Jack Womack

On board, Back later.

Ooh, Sagrada Familia spotted, one of the most intensely beautiful and interesting buildings anywhere. I was there two years ago this month and was floored at all the architectural details and the light. bsky.app/profile/redw...

Ethiopiques, vol. 21: Emahoy (Piano Solo)

obsessed with this beautiful album open.spotify.com/album/4OYhJg...

Is this a plan to make solar power contribute to global warming?

If only we knew what sorts of emissions significantly contribute to people needing to use inhalers, maybe we could find a way to fight this environmental menace.

Debuting in 1947, the Boeing Stratocruiser had an upstairs lounge, berths and seats that could turn into a bed. It was a great plane—until the propellers started falling off.

The perfect bathroom when you need help getting up in the morning.

Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October The prime minister says it is "un-British" to hold pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of Hamas's attacks on Israel.

This 'un-British' vibe is really beginning to piss me off

I'm being gas lit by my own Govt and I'm really not happy about it

Labour are seemingly happy to drift into the authoritarian arena daily

BBC News - Starmer urges students not to protest on 7 October
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Slate headline: JUDAISM CAN'T JUSTIFY WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING

Ah, God. It's October 7.

Two horrible fucking years.

I don't know what to say that @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and I didn't already say just ten days after it all began:

archive.is/0UsqT

Morning all.

Two young children holding hands standing by a zebra crossing at Bayswater Station, London, 1965.
Photograph by Wilfred Frederick

Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, original design by Gaudi.

Ceiling, Sagrada Familia

Not unlike some critter from the Burgess Shale.

Sagrada Familia, interior.

Very Things to Come/Metropolis, somehow, with color

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures pause after Wall Street's latest record run US stock futures were little changed late Monday after Wall Street's latest record-setting run.

The OpenAI deal added fuel to the AI-based fire that has powered Wall Street's bull-market run to records. Strategists are once again lifting their targets for the S&P 500 though much rests on the upcoming earnings season performance by Big Tech names. sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-m...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Jilly Cooper: the woman who taught me about sex She invented the British bonkbuster and inspired Caitlin Moran to change her name. When they finally met, the author lived up to her legendary reputation

Oh Jilly, you were just fabulous. And you gave me my name. I stole "Caitlin" from "Rivals." You were my name mother. I just wanted to be like you: www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

UK police forces dodge questions on Palantir | Good Law Project After Leicestershire Police removed details of a deal with the controversial US spy-tech firm, three quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.

⚠️Three-quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.
Read that back.
The head of the UK branch of Palantir is Louis Mosely, grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosely.
goodlawproject.org/uk-police-fo...

Even.
This is one of those few spaces on earth where humans have exceeded our own expectations

Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?

"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...

Tears ran down my face when we were here last year and I'm an atheist...

Imagine proposing this building to your benefactors in the late 1800s. How did he sell this alien lifeform?

30 years ago we showed up at the Alhambra perfectly timed for a 1-day strike. Thanks for the pictures. (Also: this was a minor hiccup on a long, rewarding journey. Plus we had more time to explore Granada.)

Cc @jwomack.bsky.social

Utah GOP Passes Gerrymandered Map, While Handcuffing Courts Read more here.

UPDATE: Shortly after Utah GOP lawmakers passed another congressional gerrymander, pro-voting plaintiffs challenging the current map submitted fair map proposals to the court, arguing the legislature’s plan still violates Prop 4. A judge will decide which map complies by November.

a friend just texted me to say she’d found our favorite piece of journalism of the 2010s in the Gawker archives and I must reiterate - as I have said on here before - that I do believe this is where the internet peaked on March 20 2014 and it has all been downhill from there

A table coved in plates of butter.

People standing arohnd two tables covered in butter.

You would have enjoyed the blind butter tasting party i threw earlier this year. 45 different butters tried and rated in one day.

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.