ozeki dog

Staged photo of two armed bandits confronting two men with bicycles.

Staged photo of a man holding a bicycle upright to defend against another man.

Photo of a man ducking behind a bicycle while another man throws a punch at him.

Photo of two bandits fighting two men who are using their bicycles to attack the bandits.

The art of defending oneself with a bicycle
1904 guide

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right; live in the game, and die in it!

JAPAN wall

JAPAN

little characters representing the planets walk across a blue sky

Before they could see the planets as anything other than little dots of light in the night sky, how did people imagine them?

More often than not, medieval Europeans turned the planets into neat little guys. 🧵🗃️

They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.

#NoKings
#Yachats
#FungiFriends

It´s all about fungi!
Pholiota squarrosa
#fungifriends #nature #mycology #fungi #photography #macro

Why is there fire with this eruption? Is it natural or has someone ignited it? Thought they weren’t necessarily big flames like this.

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the human rights abuses fuelling the fury now being directed at the likes of Louis CK and Dave Chappe...

Stewart Lee described participants as “evil, amoral, grifting bastards”.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Gotta be Ura

Lots of nice insights at the workshop:

Copper mining in Tokugawa-era Japan was not lucrative as the state bought copper at a fixed price. However, mineowners had economic and social privileges connected to mining, and they had to keep mining to retain these privileges.

Pale beige pottery plate showing a winged goddess with a gorgon's head wearing a split skirt and holding a bird (geese?) in each hand. She’s drawn with reddish-orange outlines, and there are sun symbols and swastika tattoos on her arms and legs, and even floating in the air around her. Greek, from the island of Kos. British Museum (1860,0404.2)

What a head-scratcher. Appearing in the traditional Mistress of Animals pose (with a fierce split skirt), and holding a bird in each hand, this winged female possesses the head of a Gorgon. Look closely and you’ll see she also has tattoos. Mashup!

Greek, from Kos, 600 BCE. 📸 me #BritishMuseum

Funny how this keeps happening?

Just now: Large slide in sensitive marine clays in Mid-Norway sweeps away the main E6 road and the railway. One person still missing. Image by Johan Arnt Nesgård, Trønder-Avisa.

Small part of Lanzarote.

Image taken by Sentinel-2 back in May 2025.

There are certain queer times in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke

It's remarkable how the BBC can bend over backwards to avoid reporting that the UK's growth in the first half of this year is, at 1%, greater than that of any other advanced economy. They even try and obscure that in the graphics.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In insurance speak, "subsidence" is when it gets so hot and dry that the ground shifts and it breaks building foundations. Common in clay-heavy soils that swell when wet and shrink when dry.

One of the ways a heat wave can cause physical building damage.

A powerful supercell thunderstorm dropped large hail in the Eastern Plains of Colorado last night.

This time lapse shows the impressive cloud tops as the storm develops.

graffiti reading "TRUMP FUCKS KIDS"

Wood floorboards with sawmarks

Floorboards with saw marks

A photo c1910 of sawyers with a “Two man saw” being watched by a crowd

Saw marks tell you how things were cut.

These are straight lines, but at various angles, pointing to a two-man-saw

Nancy comincs Nancy says can she had that piece of wood cause her boyfriend carved it Then burns it cause she is mad at him.

Found this in the wild today @anekonamednancy.bsky.social 🖤

Stunning visualisation of glacier retreat (Glacier Blanc, Ecrins massif) over 1984-2024 that goes hand in hand with 'greening' (vegetation moving upward) of the glacier forefield! 📈 🌱 🌿

Source: Arthur Bayle

YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events TDFF 2024 - Stage 6: How the Jurassic got its name

And why is the Jura such a strange, croissant-shaped mountain belt in front of the Alps? Marj will tell you!

youtu.be/CMeyN5AMGAU?...

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This is also an ⚒️🧪 observation picked up in the classic Amoeba People song 'The Geologists Are Coming!':
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 "𝐺" 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
𝐹𝑜𝑟 9 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 10 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒

A photograph of a pair of Roman earrings made of gold and glass suspended from a grey display stand against a grey background. Part of the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago. Each earring is made of a hollow spherical ball of gold, surmounted by an inset circle of deep-blue glass, which mimics the semi-precious blue stone lapis lazuli. Earring height 4.5cm. Gold ball diameter 2 cm. Gold ball jewellery was popular amongst the Roman elite during the 1st century AD. Over ninety examples of gold ball and disc type jewellery have been excavated from the area of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A pair of 2,000 year-old Roman earrings. Gold and glass.

A simple yet stylish design with timeless appeal!

#Archaeology

Nanda Devi (Garhwal) 😍
T.H. Somervell
1959

Gorgeous view of this mythical peak (highest entirely in India) with E. summit (7434 m) and main summit (7816 m) behind 🏔️

Somervell, who who took part in 1922-24 British Everest expeditions explored the east and south faces of Nanda Devi in 1926 💪

JIGL wall

JIGL