@rob-rainbolt.bsky.social
Hoping this place holds up under the strain.
A warm glow
11th November 2025 07.19
11.11.2025 07:37 — 👍 142 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 0
A photograph of Kirkwall harbour taken by Tom Kent on Armistice Day, 11th November 1918
'...whilst the steamers in port voiced the feelings of all by the continuous sounding of sirens. All through the day the manifestations of joy continued; as ship after ship entered the bay, the glad tidings were announced to the mariners by renewed blowing of whistles.'
11.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 46 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Two minutes silence (1928)
By Charles Spencelayh
Sounds like something from a Becky Chambers book. Hope it's good!
11.11.2025 02:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A family of Aran Islanders in traditional dress. 1920s.
Look at those grand smiles.
Originally photographed by A. W. Cutler (1875-1935).
A couple of raven flight trails over the house this afternoon.
#birds
Still working on refining this kind of flight trail video with the equipment I have, it's a fun project for me over Winter.
If they want to make stores more appealing they need to bring back the Chicken Caesar Pita. 😑
10.11.2025 22:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm used to seeing photographs of individual birds so I'm always surprised when there are dramatic size differences.
10.11.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We need to create a service to provide curated e-book covers categorized by the image someone's trying to send. We could call it "Covr"
10.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
bumblebee on a spherical purple flower in the summer sunshine in a garden
On a bleak day, here's some light and cheer. ☀️
Episode 144 - Garden beside meadow (36 mins)
Sit in this garden and imagine the sun and light breeze on your skin. Hear birds all around.
bit.ly/LenGarn
#OreCup Finals:
It’s copper ore native #Copper vs molybdenum (& rhenium) ore #Molybdenite. Both are shiny, but only one can be the Ore Mineral of the Year
Vote:
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
09.11.2025 12:16 — 👍 11591 🔁 3035 💬 275 📌 844Love George who with the farmily looks after me and of course love you more ❤️
08.11.2025 20:24 — 👍 312 🔁 19 💬 13 📌 1I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
08.11.2025 06:15 — 👍 12848 🔁 3215 💬 216 📌 399
"Hennepin County Library is honoring one of Minnesota’s most iconic artists with a limited-edition Prince library card, available while supplies last at all 41 Hennepin County Library locations" www.hclib.org/prince?fbcli...
07.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 117 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 11I need to know if you had Pocket Sand ready to go.
07.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0you can just make a shirley temple at home. no one can stop you. you can have a silly little pink drink whenever you want.
07.11.2025 18:09 — 👍 741 🔁 44 💬 27 📌 12Sending peaceful thoughts your way.
07.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is unrelatable because it is my driver who would be in danger, not me. 😏
07.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 43 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
6 volt pointer pistol lying on a Spitz A2 planetarium projector.
I did planetarium shows before laser pointers. I used a lens-focusing 6-volt pointer pistol which had a thick cable plugged directly into a Spitz A2 console, complete with vacuum tubes, a 60Hz hum and a faint aroma of ozone. 🔭
07.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0When you used this did you make little laser guns sounds?
07.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The waves of Chesil Beach. 🎧
Watch for 90 seconds and if you need more, listen to the full 32 minute episode. 🌊
A tonic for the end of the week (and beyond). 🎧
(L to R) Frances Green, Margaret (Peg) Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leaving their plane, "Pistol Packin' Mama," at Lockbourne AAF in Ohio. All were WASP pilots who had been trained on B-17 "Flying Fortresses." c. 1944.
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
05.11.2025 23:00 — 👍 13660 🔁 2262 💬 112 📌 88
PANEL 1: a pigeon stands, hand on hip, eyes closed, saying "i'm grateful for all my bad experiences..." PANEL 2: the pigeon poses triumphantly, saying "...because they've helped make me who i am today!" PANEL 3: a button appears to the pigeon's right. text above it says '(button that deletes all your bad memories)' with an arrow pointing at it PABEL 4: the pigeon smashes the button with a muscly arm, lifting themselves up off the floor with the force of it. their eyes are crazed; big text saying 'Y E S' appears above them
smashing that button no hesitation
05.11.2025 19:45 — 👍 282 🔁 71 💬 5 📌 0Rodney our dancing zoomie emu with sons Graham and Stanley #zoomie
04.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 191 🔁 20 💬 9 📌 3
Daylight Donuts
Nowata, OK
I can't describe how beautiful tonight's murder of crows against a red sky was.
I'm kindof emotional about it.
50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶
Pizza & Cream
Arcanum, OH
Dutch resistance member Selma van de Perre died last month.
May she rest in peace.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...
nos.nl/artikel/2587...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_v...
