Memories of Dismaland

... but no prizes on offer and the coconuts are all nailed to the posts.

Then I realised it was actually a play on "Fun".

Driving into Bristol today I saw signs for the "Funderworld" theme park. I immediately had this image of a load of low-rent coconut-shy type stalls, with NERC and EPSRC labels, where underpayed overworked staff unenthusiastically attend to queues of people...

Peacock butterfly drying it's wings in the sun

Just rescued this little one out of a bucket of water

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Yank upward. Lob to chickens.

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I just discovered it's pancake day. It turns out I rely on you posting Maid Marian gifs to remind me.

Arrived to work in something approaching twilight/daylight for the first time in 3 or 4 months. Also, the starling that lives near us each summer is back, recogniseable because it has a song surprisingly similar to the tune for "I'm a Barbie Girl". It wears thin by about April.

While on the topic of sexism and the Nobels, let us recall how the rightwing British newspapers reported Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's 1964 prize.

Daily Telegraph: "£18,750 Award to Mother of Three"

Daily Mail: Hold my beer -

"Oxford Housewife Wins Nobel."

40 years since 6 year-old me watched the Challenger disaster live on TV in a classroom in a small UK Fenland town.

It is a core memory that subtly but foundationally shifted my perception of how how the wider world works. Watching something so anticipated go so badly wrong so quickly.

A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access.

Here is their reply.

🧵 1/n

Saving the world half a can at a time.

Been rewatching the Expanse. It really is a fabulous attempt at capturing the book series. By far the best hard sci-fi that has made it to screen.

With a sphincter in the middle.

I was quite attached to the crossover cable; my dad and I used to stretch it across the house and play Total Annihilation against one another 😂

I rationalised my cord boxes down to a single box a couple of years ago. I decided that 40-way ribbon cable and all my SCSI and scart cables could finally pass on. I even let my crossover ethernet go.

My wife (Somerset born and bred) also is firmly of the view that Bristol is North. In her view the M4 broadly follows the border.

This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.

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Deadlines early Jan '26

I am so completely 100% on board with you on all of this. Experience days have proved to be a nightmare in the past; The Venn diagram of our availbility and the event availability almost always had no overlap. I'm also running out of space for hot sauces, jams and interesting chutneys.

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I like my chances of survival

Maybe volcanic lightning?

Picture of two stone counters in a food stall excavated at Pompeii

Are we sure it's not a Roman fast food stall?
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Some pyritised ammonites from Charmouth last weekend

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One of the fluoro strips in my office has been going for the last month. Estates came in and replaced it today but they only have LED versions now. My office has gone from flickering Stasi-like interrogation room to making me wonder if I'm Mike TV

Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

Come do an exciting new PhD project with fieldwork in the Caribbean and S Pacific working on understanding what happens when powerful lahars enter the ocean - with me, @isobelyeo.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk

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