This image was carved on the orders of an ageing autocrat to show an imaginary version of himself smiting his foes during a wildly exaggerated victory decades earlier. It’s the kind of thing that unrestrained royal narcissists did thousands of years ago.

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I’m suing Donald Trump 500 billion dollars for wasting all our fucking time with his shit.

Lino Print of the Week 🐟 And just like that, it’s the start of a new week. Best tackled in company.

UPDATE: yes I absolutely took a day off work so I could finish my Lego pirate ship.

Dogs thread!

It’s pronounced Bouquet

Magnolia buds starting to peep.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation

UPDATE: yes I absolutely took a day off work so I could finish my Lego pirate ship.

Feeling for the partners/spouse of political reporters right now. There must be zero off switch.

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

And a very special #CookbookCorner shoutout for Feast on your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day by the exquisite writer Tamar Adler. This book of reflections and observations has the bare honesty of diary entries and the chiselled beauty of prose-poems. I’m so grateful that it’s in the world.

Here are some cheeriest lino prints, I’m going to lovingly throw in your face to distract you from the crap.

Wasn’t going to drink wine. Looks at internet. Drinks wine.

Tory party and Reform party just eating each other and I’m here for it.

we need a word for people who invent elaborate social situations in their head to justify buying new clothes but don't actually like socializing

Remember the hype a few years ago about paper bottles? Carlsberg, Absolut, Johnny Walker all made a fuss about them being the future. So where are they now? Here's a piece I wrote in November that examines what's actually working and what was just bluster. PDF 👉 s3.amazonaws.com/external_cli...

Richard Adams’s first three novels - Watership Down (1972), Shardik (1974) and The Plague Dogs (1977) - in Penguin 1970s paperbacks. Lovely title page for The Plague Dogs. Cover art credits in ALT text.

Two and a half weeks until payday, good god

It was this time two years ago, that I first visited India 🥹 So much to see and do, cannot wait to go back!

Oodles of noodles

Lino Print of the Week 🍜 Noodles! 👉🏽 sundownerstudio.co.uk/products/bow...

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Absolute Sunday job.

Kate Mitchell, Invoking the spirit of art to help complete this work, 2022, Australian artist #WomensArt

If I had to move, I think Bath would be my first choice. And Winchester, where I spent this evening would be my second.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

My birthday was a near disaster to be honest. Recovered now, take away on its away, and the Traitors on 💪🏽

UK readers double-taking, dropping their phones, spitting out tea etc

Listening to JD Vance. Fuck me, I’m glad I don’t live in America.

Which one? I mean if you HAD to choose?

There seems to be more unlikeable people on The Traitors this year, I’d say.

Dogs thread!

This cat's ass is definitely sticking to the pan.

Rambling, unhinged, and dangerous. At what point do the rest of the world’s leaders stop nodding politely and start acknowledging this absolute bin juice of a man, with the risk he poses to everyone else on the planet? FFS

Time to make Parsnips Molly Parkin again. First met this rich, warming dish in a South Devon proper pub some years back. Just the job for a winter's lunch sitting in a low-beamed bar in front of an open fire. Works pretty well in our place too. www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/pars...

If there’s somewhere you don’t want to be sliding around like Bambi on ice, it’s probably here.

Forgot to post this last night when I was going to bed. The moon was so bright it looks like a daytime b&w photograph.

So if you’re still on X/Twitter 1.You are helping financially support someone who does nazi salutes 2. Decimated US famine relief programmes causing additional deaths across the world. 3. Developed an AI tool that sexualises women and children without their knowledge. Shame will follow you

Why do birds, suddenly appear, every time, you are near? Just like me, you seem to be, made of seeds.

Lino print of the week Anne Boleyn 👸🏻

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I haven’t seen snow here in a few years. Yes, this is probably about as much as we’ll get, which is a big deal to me 🤣

Lino print of the week Anne Boleyn 👸🏻

La Tarrasque. Charles Lepec, 1874.

Considering doing a selection of cheeses lino print. What should go on the print? Defo Brie, and Stilton.