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our common life depends upon each other's toil

Nice, congrats pal!

'Theme Hospital' - 1997

YouTube video by YRF The Great Train Robbery Scene | Dhoom:2 | Hrithik Roshan | Dhoom Robbery Scene, Best Bollywood Scene

Dhoom 2 has maybe one of my favourite scenes in cinema, feat. Hrithik Roshan as the late queen in a rubber mask and some anachronistically young princes William and Harry youtu.be/fmKWuAVt1vI?...

A critical question! Dhoom 3's version also a banger imo.

dolphin statue, magic carpet golf, key west, florida, 1985

dolphin statue, magic carpet golf, key west, florida, 1985

Basically anything from Alby's in Edinburgh but especially their Sichuan oyster mushroom.

gillian anderson

a line art drawing of a cat's head among flowers.

clipart (1997) web.archive.org/web/19970525...

Silas won't sleep in his crate unless he has these pricey duck treats & the sound of a heartbeat playing on our speaker. My sensitive son.

A punch and a kick for being so quick

Paging @heliolithic.bsky.social, who I imagine would be happy to oblige.

a young border terrier, curled up asleep

silas, our new indefinite lodger (do not tell him about tenants unions, he must not learn about his rights)

No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.

'peppercorn rent' mentioned a lot today, an extremely misleading term suggesting some kind of whimsical barter economy, a mouse securing shelter by performing a ritual that mimics genuine economic exchange, rather than the living arrangements of a royal (alleged) paedophile

Disappearing into the bog for some much-needed bog time, returning after a month with a new healthy glow and a strange, faraway look in my eyes like a wild hare

Frightening face carved into a turnip to place a candle in "In 1943 the National Museum of Ireland received a turnip lantern from a schoolteacher, Rois Ní Braonáin who was teaching near Fintown, Co. Donegal. She stated that it was the type that was always made in that locality around 1900. This plaster-cast model was created and painted by the museum artist, Eileen Barnes. Candles were placed inside the turnips and they were used to frighten people on the night of 31 October. The pumpkin that is prevalent today is an American development of this Irish tradition." https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Top-things-to-see-in-the-Irish-Folklife-Collection/Artefact/Ghost-turnip/b202e8ea-0728-4b3d-b0f1-82660fe45ce9

Ghost turnip, Fintown, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 1900 (replica), National Museum of Ireland

A sketch of two steam trains, human faces on the front. The title above them says 'The Broad Gauge and the Narrow Gauge'. The narrow gauge train is looking unbearably smug, then broad gauge absolutely raging. In the smoke, they are communicating, the broad gauge saying "You are a locomotive" and the narrow saying "You are another".

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

@thescottishcrannog.bsky.social is ace, 100% recommend going if you can drive and are in Scotland (or, like us, have lovely friends who can drive you!)

ursula k. le guinness

I feel seen.

4 October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi: here he is with lambs and preaching to birds.

BL Add 15710; St Bonaventure, Legenda Sancti Francisci, illuminated & transl. by the nun Sister Sibilla von Bondorf; Germany; 15th c; ff.103r, 107v

Quiet Girl made me sob until my bones fell out, 11/10

Listen, Tenar. Heed me. You were the vessel of evil. The evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in its own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light, as a lamp burning holds and gives its light.

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

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Just Tove Jannson drawing tolkien's Dwarves.

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read