Dr. Fimkenstein’s Monster

Britney vs Shakira: who would win in an MMA cagefight?

YouTube video by Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Topic How Can I Tell You (Remastered 2021)

Like a sea around a shore

The cat seems to be living life pretty large regardless of it?

Books Upstairs is a fine store with a particularly excellent poetry section. Why not support them by ordering your books online instead: booksupstairs.ie

You should use film at box speed AS THE KODAK GODS INTENDED IT

There’s a type of cerebellar ataxia in cats that manifests that way

YouTube video by The Cure - Topic Bare

Wild mood swings

I am working from home so the only thing I would hurl all over is my own keyboard.

Turns out forgetting to eat and drinking coffee non-stop through hours of meetings is a terrible idea.

I need the backstory for why the set of stickers from IKEA for sorting trash is named "HUSBONDE"

You coulda done a better job advertising that.

It's easy to mistake the polish of a prototype for the quality of the idea

Tapping the sign.

wtf dude. wtf. I thought you were cool.

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm. Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

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I have never felt so seen

Big cuddly kitty

I’ll try not to hold it against you (jk its Spurs I refuse to acknowledge)

Are you a liverpool fan stonks? How did I miss this vital bit of information?

But then Nico will tell me off for not having the right accent

Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian gold head ornament viewed from the front against a grey background. The headband is made of hammered sheet gold, the ends of which have been tapered to a narrower width and rolled to form loops. A string would have threaded through the loops to fasten the band around the head at the back. The front of the band is decorated with a central head of an antlered stag, identified as the Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica). The stag has two large antlers, large ears and a triangular-shaped head. It is flanked on either side by two gazelle heads. The gazelle heads have long ears and long curved horns which point outwards at the tip. Between the animal heads are four 8-pointed flowers or stars. Dimensions: height of central stag 8.9, length of headband 49.5 cm. Dated to the Second Intermediate period (c. 1648-1540 BC) when northern Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos from the ancient Near East. Said to be part of a group of objects found in the Eastern Delta near Avaris, the Hyksos capital. The headband shows a mix of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian artistic styles.

Something lovely for the weekend!

Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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Greg, I have two cats that my colleagues prefer seeing over me.

The cost for one person to flee Gaza is $15,000. If they're able to find anyone to facilitate.

Like many of the displaced civilians, my dear friend Tasneem relies on direct donations so she can feed her children and raise funds to escape.

Please give to her and others. 🙏💕

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

My BIL is from Manchester so I’ve learned to like it but the Scots have the best accents imo.

Oh boy. It might be a tiny Island but there’s a ton of character.

Indeed. Solidly middle class. Had to blend in to survive.

London, Josh. But not a fun London accent… just a very standard English London accent.

RIP

Got told I’m losing my accent. To which I responded “what accent?” while looking up flights back to the UK.

I got a tuxedo cat for you

All is right with the world. Phew.