Wot - no fax machine? Still, it beats doomscrolling, and it's weirdly soothing to hear these ancient devices from days of yore, before eyes and ears were force-fed 24/7. (I do have a special place in my heart for the sound of a typewriter spelling stuff out...)
19.02.2026 00:21 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by Rodrigo Rosa
Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 - Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott
Intermezzo
#Bach #baroque #mezzosoprano #cinema #sovietcinema #tarkovsky
17.02.2026 13:12 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
If you donβt quit Facebook soon, you will NEVER quit Facebook π¬π‘
17.02.2026 13:27 β π 13 π 6 π¬ 3 π 0
Gulls flying around at dusk, with trees and a pylon on the hill behind them.
Last fly-around before dark
16.02.2026 17:46 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
π§΅π brighten up your Monday morning......
16.02.2026 10:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Heavenly food.
ββItβs like a cross between Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food, but with a flavor palette built around blue fenugreek, coriander seed, and marigold,ββ
15.02.2026 20:31 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Watching the film Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer. He believed that art was a prayer. A spiritual act in a consumeristic society.
14.02.2026 14:06 β π 21 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
Bequest of Mrs. Mark Rothko through The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.
No. 3/No. 13
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1135437
12.02.2026 14:01 β π 26 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Toni Iordache playing a cimbalom
Roma musician,Toni Iordache, was unsurpassed as a cimbalom player, reportedly able to reach 25 notes per second and one of his (slightly) more meditative pieces opens the latest edition of A Duck in a Tree, now out as a podcast: bit.ly/4ttRjQr.
11.02.2026 12:06 β π 13 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Nervus Vagus (gk rec. 2021), by gintas k
13 track album
Its followed by @gintask.bsky.social's 'Rising', which also might reach 25 notes per second but we didn't count. Find it on his 'Nervus Vagus' album: gintask.bandcamp.com/album/nervus...
11.02.2026 12:06 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
'Walk for Peace' concludes as Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 15-week trek
A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., after completing a 15-week trek from Texas that captivated the country.
A group of Buddhist monks reached Washington, D.C., Tuesday, walking single file across a bridge over the Potomac River to cap a 15-week trek from Texas that has captivated the country.
https://to.pbs.org/4rIxYJE
10.02.2026 22:01 β π 452 π 120 π¬ 4 π 6
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10.02.2026 18:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Cornell's Macaulay Library: A scientific archive of 150,000 bird calls and animal sounds www.macaulaylibrary.org
09.02.2026 08:41 β π 14 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
trunk of a tree on its side in the park. clusters of white fungus and orange / brown mushrooms wet from the rain.
Lots going on still on this log in the park.
#MushroomMonday
09.02.2026 09:04 β π 42 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0
Anybody know a modern manufacturer?
08.02.2026 16:14 β π 24 π 5 π¬ 3 π 0
Bowl Depicting a Running Hare - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bowl with Eagle (63.178.1) and Bowl with Hare (64.261)The tenth and eleventh centuries under the Fatimid caliphate were times of prosperity in Egypt and the neighboring lands, when a burgeoning class ...
So I heard weβre posting super bowls. Hereβs a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
08.02.2026 15:46 β π 354 π 93 π¬ 4 π 14
'Since when,' he asked,
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'
#seamusheaney
07.02.2026 21:01 β π 23 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
apod.1551072646.bin
#apod 2026-02-08
Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
Image Credit:
Daniel Korona
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260208.html
08.02.2026 06:30 β π 23 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1
A photo of a copy of the 2021 Penguin Classics edition of the Kalevala by Elias LΓΆnnrot. The cover art is by Paava Halonen.
"You will reach a flaming river
Blazing right across your road:
First there are the fiery falls,
Beneath the falls a blazing island,
On the isle a flaming hill,
On its peak a flaming eagle
Sharpening its beak at night"
08.02.2026 09:32 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
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08.02.2026 01:07 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Fascinating: "......the world is fuller than it looks, and some of its most interesting inhabitants are the ones we never see....."
07.02.2026 23:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dandelion (ca. 1755) by Barbara Regina Dietzsch.
Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f86b3c8b-724f-4143-87a5-dcc2104cb903
#stems #dandelions #flora #art #publicdomain
07.02.2026 12:02 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
ONLY 39 MORE SIGNATURES, come ON #speirgorm
#FreePalestine
06.02.2026 20:01 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Envyβ¦β¦β¦
06.02.2026 09:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"The Real never ceases to be." (Bhagavad Gita Ch2, vs 16). Well that's good.
05.02.2026 22:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
tix links here: tix links in my link.tree tix.to/WilliamBasin...
04.02.2026 23:37 β π 18 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
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