Tara Daze

With nature in big trouble, here's an easy way for councils to save wildlife and save money. White clover is a great food source for bumblebees and other pollinating insects. So next year, don't relentlessly mow it or spray it. Just let it grow! 🐝

An IBM slide from 1979.

Snow in a microscope

Marcy, my Cameroonian mother in-law, had her visitor visa refused by @ukhomeoffice because she is retired & 'widowed'. Our family has had too many insulting, dehumanising, inferiating experiences w/ the HO. Yet the pain, the rage. My trembling, numb fingers. 1/

a YouTube comment about the way AI destroyed the field of translation years ago

I mean, it's not my area of expertise, but if AI can make art to a level where it undercuts artists (& I'm not saying it can, yet), then surely it's gonna be able to write code. Feels a lot like tech boys are in the 'fuck around' phase of a cycle that has very broad implications

I can never bring myself to pay the ridiculous price of Lego advent calendars, so each year the kids get a set they *actually* want, divided out over 24 days. And the best bit is that I get to use some of the several-thousand baggies we have left over from covid-testing kits 😀

@Real_hotguts Hope it remains as boring as it seems, glad you caught it

a while back i tweeted about being on a 2ww. last week i found out i have cancer, thankfully an extremely basic, boring non-threatening cancer. my GP called me to check in today. at our appt we shared an awkward laugh about putting me on a 2ww bc it was so unlikely to be

Life hack: give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.

If you’ve never seen a UK visa rejection letter -the cruelty, the contempt, the humiliation-here’s the one denying entrance to my mum BECAUSE I’d said in my invitation letter that I was pregnant & needed help. I’m a privileged academic. Imagine what it’s like for other Albanians

@womensart1 An octeapus!

Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #WomensArt

Never felt judged so hard by a painting

Fun times ahead for #Adobe designers. Today, if you open a PSD (even one that's 20 years old) with an obscure PANTONE colour, it will remove the colour and make it black. Pantone want US$21/month for access, and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November.

I needed dahlia frog hotel today, so I imagine you might too twitter.com/FrogOnIG/statu…

More. Of. This. 🙌

ancient paleolithic venus statues were likely made by women who were examining their own bodies and sculpting them from their own first person POV, rather than, as previously assumed, exaggerated features from an outside perspective.

This week marks a decade since the MIR was put in place. To celebrate the 10th birthday, here’s 10 things that the policy has brought our families since being introduced. #hostileenvironment #familiesbelongtogether #priceonlove #scrapMIRnow #haveaheart

@HanburySt Window

How would you pronounce this?

The Danger of Minimalist Design (& the death of detail) A short thread...