It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.

The 1861 magazine for the earlier fog gun at North Stack fog station and the later 1895 electric fog siren that used a bank of 35 Tannoy Triple Frequency speakers that could send a chord siren over 6 nautical miles. It was disused in 1986.

It is now theoretically possible to be the Man Who Shopped for a Liberty Valance.

this is the best phishing email I have ever seen in my life. they've been sending me very convincing looking account notices for months now and have gone with "we've made your email gay. you have to click here to un-gay it"

Farewell to the great Joe Ely, a pioneer of progressive country with the Flatlanders who sowed the seeds of Americana by touring with such rockers as the Clash in the early 1980s. variety.com/2025/music/o...

Sparkles.

I’ve decided to remind everyone that this wonderful audio production exists: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

(forgetting the word for fondue) cheese wine hot pot

This rules!

For #MotteMonday here is the Old Bailey, York's other Norman motte. Built 1067, damaged by Vikings in 1068 then rebuilt again. The bailey rampart was later used to carry the Bar Walls from Bichdaughter Tower to a postern gate by the River Ouse. #OldBaileYork #illustration #ColourPencil #drawing

“The LA Fire Department said a man and a woman were found deceased inside, approximately 78 and 68 years old.” Reiner is 78.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeronsAndEgrets and how do I even choose? #birds

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The walls of the house are honeycombed by hunger.

Toad opened the front door. He looked out into the night. Frog was not there. “I am worried,” said Toad.

Alex Kleytman, ancien survivant de l’Holocauste, fait partie des victimes de l’attaque terroriste perpétrée ce dimanche 14 décembre à Sydney Marié depuis 57 ans, il résidait avec sa femme Larisa dans la banlieue sud de Sydney

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

What is writing if it’s not spending an hour writing a pedantic footnote about a mistranslation from German?

My own local seasonal update:

The view my neck of the woods this snowy Sunday morning in December.

they just legalized going to bed at 8 pm on a saturday

2418 S 34TH ST, 53215 Zoning: Two-Family Residential 3 [RT3] Assessment: $8,500 Neighborhood: LAYTON PARK

And an equally wonderful hare, again from the Valley of the Nobles, again seen this morning after a brave burrowing down multiple flights of steep stairs in a deep rock tomb (my idea of horror, but I was brave). #egyptiananimals

Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year. It's for a science + art event. We can offer $500 for the gig. Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.

This is cool. The three norths (True, Grid, Magnetic) met in Dorset in November 2022, worked their way northwards in tandem, and are now about to leave England and go hand in hand into the North Sea. www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/three-n...

Scrooge entered timidly, and hung his head before this Spirit. He was not the dogged Scrooge he had been; and though the Spirit's eyes were clear and kind, he did not like to meet them. "I am the Ghost of Christmas Present," said the Spirit. "Look upon me."  #AChristmasCarol  #CharlesDickens

my nephew’s religious school theme last year was also “being a mensch”—maybe I’ll tell him there’s a solid academic future in staying on it

Making music isn’t about doing whatever you want or having fun. It’s about constructing an opaque sonic bureaucracy, which you then diligently work within as a stifled but honest functionary.

deepest condolences to family, friends and bandmates of the stupendous Brent McLachlan (bailterspace, The Gordons) pic - 9/1/22, Mercury Lounge

y’all

this place is _resplendent_

Utopic conditions persist in South Yorkshire, again & against all odds

Extremely sad news that Brent McLachlan, the amazing drummer from New Zealand groups the Gordons and Bailterspace, has died after a long bout of ill health. He’d settled in the US and ran a studio in NYC; I was finally lucky enough to see Bailterspace live a couple of years back. Tremendous.

I've been putting a dash of Worcestershire sauce in my coffee for the last 5 years, it is an absolute game changer but I think it may be one of the many reasons my wife left me

ten years ago, @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social was in search of some xmas choral music outside of the standard American repertoire, iirc, and I decided to make him a playlist of ca. one hour of some of my favorite Bohemian/Bavarian/Austrian carols: open.spotify.com/playlist/7nF...

now THIS is the REASON for the SEASON

Christmas is wild.

A1142.5 Thunder is sound of God's gun.

If you are near Philadelphia, have 123 dollars, and roughly 28 cubic feet of space to store 1,600 VHS tapes in reasonably climate controlled conditions until I can get up there, I will retrieve this collection of almost guaranteed vital archival value and digitize its entirety.

happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now

Angelo adorante volto verso sinistra di Giovanni da Fiesole detto Beato Angelico (terzo quarto sec. XV) Galleria Sabauda, Torino

They’re just scared of epic showtime battles

Meine Uni ist up to date & hat die kultige KI-Schriftzug-Ästhetik direkt produktiv aufgegriffen

It still blows my mind that in the 1980s we played videogame off of cassette tapes. Everything about it makes so little sense. Yet when you read about how it worked, you discover how bloody brilliant the process truly was. Also, the cover art for Ghosts n Goblins port on the Spectrum was awful!

Philip Pettit, The State - @princetonupress.bsky.social, March/May 2023 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Caleb Zakarin newbooksnetwork.com/the-state

Conjured in my mind by the conjuncture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBo...

Evening bells

Sunlight through the trees on a snowy day in Minnesota ❄️ #Photography #Photographers #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Snow #Nature #Minnesota

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73