@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org do you know @effinbirds@mastodon.social?

Today I'm making a maqluba. Normally I make way too much, so I need to be careful not go go overboard

@IHPower@mastodonapp.uk that's your just desserts

This country is a problem to visit for international academics.

We recently heard about an African academic who struggled to get, and then finally obtained after a lot of hassle, a UK visa to attend a conference

It turns out that they change planes in Paris - so they need a transit visa. Which can only be obtained in advance.

So they need a whole new set of interviews to get a visa to France when they're not even leaving the airport.

Because, predictably, #Brexit.

Someone many years ago told me that the whole of Coventry city centre is a piece of art, with many different places themselves being pieces of art and containing pieces of art. Fractal art, in a way

I didn't understand what he meant. I think I do now.

I'm so glad someone did this #thespecials #coventry

@mikemathia@ioc.exchange I happen to believe that there are many people like me - who are unable to open tins of peaches without belting out the words to that song

Apparently Sunak thinks there is somehow a "proportional and pragmatic" response to climate change.

The man is a menace.

Wowzers, this is so good - an exhibition of sounds and excerpts from letters sent by Indian soldiers fighting in WW1.

This one, from an unnamed soldier, starts like this "do not think that this is war. This is not war. This is the end of the world"

Incredible work. Well done whoever makes the decisions at Coventry Cathedral to host this kind of thing.

This I really like. I thought at first it was Medusa, but on closer look it is a sad vision of life as a gay person in Uganda. The artist is called Leilah Babirye, a refugee from Uganda where it became unsafe for them to live after an article in a newspaper

Forget what I said before; there's nothing like the existential dread of a Wetherspoons in a wet English city at 9.50 am

Thinking of things that matter and things that don't. And how the things that seem to matter a) depend on context and b) don't, really

In a very wet Coventry. Good job it is one of my fav places

@MichalBryxi@mastodon.coffee ah yes, that's like firedragon https://firedragonfuel.com/

@MichalBryxi@mastodon.coffee what is it? An alcohol burner?

@ianbetteridge@writing.exchange I don't understand what he thinks he is doing.

@firstdogonthemoon@aus.social we often walk along the canal and for a long time we only saw the kingfisher as a flash of blue. It was kinda comic as someone would say 'did you see that?' because by the time we'd said it, the bird had gone.

Eventually we did get a good look at it sat on a branch.