Hearing the really beautiful hoots of a male tawny owl out on the lane right now

Primroses are starting to flower in the woods - Spring’s just around the corner! #WildFlowerHour

Barack O'Starmer: uhh let me be Keir

Tablet addiction is nothing new... Discovered #OnThisDay - 16 February - in 1740 and associated with the Theatre at Herculeaneum. A woman dressed in white holds both writing tablet and stylus, seemingly deep in thought. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9074).

Not joking at all when I say an important magical object matching this description (antlers and all) was featured in a fantasy novel I read last month. A fantasy novel set in England in the 70s ... in the home counties

A vaguely Olympics-related fun fact is that in Czech you can say something expensive 'stojí majlant' ('costs a fortune'). This unusual word "majlant" comes from German Mailand – the city of Milan! It seems to have come via Czechs fighting in 19th-century Italy, clearly impressed by the rich city.

This one had better not hurt me like that fake Etruscan boar vessel 😤

“Snow has fallen again, as it will sometimes do in February” What to Look for in Winter, 1959 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

The online discussions I see about using AI for writing fiction are so utterly depressing. Even half the people who agree that AI shouldn't write the book are like "I don't use AI for writing, but it's helpful for [[aspect of storytelling that is clearly still within the purview of the >> (1/7)

Goodnight from Steven Dix, not relishing having to tell Hookland Highways Department their temporary traffic lights have been stolen by a flying saucer. Goodnight from Posy Cropper, entering candle communion in hopes of guiding Olag Gandle home. Goodnight from Hookland.

This may betray a one-dimensional (or rather, time-and-relative-dimensional) awareness of culture, but to me the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia will always be the setting of the interplanetary human colony in the Doctor Who episode 𝘚𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

Tolkien notably considered 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 a "heroic romance" instead of a "novel", albeit very much NOT what is generally meant by 'romance' on Goodreads or TikTok or in the labelling of sections in a bookshop

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

The median AI bro has the energy of a guy who replies to a mathematics social media post with interes ting .. . perhaps we could relate this to the infinite nature of pi (𝝅) and Fibonaci patterns..or the imaginary number; "i"? and is self-convinced it makes him a genius.

Knowledge unified under the outstretched arms of Philosophy BL Add 30024; Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Tresor; 1260-1299 CE; France, S.; f.1v

Why am I hearing the sounds of Doctor Who S5 from the TV downstairs

“February. Another cold, dead month, or so it seems. The elms are bare against the sky, the plough-ground is naked and wet, and still as brown as the sodden leaves. Yet the world is waking up”. Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder (ShellGuide, 1955)

Genuinely bewilders me to see indie authors on here posting links to books with (visibly) AI-generated covers. Even aside from the lack of solidarity with visual artists, you are choosing to package your hard work in trash (and if there's AI on the outside, why wouldn't I expect AI on the inside?)

Little Crow Ink and colored pencils on toned paper 5x7 #art #birds #sciart #nature

There's an Italian with the surname Bagnis competing in the Winter Olympics, and for a brief moment of misreading I thought there must be a mountain-burgling or ring-bearing hobbit racing on a skeleton bobsled

The Ganderling....a limited edition medieval style beasty in gold and dark blue, now available > see website link in my profile. 💥💥💥🕺 #medieval #medievalart #beast #goose #medievalhistory #linocut #lino #inky #goldengoose #historicalart #printmaking #linoprint

Me: I think it's cool when people pour time, effort, and skill into work that expresses their soul AI bro: how dare you, elitist snob. the video I made in two minutes by typing "boob girl and Batman ride cats into war against Godzilla" into a text box makes me a greater artist than you'll ever know

The Black Rider, by Ivan Bilibin, 1900.

It can be difficult to see other people living out your dreams

Another fractal. I never know what to call these things once they're born. Looks like a neuron or something ? Fullscreen if you got it... #art #fractals #tierazon

A warning to always keep me well away from the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket, because it just looks too delectable and I can't be held responsible for what happens next

Starling Murmuration Another demo.print from Monday's workshop

Just finished the last in a series of genuinely enchanting books. I'll post about them properly at some point, but for now ... oh my god, you know that feeling when you read past your bedtime because you're near the end and it's all so magical? Yeah

Returning oystercatcher are one of the first signs of spring in Shetland, their shrill cries the harbinger of changing season. The weather is still wild, with weeks of storms and raging seas, but these birds remind us calmer days will come #Shetland

Hey guys (and I'm talking primarily to my fellow Britons here), I don't want to alarm anyone, but just now I saw a very strange light in the sky. Like a sort of glowing orb? That was too bright to look at? I've been watching the sky for months and haven't seen anything like this before now

Stinking Helebore by C F Tunnicliffe. A picture card from the Wild Flowers series 3 album.

Mythographically accurate Red Bull

Video doorbell owners learning to their shock and disappointment that they were all of them deceived- there is only one lord of the Rings, and he does not share power.

How on earth have I never come across this before? And it's 16th-century or earlier? Oh my god!

The Cave

Saw this when I was scrolling in the bath earlier, and it was a bit too much of a mirror

Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany. The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

If "Please find attached" becomes too repetitive in your emails, consider these alternatives: - Hwættachment! - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a working man in possession of a good email, must be in want of attachments. - I have attached the files that were in the folder

i heard both of these today: "what are we solutioning here" "we don't have a solve for that" nouns and verbs, two ships passing in the night

Some local snowdrops in the rain

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Goldfinch’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Dreamt last night that I was undergoing trials to become a spy. My handler had me infiltrate one of our own government intelligence buildings as a test, and I was incredibly nervous because it was my first (fake) mission of the sort

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Battle of the Five Armies (The Hobbit) 1976

Using genAI for art involved in the Olympics is ironic, because we've had technology "faster, higher, stronger" than humans for a long time. You can easily 'prompt' a machine to move faster than Usain Bolt, but we choose to value human excellence. Extend that to creativity.

Floods, 2021

Me: I'd like to consider myself quite an agreeable person Also me:

A fragment of Roman terracotta tile with the imprints of a dog's paw that was discovered at Rochester in Kent. #FindsFriday

Okay, well ... this is one of the most wonderful things I have ever seen

Other work of the Ladybird artists. A February Day Artist: Rowland Hilder