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Two views of a damaged wooden human-shaped sculpture shown from the front and back. The figure is missing parts of its arms and legs, with a cracked and worn surface, and is placed beside a black, red, and white measuring scale for size reference.

An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable.
The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2

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I am delighted to announce that we have reached the total in just 48 hours. The entire sewing, dressmaking and costume community rallied round to save our beloved Maureen Rose. Good job everybody!

Sky found a gammon to do this - the Falklands, hasn't been convicted

Thank you, I'd completely forgotten about this

So German efficiency is a myth? Planning to visit next year, so it's all interesting

Also Ryanair - it's to get space in the overhead lockers for carry-on cases. They used to end up at the other end of the plane or in the hold if you were last on

BlueSky very much entering its Here To Have A Bad Time phase

My son did that in a travel agents when he was two - crawled under their desk and set it off. One of them said 'What's that light flashing for?' then three cops in stab-proof vests charged through the door

I saw Ho Chi Minh in the 90s - he was popular

Abstract painting in green, orange, black, yellow, and white.

"Halloween" by "Boy, 5, Eau Claire, Wisconsin" (1970)

Only know from taking little boys to judo - no blows outside the dojo

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

YER MA

A scandal that evolved into a vortex - mate, you're not Thomas Pynchon #c4news

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

And baptized her painting in a large amount of blank white negative space a little bat done in soft Shades of Gray

Bat and Moon — Yamada Hōgyoku, c. 1830

Next door's witch thing is at the door again

Three children in the dark wearing overcoats and wool caps, two with charcoal "beards" on their faces and another with a bag over his head.

Halloween, Wicklow (1980)

Photo: George McClafferty / National Folklore Collection, UCD

People now wear shorts all year round because they drive everywhere

Defenestrating a prince makes even more confident we're reliving the 17th century.

Buck House timing that to miss the BBC and ITV main evening news

Even the trains only bother with Shoebury

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. If you've looked upon my works and despaired please consider leaving a review on one of the major online retail sites.

This house is a temple of filth. At least we can blame the cobwebs on Halloween

What a romantic ambience - congratulations though

I think it has got worse but then I stopped reading it - the right wing papers have collapsed into nonsense along with the Tories

People say The Times is rubbish now because of the Bill de Blasio thing as if the Hitler Diaries and saying Michael Foot was in the KGB never happened

Tattoo fixers on removing Nazi symbols: ‘You don’t know if they’re changing or hiding’ Senate hopeful Graham Platner covered up his tattoo once he learned of its Nazi associations. It’s a problem so common there are free programs for it

A fascinating piece on Nazi tattoo removal and the attendant challenges. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

Une tour de bâtiment peinte en damier rouge et blanc. Inscriptions lettrage rouge type années 50 ou 60, avec une enseigne très 70. Toit pointu en ardoises. On lit "La potinière du Lac".

La pépite #vintage et #typo/lettrage du jour, à Bagnoles-de-l’Orne. #Safaritypo via @anacoluthe2.bsky.social.

This truly is the Chinese century