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Some tips for painting storms. Enjoy!

View through the dimly lit Anglo-Saxon crypt at St Wystan’s Church, Repton, Derbyshire, showing stone columns, ribbed arches and soft golden light; an atmosphere of ancient stillness.

😯 ✨Betjeman described it as 'Holy Air Encased in Stone'.

If you've never visited St. Wystan's in Repton before - deep below the surface - that first glimpse of the C9th Saxon crypt is quite something.

Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling

Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling

Two young kittens in a cage taking notice

A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

View through a narrow brick-lined street in York leading to York Minster, its twin towers rising majestically above autumn trees under a blue, partly cloudy sky.

✨A brief visit to York Minster this week and a walk through the snickelway into Precentor's court reveals the might and grandeur of York Minster like no other location - the complementary colours of the buff brick and ochre limestone work their magic. 🪄

Black and white photo of an indignant longhaired tabby kitten sitting up in a porcelain cup with float design around the rim. White text across the top reads “Calling the meeting to order”.

“Calling the meeting to order”. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1907.

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami from KPop Demon Hunters: Golden | The Tonight Show

KPop Demon Hunters is a brilliant film, but it’s also lovely seeing its voice actors, songwriters, and singers become stars after years of struggling in the industry

It’s pretty bonkers this is not a real band, and EJAE (lead vocals) hadn’t performed in a decade until this
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BirdCast map showing 1.24 billion birds headed south at 9:50pm EDT on October 8, 2025. Most of the migration is concentrated in the east, especially the southeast.

NEXRAD radar composite map showing birds and weather.

BILLION BIRD NIGHT!!!
#birds #fall #migration

The soundtrack that follows the Guinnesses around wherever they walk anywhere as a group is unmatched lol.

Steven Knight Brews a Worthy Successor to Peaky Blinders with House of Guinness House of Guinness mixes family conflict, political intrigue, and a world-famous beer brand into a compelling historical blend.

I really enjoyed #HouseofGuinness, Steven Knight's full-throttle, Succession-coded reimagining of the infamous Irish beer dynasty that's got punk rock vibes and surprisingly excellent female characters. My review at @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

Just finished #HouseofGuinness and absolutely loved it! It was such a fun, messy ride with great music and many memorable scenes. I'll probably watch it again because it's the first true comp I've found for the novel I'm writing and I'm completely taken in by it.

House of Guinness review – James Norton’s pheromones positively sizzle off the screen With smarts, heart and serious sex appeal, this fine drama from Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight is an irresistible romp – like Succession, only over a booze empire. Knight has never made a better show t...

#HouseOfGuiness #Netflix #JamesNorton
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"House of Guinness matures into a romp that you can hardly resist, especially when it makes such good use of its time and place."

Set of eight black and white photos, each one a blurry image of some part of a dark colored shorthaired kitten.

None of these are in focus, but that doesn’t diminish how much I love this set I have in which someone was trying to get a good photo of their kitten.

Not even peak part of night yet, but we’ve hit over ONE BILLION BIRDS in flight!!!
#birds #fall #migration
#LightsOutForBirds

A college basketball icon is calling it a career 👏

Sister Jean has retired from her official campus duties at Loyola Chicago weeks after celebrating her 106th birthday, she confirmed to student publication The Loyola Phoenix.

Cross stitched flowers

Three down, five to go.

The Simpsons old man sitting on a stump telling a story but all the kids have been replaced with headstones

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Good morning, creatives! May this week meet all of your expectations! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting

That can't be right....
#funny #stephensonhouse #views #museum #1820stephensonhouse #illinois

Another artist told me once to go see the full-size Muchas because you can see all the errors. I did and damned if she wasn’t right. It was a weird relief.

Canceling a streaming service?

How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!

Partly complete cross stitch of a white ghost on black cloth in an orange hoop. The ghost is wearing an eye patch and a dark grey pirate hat with a simplified skull motif

Work in progress, I'll probably finish this week

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I just discovered Anna May Wong and have enjoyed watching some of her movies (which randomly led to Mary Pickford and then stumbling upon Leslie Howard in one of her movies but I knew him from GWTW). It's been a fun rabbit hole to go down!

Just watched it today with my kids and really enjoyed it. Kind of bummed we missed out on the in theater sing-a-long. Just read that practically the entire soundtrack is on the Billboard TOP 40 (and 4 songs are in the top 10).

a man with long blonde hair is standing in front of a group of gremlins . Alt: David Bowie with long blonde hair is standing in front of a group of small laughing gremlins/trolls in the movie Labyrinth

First one that came to mind

I scrolled way longer than I expected looking for this!

#GenHour Added to the to-do list: more newspaper research