Alex

Yes

They’re quite common, seems they were mass produced by Ridgway & Co in Staffordshire. I found one on eBay for a little over 40 quid by searching for Tam O’Shanter pitchers from that maker. They came in different colours too!

Thanks! It’s such a cool object ☺️

That last line, ffs

My general vibe these days

Surely you’ve left room for Antwerp’s famous hand biscuits! Best biscuit legend ever

Face in hands etc

My favourite station! Takes your breath away, doesn't it?

Burn it all down.

Anyway, no one gives a fig about dead polar explorers except a few dozen nerds like myself on discord and tumblr. And misattributions in archives like RI's happen.

My point is we are letting a fucking plagarism machine spew with UTMOST CONFIDENCE and pass as fact shit that is completely untrue.

....except it isn't. It is a copy of this image by Walter William May which was included in Francis McClintock's published account of his search of Sir John Franklin in 1857. A funeral on the ice for the ship's engineer Robert Scott (!)

And indeed the Royal Institution does seem to hold a small watercolour done in Ross' hand. Seemingly the only one we know of.

Yet another little example of how, trained on bad data, AI will tell you with great authority something that is 100% untrue.

Many polar explorers, including ship's captains, were talented artists who documented their dramatic voyages. Was James Clark Ross one of them? Let's ask Google.

When you can feel the virus gradually colonising your mucosa, that spreading sour burn, and you know there is now fuckall you can do to stop it.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

He looks like Bea Arthur in gray leopard print

Man, they did Amundsen a bit dirty.

Our plot holders have offered us more space (we’re their coworkers). The mixture of delight and trepidation is intense.

UBI can’t come soon enough for the sake of my many totally absorbing hobbies

Exceedingly pleased at being able to make an entirely homegrown coleslaw (cabbage, carrots and beetroot)

Why that man always getting himself into trouble

Kerry James Marshall at the RA is almost overwhelming. Jaw dropping, epic, all the big adjectives.

On the left: the jug’s original handle. The witch’s hand gripping Meg the mare’s tail moments before she snatches it off.

On the right: The Erebus pitcher, recovered from the wreck without its “tail”.

The handle is a hand grasping a horse’s tail (a reference to the poem) which I am super excited about

It does! AND a cool pewter lid!

Indeed! No idea what I’ll do with it, but it’s a lovely object

This purchase will be totally valid to some people I follow on here

Ah, the hellscale of the modern gig booking experience. Queues that randomly time out, ticket prices jacked up by gazillion fees and having to install some shitty app to download the tickets.

Right, let’s see if we can get these Nick Cave tickets

Woohoo!