We are not monstrous when we think on monsters. No. We are only monstrous when we have no feeling for those who suffer horrors at their hands or teeth. - #CLNolan on the 1932 introduction of an H for Horror certificate for films

It's not inappropriate that the monstrously gentility of Hyacinth Bucket is the first thing that comes to mind when people eulogize Patricia Routledge (RIP) but its her turns in Alan Bennett's unforgiving monologues that stick in mind and break my beart. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Coming home from work I saw a woman biking with her pet on a leash running alongside. Ooh, that's a big dog I thought and then I twigged. Ackshually? That was a very small pony.

OK this one made me laugh.

Jesus Christ. US conservative politicians poison everything they touch. They can't see a nice thing without wanting to destroy it.

#MSH45 | May 18, 1980 Early evening on the Toutle River, just upstream from its confluence with the Cowlitz. Onlookers gather as the lahar from the North Fork—the largest of the eruption—pushes toward the Columbia. Logs from Weyerhaeuser camps and other debris churn through the chaotic current.

Everyday Magic in the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2021/09/ever... #Magic

Ada Thilén - At the Spinning Wheel 1888 (Finnish National Gallery)

Ladybird endpapers Bedtime Stories (1978) Artist: James Hodgson

hello, is it me you are looking for? kererū

ALL HAIL OUR NEW CHAMPION

One of my dreamcats, available as cards on my website here 🙂 katherinesoutarillustration.com/art-card-set...

When chips for tea meant peeling potatoes Talkabout Gardens (1976) Artist: Harry Wingfield

a-cwencan, wk.v: to quench, extinguish, put out. (ah-KWENCH-on / a-ˈkwɛn-tʃan) Image: Cuthbert extinguishing a fire set by a demon in Bede’s Prose Life of St Cuthbert; England (Durham), late 12th century; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Yates Thompson MS 26, f. 30r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

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Pictures that explain things ‘Gradient’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Maps 1967)

A promotional #LOTR drawing by Mike Ploog (1978)

#MSH45 | May 28, 1980 Nine days after the eruption, NBC News’s Robert Bazell reported that scientists had expected warning signs — but none came. USGS geologist Tim Hait admits: “Nobody, nobody had in any way predicted that the blast would have the character that it did.”

For my friends in #Washington #Oregon and northern #California - a great summary of #earthquake hazards and probabilities for the three types of earthquakes in #Cascadia has been released by the USGS: pubs.usgs.gov/publication/... note that this also applies to southern #BritishColumbia. ⚒️🧪

Question Mark xkcd.com/3143/

Work and life have been busy the last few days. Thinking tomorrow for the next installment of the Stoffels' story. For now, enjoy this great chat between Nick Zentner and USGS legend and icon Don Swanson about his study of the Cascades from the 60s through the 80s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gyh...

And the finale in this project that lasted an eternity... Here is the wrap-around cover art for a new edition of End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov, coming soon from Phantasia Press.

🏞️🪶 Raven Immemorial 🪶🏞️ #formline #telekitneticart #paleoart

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Coffee, of course 2.Freesias 3.Nonsense conversations with chatty tabby cats 4.The favourite coffee mug I have the coffee in 5.Clean sheets on a bed

there were swedes to the left of him russians to the right a czech at the blue line looking for a fight brains over brawn that might work for you but what's a canadian farm boy to do? what else can a farm boy from canada do?

One for @hookland.bsky.social

west-ende, m.n: the west end, western extremity of anything. (WEST-EN-duh / ˈwɛst-ˌɛn-də) #OldEnglish #WOTD

A new Elizabeth Knox? Gift buyers in my house will be delighted.

Girl bosses. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/

Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly complex

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

If you're gonna crib Joe Haldeman, give him credit.

Call them corpse roads, coffin lanes, funeral walks. Call them procession paths, lych lines, wraith ways. Just as long as you remember they are the arterial routes of the dead. The long cicatrix of grief carved into the land. – Dr. Michael Benn, 1981

#StationNews: It is still full steam ahead for an historic railway station that has lived its life on both sides of the track over the past 150 years. Via The Press: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

I did it with a US friend three years ago and yeah, if it hadn't been a Big Special Holiday Experience I wouldn't have bothered for myself because it ain't cheap.

Some A+++ live posting of ME/CFS and Long COVID research today by @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social including this really excellent survey:

Historical smoosh. Photo from my collection, the back identifies the woman as Fay and the cats are Smut and Spot (‘smut’ can mean dirt or soot, not just obscene material).

"New Life" Private commission of a FFXIV character, inspired by the beautiful story of Shadowbringers 🖤 I actually painted this piece last year and forgot to post it until now, but I really liked working on this piece... it was a great opportunity to explore unusual composition choices!

There are times when the hill figures of Hookland shift from their usual positions and go on sacred journeys. We may never know the purpose of these wanderings 🌖🌿🐾 @hookland.bsky.social

I can’t say with 100% certainty but I believe this is a portrait of two gingers. Photo from my collection, 1956.

Old enough to remember French nuclear testing in the Pacific, and wheezing. Oh yeah, and the Rainbow Warrior bombing. (Miami Vice made the perpetrators villains. True story!) And, of course, the immaculate record of English speakers in regard to conquering and colonizing countries.

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

FFS. Ridiculous in the way that evil often is.

hȳra, m.n: hireling, one who works for pay, a hired servant. (HUE-rah / ˈhyː-ra) Image: Luttrell Psalter; N England (Lincolnshire), 1325-1340; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 42130, f. 63r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Today is the National Disaster Prevention Day in Japan, commemorating the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake which devastated Tokyo and Yokohama. Here is the ground displacements map after the EQ, which was of course made without GPS or InSAR... www.gsi.go.jp/kohokocho/ko...