Gaynor Madoc Leonard

This is perhaps my favourite Robert Mitchum story.

A large statue of Amida Buddha sits with legs crossed. Pale blue sky behind.

The Kamakura Daibutsu (The Great Buddha of Kamakura) is a bronze statue of Amida Buddha over 11 meters tall that was cast in 1252. Originally it was inside a large hall which was destroyed and it now stands uncovered in the grounds of Kotokuin Temple in Kamakura, Japan.
#WyrdWednesday #Buddhism

His first screen role was with Orson Welles. A baptism of fire!

Tollhouse Pontymoel on the Mon and Brecon canal

Tollhouse Pontymoel

Hahahahahahahaha!
Amazon thinks I'd like new running equipment. I haven't got old running equipment to start with, and running is out of the question.

Worker at Berkshire psychiatric hospital where girl died had no experience, inquest hears Man, who had a false identity and had never worked in a hospital before, left Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, unwatched despite her vulnerability

"The inquest heard his training consisted of a day or day-and-a-half course, much of which was e-learning. The day after completing his training, he was given ... his “first and only shift” at Huntercombe and in the evening was put in charge of watching Ruth, who had a serious eating disorder."

What a sad sad commentary on humans

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I was Today Years Old when I learned

What the fuck EVEN was this ship and her crew? Fucking WHAT

Pure badass.

🚨 Trump threatens to mitilarize DC, to charge minors as adults, and to occupy it under federal (what sounds dangerously close to marshal law) control.

Just received 🤣🤣🤣

Educacioun that doth focus on 'workforce' alone wythout serious focus on the thrivinge and curiousitye of the individual and on the collective exploration of big questiouns about societye, knowledge, power, love, historye, and art -- that ys not educacioun, that ys just control.

Airlynes are lyke "Thanke yow for checkinge in. You are nowe eligible to paye $45 for our 'No weirde squirrel yn your seating area' Program. Yf you paye the moneye and signe up you are 100% guaranteed that ther wil not be a weirde squirrel runninge up, doun, and arounde your seate. What a bargain!"

Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺

1/2 Agree was also the architect behind this curvy beauty formerly known as the Harper Theatre. The building now rocks a slightly different name & apparently serves as the home of Detroit's heavy metal scene.

Architect: Charles N Agree, 1939
Detroit, Michigan

Black and white photo of a boy in a sailor outfit, featuring a striped top and sailor cap. The child is smiling and looking slightly to the left of the frame.

6 August 1937 | A Slovak Jewish boy, Dov Weiss, was born.

In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

a woman in a fur coat is sitting on a pink couch and saying girl power Alt: Geri Horner saying GIRL POWER

Geri Horner is 53 today, 6th August

a woman with a flower in her hair wears a purple necklace ALT: a woman with a flower in her hair wears a purple necklace

Michelle Yeoh is 63 today, 6th August

When I first called my cat on surveillance…
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Looking through the mist - across the pond - at NYC’s iconic Plaza Hotel

Across the Pond
@centralparknyc.bsky.social
Watercolor - 30x22 inches
#art @bsky.art

"He's going to the SMO. F*ck, we're going to live well! And then he'll get killed there."

During a live stream, 27-year-old Anastasia, a resident of Russian Tyumen, happily shared how advantageous it is to marry a participant in the war in Ukraine if he dies there⤵️

Liberal Democrats — 10 seats
Labour — 4 seats
Green — 2 seats
Reform — 1 seat
Conservative — 0 seats

President Trump accuses prominent banks of political discrimination Trump alleged in a CNBC interview that JPMorgan Chase dropped him as a client without explanation and Bank of America would not take him as a client.

34 felony counts maybe?

Trump alleged JPMorgan Chase dropped him as a personal banking customer without explanation & Bank of America also would not take him as a client.

“The banks discriminated against me very badly and I was very good to the banks,” Trump said.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Thornton youth pastor arrested for alleged sexual assault of a child A youth pastor at a Thornton church was arrested Tuesday for alleged sexual assault of a child. Police believe there may be additional victims.

I don’t know if this is Lauren Boebert’s pastor, but he definitely shares her values.

www.denver7.com/news/front-r...