Elaine Kelly

Born on this day in 1632, in Delft, the incomparable painter Johannes Vermeer. What he can do here with the color blue! It's miraculous. The mysteries of that window are infinite.

'original painting on paper' view looking up at the intersecting angles of stone steps, railing, and line of manicured trees in winter

Frédéric Forest

Paris - 1
January
2024

YTA, fair exchange is no robbery, and he DID ask for forgiveness.

a moment of peace
for a sincere heart
lasts forever

#art #abstract #painting #humanart #peace #heart #poetry

Just say no to cigarettes, kids!

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

John Atkinson Grimshaw, English (1836-1893), October Afterglow, 1885 oil on canvas, 77 x 63.5 cm, private collection

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Self portrait with madrigal, c. 1578.
by Marietta Robusti c. 1550-1590

(The Uffizi)

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

“He even went for a carvery on the third day” has finished me.

Colin Sheridan: The one word missing from all this so-called talk of peace in Gaza is 'Palestinian' The world may celebrate a ceasefire in Gaza, but without Palestinian agency and justice, peace remains an illusion

Interesting piece in today's Irish Examiner: let's not hold our collective breath just yet. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Didn't the THES do a study years ago that found a significant number of MPs (it may have been PMs and other Cabinet members) had studied History at university?

Also, does she understand anything about how important the performing arts are to the British economy?

STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY FROM EFDSS

At the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) we strive to create an open culture of belonging where everyone feels safe, represented and respected.

Folk is for Everyone.

I know of at least one autistic 60-something. Given that his mother did NOT had access to ibuprofen when she was pregnant with him, what caused his autism? Did the neurodivergence fairies curse him at his christening or something?
#ibuprofendoesnotcauseautism

A shelf of books by JRR Tolkien

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

Sorry to one-up you, but my step-uncle crashed TWO funerals! Once at a graveyard where two burials were taking place and he went to the wrong one. The other time he was queueing to pay his respects to the dead man, got to the (open) coffin and realised he didn't know the man at all...

A poorly captured image of an acrylic painting of a Bone horse wearing a crown of summer foliage and charing through a dark street. At the bottom of the image are the words: RE-ENCHANTMENT IS RESISTANCE.

Re-enchantment is resistance.

Fethard, Co. Tipperary, a medieval walled town for #wallsonWednesday

I rarely go out, so when I do it's quite an occasion and I usually have a good time. I miss being able to enjoy going out regularly and socialising, but I'm also happy to have left those days behind me!

Happy little bats 🙂

I feel seen, ironically. . .

I literally cannot understand how he couldn't see his feet - surely if he's that well-endowed he'd have to stand legs akimbo? He'd only do himself a mischief if he tried to keep his feet together!

Is it, like, OK to say ‘like’ now? A new book argues the long despised word associated with valley girls is now essential to the way we communicate

I dare you to come to Cork and tell someone it's not ok to say "like" all the time, like.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

ATTN: If you're one of the Treasury employees that handled Epstein's Suspicious Activity Reports, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

One of my favourite feeds on this platform. There is always something interesting/informative/astonishing to learn about the early days of film.

I was racking my brains trying to remember this man's name recently, on another of your threads on the very early days of Hollywood. His personality just leaps off the screen, it's a delight to watch him!

Detail of a page of a 16th century book showing text with a manicule, or pointing finger, and an eye in the margin, and some underlining of the text.

A manicule to point out this section is important & bonus eye to indicate that is what the remedy is for! From Ramon Llull's 'Libelli aliquot chemici', 1572 #readers #alchemy

The quintessence of elegance! 😍