Esther Schindler

Sandwich shop offering ‘seagull insurance’ due to thieving birds Co-owner says that seagulls can take food from up to 30 people a day

Sandwich shop offering ‘seagull insurance’ due to thieving birds

"The optional insurance will give diners the option of adding a £1 fee to their sandwiches, which cost around £6.75."

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

🐣 🪶

Camels at beauty pageant disqualified after using hump-plumping injectables Camel owners had used injections to enhance the camel’s lips, dermal fillers around their noses and silicone wax to enlarge the humps

If this isn't on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, I'll be shocked.

Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables

Truth

never forget

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative expands with three-dimensional renderings of significant pieces—most of which are free to download.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases three-dimensional renderings of dozens of holdings.

"With careful attention to technical precision and color, these animated renderings are research-grade tools, allowing us to see the objects at any angle."

That is lovely!

a tweet: Gaslighting isn't real, you're crazy

Some people say stuff like this and they mean it

The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love. This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns and the fire consumes all. You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water. And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. — Nikita Gill

This.

a rose

Post a flower photo. #Bloomscrolling

EXACTLY THIS!

Your story brightened my day!

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

In honour of Sir Tony Hoare: “There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious errors.”

Bringing Baseball Gloves Back to Life Jimmy Lonetti Helps Baseball Fans Recapture Memories By Repairing Treasured Gloves

An interview with a man who restores baseball gloves.

Tony Hoare (1934-2026) Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor  Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...

Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...

Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees. The Mondrian Trust claims a 1930 painting is still protected—citing "dual copyrights," Spanish law, and a misreading of the Copyright Act.

The Mondrian Trust claims a 1930 painting is still protected.

My nephew (a toddler) is holding a chicken. He is joyful.

"Editing is the same as quarreling with writers - same thing exactly." -- Harold Ross

Naught but a leap to the left
And thanne a clockwyse tread;
Put thyne handes on thyne hippes,
And be thy knees yn-gatheréd:
Lo, it ys the pelvique thruste
That maketh mirthe down to rayne -

Let us do the Tyme Warpe agayne!

I laughed

Mood #AmEditing

Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan.

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones.

We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in.

Everything is for sale.

Eat Like a Medieval Saint With Her Recipe for 'Cookies of Joy' St. Hildegard was a mystic, healer, and passionate proponent of spelt and nutmeg.

There's a LOT of nutmeg in those cookies, just sayin'.

(Hildegard was pretty amazing, though.)

AI enables a Who's Who of brown bears in Alaska A team of scientists from EPFL and Alaska Pacific University has developed an AI program that can recognize individual bears in the wild, despite the substantial changes that occur in their appearance over the summer season. This breakthrough holds significant promise for research, management, and conservation efforts.

Tech is sometimes good! "A team of scientists from EPFL and Alaska Pacific University has developed an AI program that can recognize individual bears in the wild, despite the substantial changes that occur in their appearance over the summer season."

If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?

Aside from the Twitter schadenfreude... I never bought anything from an ad there either. Even before the dark times.

But I HAVE bought stuff via Facebook ads, if only because the targeting is far more effective. I mean, how could I say no to a kitty-themed Hawaiian shirt? Or good German bread?

I love this.

Kind of weird for the theme song of Trump’s new organization to be something Prince wrote about the inability to move on after a breakup or loss. Sinead O’Connor said she thought about her deceased mom every time she sang it.

A “prayer to the local deities” offered by Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus