It’s earth day!!
🌎 plant a pesticide free native 🌱
🌎 switch your energy supplier to a renewable
🌎 take transit instead of an uber
🌎 then make fun of your friends (lovingly) for taking Ubers when the train is right! there!
🌎 heckle your family members. About whatever you want! It’s earth day!!!
Mike pointing camera out the slit in the blind
Swan on the mere. One swan is taking off.
Day 2 of pranking birdwatchers: 'Went to RSPB Martin Mere a few years back and me and my mate pointed our cameras at a rock, said wow a few times, and waited...' FWR tells all in this week's h2g2 Post.
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Hippolyte Bayard posing as a drowned man, allegedly because France didn't recognise his contributions to the history of photography. Take that, Daguerre.
Apropos people thinking AI fake photos are such a peachy-keen new idea, see this photo from 1840 by Hippolyte Bayard, the 'dead man' in the photo. Fake photography started about 15 minutes after photography. For real photos read the h2g2 Post. h2g2.com/entry/thepost
A cormorant somewhere near Lancaster (England), taken by an uninformative but talented photographer. Thanks, Eve.
This week in h2g2 SuzyQ birdwatching, part 1:
"Wow, where's that?"
"Sitting on the post! Duh!"
"No, where did you take them lol?"
"The marshland." More at h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
While h2g2.com waits for the lemon-scented napkins again, we have brought, at great expense, some sheep to entertain you.
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Celebes Crested Macaque in a jungle setting. Painting by Willem van der Merwe.
Willem's Unusual animal for this week: The Celebes Crested Macaque, Macaca nigra! This is a kind of monkey that inhabits the far northeast corner of the great and weird Indonesian island of Sulawesi. h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
This week's title is Look Who's Looking. Clockwise from upper left: A Celebes Crested Macaque looking at you, Burg Kreuzenstein towering above you, a cormorant offering you a chance to admire it as it perches on a pole in a mere, a skier completely ignoring you as they climb a snowy slope, a woodpigeon wowing you with its massive profile, some beautifully-dyed Ukrainian-style Easter eggs in a bowl doing nothing but being nice to look at, an awe-inspiring view of a still lake, mountains, and a bank of fluffy clouds undder a blue sky and sunlight, a swan taking off from the water with other swans around, a black-and-white cat named Bandit staring at you challengingly from a wooden staircase, and a bald photographer pointing a camera through a window in a nature blind. He looks deadly serious, doesn't he? He's pranking the twitchers: there's nothing out there but a big rock. Read the stories behind these intriguing images in this week's Post.
Explore the world with us. Climb a mountain. Experience Liverpool from the waterline and through its ghosts. Follow the feral bird photographers as they prank the twitchers and, maybe, us. All this and fiction, humour, cinema. h2g2.com/entry/A88085...
People tried to scam insurance by dressing up as a bear and wrecking luxury cars.
"Investigators then took the video to biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to also look at the video. The biologists said, 'it was clearly a human in a bear suit.'"
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Two calico cats on a sofa looking in the same direction, deep perspective
Happy #Caturday! Raining out? Catch up on your h2g2 Post reading. Sunny? Take your device with you to the park and read aloud to the squirrels.
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What's your favorite Bible verse (Wrong answers only)
Three twisty spire wearing what look like furry hats, plus a vague monster out of a 1950s film. Blue sky and a man in a suit walking on the roof.
Beautiful puffy white clouds in the sky, green trees in between houses whose roofs turn the place into a fantasy landscape. Weirdly organic. One is a sort-of spire topped with something that would not be out of place on a wedding cake. Another house's placement of windows, balcony, and scalloped roof makes it look like a cartoon house with face, curiously anthropomorphic.
More of the twisty, sandy-coloured roofs. People are strolling the shallow steps that lead up, down, and around this sculpted, curved roofscape. They appear to be enjoying the view in the late-afternoon low sunlight. This could be a different planet entirely.
Today's spotlight is on the weird-and-wonderful city of Barcelona. Get a load of these rooftops in the h2g2 Post. h2g2.com/entry/thepost
The h2g2 Post continues to bring you old movies with my Ninja Film Review of 'Get Low' (2009). A tall tale from 1930s Tennessee, starring Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and a mule with a sense of humour. h2g2.com/entry/A88086...
This week in the h2g2 Post, Awix waxes nostalgic over his 25 years as a film critic by getting around to reviewing 'Amelie'. It's his 950th review for h2g2. He says, '[A]n appropriate moment to mark this milestone, whose smallness is matched only by its insignificance.' h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
This week's h2g2 serial roundup:
Bugs in the bed? Consult Pliny the Elder.
Signs of life? Use your sensors.
Pineapple pirates? X marks the spot.
Why NOT flying skunks?
Antiquities: the Louvre.
Biology: what's in the egg?
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Jaguarundi
Unusual animal for today - the Jaguarundi, Herpailurus yagouarundi! This is a rather un-cat-like cat. Willem has painted it for us. More at h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
This week's title is The View from Here, Wherever 'Here' Is. Clockwise from upper left: A golden beam of sunset light cast over a green English field, the surreal, almost organic rooftops of Barcelona, tall trees making a circle in a Scottish zoo, Christmas roses and daffodils brightening an Austrian garden, bears sleeping on a hillside, more Barcelona roofs, and a bird silhouetted in a tree.
More wonderful sights. More seasonal flowers. More jokes, more fiction. Some stray thoughts that we've rounded up. All this plus some landmark cinema. h2g2.com/entry/A88085...
Tiger, sitting in a woodland habitat at the Inverness zoo.
The kitty is here to remind you to read the h2g2 Post today. Oh, and Happy #Caturday. h2g2.com/entry/thepost
T-shirts now available from all good pet shops or direct from Flamin' Crumpet Productions. (Clothing bought from FCP may have slight butter damage.)
FWR wrote a poem about his cars and his motorbike. A machine set it to music: there's a lot of that going around these days, and all the human musicians seem to have been busy elsewhere. Find more weird Stuff in the h2g2 Post at h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
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This week in h2g2 serials:
Competitive sainthood, 5th-century-style
An online royal audience
Return of a lunar rover
Martha Stewart cooking sentient aliens
Kids acting normal in Paris
Archeology in space
Full archive at h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
Recharging attachment on a car
It's Not Easy Being Green: In which buying an electric car on the Wirral leads to complicated conversations with Glasgow. And France. And possibly other parts of the solar system. h2g2.com/entry/A88086...
Bold Street, Liverpool, with red postboxes and people walking between two rows of buildings from all eras.
You know about Bold Street in Liverpool? Word is, it doesn't stay still in time. You might walk into a shop and get asked for ration coupons, or something. SashaQ got photos, but was slightly disappointed when they turned out to be from 2026. h2g2 Post: still boldly going. h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
Galaxy Babe share the view from the Cairngorm FUnicular Railway. More vistas of the breathtaking variety available in this week's issue of the h2g2 Post. h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
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This week's title is Up, Down, and All Around. Clockwise from upper left: Bold Street, Liverpool, full of people; a colourful lookout point in Parc Guell, Barcelona; looking down on the tracks of the Cairngorm Funicular Railway; looking up at Inverness Castle; a contemplative tiger in a Scots zoo; a busker in front of the Krispy Kreme in Inverness; Molly the grey-and-white cat staring meaningfully at the camera; a European red squirrel; a hand holding a single, marble-sized hailstone; a godwit reflecting in water; and a bizarre medieval painting of the Trinity as a three-headed man being worshipped.
Join Galaxy Babe in Scotland. Get a glimpse of scenic Barcelona, courtesy of Milla, or let SashaQ take you to spooky Bold Street in Liverpool. FWR goes green & writes a new hit song about his vehicles. The rest of us go on trips in our heads. h2g2.com/entry/A88081...
SashaQ saw this coot bobbing along at Burton Mere, UK.
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Molly the grey-and-white cat looking soulfully, directly at the photographer, as she is wont to do when she climbs up on the desk.
Molly sees you. You aren't reading the h2g2 Post! Happy #Caturday. Go and catch up, new issue tomorrow! h2g2.com/entry/thepost
(🚨|🧵) ALBUM RELEASE: At 2PM (whatever your time zone) tomorrow—Saturday, April 4—my new album SMALL CITY WOMAN will drop on all streaming platforms. I’m the songwriter, co-arranger, engineer and producer.
See my bio for my background in music and more on Hounds.
More preview tracks in this thread!
Man complaining about Percy the Robot on his state-of-the-art 1920 telephone.
Moaning and groaning about AI has a history. An early fictional robot was Percy, the Mechanical Man. 'Brains he has nix,' according to his German American inventor. Only in the h2g2 Post. h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
A person standing in a sunlight doorway on an alien planet. Diorama and photo by Tavaron da Quirm.
Your weekly serial-fiction roundup: h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...
Smug saints compare miracles
A queen sulks
Billionaires are fined for leaving the planet
Martha Stewart cooks invading aliens
Happy kids visit France
Alien potsherds provide a surprising experience
Poem excerpt on a torn piece of paper. We cannot cross until we carry each other, all of us refugees, all of us prophets. No more taking turns on history's wheel, trying to collect old debts no-one can pay. The sea will not open that way. This time that country is what we promise each other, our rage pressed cheek to cheek until tears flood the space between, until there are no enemies left, because this time no one will be left to drown and all of us must be chosen. This time it's all of us or none. Excerpt from “Red Sea” by Aurora Levins Morales
We cannot cross until we carry each other.