Having to put white noise on all the time so this gorgeous idiot will have a damn nap.

why would you want to unlock your productivity. it's locked for a reason

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/4721 『ことりの休日 スナイパースズメ』発売。街のスズメの裏の顔…影から狙う。 "Kotori's Holiday Sniper Sparrow" released. The hidden face of the town sparrow... Aiming from the shadows. #ガチャポン #gachapon

And this is what he means when he says, ‘All manner of things shall be well.’ For he wants us to know that the smallest thing will not be forgotten. Julian of Norwich, b. 1342

If I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.

Some scholars refer to the period as "the Long 2000s"

leaving banditry in 2025. New year new me (Stagecoach rumbles past and my pistol hand starts shaking) stagecoaches don’t count tho

im growing increasingly concerned that luck is not what lemon pigs are attracting

The final day

For the hogmanay not the hogafew

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

saw this old fella letting rip on the tin whistle at the trad session

"I think it would be fine to watch the theatrical versions some year" bf, "it is absolutely vital to see gimli trying to blow away the ghosties during the paths of the dead scene, I can't believe I have to explain why" gf

who up wintering their solstice

Jonesy

Our 1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast

“Moominmamma cooks a real magic potion following Grandmother’s infallible recipe”, by Tove Jansson, as used on the cover of 1989’s exhibition catalogue of Jansson’s work as shown at Finland’s Tampere Art Museum.

youtu.be/cBGkhPx529g?... Any excuse to post the most perfect performance of a song ever

silas testing the pub's adherence to the challenge 25 policy

our common life depends upon each other's toil

'Theme Hospital' - 1997

A critical question! Dhoom 3's version also a banger imo.

dolphin statue, magic carpet golf, key west, florida, 1985

clipart (1997) web.archive.org/web/19970525...

Silas won't sleep in his crate unless he has these pricey duck treats & the sound of a heartbeat playing on our speaker. My sensitive son.

silas, our new indefinite lodger (do not tell him about tenants unions, he must not learn about his rights)

No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.

'peppercorn rent' mentioned a lot today, an extremely misleading term suggesting some kind of whimsical barter economy, a mouse securing shelter by performing a ritual that mimics genuine economic exchange, rather than the living arrangements of a royal (alleged) paedophile

Disappearing into the bog for some much-needed bog time, returning after a month with a new healthy glow and a strange, faraway look in my eyes like a wild hare

Ghost turnip, Fintown, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 1900 (replica), National Museum of Ireland

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

@thescottishcrannog.bsky.social is ace, 100% recommend going if you can drive and are in Scotland (or, like us, have lovely friends who can drive you!)

me to my brain: that's not very world mental health day of you

ursula k. le guinness

I feel seen.

4 October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi: here he is with lambs and preaching to birds. BL Add 15710; St Bonaventure, Legenda Sancti Francisci, illuminated & transl. by the nun Sister Sibilla von Bondorf; Germany; 15th c; ff.103r, 107v

Listen, Tenar. Heed me. You were the vessel of evil. The evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in its own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light, as a lamp burning holds and gives its light.

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

Just Tove Jannson drawing tolkien's Dwarves.

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

The hatred of unruly bodies, human physicality in all of its diversity, bodies that refuse to be disciplined, is really a central part of contemporary fascism.