 about my article: hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...