Plaque with duck (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))
Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
We are watched with carved disdain, watched with stone sneers. Our ephemeral lives are nothing but flicker in the thousand-year stare of lithic lookouts. Time is different for them. We are no more than fast insect blur, ghost vapour. The default of grotesques is contempt. – #DAKilroy
Mobility hire in the lake district by Outdoor Mobility (very cheap - charity supported) was a game changer for M-in-L today!
Amazing.
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I love these guys. Bird hardware, cat software.
and the evenings are getting lighter
#Crested #Barbet is breaking the hard shell of the pomegranate fruit to feed its chicks. Other birds and squirrels are there in a flash to claim their share.
Some relaxing (really!) content for Friday night:
The video of Ukrainian group performing at Britain's Got Talent.
This is really cool! The judges agreed.
A Hoatzin taking a break from munching leaves. Hoatzins branched off from the rest of the avian tree about 65 million years ago the are the only living bird in the family Opisthocomidae. #BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots
Waita Lodge, Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador, 2024
"What do voters like?"
"Erm... estate agents?"
"Berlin, was für eine Stadt! ❤️ Wir lieben euch.
Bis nächstes Jahr! Danke schön!"
Apologies to all German friends if the translation is incorrect
This entire thread is glorious
May these possums shouting in Werner Herzog's voice bring comfort to your day.
Nice. I learned just now that DuckDuckGo let's you search AI free by simply using this url:
noai.duckduckgo.com
How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...
Inside you there are two Elephant Seals 🐘 🦭
#mammals #seals
Turning the tables - 14th century, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, f. 81v
Heartbreaking
The Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region-before&after Russia’s war.
More than 67,000 people lived here,&nearly 80,000 including the surrounding suburbs.It was one of the major industrial cities in the Donetsk region
Kostiantynivka was known as the glass capital of Donbas
Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like.
And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.
Early finish Friday!
“When’s it half ten?”…
#FallFriday
youtu.be/bYY_lJcu73M?...
This is Lance. He may have overreacted a little bit to a leaf, but when you are two inches from the ground, anything could be a potential threat. 12/10 (TT: katiemhartline)
This is Super Mario's origin story
Love is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins.
Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates.
Goodhart’s law never dies:
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
In this case measuring the proportion of research active staff has encouraged behaviour where the non research active are no longer classified as staff.
these fucking idiots cut off fossil fuels. now we'll never get the sea level rise we need to get a new strait.
Ekua Holmes (born in 1955), artist and illustrator known for her mixed media collages #womensart
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
The problem with how we draw maps is that countries near the equator appear 'small'. Iran overlaid on Europe.
Imagine trying to dominate an area this size with just air power or contemplating putting troops in when it's spent forty years preparing to fight exactly the kind of war that results.
“Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.”
— Hannah Arendt
"Your honor, before you impose my sentence, I ask you to consider as a mitigating factor that the victim was in perfect health before I shot him."
