Tits McGee

Please consider buying a print. This is just a random plug and definitely isn’t because I’ve just had a massive bill from the dentist. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

Checked my bank account and a 4-figure invoice I submitted to the client on Friday has been paid

I am kind of hoping this awful mess might prompt Ministers and officials to think twice about companies that promise 'AI-powered/enabled' services Just because a company says that's what it is going to do, does not mean that's what it will actually do

Looks like the PM has just announced on LinkedIn Statutory Paternity Pay for self-employed parents

Very much on board with cheaper gherkins 👍

I get a lot of spam emails inviting me to submit to random predatory journals but this is the best one yet. Not sure how martian meteorites are relevant to nutrition, beyond the fact you probably shouldn't be eating them.

#caturday #cats

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'South London Nighthawks (Where the flowers bloomed)' (2025) by Shaquille-Aaron Keith shaquillekeith.com

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

Guessing this wasn't supposed to have been published yet? ballondor.com/news/posts/h...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

For 33 years I was living in pain every month. I finally had a hysterectomy (for fibroids) and they found endometriosis when they did it. Up til then I'd been told "most women find periods uncomfortable." I'd been unable to walk due to the pain for 1-2 days per month. I was on prescription codeine.

Solar is booming.

These wildlife in the city images are superb

My mate managed to get this shot of a seagull pasty heist in action

My wife once had an entire, enormous crab sandwich lifted from her hand by a gull in St Ives. Absolute precision attack, really incredible to see. Seven years on, she's still furious.

There was a pizza restaurant in Bristol with a roof terrace and I saw a gull take a full 14 inch pizza off a plate.

I lived in Cornwall for 5 years, and Cornish gulls do NOT mess around I didn't see it myself, but my granddad witnessed a gull in St. Ives swoop down out of nowhere and take A WHOLE PASTY out of a man's hand The angle, the speed, the surprise - just incredible technical execution of the task

It's easy to laugh at Liz Truss

You almost have to admire the fact that her thinking is untethered to trivial things like reality

This is great

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

This is lovely - London Centric stay up all night as Oxford St is pedestrianised. Love the teenage bus geeks travelling in to ride on the last bus, confused taxi drivers, pedicab riders determined to keep using the street. Then a rainbow as the sun comes up www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

I wrote about getting out of a creative/career slump (because recently I was in said creative/career slump) --> andreamann.com/blog/how-i-g... #scriptsky

me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

Oh, it turns out the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street also means cyclists are not allowed to cycle down it, but many have been ignoring calls by security staff to dismount www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Supporters filled the streets shouting and crying in celebration as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term. reut.rs/4eQvpRC

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."

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Oh, thank god #Brazil

The Moon and the IMAX And King’s College

Good screening of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma with intro by Gillian Anderson A fine way to spend a Sunday evening