Pangur Bán

A tiny polished wooden carving of a rounded rodent with detailed ears, paws, textured fur and glossy beady eyes resting on a light surface. Netsuke is a type of miniature ornament initially used to secure containers or kimonos. This sculpture is 2.5cm tall, tiny! 🥹

Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan

Me as a translator.

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Exodus of UK citizens driven by eastern Europeans returning home Exodus of UK citizens driven by eastern Europeans returning home

Exodus of UK citizens driven by eastern Europeans returning home

Poland and Romania recorded the highest increase in the number of British people moving from the UK in the past four years

They do be doing that. One of our cats adopted our next-door neighbour for several years.

YouTube video by The Waterboys - Topic December (2002 Remaster)

It's that time of year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdyk...

The irony is that until 2014 Ukraine pretty much WAS a buffer zone between NATO and Russia. Support for NATO membership was well below 50%. Putin's strategic genius put an end to all that.

Offit told me that Kennedy is a "liar" and a "terrible human being." I asked him to explain. "It doesn't matter what I say," Offit said. "He thinks the medical journals are in the pocket of the industry, he thinks that the government is in the pocket of the industry, he thinks I'm in the pocket of industry, and he's wrong." Offit continued: "If he has data showing he's right, then fucking publish it. He can't, because he doesn't have those data." I asked Offit if he saw a way to reverse the public's rising distrust in science. "I don't think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost," he said.

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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

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@funkentechno.bsky.social

Every day is Caturday!😻

Interesting, I didn't think about that. It's interesting to me which borrowed adjectives in Polish get declined and which don't.

I want to see full declensions for 'yummy' and 'cute' as well as 'cool'!

Those who assume that Yermak's resignation and Zelensky's weakening make a Ukrainian concession to Russia more likely should then step back and assess which other figures in Ukraine's military-political structures these trends in Kyiv could empower.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:
- kite (Japan);
- fox (England);
- deer (Poland);
- moose (Saskatchewan);
- alligator (Florida)

Me talking about music:

One of the best ones you could have chosen, at least.

Little mari cuddling a turkey with wonky eyes

Little Mari found a Turkey friend to cuddle

die Ärzte, Kraftwerk, Laibach, Poison Girlfriend, Rammstein

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic Warszawa (2017 Remaster)

David Bowie: Warszawa - from his 1977 album, Low; co-composed by Brian Eno; Chamberlin and Minimoog by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAD1...

@katch.bsky.social

YouTube video by GonzoZord Haibane Renmei (2002) AMV - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel

Excellent mix of song and visuals.
youtu.be/zbBQVqX253g

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Finally watched this on the big TV last weekend. No other films need be made.

piracy discourse is so exhausting and passe, but i will observe that every truly great collector of physical media I know has a big harddrive of pirated books and movies. you literally cannot have one without the other

Haibane Renmei - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haibane...