Dr Rob

So they're talking about a ... dark matter?

Etymologically it's just "all demons", right? So even though it was the place name of a city in Milton, it would be fine as a collective noun if we wanted to invent one

The -ium would be the least fitting bit, but given that it has an English equivalent -y, we could always go with 'pandemony'

Stunning and spectacular!

Waves breaking over rocks on the Lake Huron shoreline at sunrise for the #SensoryArt theme #water.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #longexposure #motionblur

Finished The Two Towers on my reread of LotR, and I'd forgotten (or perhaps never quite grasped when I read it fairly young) how intensely Samwise grieves for Frodo when he thinks his master has died, particularly by comparison with the same moment in the films. He dissociates and blacks out!

Robin on a branch wearing elaborate, jewelled collar and cap with veil, painting.

Hello Saturday.
🖼️Olivia Beaumont

Superb

Trees Georg was an outlier and should not have been counted

And fraudsters for their tendency to fraudst

Now imagine 30–50 of them, and feral

Do the books come with a complimentary cat?

Durham!!! 😍💜

I'm all for giving them an official binomial name, and making it Latin because binomial names tend to be Latin or at least Latinised, but I wish it could sound a bit better. Completely agree about expecting 3+ syllables, which is something that should be emulated if we're after versimilitude

Backlit autumnal vegetation in the foreground with a stand of pine trees. Overhead a rainbow against snow clouds.

Approaching storm.
#landscape
#photography
#norfolk

My preference would be something like Homo Aqualis or Home Aquaticus, but yeah, even just adding the genitive would be a start in making it sound remotely organic

Homo Aquaticus (better written as 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘢𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 if we're treating it as a taxonomic species) rolls off the tongue, and also makes more sense as a Latin description: roughly 'person belonging to the water' instead of 'person ... water'

If you're going to go for the "Homo [X]" formula, a Latin adjective derived from the noun "aqua", like "aqualis" or "aquaticus", would be so much more believable, and have a much more euphonic and credible rhythm!

Sorry, but "Homo Aqua" for the Sea Devils does sound silly. "Homo Reptilia" for the Silurians was already a bit nonsensical given a basic grasp of taxonomy, but even aside from that, "Homo Aqua" is painfully clunky and breaks versimilitude on various different levels #DoctorWho #WhoSky

A circular manhole cover (although I suspect there is no hole under it) set in a piece of pavement. It has a star pattern, and poking through the holes are little bits of greenery, taking any opportunity they can.

Life

The rosy-fingered dawn of Homeric fame

TB, or not TB, that is the question

Whirl Pool occasioned by many Tides meeting but not so Dangerous as is Reported

George Eunson (1795) 'A chart of the islands of Orkney... with the coast of Scotland'

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Pleasantly reminiscent of the autumnal leaves we were clearing in the garden the other day

Happy international men’s day to all the lads, the fellas, the boys

At some point around my teenage years, when I was going through my Arthurian obsession and we were on holiday in Somerset, I convinced my family to stop off and go for a walk here just in case it was Camelot

B768.1
Partridge subsists
on moonbeams.

Caught myself humming Jingle Bells while cooking yesterday. Oh no. I fear it has begun

I've been loving them the last few nights. Cold viewing, though! ❄️

Here’s a cheery fish for #EgyptologyWednesday currently on show at the excellent Made in Egypt exhibition at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge. My 📷

A red admiral butterfly—black and dark brown wings with bright orange stripes and bright white spots—rests on a thin branch riddled with yellow lichen. A carpet of brown autumn leaves on the green grass graces the out-of-focus background

A red admiral in the garden yesterday