Greg from Oz (he/him)

‘Autistic men in suits talking loudly and self-importantly at each other in jargon that nobody understands’

I resemble that quote, though I rarely bother with a suit these days.

🤞🏻

Happy Birthday.

Please do take care and see a GP if things persist. Particularly if you wheeze at all whilst coughing.

Peace

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

I like the alternative now of looping though. I don’t believe I’d go back to tapes.

Most are spam/scam robots that have no genuine human interaction to them. I tend to just block followers that don’t do the sort of thing I expect humans to do, but do things that look like automation. I can be wrong, but life is too short.

Easter lilly in a sunny garden, although in Australia we call it a Christmas lilly.

Yellow rose in front of a white veranda.

It was sunny for a little this morning. Then it rained a lot.

Apart from it being spring now where I live, it was a bit like that today.

😂

So you’ve had your just desserts?

Lovely.

I hope you feel better soon.

I hope you are feeling better soon. I'd recommend acetominophen (or panadol where I live).

The OG Simon's Cat film!

Perhaps they should refuel it and fly it back so that it can be investigated at point of origin.

☹️

A set of five candles each featuring an early cover of a children's book. The is Peter Pan, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Blue Peter, Mary Poppins, and The Children Who Lived in a Barn.

Candles of the day

The carcasses don't always need help to explode.

That's a different take on them being either civil, or not.

Borrowed a cat for 6 weeks so we could enjoy this too. You are living the dream.

That's a great accent.

Clear and crispy

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

A flowering hedge. Google suggests a form of jasmine.

No ghosts where I live

The Ukrainian lyrics feel like they fit the music more smoothly.

Mowing the lawn, except I can’t because it’s been raining.

Are we approaching ukulele singularity?

At the beach with a bird flying above the ocean waves.

"....I have seen people sum me up and dismiss me right while I was talking to them, as if what I am came through more clearly than any words I might choose to say. I see their eyes lose focus and settle elsewhere. Do they think that I don't realize?..."
Anne Tyler - Celestial Navigation