The famous Manniken Pis in Brussels, a statue of a small boy having a pee, above and to the left is a tiled picture of a brown space invader doing the same.
Mimican Pis.
Space Invader at it again in Brussels…
A large metal building, as much sculpture as architecture, made up of reflective steel globes and tubes. It is a giant atom, against a blue sky.
Atomic.
Whooooo! Over the bridge by train!
I got a set of lenses to give me long distance vision…
I found a phone app that estimated your reading prescription and bought some £5 Amazon reading glasses either side of that estimate which worked pretty well…
Yeah, that happened to me too!
A greenn bird, wings open, on a branch, another below it falling away.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying.
A dispute between a pair of feral ring-necked parakeets on a summer evening. The victor has just pushed a rival off the branch.
#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #parrots
I very much enjoyed this; the use of infographics added to the depth of a deeply radical story.
Why we travel with a decent CO2 meter.
Eating breakfast, watching blue and yellow trains race each other in and out of the commuter station seventeen floors below.
a book cover with a gothic-looking city in dark blues and greens with some yellow lighting. adrian tchaikovsky says 'a triumph of the imagination.' wickhills by premee mohamed.
Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL
WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg!
Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Authoritarians
Do you use Hugo or similar static site generator? I just figured out how to replace the twitter-shortcode with a custom bluesky-shortcode template.
This was perfect for my blog posts because I needed to update all Twitter embeds to Bluesky embeds.
Enjoy! github.com/LanceMcCarth...
Trying to remember when I last signed a cheque.
Also an autograph should not be a defined cursive format; it would be too easy to fake.
A green bird is clinging to a branch with one foot. It is using a red beak to eat something held in the other claw.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OneLeg.
A ring-necked parakeet clinging to a branch with one foot while it eats buds held in the other.
#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #parrot
This pun only makes sense in Amsterdam.
The M52 keeps giving me de Pjip.
Could be a plan!
Today is #TolkienReadingDay!
Founded by the Society and held on 25 March, the date the Ring was destroyed, Tolkien Reading Day is an opportunity to read your favourite #Tolkien passages. This year's theme is "Unlikely Heroes". But what will you be reading? www.tolkiensociety.org/2026/03/toda...
This is not just a mic drop, it’s an M&S mic drop.
Seventeen floors up over Amsterdam Zuid, and a pair of exhuberent jackdaws sail past on the wings of the storm, black wings under scudding clouds.
The visual poetry of equinoctical gales.
A bird sits on a metal pole. It is silhouetted against a pale orange sky.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OpenBeak.
At sunset, a silhouetted starling is calling to the rest of its flock from a London TV aerial.
#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #starling
And doesn't even meet Copilot+ PC standards.
Certainly midrange HAILO performance.
It has lower performance than the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 (30TOPS vs 40TOPS) for 10x the price...
It has fewer TOPS than the Raspberry Pi AI HAT 2+ (30TOPS vs 40TOPS) for 10x the price...
Lucas used British WWII movies as inspiration...
I'd always pegged the Snowspeeder for that role; the Y-Wing is more a fast bomber like a Mosquito or a Blenheim, maybe a Beaufighter.
I always mapped the rebel ships to WWII RAF, plucky underdogs!
It was the first time I'd seen them!
