God love Kew, this is incredible

1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."

Look what we have here then.

#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎

You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...

Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

Robin on a recently pruned hedge with beak wide open

'AND ANOTHER THING...'

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

A scruffy but very round robin standing on a fencepost

Scruffy little robin. What he lacks in sophistication, he more than makes up for in ROUNDness 🥰
Mortonhall #Edinburgh

Two-panel comic First panel There's a laptop and a mountain of paperwork. Second panel An axolotl is looking at it, doing nothing but just drinking coffee.

☕️

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Pleased to report that Edinburgh's food (and coffee) scene still good! Even a fair few places going that were around when I lived here

Illustration of an humanoid cactus, in the desert, wearing combar geat, with 2 white masks, holding a basket of smaller cacti.

They are a peculiar species that thrive in the arid plains. Telepathic and featureless, they often wear masks to facilitate interaction with humans, and scavenge gear from those who don’t survive the heat.

#osr #ttrpg #art #illustration

Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux

I'm the guy who decided to put a bunch of steam-filled pipes in every spaceship. Make 'em real brittle, I said. Have them violently spurt at the most inopportune moments.

Keep in mind that fish are much cuter than you think.

Currently drowning in excel tables, trying to balance 'can a person read this data' with 'can a machine read this data'.

Watch Out!

10 Things I Learnt When Talking about LGBTQ Data Based on questions asked by audiences, conversations that followed and subsequent messages on social media, here is my list of ten things I have learnt about LGBTQ data since publishing a book all …

Since publishing Rainbow Trap in June, I've been sharing ideas from the book across the UK and getting a feel for what ideas about LGBTQ data resonate with audiences and what ideas fall flat.

Here's my list of 10 things I've learnt when talking about LGBTQ data 👇

📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/08/07/1...

Chippy Tea!
All the tourists want to try a chippy tea!
And yes I did make a tiny newspaper with actual stories in it! The creatures in the collection will come wrapped in a bigger copy so you can read it.
International Visitors collection is coming 23rd August

Saw a lot of small bats this evening! Presumably pippistrelles but will investigate.

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

A bunch of green, brown, and white moths of all different sizes perch on a white sheet that's been hung up and lit with an external light.

It’s Moth Wall Season! 👀 #NationalMothWeek starts July 19, you can help scientists study and protect moths around the world by sharing your photos of them to iNaturalist.

Learn more: tr.ee/yDkjsW 🌙✨

📷 Luna Moth (Actias luna) by iNaturalist user annawinge

This government’s “one in, one out” deal, and the language used to promote it, continues the same, failed, policies of demonising those seeking safety over providing them with protection, while also admitted to the world that the UK continues to fail to use existing family reunification routes to ensure that people don’t have to rely on gangs. Nobody risks their life crossing the channel to work in the informal economy. That is a consequence of a system which denies those seeking asylum the right to work and forces them to live on a pittance. Claiming that those forced to use irregular routes to seek asylum in the UK are not “genuine refugees” plays straight into a harmful, and false narrative about people seeking safety. If this government was serious about reducing channel crossings they would ensure that there are safer and simpler means for those coming to do so, rather than creating a system of swapping people between countries in a never ending game of human being pass the parcel.

Our statement on this government's latest anti-asylum policy announcement.

Super Mario Bros but make it a baby gar eating mosquito larvae 🐟🍽️🦟

Super GARio!

🎥Raine Flynn @garlab.bsky.social

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Screenshot of a report: TEMPERAMENT Expressed some opinions and told lots of stories Nervous and benefitted from lots of reassurance Wiggly

Our cat Biscuit had his grooming appt today and they sent us his report card but I think I'm just going to use it as my bio

Tweet from @tomgara Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognise the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

A hatchling condor on a white towel. it has downy feathers and it's head skin is kinda wrinkly

With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of:

TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

Alexandra Road Estate in London, UK r/brutalism

Crows and baby crows are enjoying a tea party. There are delicious-looking desserts and black tea. The surroundings are decorated with ribbons and roses. The atmosphere is sparkly, peaceful, and happy.

🪶 Tea party crows 🐦‍⬛