Lynda Boothroyd

Oh wow, he is *adorable *!

(More seriously: I am not *at all* a dog person but that looks like a dog I could be friends with and the pic actually did give me a smile in the midst of the global doom and gloom.)

'One of these is not like the other...'
😆❤️

Mike is that a chatbot query/response?

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Earlier this week, I shared my ongoing research at the Autism Research (ARCH) seminar series at KCL, exploring how autistic people use their strengths to manage differences.

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Who decides which proposals to accept?

#ehbea #hbes
#EvPsych
#SocialPsychology
#PsySciSky
#Anthropology

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I had an absolutely wonderful time chatting with Tanay and Jay about how our understandings of attraction and mate choice have evolved (hah!) over the last 30 years, and pitching my argument that visual experience is central to our ideas of beauty.

Thanks so much @cognitations.bsky.social

"the adjustable tie cinches the waist"

So it ought to reach the waist of an average height person. (I have no idea what length that would be. I am incapable of understanding sizing for people who are not also giants.)

Its amazing how 3D printers have transitioned from 'things that exist in specialist labs' to 'things my engineer friends have in their garage' to 'things you might buy for your tween child'.

Which makes me wonder why the estate agent is willing to market it. Don't they have and legal liability as accomplices to fraud in this case?

She does it in a way I hated as a reader but ... yeah. Beauty and the Beast with added late stage involuntary BDSM and torture is *not* deeply romantic actually.

The whole series is just a hot mess of blatant wish fulfillment but I'd picked them all up cheap in The Works so I kept going...

Ah, see, turns out everything in book 1 gets totally overturned by the end of book 2. Because the POV character is 17 and doesn't know WTF she's talking about... 😬

Good lord. I am the target audience and even I find them a bit much!

So, they are now obscuring their plan to help you cheat...
bsky.app/profile/drbo...

This AI homework agent has, in the last 2 days, changed their FAQs and site meta-description to make it less obvious that they're a cheating machine. (Original FAQ extract linked below. Updated list and before/after social media idents as pics.)
#SaidTheQuietPartTooLoud

#AI
#HigherEducation
#LTHE

Development of face similarity linkage for the attribution of intelligence links in unsolved sexually motivated serial homicide Feb 2026The Police Journal

Now here's a title I had to read three times before I was confident I could accurately parse the sentence and it wasn't just nonsense...

The link to the report on the 11/02 HEC meeting is broken I think? I get a 404 error.

Found these pics from the start of February. Lovely still river like a mirror.

#RiverWear
#Durham
#Dusk

Durham Cathedral in half silhouette against a punk and grey-blue evening sky, rising above a dual carriageway

The best part of the year is when I can walk home in lovely sunsets again.

#DurhamCathedral
#NaturalMoodEnhancers
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ah ok, I see Keri just gave the same advice!

If you have any scraps of that carpet, or something similar enough (use sharpie if needed?), you can use carpet tape on the back side to patch it and then give it a brush on top to make it fluff together. We have a small room carpeted with 4 pieces of left-overs and it's almost impossible to tell.

YouTube video by Channel 4 News Peter Mandelson arrested by Met Police

And now they *have* arrested Mandelson!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL9f...

As a kid at Catholic school I loved being able to be in the function room, warm, on the carpet playing with toys, while mum watched the service through the window. It had a great view and excellent speakers. Was v unimpressed when I had to go start sitting in the boring pews.

Press Gang and Children's Ward were top level drama only equalled by Byker Grove and Dark Season.

Lots of campaigns were using the suffragette colours for decades before they were appropriated by anti trans groups. I am in two minds whether they are nevertheless lost to us now or if we should keep trying to reclaim them. In a voting campaign context they make perfect sense.

Can't happen encase the loans are held by private companies? Or for another reason?

Ah I had one of these children. Unlike me, she stopped growing (we think) just before she hit 5'10".
I did not plan to manifest the height I wish I had in my daughter but I am pleased for her and the lifelong ease of buying jeans that fit which she can look forward to.

I think it's fair to say that Dukes of York who become, or try to become, king do not tend to fair well.

Edward IV did okay but like Henry VIII it all unravelled later on.