A screenshot from the Merlin bird-identifying app featuring Bird of the Day the Great Tit as well as (many) House Sparrows, Blue Tits, Robins, Starlings, Mistle Thrushes [continued]

... dunnocks, blackbirds, blackcaps, nuthatches, woodpigeons, wrens, the aforementioned Great Tit, jackdaws and goldfinches...

Very productive #tenminutemerlin listening out of the window at my parents' house

Happy 15th anniversary yesterday, Portal 2!

Still my favourite ensemble voice cast in video games. Ellen McLain, Stephen Merchant, JK Simmons and Nolan North all knock it out of the park.

(Also happy 41st birthday today me, but that's beside the point ;) )

The kids *are*, all right.

"Philadelphia Anxiety" starts fairly strong as a name but sort of stalls out.

Anxiety is more of a "worries them" than a "disappoints them" though...

I made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing "cold beer" YouTube video by There I Ruined It

To be played at the funeral: youtu.be/lR2pslqKNP8?...

Amd he had it for 36, so 10,000 is probably an underestimate

I mean, two beers a day for fifteen years would do it.

A graph detailling the total presents received from one's true love during the hit single The 12 Days of Christmas

I do a lot of cricket data stuff, so there's a lot of competition, but I think this still wins by a landslide:

This is what I get for posting at 5am 😅. Sorry.

Uh... every 1000 days. A billion is a thousand million.

Dr. Wolf, excuse me :v

(That or, as others have suggested, we're seeing some of the far side and some of the near side in these pics)

... these are (I'm guessing) just some very nice archive photos from NASA that they happen to have released recently, and the OP could've been more specific (and Ms. Wolf. could perhaps have used a little more critical thinking before she hit post) (2/2)

I can see where she's coming from in that these presumably aren't photos from Artemis II itself, since they only saw a thin crescent of the far side of the moon lit up (what with the moon being gibbous right now), and if they enhanced the light somehow we'd see a *really* bright cresecent... (1/2)

... Canadian Goose was like, okay sure, but I thought I'd've heard those myself. Northern Lapwing, uhhh... Long Tailed Duck, UHHHHH...

- Overall though, I think the good I got out of it was definitely worth the odd bits, especially for something free. Will definitely keep persevering :).

- Things like sparrows, wood pigeons and collared doves were all very successful too, though frankly if it were messing those three up I would have Concerns.

- Some occasional curious flights of fancy. I mentioned the yellow-legged gull. Blackcap and Mistle Thrush were surprising but reasonable...

- Corvids were a mixed bag, it struggled with carrion crows but latched onto jackdaws pretty much straight away.

- Generally very solid on things like songbirds, tits and so on. Already helping me identify things like blue tits myself easier. Good result there 👍

Downloaded Merlin today. Thoughts so far (🧵):

- Wow there are a lot of blackbirds out there.

- It really struggles with gulls. Heard a lot of gulls clearly with my own ears that it just didn't know what to do with. The one time it reported a gull it went with "Yellow-Legged Gull" which, uh, hmm.

That's my secret, most of my favourite music is instrumentals...

A beautiful weave of duct tape and zip ties

Bit late on this, but 27 is 3³ so have a birthday cake with three candles and a little number 3 in the top right corner.

I have to say, I'm only really familiar with it thanks to this mashup with E.G.G.M.A.N.:
on.soundcloud.com/lWlwjnY7vY0o...

I need to start reading more of her stuff, I loved Digger.

TBF I work at a science museum and a lot of our newer exhibits use a Kinect for motion and distance sensing.

(The actual functionality of said exhibits is somewhat mixed...)

I suppose it's reassuring to know my cold could be worse 😅

I've had a cold lately so haven't been doing much stargazing sadly. I know Vega's very low to the hotizon right now which is gonna make it extra twinkly.

Yeah, in my experience it usually happens at least a series or two later. Though often those are resignations (Hussain against South Africa after the 02/03 Ashes, Root against the West Indies after the 21/22 Ashes).

A magnetic poetry set spelling out: roses are red violets are purple peas are green pencil is gray (sic) carrot is nearly red but not blue

Also have some magnetic poetry on similar lines:

Inspired by the following, I present:

Roses are red,
Violets are purple,
Carrots are orange,
Spaceships are silver,
Good thing this is blank verse

I should have said something sooner, but RIP Rob Grant. The first six series of Red Dwarf - i.e. the part he co-wrote - were pretty much the best thing on television during that time, and left a huge impression on me.