“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Celebrate the Richard Burton Centennial 🎂💯 📷 Bert Stern, 1960s "I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do with my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton."

JFC. The lawsuit says that the woman is believed to be one of scores who were preyed upon by Dr. Blaine McGraw and that Army leadership had allowed him to continue practicing despite receiving sexual misconduct complaints dating back years. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/nationa...

Happy Turkmenistan Tree Planting Day (Autumn) for those who are celebrating. Twice a year, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, a shovel, and his unfeasibly smooth neck photoshopped hovering next to a tree.

Richard Burton in Becket (1964) for his 100th birthday. 🎂

Stunning portrait of a woman in a plumed blue hat from 1740 by William Hogarth, who was born on this day in 1697. Totally love this one.

Along with Donny Hathaway's 1972 album, the 1973 album Live at Carnegie Hall by Bill Withers may be my favourite 1970s' live soul album. The closing 13 minute-plus closing cut of "Harlem/Cold Baloney" is killer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EDa0...

Gloria Swanson “SUNSET BOULEVARD” (1950 ) dir. Billy Wilder 🎬 Paramount Pictures 🎞 #Noirvember

new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal, Sandy Dennis “WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?” (1966) dir. Mike Nichols 🎬 Warner Bros. #RichardBurton100

The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...

So that was Monday November 10th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another day (more or less) here. So it goes. (Out this very month in 1989, “Crime & Punishment: Marshal Law Takes Manhattan”, with its cover by Kevin O’Neill.) And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’

V&A East Storehouses, London E20 Alcatel Minitel terminal #reference #propreference

American experimental film animator, painter, alchemist, anthropologist and folk music archivist Harry Smith and his mural Jim’s Bop City, 1950. #HarrySmith

Orchard Street shopping, Lower East Side, New York, 1983, by Peter Bennett.

Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor "CLEOPATRA" (1963) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 🎬 Twentieth Century-Fox

Ugh. Wish it were Sunday. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmV...

John Singer Sargent "The Staircase at Capri" (1878)

Richard Burton #BOTD, photographed here with co-stars Sue Lyon, Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner on location in Mexico on the set of John Huston’s “THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA” (1964)

Batteries are coming to Europe. Earlier this year Europe’s largest battery storage site went live at Blackhillock, Scotland. The facility has a capacity of 300MW/600MWh. Much larger batteries are under development: A huge 1 GW / 4 GWh system is being constructed in Jänschwalde, Germany.

Fun fact: after Brexit, Lord King Voivode Michael Gove (editor of spectator) had the international code for GB changed to UK

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧 British theatre, film and television actor and narrator #HarryAndrews CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) born #OnThisDay in Tonbridge, Kent, England

Roy Scheider was born on 10 November 1932.

“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.” Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay. More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

US: British journalist Sami Hamdi to be released from ICE detention, set to return home - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-journalist-sami-hamdi-released-detention-return-home

Sanctuary Runners lined the avenue as President Higgins left and presented him with two yellow roses representing friendship and joy. The President is a patron of the running group, which brings locals and migrants together in communities around the country. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Sagrada Familia this afternoon. 4th time I’ve been there and always beautiful.

Singing and smoking with Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin 1745. Wig's off -- but dog at the right is wearing it instead! Painted by William Hogarth, born OTD in 1697.

Genesis, playing the climax of Supper’s Ready with Peter Gabriel lifted high up above the stage, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, January 1974, by Armando Gallo.

Jeffries: "I'm not gonna respond to any comments from randos like Dr Oz who is woefully unqualified to be in whatever position he holds in the administration. He's a joke."

Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso www.nber.org/papers/w3445...

Senators know that Schumer is responsible for the deal--the nominal 8 did NOT go rogue. Plugged in advocacy group leaders know Schumer is responsible for the cave. Hill journalists know it. Only trust voices who know that Schumer stage managed the cave.

Kim Davis denied again: Supreme Court declines to relitigate same-sex marriage boingboing.net/2025/11/10/k...

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

1/ A wounded Russian soldier was buried up to his neck in a so-called "tight pit" to 'remotivate' him to go on an assault. In a video, the man names his commanders, whom he says are running an extortion racket, and appeals for help from the military authorities. ⬇️

Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/

One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids

Robert Todd Lincoln was not at Ford’s Theatre the night his father was shot, he rushed to the WH upon hearing the news. Later, he stood only feet away when President James Garfield was gunned down in 1881, and he arrived in Buffalo just as President William McKinley was fatally shot in 1901.

Availability of electricity at my home today. Let me remind you that russian attacks against Ukraine's energy system are recognized as a crime against humanity per International Criminal Court. #russiaIsATerroristState #Makerussiapay

Cletus Black - You As You [USA, Psyche](1981): Cletus Black is monumentally underrated, and he deserves to be far better known. His music is wildly eclectic, fascinating, and unique. Take this woozy, psychedelic opus from 198 https://redd.it/1oqb2er https://youtu.be/fVkx89Wn7AE

‘BBC can’t be held to ransom’, says David Dimbleby www.channel4.com/news/bbc-can...

⚓ Ottoman Navy Soldiers at the Istanbul Shipyard, c. 1890 #NavalHistory

Brazil: Indigenous communities battle illegal gold miners on ancestral lands www.channel4.com/news/brazil-...

Yours for an estimated £100,000 (plus buyer’s premium) bit.ly/3Ly7drw engineer Harry Beck who designed it was paid £5. Now it is a model used worldwide.