Spooky Simon Wheatley 👻

perfect, no notes

Yissss

Catching owls under a full moon

Sorry but this isn't how you take care of a hotel

🤨 From Viz 😂

Check out m’friend @shaunusher.bsky.social talking about his labours on @lettersofnote.com, and waxing lyrical about letters and life more generally. Start at 57 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

Taken on 17/07/2023 in Glasgow Artist insta @smugone #streetart

read all your "jokes" about the clocks changing, that's an hour of my life I will get back

Time to get up, I SUPPOSE.

Adrian Tchaikovsky Exasperated Face

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Apple introducing the first-generation iPod. To celebrate, Apple has hidden a fully functional iPod emulator on its Apple Music “Page Not Found” page.

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

If anyone wants to put the eMudhra private key on a T-Shirt: -----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY----- MA8CAQEEAQSgBwYFK4EEACI= -----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----

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

Crows will pwn your ass on PS5.

PRIVATE KEY NUMBER FOUR I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE

My friend was on Portrait Artist of the Year on the telly and painted this, it’s for sale on eBay! ebay.io/m/IaLy4p

It also shows how little product strategy seems to matter these days. Anthropic was merging Cowork into Claude, only to launch a separate Duet app. Product strategy by FOMO.

if you hack my website you’re in trouble

Morning.

Oh my DAYS

Late to the party, I read Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social katemacdonald.net/2026/10/15/p...

I wrote a book called Pagans! It was Waterstones SFF Book of the Month this February! It's not available in the US (sorry) and the sequel is planned to come out early next year (2027). www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

TIME UNIT UPDATE: ONE ZACHARIA IS 0.636 SCARAMUCCIS

"it may be a more pleasant form" is so unsettling, like something a serial killer nicknamed 'The Upholsterer' would say

I've said for a long time that the economics profession owes Trump big time. You've never had a real world test of "what if a President does everything he can to raise inflation?" a generation of PhD dissertations will be written on this.

Why is “rest in peace” exclusively reserved for dead people? Pretty sure everyone alive would be thrilled with some peaceful rest.

Very much enjoying “Pagans” by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social

Is there a Fred Dibnah resurgence or is it just my algorithm?

A day off to get up a hill and then on the outside of a beer or two.

Okay so to revisit this because there's a lot of point-missing going on: If I'm running large sets of commercial fridges, I want data. I want real-time temperatures, I want amperage and voltage statistics so I can intuit if Something Is Going Wrong.

Pascal’s wager (updated, 2026 version)

any other streams or is that all of them?

Very rare footage of a vegan plane refuelling…

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

Dolly Peel, fishwife and smuggler, South Shields, 1850. When her husband and son were press-ganged, she snuck on board ship and hid. Discovered, she was allowed to work as a nurse and stay with her family.