Paul Sutherland

I've only read Small Things Like These. Thanks for the reminder to read more of her work.

18.07.2025 01:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Humpback Whales Blow Bubble ‘Smoke’ Rings to Communicate With Humans | KQED Bay Area researchers from SETI and UC Davis captured a rare sight: humpback whales blowing bubble rings — like smoke rings — while calmly approaching humans. It’s the first time scientists have docume...

Seems like the whales want a chat.

17.07.2025 05:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

30.06.2025 14:40 — 👍 10237    🔁 2658    💬 81    📌 121

An 80,000-year history of the tomato Creating the perfect vegetable

The good old tomato has quite the history www.worksinprogress.news/p/an-80000-y...

05.06.2025 05:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Artist: Oliver Stretton-Pow Title: Hard Graft, Mark Two Date: 2025 An artwork of a lighthouse suspended in the air by tree roots

Tāmaki Makaurau, note the Aotearoa Art Fair is on 1-4 May with artworks popping up already along the Viaduct Harbour sculpture trail:
Artist: Oliver Stretton-Pow
Title: Hard Graft, Mark Two
Date: 2025
Info here:
artfair.co.nz/sculpture-tr...

20.04.2025 23:39 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

I feel like that could be me if I moved overseas, except replace mint sauce with their mint jelly

03.04.2025 05:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cartoon showing person standing in front of cybertruck in protest. Image references famous Tank Man photo from Tiananmen Square. Art by Zez Vaz.

Artist: Zez Vaz

17.02.2025 06:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

what did Google mean by this

11.02.2025 19:25 — 👍 1860    🔁 275    💬 20    📌 4

Pretty much every serious photographer here tries to capture photos of the volcano and the northern lights together. Sometimes, they succeed quite well ;) Photos from Wioleta Gorecka, taken near Reykjanesvíti.

23.11.2024 12:38 — 👍 1989    🔁 368    💬 42    📌 28

The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!) Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons,...

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25.11.2024 02:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

06.11.2024 20:33 — 👍 41    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

Say the quiet part loud, for once Our system creates unemployment on purpose, while demonising the unemployed. You'd think journalists would ask politicians about it.

literally a newsletter begging journalists to make the connection between beneficiary-bashing and the unemployment created *on purpose* by government-incited monetary policy: www.badnewsletter.com/say-it-loud-...

21.02.2024 05:40 — 👍 65    🔁 26    💬 0    📌 2

that is a lot of flavours, which I can't quite fathom.

03.10.2023 00:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a quirky first post.

22.08.2023 22:59 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0