What's new?

10^th August 2025

The content delivery network (bunny.net) is now re-routing all UK readers via Amsterdam or Dublin to avoid the 'signed in but unable to access anything' problems that have occurred intermittently for some users. I apologise for the 10-millisecond additional delay in page loading that this causes 😉.

8^th August 2025

New post for sponsors on Preparing for winter.

4^th August 2025

My hosting company (MagicPages) upgraded the site software to Ghost 6. There's all sort of neat things for site owners, but the big public-facing change is the introduction of ActivityPub social media integration. WTF? This means that new posts and comments/discussion about those posts (as well as unrelated comments) can now appear on any ActivityPub-aware social media (like Mastodon, Threads etc.) if you follow @social@theapiarist.org. Bluesky users need to follow @social.theapiarist.org.ap.brid.gy as that platform isn't truly ActivityPub aware, but can be tricked into thinking it is.

2^nd August 2025

The What's New page appeared … it seemed like a good idea at the time 😉.

1^st August 2025

New post on Did they not read Seeley? on a recently-located free-living colony in the Scottish Borders.