Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

rat pushing the heroin button but it's me refreshing the page to see if a GP appointment has come free in the past five minutes

A nice thing about being a niche hobby person is that one inevitably meets other niche hobby people and then when you have a question that's like "how do I assess this sun damaged late Edo woodblock print of a fictional battle between inanimate objects" you actually know who to ask

Dear researchers who are interested in pre-modern Japan,

NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it!
github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...

The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji:

I made a website traintimes.org.uk that can e.g. show you live departures 7 times quicker than the official site, even though it... gets the data from the official site?

It’s both a policy failure, and symptomatic of failures in some modern web development.

www.webpagetest.org/video/compar...

the generation war is the least worthwhile of the culture wars but, I'll level with you, today while shopping I heard my inner monologue say "oh yes, my decorative gourds, ah, my emotional support yam" and I did briefly hope for the meteor to destroy myself and every other twee millennial

Also if you're in Wales SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HERITAGE RAILWAY, steam engines' fireboxes make great incubators for dragon eggs and hatchlings, and the volunteers are only too happy to provide this service for these beautiful endangered creatures

A bright pink goose thing

A bright pink and purple parrot?

A bright pink, purple, and yellow rooster

Really really really want a tattoo of one/all of these pink birds from a Korean magic manuscript that @devinfitz.bsky.social showed my class this week

Lol this is extremely close to my top ten too!! I guess for better or worse I'm an ILM poster forever

A small square piece of embroidery. It is a fluffy white ground made using a punch needle and cut loop technique, and cutting across it are flattened embroidered footprints and paw prints

Oh gosh, this embroidered piece by Narumi Takada is so so lovely. “Stepping on Fresh Snow”

Other things I'm learning: at 7-8°, if I swim for about 10 minutes (300m or so), I don't get the cold drop afterwards. If I swim for around 15 minutes (500m or so) then I need to dress in a hurry, because after ten minutes I'll be shivering, teeth chattering, toes cramped, the whole business.

Of course this happens just after I buy neoprene gloves! Which are amazing, even though hard to put on - it felt completely weird to be swimming and not have my hands prickling and painful.

Couldn't go for a swim this morning because there was too much parent stuff to do, and I'm regretting it because I know that once the temperature plummets I won't feel brave enough (it's already solidly on the way down - 7.2°C yesterday, 6.6 today).

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Happy New Year

Merry Christmas to you too! I hope you have a good day and a very good new year xx

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You can listen to Tatsuro Yamashita's "Christmas Eve" any time you like but it is particularly satisfying today youtu.be/coMOdCva_EU

ACAB includes “good king” Wenceslas

Woke up this morning to a headache and an email updating me on some petition I'd signed, and now I'm writing my scoldy little notes as I unsubscribe, the petty bureaucracy that stands in for political engagement

Substack doesn't make it very straightforward to end your paid subscriptions, does it?

I got sick of jealousy professor because it was reskeeted so much but with the passage of time I can recognise it's a classic

That is exactly what the bear would say

maybe it's just an ad for the general concept of listening to "never too much"? In which case it's definitely working on me.

I have no idea what it's for, because I am so conditioned to flick past ads that I have never registered the account name beyond "someone I don't follow"

I often get this ad on instagram that's just a clip from the video for luther vandross' "never too much"

A wayang screen with red faced puppets on the left, a teardrop shaped kayon puppet in the middle, and dark faced puppets on the right

done two wayangs this week! watching the puppet fights really never gets old

Happy Friday; Gutenberg can absolutely kiss it.

anubis furry cartoon first panel to whaddup, it’s ya boi anubis, back at it again with another soul unboxing video 2nd panel anubis weighing a heart and feathers the feathers are lighter “now as you can see, this one is a lot heavier than a feather, which longtime viewers will know is really bad haha

Kick him in the nuts Paddington

Managed to take an online shopping return to the parcel office within the 30 day return window for what feels like the first time in my life. You're telling me there's executives at this function?