Fantastical tiny crib for Baby J, complete with silver bells! 15th-century Flemish.

what a wasted decade the 90s was

Estonia draws a clear red line. FM Margus Tsahkna says any so called green men crossing the border will be met with live fire, and Russian aircraft violating Estonian airspace risk being shot down. This is NATO territory. If Moscow doubts it, Tsahkna says bluntly, test us.

Wake up!☕️☕️ music.youtube.com/watch?v=oz_Y...

To Prez, this remains one of best community notes of all time. To prove we can’t be beaten this idiot tweets a picture of 5 of our warships, 4 of which had been sunk. The remaining is probably now out of action. I am surrounded by idiocy

Refurbished historical steam train arrived in Sydney. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZero #trains

This strip was published on December 25, 1957. Merry Christmas to All!

Happy Lemmy Christmas! youtu.be/dsqC6HRS8Lc?...

While Reform's millionaire Islamophobic leaders are just interested in getting even richer, here's someone they won't be praising ... meme via The Horse School

Brân - Y Gwylwyr [Wales, prog folk] (1975) https://redd.it/1p91n87 https://youtu.be/GDnRGyoblHE

Relief with a Tauroctony scene and a dedicated inscription to Sol Invictus. Emperor Aurelian dedicated a temple in Rome to Sol Invictus, the unconquered Sun, #OnThisDay in AD 274. Sol Invictus became an increasingly important deity, with his festival day occurring on the 25th of December.

Elze van den Ban #Dutch urban planner chief engineer of Rijkswaterstaat (Dept of Public Works) @ Zuiderzee Works. Introduced curvatures rather than straight lines into urban planning process. 1st woman from Netherlands to graduate as civil engineer in Delft. d. #OTD 25 Dec 1973 bit.ly/3WYS1Vu

Merry Christmas! 🎄 Here is the lid of a fourth century sarcophagus in the Vatican Museums showing one of the earliest depictions of the Nativity. flic.kr/p/itxcNf #Christmas #photography #BuonNatale

The heavy rains are the result of a weather phenomenon known as the “Pineapple Express.”

Merry Christmas all! Appears EPS went colder overnight.

I said 2-3 years ago that the right was using kids (Grimey, Curry Girl, that Tory student one) with increasingly extreme views, and that it was sad, as this was exploitative: pushing them to be ever more extreme leaving no way back. Anyway, respectively: councillor, columnist, gbeebies presenter.

The USA used to be part of world civilisation. #R4Today

Another grim milestone in #DRCongo: violence has pushed half a million people from their homes, many into Burundi.   I’ve allocated $13.5M from UNCERF – $10M for DRC, $3.5M for #Burundi – to deliver urgent, life-saving aid where needs are exploding.

"...ARRANGE FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS." "Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth - Flashpoint" (1964). #DoctorWho

Trouble is, all these US de-regulators grew up in a world where’s there’s a button saying ‘Game Over. Try Again.’

Italy marks the feast day of Santo Stefano, portrayed here by Italian Renaissance painter Carlo Crivelli, with a public holiday today.

A Bronze Age horned helmet from Brøns Mose at Viksø, decorated with bosses and adorned with eyes and a beak. The helmet was found with an identical one in a bog. They were probably used at religious ceremonies. Later on, they were deposited in the bog as offerings. 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Israeli warplanes carry out intense strikes in Khan Younis, continue shelling Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-warplanes-carry-out-out-intense-air-strikes-khan-younis-continue

We didn’t do crackers this year, so I had to make up the cracker jokes: Why does Santa take a run every day? Because it’s good for his elf. Why is Santa so good on TV? Because he has such amazing presents.

“DARK PASSAGE” (1947) dir. Delmer Daves Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall 🎬 Warner Bros.

KIMMEL, to the UK: “.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.” @jimmykimmel.com

youtube.com/watch?v=LymN... Nina Simone Live

Staring up at the aurora shimmering above. So beautiful.

Me playing a Christmas carol (an arrangement of In Dulci Jubilo) on the Rockefeller carillon at the University of Chicago. At 105 tons, it is the largest musical instrument ever built. Have a happy holiday!

Canada is one of the eight countries that today expressed its solidarity with the people of Greenland and Denmark in the face of threats to their territorial integrity from Trump and his newly appointed Reichsstatthalter for Greenland, Jeff Landry.

Spectacularly beautiful Nativity by Federico Barocci. Saint Philip Neri was moved to spiritual ecstasy by Barocci's works, and we see why.

Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961. Photograph by Steve Schapiro.

“THE BIG SLEEP” (1946) dir. Howard Hawks Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone 🎬 Warner Bros. 🎞 #FilmNoir

The ‘Christmas tree worm’ evolved one of the ocean’s strangest senses: it can see with its gills. 👀 apple.news/AF2qdDcDpQ5W...

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! A stucco Nativity scene by the Sicilian Baroque artist Giacomo Serpotta in the Oratorio del Rosaria di Santa Cita in Palermo, Sicily. Palermo has several gorgeous baroque oratories (small chapels) associated with churches or monasteries.

New Sci. Am. article looks at sediment in ancient Roman sewer systems and found that Romans guarding Hadrian's wall were full of whipworms, roundworms, and Giardia. And there was no cure, either. You were infected for life. www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...

"Barbara Travers, 19 (left) and her sister, Shirley, 21, stop in Denver on their cross-country bicycle jaunt from Portland, Ore. to their Dearborn, Mich. home. They worked on the coast in a war plant." 1944

merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

“.. What happened to Rob and Michele is an obscenity, an abyss in lived reality. .. I have to be allowed to imagine .. that one day, I’ll be at a dinner or a party and find myself seated next to Rob .. and feel lucky all over again to have him as a friend.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

Gamba grass risks star attractions in NT's beloved Litchfield National Park www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳 From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

The contrast between the message (and indeed messenger) on the one side, and the populist Right on the other was/is stark. The monarchy could be a subtle bulwark against populism, which can be easily cast as very un-British.

#RomanFortThursday Coelbren Roman auxiliary fort near Onllwyn, Neath Port Talbot, S. Wales. The fort date spans c. 74-150 AD with a marching camp to the south. The Roman road links to the #Roman fort west of Brecon at Y Gaer. #Archaeology #RomanBritain

The remains of the Knag Burn gate in Hadrian's Wall mile 36. Just east of north east corner of Housesteads Roman Fort. Get particularly wet, and becomes muddy with stock, farm vehicles and walkers at this point. #hadrianswall #followtheacorn #RomanFortThursday

Keeping forces in theatre for extended operations is a drain. Trump fails to realize this as he strings this idiocy along. Trump's unprecedented aircraft carrier deployment in the Caribbean increases U.S. military options against Venezuela, but carries steep maintenance and personnel costs.

Remembering hot May days ☀️🔥 at the spectacular bath house of Chester's Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall for this #RomanFortThursday - some incredible remains at the edge of Empire 😎 📷 My own 2025

He’s been! 🎄

David Bowie ~ Soul Love (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, 1972) #NowPlaying #DAvidBowie #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3dt...