An excellent fish & chips by the Tay this evening.

Bob Marley 'attends' to Stevie Wonder's hair during a jam at the Black Music Association Show in Philadelphia, 1979. Photo: Leandre K. Jackson.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This confirms all my doubts about the robustness of AI and its potential to believe its own lies.

We get the occasional one on our peanut feeders when they don’t have a red squirrel wrapped round them.

As someone with undergraduate & and postgraduate Botany degrees from ye olden days I am just pleased that some places have the courage to still call it botany.

Trees in Tayfield Estate.

Lots of Rhododendrons on our walk through Tayfield estate today.

It also meant I no longer had regular access to Redcurrant Geneva and had to start making my own.

My small collection ended when I left Birmingham University and Amsterdam was no longer my gateway to the world.

According to Wikipedia they have already each had 50 fights.

Is that KLM houses on the edge of the picture?

Ours are just coming into flower on the lawn.

Today's project on the loom has a Scandinavian flavour. A bit of Norwegian Krokbragd. It's a bit of a beast to thread the warp on my Rigid Heddle Loom but after resolving a few errors I am on my way.

Meanwhile, on the moon...

Thrums after cutting the warp from my hand loom.

I was just thinking about primulas as while joining warp threads on the power loom with leftover bits of yarn or thrums
“Thrums The thread that is left at the end of the warp after weaving as far as possible. If I can find a good use for these “leftover” threads, I may start saving some of them.”

Latest project off the loom. The warp is split between a rep-weave section and a tabby weave one. Probably both will be sown up into bags.

Finally managed to work out how to spend my retirement more productively. I’m volunteering at the the local heritage Jute Mill (Verdant Works) and hobby weaving at home. Fulfilling 200 years of family textile heritage.

Great to see it coming to fruition. You clearly had a vision as to what would be possible.

Looking good.

Bastards

This coming election cycle
We have work to do

Surviving the Christmas thing.

I was trying to work out which animal forms you were piping on the tray.

🇺🇦🙏 9-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Oleksandra Paskal, who lost her leg during the war, won a bronze medal at the gymnastics tournament.

💬 "We were unable to fully and properly prepare — we spent a lot of time in a bomb shelter. I took 3rd place, and for me this is a special victory," she wrote.

Good choices, though I would have gone for marrowfat peas.

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...