I just saw that one of the tracks on the upcoming Boards of Canada album is titled Somewhere Right Now In The Future. 😂

In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

Can anyone find a better single image to answer to "What's wrong in Ireland?"
I blame the voters, they vote like they support football clubs.

Everything's Alright Forever by The Boo Radleys. A black vinyl LP on a Stanton turntable. Lego Wall-E looks on from the right.

Now playing: Everything's Alright Forever by The Boo Radleys.

They’d want to see our eclipse. They’d want to look through the Earth’s atmosphere with their own eyes and see the moon fit over the sun, watch the light fade down to almost nothing, listen to the animals nearby fall silent and feel with their own skins the sudden chill in the air that comes with totality. Even if they can’t survive in our atmosphere, even if they need a spacesuit to keep them alive, they’d still want to get as close as they possibly could to seeing it in the raw, in as close to natural conditions as it’s possible to arrange. They’d want to be here, amongst us, when the shadow passes. “So that’s where you look for aliens. In the course of an eclipse totality track. When everybody else is looking awestruck at the sky, you need to be looking round for anybody who looks weird or overdressed, or who isn’t coming out of their RV or their moored yacht with the heavily smoked glass."

Thanks to David Banks at the other place, who first alerted me to Ian Banks' reference to this face in his novel Transition, in which a character posits that if aliens exist on Earth, we'd find them watching an eclipse.

A free amenity service available in the people's park in Waterford

To be positive for a change: used this in the people's park in Waterford with my nephews today and it was great! Totally free of charge and a great way to try out new activities. More of this by county councils please!

‘Shroom boom’: The Cork-based entrepreneur growing the future of packaging from mushrooms Irish businesses are turning mycelium – fungus – into materials with the potential to rid us of plastics, and using it to recycle waste

How Shroom Is Now? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

New map work! Greenways of Ireland. Something I've been wanting to do for a long time. Surprising just how many there are, and even more in planning #GreenwaysIreland #ActiveTravel #Cycling

See more about the map on @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social here: www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/greenways/

Pharaoh Sanders

The #cowcushion is now listening to... #PharaohSanders #vinyl

Slan go Feoil!

It's tight but he is just on

Sparks

The #cowcushion is now listening to... #sparks #vinyl

The Psychedelic Animated Video for Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” (1979) Ah, yes, 'Autobahn.' From the moment the door slams and the ignition starts, prog rockers and pre-new wavers know a journey is afoot.

The Psychedelic Animated Video for Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” (1979)

Explore live radio by rotating the globe Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world

This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

Lord of the Rings meme gandalf: what do you see? frodo, holding the One Ring, which is decorated with dancing Elvis figures: it's some form of Elvis

I will never apologize for a post

You know youre in for a good night when #MysteryTrain opens with #TalkTalk

A digital pinboard showing six options. Ranging from 1. Nothing. 2. A vague outline with no/barely any colour. To 5. A vivid red star and 6. Something more elaborate. 35 people respond as “imagers” (Options 4-6). 6 people show aphantasia (Options 1-2), with one person selecting ‘nothing’. In the comments section for “nothing”, someone has asked “hello one friend. How do you imagine things?” The reply says “I think of concepts (weepy-face) can’t see things in my mind”

Once a year I ask my students to imagine a red star.

It’s cognitive psychology and we are about to talk about whether “imagery” is the same or different from “perception”, but first, I like to check in on what our class experience when we imagine something.

Friends, the results NEVER disappoint!

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

Copper coast

The first day this year that definitely felt more Summery than Wintery...

We have to stop Mescal from playing Parnell at all costs. You can't have a Parnell who looks like he's drunk a Yop

This video pops up every now and again, and I reckon it’s the dog equivalent of the Tom Holland dance video. A must-watch.

I think about this a lot.

Ron Cobb, near-forgotten genius political cartoonist.

He also did visual design of technology for the first Alien film and countless other scifi movies in the 70s/80s. Including the Weyland-Yutani Semiotic Standard - a visual language used for Nostromo signage.

The Tuatha Dé Danann always had a keen eye for a good deal on Dutch Gold

When I'm waiting for trains in Manchester, I have to have some hard Italian cheese with tangy yellow chutney.

It's my Piccadilly pecorino/piccalilli peccadillo.

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels

Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now