@js129.bsky.social
Scientific Humanist. Lapsed archaeologist. Socialist. Hopeful pessimist.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
January 29, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Four legs good, two legs bad.
Also mistaken for UFOs.
January 29, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Also mistaken for UFOs.
Surely cremation as firewood would be more useful?
January 29, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Surely cremation as firewood would be more useful?
That's a big old jump from 40,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago and the bronze age. 90% of the time frame gone just like that. It's not as if nothing happened during that time.
January 28, 2026 at 11:56 PM
That's a big old jump from 40,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago and the bronze age. 90% of the time frame gone just like that. It's not as if nothing happened during that time.
The Post Office Tower. And I don't care what anyone else wants to call it.
I don't think the bit on the top rotates any more.
I don't think the bit on the top rotates any more.
January 27, 2026 at 8:13 AM
The Post Office Tower. And I don't care what anyone else wants to call it.
I don't think the bit on the top rotates any more.
I don't think the bit on the top rotates any more.
Didn't you use to have a 3D print of your own skull somewhere?
January 26, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Didn't you use to have a 3D print of your own skull somewhere?
Is this something to do with the post WW1 baby boom, and a surplus of toddlers?
January 26, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Is this something to do with the post WW1 baby boom, and a surplus of toddlers?
The things I remember about school dinners are meat with tubes in, and eating one of my own teeth in mistake for a hard lump in a Yorkshire pudding.
January 25, 2026 at 9:32 PM
The things I remember about school dinners are meat with tubes in, and eating one of my own teeth in mistake for a hard lump in a Yorkshire pudding.
This is not the sausage dog I was looking for.
January 25, 2026 at 1:12 PM
This is not the sausage dog I was looking for.
We've only had recorded sound for about 150 years, so if it's claiming to be older than that it's obviously fake. If it's AI attempting to perform historical music, I would hope I could tell the difference.
January 25, 2026 at 12:32 PM
We've only had recorded sound for about 150 years, so if it's claiming to be older than that it's obviously fake. If it's AI attempting to perform historical music, I would hope I could tell the difference.
Unfortunately there's a lot of bits of plastic junk in amongst the pebbles that needs picking up, not just Lego bricks.
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Unfortunately there's a lot of bits of plastic junk in amongst the pebbles that needs picking up, not just Lego bricks.
I'm not criticising the painting, just warning people not to be disappointed when life only imitates art.
January 25, 2026 at 7:58 AM
I'm not criticising the painting, just warning people not to be disappointed when life only imitates art.
I seem to have lived most of my life in increasingly interesting times. I hope I escape before they become impossibly interesting.
January 25, 2026 at 6:51 AM
I seem to have lived most of my life in increasingly interesting times. I hope I escape before they become impossibly interesting.
Did they also do the rumpant horse statue in the background?
January 25, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Did they also do the rumpant horse statue in the background?
Before you get too excited and spend a lot of money, this is what it looks like in real life.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Before you get too excited and spend a lot of money, this is what it looks like in real life.
In which case he would be pedalling backwards and the bicycle wouldn't be moving at all.
January 24, 2026 at 10:52 AM
In which case he would be pedalling backwards and the bicycle wouldn't be moving at all.
If, as the answers say, he is riding the bicycle backwards then you can also add riding on the wrong side of the street as one of the mistakes. Although the bicycle is facing in the correct direction.
January 24, 2026 at 9:09 AM
If, as the answers say, he is riding the bicycle backwards then you can also add riding on the wrong side of the street as one of the mistakes. Although the bicycle is facing in the correct direction.
There is a story that "Bait's Bite Lock" on the Cam is so called because all the effluent collected at the lock and made for good eel fishing. The eels were then eaten by the citizens of Cambridge, and so made an endless circle of consumption.
January 23, 2026 at 4:21 PM
There is a story that "Bait's Bite Lock" on the Cam is so called because all the effluent collected at the lock and made for good eel fishing. The eels were then eaten by the citizens of Cambridge, and so made an endless circle of consumption.
It's a tin god to free them from thought and responsibility.
January 23, 2026 at 8:18 AM
It's a tin god to free them from thought and responsibility.
And there was much rejoicing.
January 23, 2026 at 12:39 AM
And there was much rejoicing.
Part of the same series as 'Keep Calm and Carry On', but these ones actually got used.
January 23, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Part of the same series as 'Keep Calm and Carry On', but these ones actually got used.
I think Fray Bentos is somewhere in Argentina.
January 22, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I think Fray Bentos is somewhere in Argentina.
A duffel coat would be handy too.
January 22, 2026 at 8:22 AM
A duffel coat would be handy too.