Next up, let’s find Merlin!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/12/mythical-roman-fort-frenni-fawr-wales-emperor

While the weather continues, bees are taking advantage …

Reform to receive cognitive dissonance award …
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/03/reform-media-presenter-worked-chinese-state-propaganda-channel

#thearchers
There are worse options than Alan for helping Carol with any digital problems …

@MiaMarkTwo After yesterday’s land taxing, here’s an easy to fix business taxing loophole.
Sadly little chance of renaming America Square to Angela Davis Square …

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/31/the-london-office-the-empty-boxes-and-the-1bn-tax-loophole

This won’t come as a surprise to most of Fedi, but bugs need our help.

(I’ve already done my bit for today, fishing several beetles out of rainwater they weren’t expecting to return)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/humans-bugs-invertebrates-of-the-year-natural-world-chris-packham

An interesting piece from today’s Byline Times, starting to dig up some of the well-established network of poison at Cambridge (and elsewhere, sadly).

Probably much more to come, but ultimately the university itself needs to do some serious deep-cleaning over racism and bullying.

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/

@MiaMarkTwo https://stroud.social/objects/2c374d11-c2a7-4a84-ab3d-d455263384d1

@aral Don’t know if you know a bit about this? https://social.coop/@afewbugs/117087705864226393

(from the Guardian)
Weifang, China

A pig slides into a pool at Jinbao amusement park as the park’s zoo adopts measures to help the animals cope with continuous high temperatures

Maybe not a fully flying pig, but at least a briefly gliding one.

And they’re off …

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/08/more-reform-uk-transactions-worth-millions-reported-to-national-agency

@mastodonmigration This is the kind of thing that people like @emilymbender, @timnitGebru , and @alex have been saying for years, so if this is a new idea to anyone reading this, go follow them, you'll learn a lot.

@wendinoakland

Looks like belated moving congratulations are in order! 🧳
Welcome to London, hope the settling in isn’t too bureaucratic.

Some good news for a Monday.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/woman-who-won-legal-case-over-greenhouse-emissions-awarded-top-environmental-prize

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

Keep on throwing questions back at the royals.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/13/prince-andrew-royal-family-jeffrey-epstein

@ChrisMayLA6

Any thoughts on the Rethinking group?
(apart from it would be interesting if Reeves & Yuan Yang did a job swap for a few months?)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/10/rethinking-economics-student-academic-organisation-changing-education

This can very much happen here if there’s an unlucky confluence of geology and excessive rains.
(Sorry, not a happy way to start the week)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/09/anger-despair-sicilian-town-crumbles-landslide-niscemi

An Amelia Gentleman article.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/07/sex-and-snacks-but-no-seat-at-the-table-the-role-of-women-in-epsteins-sordid-mens-club

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing