@newyorker.com has a very good article about data centres

I see that The Descent is on BBC iPlayer -- one of the most frightening horror films ever made. I remember coming out from a late afternoon showing and thinking that if it had been dark everyone would have been afraid to go home.

Just received this winter fuel payment scam. A criminal opportunity created by government U turns

@thetimes.com 1,580 families on universal credit with 5 or more children stand to benefit from abolishing the [2 child] cap ..,
It includes 14,899 families with 6 children, 4,812 with 7 children, 1,822 with eight children and 668 with 9 children, [and] 424 families with 10 or more children

Three giant puffballs

Leeds Liverpool canal near Gargrave

Saw this black rabbit on the lawn outside our window. According to the web these are very rare 1/100,000

Tour de France : tout comprendre sur le classement du meilleur grimpeur

6 years older than the new pope so this is probably the last time I will see the smoke

@publicinquiry.bsky.social 30 years ago on the 50th anniversary of VE Day you gave an imaginary despatch from a defeated Berlin. I thought it was really outstanding and I wondered if it was available online.

BBC 27-Feb-2025 Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has announced that the newspaper's opinion section will focus on supporting “personal liberties and free markets", and pieces opposing those views will not be published.

How’s that working out now?

Article about de-extinction in this week’s @newyorker.com

Michael Abrams is one of the heads of the woolly-mammoth team; Sara Ord leads the thylacine group; Anna Keyte is in charge of the dodo project.

My 5 Most read (adult) authors

HG Wells (about 38 books)
Graham Greene (about 20)
CS Forester (18)
Ian Fleming (14)
JG Ballard (about 13)

The oystercatchers have returned to the Leeds Liverpool Canal

River Aire near Skipton

Why does this remind me of “Don’t Look Now”?