Louise Richardson

I don’t envy the designers who have to make this arena work on screen #SunriseontheReaping

My fave is when a kid spots it out of the window but the parent misses it and hilarity ensues.

Ancient critters

Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.

3 x 3 and a spare for the chef

A middle aged man helplessly holds an alligator’s tail as it steals his hat

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

Snoozy scruffy lurcher on a dog bed, ears flopped over the top of his head

Night night.

We're having a discussion about which interesting animal behaviour would be terrifying on a different species. The rules are

a) it can't be an immediate danger to you
b) it has to be so scary you would stop filming and leave.

Feel free to play along. The current winner is vulture murmuration.

Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU

A small piece of good news 🐝 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

CENTRAL

Thinking of you and yours.

Not thrilled about living five minutes away from the first ‘AI growth zone’ with ‘fast-tracked planning arrangements’ 🥴

hi! my annual video countdown of the year's best movies will be up on monday, january 13.

on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live:

gofund.me/ae3c2b9f

Surface Tension Annahstasia · Single · 2024 · 3 songs

God, this is beautiful - and because I've listened more than three times, I've bought it. open.spotify.com/album/632eFn...

It's been a long time since I was so swept up by a book that I read it all in one swoop--but I started MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe when I got up this morning and didn't put it down until I finished it right after lunch. Totally delightful read.

Goodnight from Max Yates, perturbed his great-grandfather’s watch has begun to tick after more than 60-years of silence. Goodnight from the Weychester Theatre Royal, where the ghosts of the pit orchestra that died in the fire of 1887 are playing to the dark. Goodnight from Hookland.

David Nicholls - You Are Here. Rufi Thorpe - Margo’s Got Money Troubles. Alison Espach - The Wedding People. Cary’s Davies - Clear. Sarah Perry - Enlightenment. Ayşegül Savaş - The Anthropologists. Richard Powers - Playground. Susanna Clarke - The Wood at Midwinter.

Favourite books of 2024 💫

Goodnight from John Bend, pondering why he has never seen certain regulars of The Salt-bride pub during daylight hours. Goodnight from Gerald Carpenter, putting his ear to the priest hole to listen if the ghost of Fr. Luke is praying the rosary again. Goodnight from Hookland.

What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books

Show me your pet and what they were named after.

(Wish it was Spider-Punk but it’s not)

I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)

No more Greek myth retellings, I want the story of the disappearance of the Entwives.

A pox on the person at Audible who introduced random samples when you finish a book! No! Let me contemplate the ending in peace!

Article text: For the last few days I have been kept awake, and looking up in the dark I can see the whale again. The barnacles on its skin, the grooves on its throat, its bigness. I try to comprehend the forces it used to throw itself in to the air and which released when it crashed back down. My friend, Charlotte Kinloch, who was in the kayak with me that morning has been kept awake with the same image - the whale hovering above our beds.

I still think of the opening of this article by Tom Mustill about a humpback whale breaching onto his kayak.

Love Will Nova Nova · Néoclassic · Song · 2018

I love this song that mashes the two! open.spotify.com/track/7skRFo...

Still not over Snoop's signature scent being Delina.