“The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil sign; The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time;” #Bardspotting KING HENRY King Henry VI, Act 5, Scene VI

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To whomever sat in Billie’s Bar in Antwerp and thought, what this bar needs is to immortalise Kieran McKenna, I salute you.

Well, that’s very kind of you. Yes I’d love a beer thank you 🇨🇱🇧🇪

Book #18 of 2026 finished. Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad. Finished on a flight into Schiphol. What can I say? It’s a story about a man who sees a murder and then, just before he phones the police, he pauses. And ponders his life. #Booksky #Tsundoku

My latest @theguardian.com books cartoon

“When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughman’s clocks, When turtles tread and rooks and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks,” #Bardspotting HOLOFERNES & NATHANIEL (VER) Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5, Scene II

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Emergency Research - Norwegian - I need a Norwegian title for an imaginary painting in the style of Odd Nerdrum - called something like - 'The Longing' encapsulated loneliness and despair.

The third episode of the Six Things podcast is out, featuring London explorer and Londonist writer Matt Brown. Matt’s six excellent things: – tube station smells – parakeets – Wetherspoons carpets – wazzbaffles – Diamond Geezer – International Space Station pod.link/1873642106/e...

7️⃣5️⃣ more days of posting a poorly drawn World Cup moment every day until the tournament kicks-off or until we forget to post one Today, it's 1998: Argentina v Netherlands in the quarter-finals. It's the 90th minute, the game poised at 1-1, when Dutch captain Frank de Boer goes long to Bergkamp...

“‘As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As Sun to day, as turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to th’centre’ -“ #Bardspotting TROILUS Troilus And Cressida, Act 3, Scene II

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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

And formally, according to our law, Depose him

No, I don’t think you can big up ‘Mum’ enough. Performances, script, everything. It is perfect.

I do a thing called The Big Green Books 500 Club. It's a thing where people donate £1 each week and when we reach £500, I send a school £500 of books of their choice. Here's Howard Junior School in King's Lynn, the latest recipients! THANK YOU ALL! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

Btw if you're thinking of reading/watching Leonard and Hungry Paul, now is a good time as it's set around Easter, so you'll be watching it in season.

My prints are always available. (Unless I have an accident) Please have a browse. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

I should probably do something. Anyone buying a print today from HappyToast.co.uk will get a limited edition "20 years of Toast" print.

“The crow, the sland’rous cuckoo, nor The boding raven, nor chough hoar, Not chatt’ring pie, May on our bride-house perch or sing, Or with them any discord bring, But from it fly.” #Bardspotting BOY [SINGS] The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 1, Scene I

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Hi! We're an alternative to Amazon's Audible, & here are a few things that people often don't know about us: 1. We have over 600k audiobooks in our catalog! You'll pretty much find whatever you want to read, other than Audible exclusives (but that's on them, not us)

Sigríður Tómasdóttir (1871–1957) was an Icelandic environmentalist whose activism helped preserve the Gullfoss waterfalls, protecting them from industrialization. She is widely seen as Iceland's first environmentalist and is memorialized on a sculpture near Gullfoss.

I have an emotional attachment to Voyager 1 that defies all the scientific logic that informed how it was built but is a reflection of the human spirit that explains why it was built. That little guy out there in the cold and the dark, just trying to do its best.

Doodles preparing for the cartoon quoted below.

Nothing but love for the trans people in my family, in my life, and out there in the world. The future will look back on this era in horror, but unfortunately we don’t live in the future. I encourage every cis person I know to speak up, say “not in my name”, to fight for the lives of our loved ones

Book #17 of 2026 finished. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin One of those classic Sci-fi titles that I’ve always meant to get round to reading (or listening to, in this case). Winner of the big three; Hugo, Locus and Nebula. Read beautifully by Tim Treloar. #Booksky #Tsundoku

All eight #SmallProphets covers are available as a pack of postcards. Buy here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop and love them. Forever. 9/

Got your eye on something in my shop? Spend over £20 and get 10% off with code GET10 Spend over £50 and get 20% off with code GET20 This weekend only. gailmyerscough.co.uk

Apropos of nothing, here are some Macbethian witches.

“With him the Earl of Surrey, bearing the rod of silver with the dove, crowned with an earl’s coronet. Collars of esses.” #Bardspotting SECOND GENTLEMAN Henry VIII, Act 4, Scene I

A reminder that I have lots of lovely prints to sell and this is just a random plug for my shop and definitely not because I completely forgot the once every two years copyright payment for the Marswasrubbish name which has completely screwed my finances for the month. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

It's Friday, so we're allowed to bring games into work.

#Wordle 1,742 3/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Another repeated word, this one from Aug ‘21.

Featuring authors who: - feared dying in the middle of a novel "in case some bastard comes along and finishes it"; - lost "a large and expensive pork pie" (it never turned up); - hated being second fiddle to Amis and McEwan ("I'm way better"); & more I wrote about mid-life crisis Booker novels:

"Add one small onion (finely chopped), then half an onion, then a quarter of an onion, then an eighth of an onion..."–Recipe for Mandelbroth

We walk streets where windows become altars. Here a watching and warding of crows. Across the road a summoning of Saxon gods. Each home making a transparent declaration of where it stands on the folk faith spectrum. No. 56 for the King-Under-the-Sea. No. 75 for Woden. – #MattAdams, 1982

This will be my last post on the matter of #ITFC until Ashton resigns and the club makes a full apology for this awful association with hateful, divisive, grifter politics.

there was a young man from cork who got limericks and haikus confused

How can 'they' be stupid and rob you blind, Donny? Or, when you say 'stupid people' are you referring to the 'us' that are being robbed blind because you've only got yourselves to blame for that.

Hope we have the printers ready for a World Cup edition @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

An autistic person has made the groundbreaking discovery that resolving the source of one anxiety causes at least 14 new ones to pop up, like adding water to a Gremlin, it has been announced.

Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s. (Any century!) #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

Ipswich Town is a special football club. They’ve got so many things right over the past five years and beyond. But they got this badly wrong - and now they should apologise. My thoughts ⬇️ #itfc www.eadt.co.uk/sport/259698...

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

“Lawn as white as driven snow, Cypress black as e’er was crow, Gloves as sweet as damask roses, Masks for faces and for noses;” #Bardspotting AUTOLYCUS The Winter’s Tale, Act 4, Scene IV