Feline Twitter dump
I earlier promised a creature-related Twitter dump. It turns out it’s pretty much all cats: Another optical illusion that works on a nonhuman animal. Can cats pass the mirror self-recognition test?...
View ArticleJokes about a broken blog
Not mine, thank goodness. 6k’s. A few hours ago, 6k told the tale of his broken blog, in the form of a blog posting which he had to put instead, at first, on Facebook. I LOLled at this bit: I’m...
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Statues do matter
Or so the recent dramas in Parliament Square would suggest, during which graffiti was attached to the statues of Churchill and Lincoln. Cue angry history lessons from Old People. So here are a few more...
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With all dew respect to 6k
I see that 6k is now calling quota photos QPs. And here is his latest QP: Go here for a bigger and thus even better version. And once there, click on the right, to get an equally amazing photo of the...
View ArticleKatharine Birbalsingh on the racism of David Starkey and on the nation state...
I’m about half way through watching this “interview” on YouTube, done by the two Triggernometry guys (don’t yet know their names) with Katharine Birbalsingh, the quotes being because it doesn’t take...
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Some more creature tweets
A scary tweet: The other thing I found out was that the female monarch butterfly has an array of chitinous teeth inside her ‘vagina’ … Chitinous? Excuse me while I google that. Here we go. A...
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Blue mountains in the far distance
Here is a panoramic photo by 6k, of a striking local (to him) scene. Panoramic presumably means that he photoed a big spread of photos and then some cunning computer programme stitched them together...
View ArticleHow the beagle helped 6k to pick Hideki Matsuyama to win the US Masters
If you like blogging comedy gold, I warmly recommend this posting, about how favourite-blogger-of-mine 6k got his beagle to help him place his (successful) bet on who would win the US Masters. 6k was...
View ArticleThe League of Nations builds itself a custom-built headquarters in Geneva
I have been reading The Mighty Continent by John Terraine, which is a history of Europe from 1900 to the 1970s when it was published, being a spin-off book from a TV show. On page 145 of my 1974...
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