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Went to the Sefton Park Palm House today. A very soothing experience. Please enjoy a few pictures I took and be soothed in turn 🌴🌺

Most people use the term, "luddite" incorrectly. A luddite wasn't against technology, as you all seem to think they were, but against needless technology ruining people's livelihoods and churning out bad quality shite. Given the state of 2025, we should all aspire to be luddites.

I've just done a roughly one min task that I've been putting off for about two weeks and has been eating away at my sanity, sleep and nerves. I feel completely relieved. If you see this, it's your sign to do that thing you've been putting off.

The gardener is constant, but the constant is zero

'Hey uhh.... got any power tools?'

Middle-aged ex-public schoolboy here. Was told as a child that Rap was an abbreviation of Rhythmic American Pop which seemed reasonable. An ethnic minority colleague at work recently informed me that this is not in fact the case.

The pomegranate in Medieval Latin was 'pomum granatum' which literally means "apple with many seeds." That entered Old French as 'pome grenate' & became Modern French "grenade". When a new type of explosive shell was invented made of a hollow metal shell filled with gunpowder ...

Happy Glorious 25th of May! GNU Sir Terry Pratchett. How do they rise up? #Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname

“Is this a dagger I see before me?” Weight: 3 Damage: 11 +2 bonus against kings of Scotland

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

ngl I kinda hate it when people come on social media to talk about how great it is to go outside but then today I went on a bike ride by the canal and I could feel myself getting high on my own supply (of endorphins) so yeah. The grass touchers are right.

They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.

Compare Vonnegut buying an envelope with this tech bro running from his life

If M.R. James wrote safety signage

Following discussion on the Empire podcast, I looked up pictures of young Stalin and now I’m imagining an alternate history where Che Guevara became a reviled murderous dictator, while Stalin was executed by counter-revolutionaries and now this picture is plastered over merch for young idealists:

Hans Hoffmann, 16th century follower of DĂĽrer, breathes life into this wild boar piglet, who looks ready for mischief (1570s)

Found this two-tone rose in our garden this morning, never seen anything like it before! Enjoy

Thirty years on from Clueless and don’t think we’ll ever see a burn sicker than “you’re a virgin who can’t drive” 💅

Yall have probably seen this video before but it unfailingly makes me cry tears of laughter so I’m sharing it anyway: youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg?...

Leaving Canada Water I love that you can see people waiting on the platform at the next station when looking through the tunnel at Rotherhithe London Overground Station. Note: Photography taken safely behind the yellow line, no flash & a zoom lens

Happy Mother's Day. ❤️ www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

What’s the best app/website for exploring and saving interior design ideas? I always used Pinterest before but it’s now filled with annoying adverts and AI sludge

A tragic tale: I'm in Starbucks and the server is trying to find a spoon for a customer but can only find a shit load of knives. I say "that's ironic" and noone got it.

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

Before the internet, people used to say things like "Jimi Hendrix did so much heroin he had to mix it with peanut butter and inject it behind his eyeballs to even feel anything", and we just rolled with it. Yeah, that sounds right.

Sinners (2025)

Happy Sunday everyone! Here’s a picture of Marine Lake, Waterloo, Merseyside

The bluebells were intense at Blackbury Camp hillfort this morning

Just catching up with the latest WorldCon drama and… wow. Obviously the US political situation/visa issue is out of the con organisers’ control but… using the plagiarism machine?!?? They must know that the writing community is vehemently opposed to generative “AI” What a stupid, unnecessary error

Useful advice on how to write to your MP from an expert trans lawyer: translucent.org.uk/a-guide-to-h...

Featuring my story “A Banquet in Turquoise and Indigo” and lots more!

Genius.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon