✨Dionysus astride a panther✨ Dionysus is nothing if not iconic. This #MosaicMonday sees him riding a panther, while brandishing his signature thyrsus and a tambourine (to get the party started). His beautiful robes and ivy crown complete the look.

Sky is such an incredible song! 😭😭😭😭 cloudcub.bandcamp.com/album/down-m... #musicsky

The 2nd album... cloudcub.bandcamp.com/album/little... #musicsky

Sky is such an incredible song! 😭😭😭😭 cloudcub.bandcamp.com/album/down-m... #musicsky

The 2nd album... cloudcub.bandcamp.com/album/little... #musicsky

A collection of music I did: cloudcub.bandcamp.com/music

Shocking, absolutely shocking. Meta should be treated with the same opprobrium as Twitter; it's the same vile poison...

📷 A Group of Ottoman Women Arriving at the Kağıthane Picnic Grounds by Ox Cart, Istanbul, 1868.

Nature is amazing, actually. When I see the people whose withered souls only see the world in terms of profit and loss and "what's in it for me to grab grab grab" I am sorry for them (somewhat) and angry for the beautiful world we live in. Have some busy beavers! scitechdaily.com/beavers-turn...

This is a small but also big thing - remarkably I'm almost at 25k bsky followers, way more than when I was on twitter; such a contrast to the stasis and decay there after Musk ruined its science, archaeology & history communities. So glad networks old and new formed here - thank you all! 😊

A belly full of natural gas and other fictions of self-sufficiency: Does a greenhouse full of peppers and tomatoes bathing in the warmth of natural gas and fed a diet of fertilisers really represent food security and self-sufficiency? thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/a-belly-fu...

The complexity of "greening the desert", the crucial role of animals, the ecosystem engineers, the biodiversity loss we inflict on Nature, the things we don't know... indiandefencereview.com/african-spur...

The complexity of life and, more crucially, the existence of other people befuddles Lionel Shriver. She literally cannot comprehend other people

Call me a woke commie extremist if you want but I just think sometimes it would be cool if good things happened

‘A site it hasn’t held for 26 years’ - as if it is Israel’s to ‘hold.’ Israel's military presence in #Lebanon is an invasion, its holding of territory is an occupation. Call things by their name

There was an investigation a year or two ago that found dodginess in the Italian supply chain for supermarket tomato paste, Asda, Tesco and so on. Evidence suggesting that tomatoes used were grown by Uighurs with forced labour. But not Mutti: Italian tomatoes grown in Italy.

You don't buy mutti for the taste alone, i thought it was one of the very few brands that their workers aren't treated like slaves! One of the more ethical ones, isn't it @dorothy-porker.com ?

If an alien landed and asked you: ‘What is music?’ what would you play for them?

Genuinely pleased for Arsenal fans, hope they've had a wonderful day today. Can't help but feel a bit sad about the rainy, frightening, panicky day in Liverpool last year when it felt like everything started to go wrong.

Transit delivers the freedom and culture teenagers crave.

The French foreign minister said Sunday that he has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council after Israeli forces seized the medieval Beaufort castle in Lebanon. www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

im bored by ppl who describe mild centre-left politics as 'hard left populism'.

holy shit nobody has ever answered a question worse

"...Hettie O’Brien, journalist and author of The Asset Class, to break down how private equity quietly bought up the services we rely on, from nurseries and care homes to vets and water companies, and why that matters for the broken economy we’re all living in." So angry now! pca.st/episode/5dfc...

Needs to be dismantled, this so-called society and also the members stripped from their properties in Soho. Minimum. You unserstand?

The Soho Society is objecting to *every* new bar/restaurant licence in what is supposed to be the centre of London’s nightlife. More licensing insanity. I asked them to come on my Sunday show: "We will absolutely not be taking questions from journalists". Ofc not. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The astonishing thing about the Soho Society is that you don’t even have to live in Soho to be a member of it. It’s not even a resident’s association!

It's only an invasion if it comes from the Invasion region of Eastern Ukraine. Otherwise, it's sparkling incursion.

Ok. Got a bit bored watching a doco on Ancient Greece cos it was just someone going to museums. So let's see if a Greek politician really found Odysseus' tomb on Kefalonia. I have my doubts! www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

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Not a single word in this long article about how human action is responsible for the extreme climate changes. It just appears to be changing on its own, entirely in a vacuum. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

A much better photo of the Ethiopian fare from my wife's camera.

Me and the wife went for Ethiopian food the other night! I had about 25 years ago in a friends house but never in a restaurant! Injera bread, lots of pulse dishes, doro wot, tibs and some Erhiopian alcoholic honey drink called 'Tej' which is actually tasty! Out in Shepherds Bush area. #foodsky

A brief history of the horrible views of Lionel Shriver. bsky.app/profile/snig...

Huge amount of daily newspaper output for years now has been “I relentlessly behave like an abysmal arsehole about absolutely everything, and nobody pats me on the head and says Well Done”. Or, alternatively, “I was acting like an aggro dickhead and people told me to fuck off, it’s totalitarian”

Addison Lee, Addison Lee you bastard shits....

Extremely cool?

I know I'm saying the unspeakable, and yet, here we are... Labour + Green + libdems should for a progressive united front with a shared mission 1. Reform the electoral system 2. Reform OFCOM and the BBC 3. Snap election in 2030 Ideologically it is easier than it seems, if you only can imagine it

Wouldn't Christianity be present in Britain before the Anglosaxons? This is a genuine question for any experts out there, given the timeline I reckon there must have been Christians here in Roman times?

What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔

The entire world is celebrating another emirates state sport washing their way to acceptability

Stark warning from MSF: "Never before has an Ebola outbreak recorded so many cases so soon. Nobody knows its true scale. New cases are reported daily, yet hundreds of samples remain untested. Border and airport closures delay the arrival of critical aid." www.msf.org/msf-statemen...

Born in Częstochowa, to Bronislawa and Dawid Kozak. The Germans took their factory away. Polish nuns hid the Kozaks from the Germans. It's close to miraculous she survived. In the 1970s, she did a PhD on women munition workers in WW1 at Hull. May her memory be a blessing.

Just imagine I crossed out "British" and wrote in "American"

There's a persistent fantasy that maybe some other nice countries will start mass-hiring US scientists. That's not going to happen. A few high-profile, big name researchers will get poached, sure. But most countries, including some very nice ones, are underemploying their own scientists already.

No country for old men? Uh let me tell you, there are MANY country for old men

Me and the wife went for Ethiopian food the other night! I had about 25 years ago in a friends house but never in a restaurant! Injera bread, lots of pulse dishes, doro wot, tibs and some Erhiopian alcoholic honey drink called 'Tej' which is actually tasty! Out in Shepherds Bush area. #foodsky

It's okay - someone found him with What Three Words. Predictably about as far from Clacton as you can get.

Absolutely shocking. No clue. No idea. No respect for workers rights - doesn't affect him so he doesn't seem to care...