Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa and Elga Mark-Kurik on Kreuzritter lake (Kryzhiuochiu ezheras), under an umbrella, north of Vilnius,Lithuania, 1977 (photo H.-P. Schultze).

Model of sacabambaspis helsinki

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

I couldn't be surer but I bet they won't make a vegan one 😭

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Physio: have you got a band?

Me: yeah it’s kind of early 80s thrash, but more sort of crusty… Cold War themed! We’re actually playing on Thursday.

Physio:

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

Hugh Bonneville took advantage of a live TV interview at the premiere for DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale to make a statement about Gaza. Watch the face of ITV News reporter Helen Keenan drop as he *goes there

Let’s be honest. Carswell is not alone. You don’t tweet unless you know it’s a popular belief. There are many in public roles, in pubs and at dinner tables who believe this. This is a persecution of Muslims in the UK and anyone with any sense of humanity, who cares about Britain must call this out .

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998. The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

This was the one I thought of straight away. I think it rewired my brain when I first read it.

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

YouTube video by Tracy Dahl - Topic I. Four Little Rabbits

My mum would play the Peter Rabbit songs by Dudley Glass on the piano and sing them to me when I was small ❤️ I recently found this lovely interpretation of them on YouTube, I still remembered all the words:
youtu.be/WEzXi5i2MaA?...

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Tens of thousands protest UK transphobia as London Trans Pride returns Tens of thousands took to the streets of the UK's capital today (26 July) to spread LGBTQ+ solidarity as part of London Trans Pride 2025.

Some of the media want to portray the thousand people protesting on asylum as being a proxy for general public opinion.

They wouldn't want to say that about the much larger trans rights + allies protest of up to 100 thousand people

www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/26/l...

Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover physical transition, including hormone treatment and surgery, as...

Okay folks! We’ve a real opportunity here. This petition is at 78,000 (ends 28 July!). With a good push, we can get it over the line.
MPs *don't need to stick to the exact petition topic*. We can brief them to discuss any & ALL issues with trans healthcare.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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A classic Penguin Book entitled Please Don't Touch My Arm with Your Arm - How I Died on a Public Bus complete unabridged

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I went through a phase of moisturising with coconut oil during which I bought a tub of mint foot cream. Couldn't place why I smelled particularly delicious until I realised I was a walking Thai green curry.

What actor's expression will stay with you for the rest of your life (a twofer)

Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966)
At Close of Day, 1941
#Art

I haven't pressed play yet, sounds like I shouldn't bother?

the lady in the post

The lady who says "It seems that the 9-year-olds from the school have been...karate-ing the picket fences" in Jaws was snubbed for Best Supporting Actress and you know it.

I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine.

A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2.

Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2.

√a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.