Male orange-tip butterfly

Peacock butterfly

A couple of colourful garden visitors 🦋

Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/

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something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

No problem! It was a great panel!

“Out of old bokes” Adapting Comics From Medieval Sources panel discussion at Thought Bubble Comic Festival 2025

Just one!

Lots of fungi growing on a dead tree

Lovely little fungi city 🍄‍🟫🍄

imagine right, you've had to get past the 28k/38k minimum income requirement for a spouse visa, your visa conditions are *work is not a requirement of entry*, you'll pay about 14 grand over 5 years minimum across 3 visas, and you have to also pick up dog poo from the local field or you have to leave

Cement mixer spits out fridge magnet haiku. Experts ask: can it run a hospital?

Comic strip by Stephen Collins, it begins with a nighttime city scene. In the next few panels, a mysterious figure, giant in the moonlight, walks towards us through the skyline. His feet echo "boom, boom" in the empty night. A large title panel declares this character's name: THE TW*T COLLECTOR. He stands, giant, unseen in the empty city night, wearing a big pointy hat on his head, and a sort of long smock. He is carrying a large sack in his hand. Slowly, he raises his arm, his arm extends, freakishly long, longer still, through the open window of a tower block. It reaches inside someone's home, and slowly withdraws, now clutching a protesting, terrified man. The man's wife comes to the window to watch his departure. slowly, the giant raises the little man and inspectes him in his hand. After a pause, the man says "b-but I'm not a tw*t!" There is another pause, after which his wife, calmly from off screen, says "you are a tw*t, dear". The Tw*t Collector summarily throws the man in his bag, which we now see is full of screaming people and is labelled TW*TS, then stomps off into the distance, through the moonlit city.

Sometimes, I long for him

It was a great talk, really enjoyed it!

Bumblebee on an Antirrhinum/snapdragon

Bumblebee on an Antirrhinum/snapdragon

Bumblebee on an Antirrhinum/snapdragon

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BBC: Why don't women use ChatGPT?

Woman: I tried it and it just barfed out useless garbage

BBC: Women don't use ChatGPT because it's too difficult for their pretty little heads

Mosaic floor, Kunsthistoriches Museum

Roman sarcophagus, Kunsthistoriches Museum

Mithras slaying bull, Kunsthistoriches Museum

Amazingly ornate staircase, Kunsthistoriches Museum

Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna

Frieze from Ephesus

Frieze from Ephesus

Frieze from Ephesus

Frieze from Ephesus

Ephesus Museum, Vienna

Carving of shields, Roman Museum

View of foundations, Roman museum

Hypocaust in situ, Roman museum

Floor tiles, Roman museum

The Roman Museum in Vienna, on the site of Vindobona fort

Monochrome Mosaic in Aquincum museum

Mosaic in situ at Aquincum

Aquincum Roman site, view of a street

Aquincum, rows of arches for bath house heating

Aquincum in Budapest, what an incredible Roman site!

Roman silver plate

Roman silver vase/jug

Roman silver plate

Iron Age Golden Stag

Some of the ancient finds and sites I saw this year in Budapest and Vienna. First up, some of the Seuso Treasure at the Hungarian National Museum

I’m not entirely sure! It would be great if they were new. I was just going off that article that said the JCVI had decided to use existing stock.

I’m immunocompromised so qualify for a free one, but it’ll be last year’s, so far less effective. I’m currently in the US on holiday, and they’re available everywhere, but $200. When I get back to the UK it’s £98, but the nearest Boots offering them is 30 miles away. What choice!

I did enjoy eliciting this nugget

Had a bit of a meandering conversation with Amazon’s new AI bot Rufus - or, as it wants to be known, Nigel 🤖 #ai

Yes, Al! I might wear it again today!

Birthday time!

It does look good, but the whitewashing of Caracalla and Geta is so infuriating and disappointing

We don’t really like him in Richmond either, but a barely sentient blob with a blue rosette would still win here, unfortunately.

Best of luck, I really hope it works for you!

I know!

Sadly it’s not by Timmy Mallett himself, someone’s owned up to it on the other place.

It’s not by Timmy Mallett, it’s a spoof. A guy’s been hawking it on the other place.

A covid-19 test showing a positive result

Covid: Part 2