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Today is World Migratory Bird Day. Please say hello to the Pfeilstorch (‘arrow stork’). In 1822 this bird was shot in the German village of Klütz. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this bird played a pivotal role in our understanding of migration.

"... and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..."

Mr Sneeze Of all the Mister Men Would benefit most From an antihistermen

HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome

But then, in a very real sense, are not all roads Botley?

Kickstopper -- an app wher yf you rayse ynogh moneye then tech companynes do not do thinges

You know where there's wild hilly outdoors with no wind turbines? Military firing ranges. The haters will always have somewhere to go for a wander.

He collapsed and lay twitching on the grass.

It would not have been too early to get a flu jab.

You can pay for gas or you can not pay for gas. If you don't pay for gas in you don't get electricity out.

I am surprised it is possible to get a hundred members of any profession onto a stage in London and come out with a group quite as White as the BBC Symphony Orchestra is tonight.

Not only one boner part.

The Cambridge Eight is made up of Muckle Tab I, Muckle Tab II, Muckle Tab III, Muckle Tab IV, Muckle Tab V, Muckle Tab VI, Muckle Tab VII, Muckle Tab VIII, and Wee Tab IX.

If you chat for long with the void, the void chats also for you.

Optimist: The glass is half full Pessimist: The glass is half empty Crossword setter: Mighty fetal splashes shattered impression that all is not well? (3,5,2,4,5)

"Nathan Cofnas" is an anagram of FASH CANT ANON, the twelve step programme for people addicted to right-wing talking points.

some people are passing off repetition hobs as recursion ones

It's the recursion hobs you have to watch out for

Capita need to bring in help to fix this, if only they had access to some list of professional administrators with time on their hands. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Not for nothing is the Helen the unit of beauty. Usually the Milihelen, or the amount of beauty needed to launch one ship. (Though this is not without controversy, as properly you shouldn't combine metric prefixes with Troy measures.)

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com Possibly the most informative article I've read this year

The attribution of a heat island is complicated. If your cooling is powered by rooftop solar PV, then all the electricity used is energy that would otherwise have heated the roof - unless it was reflected. Using a/c is no more irresponsible than painting your roof black or making it of slate.

Ann Widdecombe's favourite soft toy, loved and kept into adult life, was Fly Bunny, an eldritch rabbit with the compound eyes of a fly. She sent me a picture, which was nice of her. I'd like to say "this explains a lot" but it really doesn't.

Good night

Some of us won't get a chance to watch it till after work today. Please, no spoilers.

After Congress passes a Sensible Calendar measure it will be commemorated on the 7th of April.

BlueSky poster in "cannot spot a joke" shock

Gen X > Millennial > Gen Z > Gen α > Gen-AI

Also truth itself.

HEATWAVE (Palindrome) To hoses I ran: Use now, as I saw one sun arise so hot.

GOP hawks: "I want the US to do a military campaign against a weaker enemy whose outcome is to make China terrified to invade Taiwan" Oracle at Delphi: "sure thing boss, coming right up"

They look like they are for a chairlift, and I can't believe nobody has had this idea for dual-use infrastructure before.

I am going to continue to push back on "high skill migration" even if I am the last dead ender. The UK has a much more pressing shortage of low-skill labour than high-skill labour. We have people giving up jobs as magic circle lawyers to take care of their parents.

FOOTBALL (Palindrome) See referees idle, if dim. A deep’s too far…. A ball! A cross! I’m onside. Sure. Peek a busied art: It's open on one post. I trade: I sub a keeper. Used is no miss or call. A bar! A footspeed! A midfield! I see referees.

If I should die, think only this of me: There is some midden in the dragon's lair Forever Cappadocia. There shall be In that rich turd a richer turd interred...

Only some of whom have subsequently had to be cancelled for noncery.

"Strip away the Latin and the instrument is a forward sale of a standing commodity, the direct ancestor of the contract a desk would write today to go long or short a harvest a season before the harvest exists." As we confront Hormuz and El Niño, my essay on the origins of averages and derivatives:

Some of the spongiest people never buy cakes from the patisserie. They are

You don't need aircon if you have a heat pump in cooling mode. Roof and wall insulation keeps the heat out. Low E windows reflect the sun's infrared. MVHR heat exchanger ventilation keeps your cool in. A low-energy home is a home adapted for climate change. ps Quite smug here. The tech all works.

NEW ANALYSIS: Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive? I pulled together wholesale and retail data across Europe and the US. Wholesale prices track gas exposure, not renewables share. Retail prices barely track either. Read full piece👇 janrosenow.substack.com/p/do-renewab...

Belphegor (quoth the Wiki) is the demon of Sloth, who promises marvellous inventions to create riches and save drudgery, and sows evil and dissension by redistributing wealth to the worst people. Truly a demon of our times.

This reminds me of the fun fact that the "In" in "Moreton-In-Marsh" is not the word "in" , but a corruption of 'henne marsh" as in moorhens

Notice to all parties: if you have one decent prospect and need to fill out your list with no-hoper paper candidates, make sure to pick no-hopers with names at the end of the alphabet.

"I was born to be a rower," Tom believed innately.