Sometimes Syd

This thread 😐

An old man with a cane in a chair is silhouetted against the fire. He is telling a Christmas ghost story to a group of adults and children while a giant ghostly knight leans on the mantlepiece, listening.

The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930
#Christmasghoststories

100% agree and will be making it a yearly tradition.

Emergency tooth extraction was not on my bingo card for this week.

Absolute powerhouse of an actor. RIP

Great little thread. The scale of this pollution in the west wouldn’t be seen in glaciers until the Industrial Revolution

Well, Arundel is ridiculously lovely.

Why the new political right is bad news for autism RFK, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch offer daily blasts of nonsense that amount to a cruel insistence: that neurodiversity must be denied, decried and put back in its box

New piece from me: Why the new political right is bad news for autism - RFK, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch offer daily blasts of nonsense that amount to a cruel insistence: that neurodiversity must be denied, decried and put back in its box maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/why-the-ne...

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

🩵🩵🩵

I’m mostly on it for events because I can’t find a good replacement 😕

Great article!

Man's brain turned to glass by Vesuvius volcano ash cloud The pea-sized brain was found in the skull of a 20-year-old man killed in the volcanic eruption.

Brain glass! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Inside St Paul’s Cathedral. Looking up into the dome, which is illuminated by a light show

Beautiful Luminous at St Paul’s

Really good spooky drama, right into your ears.

What are you following on here?
I follow a few US independent journalist & comedians so my feed is Trump heavy at times. Would like some light to balance the dark.

Old fashioned penny slot arcade machine. 2 sides showing heaven and hell

Borstal memories

Perfect.

A sequence of two bright 'stars' going from top left to bottom right with a foreground of trees. The top bright 'star' is the planet Venus and the fainter bottom one is Saturn. The image is a composite, made up of individual shots taken 5 minutes apart as the planets set in the southwest on 18 January 2025.

Composite image of #Venus and #Saturn setting together last night. Each shot was taken 5 minutes apart as the pair set in the southwest. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Watched the cut version of The Muppets Christmas Carol only to find out the full version is in the extras section. Why Disney, why?!

Spent Saturday evening watching #Lipschoir sing their hearts out.
Groups like this one highlight how important it is to support arts in the community!

A green cartoon of cigarettes that reads LISTERINE CIGARETTES

Listerine cigarettes, c.1930. The tobacco was infused with the same antiseptic oils used in the mouthwash for a "cooling and soothing effect." Listerine cigarettes were not very popular because there is almost no record of their existence. #histmed

To the disrupters of the world: just because you can do something it doesn’t mean you should.

Discovering new appreciation of #foxes through the photos shared on here

Loving all the #starterpacks & #lists folks are putting together. Quickly found a lot of my favourite historians, comedians and journalists!

Welcome Ben! 👋🏻

A spoof of an infographic showing a map of Europe, colour-coded by which countries will offer food to visitors. The caption is "Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?" The Nordic territories are labelled "sad", Northern Europe is labelled "sad & wet", Eastern Europe, Southern France and Northern Italy are labelled "sad and drunk" and the Mediterranean nations are labelled "sexy". It's less funny when you explain it, to be honest.

Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?

The ‘Discover’ feed is full of folks championing public libraries. Ashamed to say I’ve not used mine yet so I now had a new weekend quest: library cards!

Deleted my Twitter. The “For You” got very weird and very angry. My main feed was full of gambling adverts. Lots of bot accounts. It’s just really really bad.