A beautiful stormbeach Goniatite fossil, polished by Atlantic waves.
County Clare, Ireland.

"Evening Light" - my oil painting

A dirt road near Loch Turret in Scotland. There are mountains around the Loch.

Gods, Scotland is so beautiful.

The Ethiopian saint Samuel of Waldebba riding a lion while carrying a hand cross and a prayer staff.

St Samuel of Waldǝbbā on a deep purple background hits hard 🦁

Ethiopia, 19th c. #saint #samuel #waldebba #lion #ethiopiansaint #africansaint #africanart

norman rockwell’s famous “freedom of speech” oil painting

an old jacket in a glass case, which belonged to the model in the painting

guys I’m off this week … went to the norman rockwell museum. found the meme in real life — and his jacket

Periodic reminder to everyone that no history book should be longer than 250 pages except mine.

I always feel a bit disappointed if a history book or other non-fiction isn't at least 400 pages. Like I'm not getting value for money.
I am, however, a simpleton. So really, I don't think my opinion should weigh heavily on the minds of authors and publishers.

Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Stamp & Shrimpton.. the essence of swinging London 1965. #TerenceStamp

If it makes you feel less alone, it's why I could never do day drinking. Because if I had one drink, I would have to *keep* drinking, as when even the mild effect of one drink wore off, I felt intolerable.
Day booze has to be a session running into night, elsewise, trouble.

Had a cocktail for lunch and was basically in a coma for 3 hours. Remind me why I don’t do day drinking.

There are white people living in the exurbs of SE Pennsylvania who have never been into Philadelphia and never will because they are convinced that if they did they would be immediately murdered by scary brown people.

An editorial cartoon of MLK standing in front of chaos and wreckage with the words, "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow"

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

@StephenM on X: The threat being made here by Mayor Bass is explicit. The Mayor of LA is effectively saying the mob violence is caused by the mere presence of ICE in the city and the violence against ICE will not stop unless federal law enforcement is withdrawn from the city. This is the definition of insurrection. LA and CA leadership demand the right to illegally import unlimited foreigners into America, to control America’s entire immigration policy by fiat — and if they are not so permitted they will allow mobs to target ICE with impunity. Los Angeles and California are demanding the nullification of the election results, of federal law, of national sovereignty, and of the bedrock constitutional command of one national government.

I know it's super inconvenient for everyone trying to go to work and get the kids into summer camps and all that, but the White House is literally trying to start a civil war

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

A new series of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum! in which Lofty and the gang shoot Gandhi bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

WASP OR MOTH!? 🐝🤯

One of the most incredible mimics in the world, this Tiger Moth (Orcynia calcarata) looks so much like a wasp I was almost nervous holding it! 😳

There are so many tiger moths mimicking wasps in the Amazon it’s crazy! 😯🌳
How amazing is nature! 💛🖤

Eric and Ernie in bed together. Eric is smoking a pipe and Ernie is reading a book.

The good news is that even high agency males can make up.

My view on the EM is that if Stonehenge was sitting in a museum in Athens then all the desiccated arguments in the world wouldn’t persuade the English that a basic injustice didn’t exist.

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

Billionaire copper merchant Ea-nāṣir is exchanging angry cuneiform tablets with his former political ally Sargon of Akkad.

Deputies fatally shoot Florida man who survived apparent gator attack and tried to steal their gun, sheriff says Authorities in Polk County first deployed a Taser that appeared to have no effect after Timothy Schulz, 42, charged at them with garden shears, officials said.

"A Florida man who was apparently bitten while swimming in alligator-infested waters Monday morning was fatally shot after, officials said, he emerged from the lake and charged at sheriff's deputies with garden shears."

Why Neo-Nazis Are Obsessed With the Occult The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very real atrocities—as seen in the recent parent killing in Wisconsin.

Neo-Nazis lean so heavily on myth because their ideology is prima facie absurd; the purported oppression of whites needs tortuous, even mythological explanations to ring remotely true.

From @swordsjew.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1939...

Just checking in on the US Left which has its targeting laser-focused as always

Yeah, not really anything but a dashed-off gish gallop for MAGA loyalists to muddy the waters with.
What a piece of work he is. The current Supreme Court for him not rightwing enough and not subservient enough to his preferred President.

Facts matter

Quite apart from the ‘we’ who saw this all coming a long way off and tried to warn everyone else without success, the NYer is also ignoring the ‘we’ who saw all this coming a long way off and said ‘cool’.