I thought they’d stopped after Boson, Leptons, and Hadrons; now there’s another particle!

Starmer says he wasn't told about Mandelson vetting failure as he faces MPs

Shekel, Rattle, and Roll

“Can I just say that I am incandescent with rage that I was not informed that bin day was moved because of the bank holiday (although back to normal next week after), and that ambassador business too, if I’m honest about it!”

You can ointment for one of those

The Moon base?

No skipping the Bombadil bits

They were a commission from a Scottish trans artist I followed on “that previous site”. The frames were nice finds in TK Maxx

My fireplace on which sit two picture frames, both with colourful geometric borders. They contain chibi-style drawings: the left one has Deadman and The Demon Etrogan, the right one had Swamp Thing and Abby, their hands reaching out to each other while a rainbow arc across both drawings.

Justice League Dark…Assemble!

That’s what the 2020s were supposed to look like!

The Druid only had a limp posy,
But the Wizard had a Scroll of Fireball
He was toast
#GirlsOwnCC

I loved this exchange she had with an interviewer..
[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

Post a Superman
From my favourite album

If you see this post a robot

Kier Starmer is to political nous, what Boris Johnson was to sexual abstinence

I have unused sunscreen which I can pour over it

That way lies notational madness!

Is that
(Tea and cake) or death, or
Tea and (cake or death)?
Enquiring ex-mathematicians ask

I fell in love with Real Analysis in my first year at university. I could calculate integrals and derivatives, but suddenly I understood the ‘why’ of it, what the machinery underneath was

If you pick any two points on the graph, draw a line between them and measure the gradient, g, then there’s a single number, d, such that -d <= g <= d.
I.e. the point-to-point gradient is bounded.
The function also has to be uniformly continuous.

There’s a term I’ve not heard since the early 80s!

Saturday

I’d love to see a reprint of the Look In strips

I’m in the middle of my first rewatch since seeing it as a kid in the early 70s, it’s lovely

Even Queen Victoria didn’t do that!

I was a month old foetus when it started, so the best I could do was listen closely and hope they had it on

It’s all available of the ‘Tube! It’s a great shame the first two series are wiped

Have you watched the one remaining series of Ace of Wands? Hammond wrote three of the six stories and they all have that ‘off kilter’ vibe

Me too! My first vague Doctor Who memories come from series 8 where he first appeared

A post from the Clash of Clans account, advertising a ‘Foot Tribute Bundle’. The accompanying image is of a cartoon Queen reclining away from the viewer with her naked feed prominently towards the viewer

One for @magus-smillsoid.bsky.social