@pamelaweaver.bsky.social
Writing for a living, mostly about tech. Historian in a previous life. Politics, history, bikes, books, cricket, gardening, dogs, music. SocDem. #FreeSafeLegal Ireland/France/South Africa 🇮🇪 🇿🇦 🇫🇷 Fair warning: expect photos of dogs, France & cake
This video pops up every now and again, and I reckon it’s the dog equivalent of the Tom Holland dance video. A must-watch.
March 13, 1926: Four of the competitors in the French national wrestling championships in Paris.
He is desperate for that pocket square to look like a ribbon bar.
At first glance, I genuinely thought that was Liz Truss.
It's amazing how so many Karens are actually men.
X, C, A, B, MZ: I’m thinking of the lonely alphabet of brave, anonymous women and girls
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Look what those women made them do.
Nearly half of women who said abortion should be legal also said they would only vote for a candidate who shared their views (43%), compared with just 32% of men. That's a significant gender gap.
On en envie de voir les mêmes choses, d'interpréter différemment les mêmes textes.
Bref on en envie de culture. Pas de masturbation.
Pour ça, le porno remplit très bien son rôle.
So proud to be a part of this project, and to have worked with so many excellent writers. I hope you love it. Thanks, @sandyernestallen.bsky.social for having me.
It was another busy night in the garden yesterday with four or five hedgehogs coming and going. The two big lads crossed paths again...
A bit of drama for #TinyJoys 🦔
(The camera is motion activated, with a few seconds lag between whatever triggers it and short break between clips as it resets.)
#DIBLives Placed in St Vincent's Industrial School, Goldenbridge at the age of 4, nurse and advocate for survivors of childhood abuse Christine Buckley (d. #OTD 2014) was assigned the number ‘89’, which replaced her name for the 13 years she was a resident in St Vincent's. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...
I think a lot about a post by someone who ran a hobby shop of some form (forget if it was a comic shop or Warhammer store or what) that basically said putting up a little rainbow flag sticker on the door was the best business decision they made because they served as That Guy repellants.
Julia Angwin, Stephen King, Neil deGrasse Tyson are the only ones mentioned.
Clown shoes
#NavalHistory people! Help! Our local museum has a life raft we're trying to research. Does anyone know anything about it? It is triangular, and is stamped with a 1940 date.
A charming #Egyptian drawing of a #cat acting as a servant to a #mouse. Drawings of animals acting as people were meant as satire of the society and politics.
Dating 13th/12th century BC, probably from Deir el-Medina, #Egypt.
📷 Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels
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Wow. Is "gilded Fascism" a thing yet? If not: That's a16z's whole visual identity now.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art just released 100 high-quality 3D scans on its website for free. Now you can get up-close and personal with a voluptuous Neolithic marble figurine, Monet’s haystack paintings, and more.
Great to see Bono in there
Nobody noticed Uggi 🙁
Afternoon
my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
A reminder that in 2021, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social wrote the best explanatory lede regarding colonialism and monarchy that I have ever seen. www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Just another Monday…
A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
🏺 #MosaicMonday
