Jonathan

I do not like that cafe very much

Thank you!

Hi 🙋‍♂️ I just bought physical copies of these from a supplier in Germany. Is there any chance I could get access to the digital files through you?

Just sent you an email. Thanks! ☺️

@prismaticwasteland.com I purchased Barkeep On The Borderlands bundle from a supplier in Germany. Is there any way to get the pdf files from you?

Elaine is great. Sorry to see she has to put up with such nastiness. For each person that leaves a comment like that, there are at least double the number of people that think she absolutely kills it in every NPI video that she’s in.

Couldn’t agree more

This is so grotesque. I’m not competent to do this, but I would love someone to write a piece of code that would identify AI crawlers accessing a website and instead of giving them content send them poison till they blow up, like squeezing the venom back into a mosquito

Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.

The Europeans who built Britain In architecture, art, publishing and philosophy, continental émigrés fleeing fascism transformed our culture.

In architecture, art, publishing and philosophy, continental émigrés fleeing fascism transformed our culture.

📕 Nikhil Krishnan on the Europeans who built Britain

History offers few if any persuasive prescriptions for the future. It does, however, suggest that politics in the hands of powerful personalities who claim to have a panacea for current ills and offer sweeping change to bring about radical improvement is rarely desirable. 'Be careful what you wish for' is a useful notion to keep in my when considering the claims of potential political leaders. For my own part, I would be happy to avoid charismatic' personalities altogether in favour of leaders who, if less colourful, can offer competent, effective governance based on collective deliberation and well-founded, rational decisions aimed at improving the lives of all citizens. But that is probably another definition of utopia. Personality and Power lan Kershaw

“We just wanted to see the historic electric substation.”

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

Congratulations @eleoma.bsky.social !

A graphic with a blue sky background and white clouds. The text reads: "Harmful NO2 levels are estimated to be lower in 2024 compared to a scenario without ULEZ". The reductions are listed as follows: Central London – 54% lower, Inner London – 29% lower, Outer London – 24% lower. A source link at the bottom reads: london.gov.uk/ulez.

ULEZ works. It’s that simple.

Expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone wasn’t a decision I took lightly, but the latest figures show that it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners.

Tiny bone sewing needle found in an Iron Age pit at Winterborne Kingston in Dorset

The smallest (and most delicate) of discoveries from our ongoing dig at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset is this 40mm long Iron Age sewing needle

Carved from animal bone just over 2,000 years ago 😍

📷 June 2016

#FindsFriday

This week, vast plumes of smoke have been billowing over Dartmoor as common graziers set the moor alight to remove ‘scrub’.

Why is this still permitted in a time of climate & ecological emergency? Great piece examining the issue by @tonydartmoor.bsky.social:

bsky.app/profile/tony...

What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain Excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world.

Even infrequent users—those who used, on average, roughly three times a month—scored higher on a delusional-thought scale than ex–ketamine users, people who took other drugs, and people who didn’t use drugs at all.

The thing which is bugging me about this is foregrounding a scientific defence against "Empathy is bad" rather than noting that a society that values Empathy is the only society worth living in and the only one worth fighting for.

The Nazi Party's electoral rise was meteoric: 2.6 per cent of the vote in 1928, 18.3 per cent in 1930, 37.4 per cent in 1932 - making it easily the largest party in the German parliament (the Reichstag). Hitler failed only narrowly in 1932 to prevent Paul von Hindenburg, the revered war hero, from being re-elected as Reich President. By the time he took power in January 1933 the Nazi Party had around 850,000 members, and its paramilitary wing, the SA (Sturmabteilung - 'Storm Department'), comprised some 400,000 Stormtroopers, not all of whom were party members. The Nazi movement was, then, more than three times bigger than the Fascist Party had been at the time of Mussolini's accession to power in 1922. Personality and Power lan Kershaw

The UK's record on child poverty is pretty terrible.

Based on before-housing-cost thresholds, only Greece had worse rates among European countries in 2018.

White Storks dancing on blue background - folk art style

White Dance - by Ukrainian folk artist, Fedir Panko - painted in 'Petrykivka' Style, after the village it was named after

#UkrainianArt #art

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.

Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

Those who focus on power often do so in the belief that imagination is an ephemeral, weak, unimportant thing. This is not true, but imagination does influence the world in a different way to brute force. Water can be just as destructive as fire, even though its nature is to behave in an entirely different way. Imagination matters because ideas alter beliefs, beliefs shape attitudes, and attitudes decide actions. In this way does the story of the mind play out in the material world. Love and Let Die John Higgs

Tapestry of three birds taking flight above fields. Doves, perhaps. Browns, greys, whites

'Inspired by Light'

This beautiful tapestry was created by #Ukrainian artist Olga Pilyuhina, who uses the technique of smooth hand-weaving in her work...

#textiles #art #birdart #birds #tapestry

Artwork featuring a person in a hat with a wide brim and spotty top on a white horse viewed from directly above, a white and black dog follows, shadows on the grass below are long

🇺🇦 Ukrainian llustraitor Olga Shtonda #WomensArt

Painting of a stylised rural scene with agricultural workers working in fields on a hillside

Anthill, c.1916 by Expressionist painter Marianne von Werefkin #womensart

During WW1, Clare Attwood was commissioned by the Women's Work Sub-committee of the Imperial War Museum to produce several pictures depicting the activities of the Women's Voluntary Service. This work (1918) shows the Royal Army Clothing Depot at Olympia.

During WW1, Clare Attwood was commissioned by the Women's Work Sub-committee of the Imperial War Museum to produce several pictures depicting the activities of the Women's Voluntary Service. This work (1918) shows the Royal Army Clothing Depot at Olympia.

Stylised painting of a lush meadow with green grass and blue and white flowers near a fence created with dashes of paint

Joan Eardley (1921- 1963)
"Flowers by the Wayside",
UK painter who was based in Scotland #WomensArt