Thanks! I'll look into this when I have a minute!

We bought food from The Range, and the birds won't touch it! Got the latest lot from our local garden centre, and it's been a bit hit and miss - the fat ball coconut shell halves are being totally ignored!

Where should I add figures for the starlings? Have never done that before!

Great! Thanks for the recommendation!

I love starlings, although I'm also very amused by the lone magpie that comes into the garden purely to chase them off. It doesn't stay and eat, it just doesn't want them to eat!

It's so dreadful. I wrote on LI the other day that the attention economy is well and truly fucked, but the attention economy is how independent creatives and businesses find the people interested in buying their stuff. I don't know how we are supposed to function without it.

I've never made that much, despite having created a globally celebrated day. I have difficulty making half that much, tbh.

I love starlings, and am happy to feed them given they are now red listed, but I put some more mealworms out just an hour ago and they've eaten* nearly all of them.

*Eaten or chucked on the ground. Fussy blighters.

Related: Where can I buy affordable but good quality mealworms?

Biggest retcon ever.

Yep, that's exactly it. Neither ORG nor ALD would be possible now. And I'm finding it hard enough to reach just a few hundred Welsh learners with Ymestyn, let alone the thousands one would need to start an organisation of any scale.

I'd love for someone to do a study on the impact on the economy of the restriction of organic reach by Meta et al, because I am pretty sure it's strangling the small biz sector. Organic reach is nigh on impossible to get now.

Painfully accurate.

Except my bank account.

i feel like if ai is going to cause mass unemployment, leading to the introduction of ubi, which will be funded by (??) taxing the few companies that remain (??), we could get a head start on that by taxing those companies and introducing ubi right now

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10

I,for one, am sooooo tired of dystopias. So many movies, TV series, sci-fi novels (especially YA sci-fi novels) are dystopian. Literature and art inspire people for the future and the current scene is not what that inspires much hope.

Disappointed in Bluesky. Thought it was better than that. 😂

Delighted to see a hoard of about 20 starlings discover our meal worm feeder.

I did try to tempt them with the cheap mealworm knock-offs I got from The Range last year, but they aren't stupid.

Hilariously, a screenshot of this (on Threads though) was just shared in my Improv group, as Mrs Brown's husband is a part of it. I think he's going to try to find out if you're right. 😂

Has anyone done a proper deep study of what reading a book actually involves, psychologically, neurologically and so on? Because it occurs to me that quite a lot of AI/creative initiatives are premised on a rather limited understanding of what that interaction actually looks like.

Hah! I was just wondering the same thing!

Fuck Lemon Squeezy. I seem to have lost all the money I earnt on ebook sales - they say they've paid out, but it never arrived in my bank account. They are currently holding $47 hostage, and their form to contact support is broken.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Good fucking question. I want my money back.

I'll be right round.

I do not want any insights into the mind that thought this was a fantastic way to decorate a house.

You'd have to gut much of it and redo it to make it liveable (from a psychological point of view).

That is so ugly, I don't even know where to start.

Oh gosh, Meniere's is not fun. You have my sympathies. Thankfully, my vertigo is the benign paroxysmal positional sort, so every now and again I get some ear rocks in the wrong place. Epley manoeuvre usually does the trick.

Every last penny of public money flowing to Palantir must be stopped like a tap, and those in public office who agreed to deal with it need to be held to account for their judgment

Ha ha ha.

Glad yours has gone. Mine is still lurking a little bit, but better than it was this morning. Hopefully the dregs will resolve themselves.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com