Alligator Sommelier

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

Italian 'Sunday times' cotton shirting From designer deadstock and made in Italy, this is a 100% cotton shirting with a quirky and tiny printed design. Lightweight and opaque with a plain weave, it's a wardrobe staple with cottony crispnes...

Who needs a shirt made out of someone being very bad at a crossword? #sewing

(I would say I do but dear lord I am drowning in shirting.)

essentially the entire problem with doctoring is that two totally different professions— medicine and care— have been combined into one, and people who want to do medicine broadly resent the expectation to perform care, to disastrous results.

Someone named Tim just wrote "Calm down and laugh it off" on a Quora post I wrote seven years ago.
I think he would look prettier if he smiled more.

My phobia, justified. Hope the person who fell is doing okay. Can't imagine he got out without broken bones.

I remember accidentally giving myself a giant head wound on the trampoline when I was 9 and the soundtrack of the entire event (home, car, getting stitches) was that West Indies team just crushing the shit out of us (straya). Insult to injury. (Actually before Ambrose was on the team apparently.)

Ambrose finished with a spell of 7 guys dismissed and 1 run given up and one test match won in historic fashion. Because Aussies will not simply shake hands on the field

Australia holds the record of losing a test match by the lowest margin in history- 1 run vs the West Indies because the deal was done, they had it won and one of their guys told Curtly Ambrose to go fuck himself when he tried to help him up and well, you do not anger Curtly Ambrose and live

To stop this senseless war ye see, ye must answer these riddles three

Claude is more worried about ending up in the Hague than the people running it

I found a sweet little phone game that was aesthetically pleasing and relaxing. The first 150 levels were ad free. Then the ads started. Ok, I get it. I'd rather pay, but the model is what it is. Then around level 163 the ads started to have sound. I immediately deleted. Curses upon the devs.

Ophrys kotschyi, Orchids of Cyprus © Dr Richard Bate

Imagine going to Cyprus and not seeing the jewel in the Ophrys #orchid crown, Ophrys kotschyi...

Fortunately for our guests, that's the stuff of abstract nightmares only, for our brilliant guide @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social knows exactly where the best of them are to be seen.

#OrchidsOfCyprus

“women in STED: Shoveling The Entire Driveway”

Donate to Help Eli and Ianto Find a Safe Place to Stay, organized by Kate Montgomery Eli, a disabled, mixed-race trans person, and their dog Ianto, have been … Kate Montgomery needs your support for Help Eli and Ianto Find a Safe Place to Stay

TLDR
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French Laundry chef again scolds Bay Area town over affordable housing project

lmfao Thomas Keller showing up to a community meeting in his chefs jacket to complain about affordable housing being built near his 3 Michelin star restaurant is just beyond parody. what a piece of shit

the internet has *always* had a problem of hate-sharing, and if we want to get out of this, we gotta be equally committed to sharing good work and supporting the people who make it

the wife has now informed me that since she has a job that requires her to be at work when her boss wants we will absolutely be changing the clocks and my new project is to find a real problem

YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2026

Well. I can't remember the last time I liked a UK Eurovision entry, but this *gets* it in a way I thought we'd lost. Thunderingly British, including oodles of self-deprecation, and yet a love letter to the rest of the world, especially Europe. Brexiters will hate this.... youtu.be/niMKvJ-Itq8?...

Tim Russ (who played Tuvok) wrapped up in a modem(?)

Photographer: Alright just have fun

Tim Russ: No. There is nothing I will take more seriously

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

"not my monkeys, not my circus"

"But they are your monkeys. And this is your circus"

"What???"

"Your great uncle herbert fuckswithyou left them to you on his deathbed"

An orange tabby cat and a white cat are both laying over a person’s tattooed arm, pinning them in place on their back, which is not at all comfortable but their heads are together which is cute

Me: what time is it?

Crispie: time for sleeping

Me: okay fine but can I at least get in a comfortable spot?

Crispie: no, only sleep

Me: look…….

Crispie: BACK ME UP, BRAT

Servo: oh uh ohhhh…ONLY SLEEP

GUESS WHAT? Go on, guess. It's Xena & Callisto again, you may remember them from other such posts of mine like, 'Xena x Callisto,' & the surprise sequel, 'More Xena x Callisto,' plus more. It's the one with Xena standing over Callisto telling her to stay down and Callisto is like, "Gladly <3" y'know, classic Callisto stuff. I added a little background of GREENERY, like the threat of a fern and a whisper of some grass, stuff like that. Plus some peachy pink sky. #myart

Added a background to this Xena/Callisto piece so I could make some nice prints and I think it turned out PEACHY

Pygmy possum with long fingers rediscovered in remote rainforest A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist Tim Flannery.

Here’s a new pigmy possum to brighten your day
www.abc.net.au/news/science...

In the 1997 dystopian scifi film Gattaca, rapid DNA testing is used to determine social class and job eligibility. In 2026 UK, women wanting to participate in athletics must pay a £185 gender tax to take part in a genetic lottery where some will be ineligble due to previously unknown chromosones.

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!

This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.

Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start

Length: 5.6 cm

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

Pink quince blossoms.

Pink almond blossoms.

Flowering quince.

A bee visits cherry blossoms.

🍑🌸BEWILDERING BLOSSOMS🌰🍊

Spring's great conundrum...which blossom is which?🤔

There comes a period in the year when species of ume, quince, peach, cherry and almond trees can all be seen in bloom🔍😵‍💫

#blossom #Kyoto #Japan #京都 #cherryblossoms #梅 #桜 #桃 #木瓜 #アーモンド

Intentionally crude illustration of a kaiju (with a cityscape backdrop) tossing a handful of tiny delicious humans into its open mouth. Text around outer circle border reads “take time to enjoy the little things”

Take time to enjoy the little things.

Another in the ‘Motivational Kaiju’ series
#art #kaiju

thesis on the fractal nature of human communities: all echo chambers are actually seething cauldrons of discord if you zoom in enough

and seething cauldrons are echo chambers if you zoom out enough