I have recently found that I measure my height in feet and inches and my childrens' in cm. (Their height keeps changing and the measuring tape is in cm)
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I have recently found that I measure my height in feet and inches and my childrens' in cm. (Their height keeps changing and the measuring tape is in cm)
Briefly, when I change them into coins because the tooth fairy hasn't gone digital yet.
The two greatest and most important writing hires in comic history—Alan Moore to write Swamp Thing and Chris Claremont to write X-Men—were both made by the same guy: Len Wein
We tend to think of Wein as a writer and creator (and he was very good at both), but his real legacy is as an editor.
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
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.
When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
I still think about this a lot.
Please do not do this we have already exceeded our ulcer-based casualty allowance for 2026.
90s Captain Ahab: Thar she blows. Thar she blows again.
SATAN: So what makes you want to work here? Isn’t it a bit of a sideways move for you?
ME: Well, sideways and down, haha
SATAN: Haha
ME: But I’ve been working in the sector for a while, and I feel this is where the action is
SATAN: Your most recent role was…
ME: Cinema website designer
SATAN: Sweet
A parent walking to school with children.
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I have a rather dated and whimsical view of university as a machine for making academia, that spits out bourgeois twenty somethings qualified for middle management jobs as an unfortunate industrial byproduct.
UK policy makers seem to view it the other way round.
Wildflowers, a couple of springs ago, in the churchyard in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This is actually a very spooky spot in winter as it's the resting place of the allegedly Satanic Squire Richard Cabell - inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Baskerville legend - whose corpse is boxed in by a somewhat incongruous structure, a little pagoda-ish, but also not unlike the kind of public toilet you might find in a small British town, which sits on the south side of the church. Do NOT walk around it backwards as the Devil will bite your fingers and Cabell will release his hell hounds. Also, the church has been burned down by Satanists not once but TWICE in the last couple of centuries. (I wrote about all this in more detail in my book 21st-Century Yokel, and a couple of the scarier gravestones inspired bits in my novel Villager.
Wildflowers love dead people.
Tweet Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.
Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this.
Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.
The muppet's christmas carol meme, revealing it's Kieron goes on about beorn's origin being tom bombadil fucking a bear" day.
It comes around quicker every year.
I have found the opposite, sometimes. Recently read a book where I found the short chapters interrupted the flow / gave me whiplash. But I happily read Pratchett with scene breaks instead of chapters, so not sure what was going on there. Maybe it was just less good.
Plus, non negligible chance of hurting myself in the process. Which is also part of the issue. Steering Wheel spike theory etc.
I mean, hazard perception is part of the test that licenses people to drive on roads. Naïve cyclist that I am, I do in fact slow down in areas where I can't see fully around me or children running in front is predictably a hazard. And the press would skewer me if I hit one.
The Rowling Tax - and only women are required to pay it.
When I wrote a piece about my son's love of reading in January, I included this bit because I refuse to hear lectures about literacy rates from the selfsame ghouls and vandals who've cheered on as the UK's apparatus for childhood reading has been stripped to the wiring and sold off for scrap.
This year, for the first time, The British Book Awards are celebrating graphic novels with their own category, and what a great selection of shortlisted books they’ve chosen! Also, me. Hooray! 🥳 www.thebookseller.com/british-book...
A small book with limbs made of rolled-up paper held between the covers and a crudely drawn face sticking out from the top
I don't have kids so I dressed up my book as a child for world book day
A painting of Voltaire
Happy #WorldBookDay2026. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire once said 'Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.' 📚
He also drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day, often mixed with chocolate.
I think we're onboard with this.
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)
It's now an annual ritual for me. Waiting for the ALCS statement to see what I've earned in secondary and residual royalties from photocopies, libraries, etc.
Lowest amount: £18. Largest amount: £1900.
If you've got stuff published in the UK and aren't a member of ALCS, you're a chump.
Screenshot of aTelegraph headline. Which reads: Town blighted by squirrels hiding acorns in car engines Animals wreaking havoc on cars in Petersfield, Hampshire, by stashing nuts in pipework.
Squirrels. Welcome to the war on cars.