This is just awesome:

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 light-years from Earth.

Read on…


I did my paternal duty and produced a stack of pancakes for my offspring to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.

A plate of pancakes with an unusual pattern resembling a face formed on the top surface.

Interesting to see Press Gazette doing a “return to the office” survey of journalism workplaces - using Substack.

But it requires you to have a Substack login to take it.


Making space elf Fire Dragons with my youngest in the Warhammer store.

A detailed miniature figure of a futuristic armored soldier holding a weapon and wearing a helmet with an elongated crest is being assembled.A child is engaged in assembling a Warhammer 40k miniature at a table, in a Warhammer shop.


It’s a landmark day for beavers:

Sussex Wildlife Trust welcomes the announcement today allowing licensed releases of Beavers into the wild in England, whilst confirming that all existing wild populations can remain and expand naturally. This means that rather than releasing into isolated enclosures, the Government will support catchment-scale releases of Beavers. For the first time in over 400 years, Beavers can live and move freely in our rivers.

In a sea of bleak, depressing news, this is exciting stuff.


Well, it had to happen. Here’s the first thing I actually agree with the current US president about:

Trump likens UK encryption law to ‘something you hear about with China’.

A stopped clock etc etc


That is… not a small number.

A screenshot of a Ghost publishing screen saying that this was the 5,400th post published on the site.

We have entered the age of goatse as government.

IYKYK

(I’m unreasonably proud of that phrase.)


Just updated my Twitter archive on micro.blog. It really brought home just how little I use the platform now. I first joined back in 2006, and it was once my main social media hangout.

Thanks for nothing, Melon Husk.


Terrible Tudors time from Horrible Histories at the Worthing Pavillion with my youngest.

A crowd of people is gathered in front of a stage set for a "Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors" performance.