Matthew Cobb

Boycottball not Bazball is what is needed!

UK is being ‘left behind’ on crypto, says George Osborne Former chancellor who now advises Coinbase says Rachel Reeves should set up a framework for stablecoins

This reminds we of one of a post I did on my old site, where I replaced every mention of "cyber" in an excruciating 2015 George Osborne "cyber is the future" speech with "spider".

He now has a shiny new word.

www.ft.com/content/2b55...

Turn it off and on again

We’re back to arguing about Kant.

No

Even if there’s a month on the 1936 issue of the journal, that doesn’t mean when it came out. Plus the paper will have been submitted maybe a year earlier (this info may be available on the paper)

Tiny black dot on Saturn. Early this morning, I photographed a rather rare astronomical event, a shadow transit of Saturn’s largest moon Titan across its parent planet. This is a composite of two frames. Questar telescope /Olympus camera. Observed from metro Chicago. #astrophotography

Cool explanation of the amazing colour pattern variation in weevils.

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/30523/deep-flared-bowl-with-bats-rocks-and-waves?ctx=29f6438a-33b9-4429-bea0-3bc9d86fafe0&idx=20

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Chinese #QingDynasty #18thCentury #YongzhengPeriod
BOWL WITH BATS, ROCKS, AND WAVES, 1723–35
Porcelain, Jingdehen ware

Brain Metaphors Beyond Brain Mythologies A commentary on Kendler's history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

Brain Metaphors Beyond Brain Mythologies

A commentary on Kendler’s history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/brain-meta...

Yes, Sam, the shipyard stuff is all well and good, nice historical colour and all that, but some things in your behaviour were pretty grim, and not just canoodling with doxies in the theatre or whatever:

Sophisticated Anglo-Saxon metalwork from ancient ship burial, probably of king, at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, dating from 7C and first unearthed in 1939 ~ purse lid ■ gold belt buckle ■ shoulder clasps

Very cool 🧪 🧵

our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans.
Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... @galitzlil.bsky.social

Incredibly influential thinker. Her two-volume history of cognitive and computational neuroscience is a goldmine.

114-Year-Old Attributes Longevity to Sheer Random Chance

114-Year-Old Attributes Longevity to Sheer Random Chance theonion.com/114-yea...

Beyond 1936 it’s unlikely you’ll get a month.You can read this for free: www.jstor.org/stable/i231420 but no mention of Geodesist

Doctor Who Compared Pandemic Restrictions to Nazi Germany Gains Keys to the Vaccine Vault In the media’s rush to cover the nomination of Casey Means to the position of Surgeon General, one important name was neglected. Means, of course, deserves scrutiny as the co-shepherd of the Make Amer...

Not sure that RTD’s plans for the next series are quite up to scratch

BREAKING NEWS.
This identification has been confirmed by @chrisvanswaay.bsky.social

FYI @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social

Prize — Galley Beggar Press

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:

www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Closing date 8 November!

‘Just ticking away in the background’: old Euston departures board lives on in millionaire’s Margate warehouse Board continues to show live updates in Jeremy Hosking’s storage space which will open to public next weekend In a cavernous concrete warehouse on an industrial estate outside Margate in Kent, an enormous screen flickers, day and night, telling the times of train services from north London to Manchester Piccadilly and Glasgow Central and Tring. Whether or not anyone is there to see it, the 22-metre-wide board never stops flashing up live, genuine updates of departures by West Midlands Railway or service disruptions on Avanti West Coast services. Continue reading...

‘Just ticking away in the background’: old Euston departures board lives on in millionaire’s Margate warehouse

Oh England. Boycott, if only you were playing now.

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw:

If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

A firefly pupa with glowing lantern rests on a brown leaf.

Did you know that firefly glow as larvae and pupae? I found this shrimp-like pupa in my garden earlier this summer. 🍤

Adam reads Kitamura so you don’t have to.

Jupiter is lower left. Venus was much brighter. Imaged captured by my phone hand held through a closed upstairs window!

Two little dots! Jupiter and Venus at 04.15 this morning before the clouds arrived! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Saturday evening waxing gibbous #Moon in twilight. #astronomy

Giant Moray eel
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #morayeel #eel #moray

Five humpbacks lunge feed in unison. This is not the famous “bubble net” feeding behavior practiced by another population, but they’re definitely working together. 🦑