Helen Macdonald

Deceased male Wood mouse with white patch of fur around collar and white tipped tail

:(

May have inadvertently ended a strain of amazing white-collared woodmice by putting out mousetraps in my kitchen last night :(

It's been truly incredible watching this happen in real time. But, of course, the truth is that all reactionary nostalgia of this sort is consumerism-saturated nonsense. It's all aesthetics, things you can buy, etc.

for fuck’s sake

SO MUCH PROPHET (2023)

Meme triptych of Duke Leto and Paul Atreides Text: We must not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Why not? Because people are fucking idiots, Paul. They're just... incredibly stupid.

It is a good jumper. But oh boy do I know that "I'm sure I'm smiling" exhaustion face; am sending strength, rest and sympathy.

Malcolm Burr’s Insect Legion at your disposal Ma’am!

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

So glad you enjoyed it!!!

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I will never not adore "and allies" in a fieldguide title. Don't mess with the grasshoppers or the earwigs and crickets and cockroaches will fuck you up

@hjm.bsky.social Have some Berlin goshawks right after mating last week in Königsheide, dear Helen!

Ahh that's made my day! Thank you!

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

“Wiiings!l” 🪽🎶

Composite image made up of 6 frames, 2 images wide by side repeated 3 times, zooming in further on the faces each time. On the left, a woman holds her hand in the air to attract attention while kneeling next to a man who has fallen down clutching his chest, on the right, a serious-faced man holding a briefcase Woman: Y a t'il un docteur ici?. Man: Je suis docteur. Que se passe t'il? Woman: Une attaque cardiaque ! Man: Je suis docteur en philosophie ! Woman: Il va mourir... Man: Nous allons tous mourir. Translation in English: Woman: Is there a doctor here? Man: I am a doctor, what happened to him? Woman: - a heart attack Man: I am a doctor of philosophy Woman: He's going to die... Man: We're all going to die

I've only got 2 French jokes, this is the best

Painting of crow in flight over snowy field, crows landing and forest in background.

🖼️ Laura Makabresku

what a stupid violent day in a stupid violent era

“Rutherford Statement on Operation Epic Furry” “Furry” highlighted by me http://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry

Google result showing the presser for Rutherford’s statement on “Operation Epic Furry” was posted 11 hours ago

What a time to be alive

Colombo Bandaranaike international airport

“Airport jet bridge and corner of terminal on a smoggy tropical morning in a time of war, the sun a fierce, small tangerine. One house crow on the corner of the terminal, the image taken through glass so the whole is streaked and pitted with grime.”

GribblesGoBag @GribblesGoBag Follow .•• Smascbyjeffchastair Remember who we are fighting for! 10:42 AM • Feb 28, 2026 • 2,893 Views

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

Some
Curtains
In the way
Facility

Trump in dopey USA baseball cap, posed at the head of a table full of crisis actor White House staffer flown into Perv-A-Lago for the “war” photo op, in a black-draped section of his club, which is supposed to make it look like a high security “situation room,” but doesn’t.

Cropped version on the previous photo, showing aires peeking in through the high security, top secret curtains.

Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

Why if my interests are not bombing innocent civilians and just wanting to go ONE FUCKING DAY WITHOUT SOME BULLSHIT. HUH? WHAT ABOUT THAT. YOU FUCKING CARDBOARD CUTOUT OF DESPAIR.

Most likely I will do this yes

Update from Kandy: hotel staff have told me not to enrage the monkeys