Silversprite

A couple on the other side:

Him: This is like when we rode the log flume with the kids at Alton Towers. Do you remember?

Her: I remember the egg sandwiches you made us because you were too tight to pay for food there. They were rank.

{silence}

On the back road bus, which is almost aquaplaning in places. The driver is noticeably clenching the steering wheel tensely as we approach each lane-wide puddle of uncertain depth.

Behind me, an elderly couple are discussing where to source their ham for next Christmas.

#ham #HamBus

Domino effect meme captioned as follows: Tiny domino: "Ed Milliband looks a bit weird eating a bacon butty! Don't vote for him!" Massive domino: "We're out of Europe, persecuting queers and immigrants, and staring down the barrel of a Farage government."

That dehydrated apple in a suit is someone I refuse to take seriously about anything. signed your neighborhood immigrant who brought cheekbones and art.

YouTube video by Armada Music TV Jan Blomqvist feat. Elena Pitoulis - More (Official Music Video)

Taking a break from working through the Warp Records back catalogue (multi-year project) by working through Jan Blomqvist's back catalogue.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_g8...

One of the coolest people I've ever seen was in 2021. A skateboarder - she was late teens, early 20s - flowing purple hair, spliff in hand, as relaxed as could be, absolutely hurtling down the middle of Park Street and overtaking a bus driven by an angry driver.

Best advert for Bristol.

1997: First day as a digital learning researcher in the ILRT, Berkeley Court. I (stupidly) decided, to avoid the traffic, to walk from Totterdown to my new office.

I arrived late, soaked in sweat, and greatly desiring a ski chairlift, or at least a tram, up Bristol's hills. Especially Park Street.

Last week one of my students complained to me about how they feel like AI is being forced down their throats “by their other professors” “not English” (☺️) and I was surprised to hear how much other disciplines are embracing it and even using it to make their teaching materials

Nice, but an edit window - even if just a 15 minute one - would be useful.

Post or post not. There is no drafts.

I'll ask Maria if I'm passing by on bin day again. It's only 3 miles from my childhood home.

(4/?) ..."Oh that's Maria, Tony Iommi's wife. Lovely person."

And I'm "Tony. Iommi. ? Black Sabbath Tony? Ozzy's bandmate?!"

And they were "Oh yes. Nice couple. Would you like some tea?"

And I was "...{long silence} okay! Thank you."

And it was a very rural Worcestershire kind of day.

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(3/3) ...past tense. But a nearby house had the same name as the school. The couple in the house came out to chat. The school had been knocked down but they'd taken its name for their house.

They asked how I located it, I told them of the encounter with the pleasant Swedish woman, and they were...

(2/3) ...school between ages 5 and 7. I was trying to locate the narrow lane to it, and asked Maria as the only person around. Picked up on her Stockholm accent immediately and we exchanged opinions on the city and Sweden. Lovely person.

She didn't know of the school but I found where it was...

(1/3) Asked what my highlight of 2025 was.

Thought about this, and it has to be having a long and pleasant conversation with Maria Sjöholm while she was putting the bins out, utterly unaware of who she is, or who her husband (Tony Iommi) is.

Context: Worcestershire village where I went to a...

A grey cat, asleep on a duvet. The duvet colour has various white, grey, and black stripes.

The cat is snoring, again.

A snapshot of a Google Translate entry, showing "Thank you" in English as the input entry. The output entry has been edited to read "den Mund halten" in German.

Age verification?

Crackling some Fizz Wizz in my mouth while waiting several minutes for a 48 Kilobyte game to load from cassette tape into a ZX Spectrum.

Right. Popping to the village store to buy some eggs, and chat to the assistant about apple varieties and locating abandoned orchards.

NO ONE is allowed to resign from the government until I return.

(UK government, that is. The US government can [redacted] as far as I'm concerned.)

Tally ho.

20 years ago I watched their immaculate creation, a conveyor belt from the Carb Gods, in the central Birmingham (England) branch. Then bought a double digit quantity.

A good day; fond Homer Simsonesque memories:

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Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

Glanced at the Guardian to see a piece that's *exactly* in the centre of this week of the course I'm doing.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?"

#climate

Keir Starmer sitting at his desk, knowing that he can struggle on or by 6pm he could be knocking back his second Kingfisher whilst waiting for his butter chicken and plain naan to turn up.

Mamdani-style graphic reading "Ed Miliband for chaos"

Anyone who wants to campaign be the next Prime Minister will need good graphic design

Not everything has to be connected to the internet. In fact, life would be better if more things weren't.

YouTube video by MED - Mediateknik MEDview: DN-Skrapan, Stockholm

Checking a webcam to figure out how cold Stockholm is.

Appears to be people walking/skating off Norr Mälarstrand. Though that's not technically the sea, it's still connected and is on the ferry route (obvs not today) to Vaxholm?

I'm assuming it's cold, then.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=agY6...

Folks, I'm getting a cat on Tuesday and I've never lived with a cat so I'm a bit nervous. Tell me the ways in which your cats have made your lives better?

A stunning Bronze age axe heard made of an orangey stone with greenish flecks

A slice of blue cheese. It's orangey in colour with flecks of blue-green mould.

Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?

Astronaut Bruce McCandless about 100 yards from the space shuttle during an EVA, with no tether. The Earth is bright and blue below him, with a scattering of feathery white clouds across the surface. McCandless is suspended above, small and white against the black backdrop of space.

In this photo, taken #OTD in 1984, Bruce McCandless is an *football field away from the space shuttle with no safety tether.*

No astronaut, before or since, has been that far away from their ship while in orbit. (2/n)

I'm fascinated to watch & time people eating in restaurants, 54 seconds is the record for an entire Sunday roast at a Toby Carvery, the guy was like a pelican, just shoving it in and swallowing. There was no chewing.

Ban-Dia nan coilltean

The caillach cut off my hand
Jealous that it touched her son
In ways she could not
I wait, hiding in the woodlands
Tall, surveying my lands
Her spell will fail in time
And we will be united

(Title: Goddess of the woods)

#PegsPoyums