I spend years telling myself my fear of packing my cat is irrational and you pack a fricking lizard. Honestly, I leave this site for 2 weeks and this is what I come back to. Is the gecko ok?

Not tried that kind of porridge, was it good?

oh my goodness Lewis.

Here’s another one. ”Make it a scuptural quiff but more dead behind the eyes.“

I am fixated on the gloves on the little girl. Like she might be hiding the blood on her hands from someone she murdered on the way to church. The whole thing is clearly nightmarish.

This is my central concern: that low birth rates, and the ensuing population panic, is just a cover to convince people that it's reasonable to support pronatalism, when really it's only nominally about raising birth rates and really about (re)creating a gender/race-ethnic/religious/etc hierarchy.

Stare at oven clock and seek patience or skill to reset it?

Time to get out and make some of your own noise! (Or just tune into silence depending on preference).

Noise cancelling or noise providing? I flip between both.

@mikkonen.bsky.social - this article is packed with things we like and it’s funny!

She is just trying to figure out if you want food, pets, or to be let out.

Good God. Is there nobody left in the Tory Party who can tell this bunch to get a grip?

when it’s seen as an addiction it makes more sense.

I’m sure he’s not ignorant of it, I read it more as a question of balance. I read it as
a complaint that there is not enough research funding full stop, which I sympathise with. Where I disagree with William is that I tend to think the more public education, the better.

I think my confusion must be a Finnish v British thing - in Finland, public education is a core mission of museums. (Declaration of interest, I go to such events! Pic of audience listening to climate researcher through lit up headphones).