Pangur Bán

The only true way to enter the Berlin U Bahn

One of my favourite Estonian words is 'jäääär'.

Dynomutt lives and conquers!

Love her and this album. Her later records are interesting and more experimental too. She's one part of my Sad Japanese '70s Singer/Songwriter Holy Trinity, along with Dōji Morita and Hako Yamasaki.

Illustration depicting a bottle of spilled ink in the form of black cats.

Purrfect ink

Moi non plus, je suis anglais, mais j’y habite déjà 30 ans 😉

@imochin.bsky.social , tu vois, Camus et Satie, je suis presque français !😉

Jonathan Coe · Don’t we all want to be happy? Satie against Solemnity Erik Satie is the progenitor of torch songs and lounge music, systems music and minimalism, even (with his later...

‘For Ian Penman, Satie is more than a joker. He is the supreme practitioner of a species of art forever undervalued by solemn-minded dullards, and which is anything but trivial.’

@jonathancoe.bsky.social on Erik Satie:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Now THIS was a life.

Atarashii Gakkou have been around for longer than I thought.

'Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.' Quote ostensibly from Albert Camus

Better grass than weeds.

"It turns out that our attention is captured above all by emotional outbursts, reinforced prejudices and cats." - Brian Eno #quote

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This individual will be in the cabinet before the end of the year.

“Reading is now countercultural; a fanatical devotion to books is the surest way to be noticed in an era when countless millions seem eager to dispense with the burden of thinking entirely.”

bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/how-to-rek...

Little Mari hugs the St. Marks Lion who pats her on the head (skull) with a wing holding her close

The Lion of St. Mark has reassured Little Mari that he had no plans to eat her (shes just bone and wood after all) and was pleased she tried to read.

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That's what drew me to it. It was easier to get there and back in a day from Sapporo than Nibutani, where I guess I'll have to stay the night if I come that way again.

おめでとうお誕生日🎊

@suika.bsky.social @postoctobrist.bsky.social

'Jockey Jack': a talented C18th horse-rider & groom who fell on hard times & ended life as a pauper in Nottinghamshire. He was found, after his death, to have been born a woman

Love little snippets like these...
#18c

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I feel this doesn't get enough love when people do their Canonical Ghibli lists. It's in my top three with Mononoke and Porco Rosso.

A tweet from David East that reads: "starting to think that the rest of the world was actually fine in Children of Men and Britain just chose to be like that"

I am once again contemplating this banger.

My favourite Doctor and companion:

I love how you keep calling him '14yo' despite the fact that a) you've told us his name a million times, b) you actually included his name here in the screenshot, and c) 'Theo' has the same number of characters as '14yo'. 😀

Photo of a dark skinned person's hand scritching the chin of a shorthaired white and tabby kitten.

Once upon a time a bunch of farmers in the Middle East came to an agreement allowing some slinky local creatures to do pest control for their crop storage.

Cut to 9,000 years later: Happy International Cat Day! icatcare.org/internationa...

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