Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Oh shit this has all been a misunderstanding based on a typo, the rapture isn't coming, the raptors are. *distant screeching* Hide!

Can’t believe I FINALLY have an occasion to wear my velocirapture T-shirt tomorrow

One of the advantages of a good chapel upbringing and of learning Bible verses by heart is that I can remember this very good advice.

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

EVIL EDNA (1981): The antagonist on BBC animated kid's show Willo The Wisp (Kenneth Williams having a ball on voice-over duties). A nasty witch in the form of a CRT telly, complete with aerials, metal legs, and, presumably, a 625-line face. Many a female teacher was given the nickname 'Evil Edna'.

Recommend this. Its main target is the George W Bush administration, but along the way it takes in Rapture cultists. Apparently, those who don’t give up jobs or homes prior to the Rapture turn away from the cult when it doesn’t happen. Those who sacrifice everything become even more committed.

370) Rubberduckbot. A robot that's a rubber duck, for bath-time companionship. #SmallRobotsRemastered

“They came from a lake Now they’re all full of flake That’s a moray They don’t know where to go Cos they’re too full of blow That’s a moray Swam all the way here But they’ve done too much gear That’s a moray”

Frogging awful.

youtu.be/KCdhMN1ZCO8?... Ok being a bit of a downer on here this afternoon so timeline cleanser (& because I mentioned this on one of @sophianyx.bsky.social pop culture challenges) enjoy

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

LONDON! The launch party for my new book is at Gosh Comics on Thursday 9th October from 7-9pm. Come along and get your special* copy signed! @goshcomics.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...

Just seen someone refer to Buffalo Stsce by Neneh Cherry as a one hit wonder

not the main thing at all, but in the year of our lord twenty twenty five, can we not say "staff" rather than "man"?

A local spinster is found stabbed during a brothel scuffle. Suspicion falls on Elverton-cum-Latterley’s teenagers wearing hoodies, disturbed that a disturbingly high Gini coefficient might threaten to interrupt a performance of John Cage's 4'33".

If you're feeling nostalgic for the show here's a playlist comprising random bits of it I've found at the end of old tapes

Particularly interesting perspective from Michaela here. Because here's something that perhaps shouldn't have been made like that then.

I can still remember the expression on Lionel Blair's face as he leant across the desk to receive Two Gentlemen of Verona

To anyone who needs it today: credit your translator. A good translator's skills are at least as important as those of the original creator. Imagine if someone were to build a life sized replica of the Eiffel Tower out of matchsticks, you wouldn't just credit Gustave Eiffel - would you?

The central part of the 4th century AD ‘Hare Mosaic’ from Roman Cirencester (Corinium). The mosaic was discovered during 1971 at Beeches Road in Cirencester, and is now on display in the fabulous Corinium Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum

#mosaicMonday Saturday I was asked to speak to a brilliant local charity - I don't think they are on here - Restore Hope Latimer. Their buildings and carpark are on top of Latimer Villa, excavated by Keith Branigan in the 60s. They are the proud curators of a fragment of mosaic floor!

Love it when the autumn colours start to burst against a crisp blue sky

Kashimaru-kun, the mascot of Kashima City in Saga Prefecture, wears headgear that combines a fox with an orange.

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

Amused to note that I don't remember loads from Geography in school but I do remember that the technical word for south-east England in Welsh is the delightful portmanteau "glawsgodfa" (literally "rain-shady-spot")

*Laughs nervously in Welsh*

It would signal the the de facto end of nearly all immigration to this country, from those coming to work to those who come for love. It would crater our economy, tear up relationships, remove status from millions of European, result in endless legal battles and leave us as an international pariah.

Happy first day of autumn 🍂

blondebrainpowered:Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, first woman to earn a doctorate in computer science in the United States, 1965. via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/794829116937502720

Mother Love - nightmare-fuelled nightmare fuel BBC psychological horror thriller with more genuine wit than it has any right to have, starring Diana Rigg as a matriarch who would probably consider 'overbearing' both a compliment and an insulting understatement. timworthington.org/2025/01/12/l...

What if they just got it wrong and tomorrow is the day they release the raptors?

Its just such a waste of everyone's time. I'm a big believer in giving every applicant a fair look, but reading through 200 CVs recently took me several weekends. My experience of the AI filtering is that it is *terrible* and discards all the best applicants

In the 90s, you could send round 30 typed letters, on Conqueror paper mind, & you’d get a reply to each & some of them would lead to interviews. It is now impossible to get in front of employers unless your CV conforms to the most anodyne stereotypes. The same is true for pitching business services.

KERERŪ THE PARTY BIRB

See the bright lights of Spray, October 2025. Tickets are like a tenner or something - an absolute bargain for this calibre of entertainment. snd.click/@sprayontour

Bluesky, just here to say I appreciate you when things are otherwise no laughing matter

Me: hey windows can you delete this file please Windows: you got it, j-... omg there's actually a program using it right now Me: omg who 😳 Windows: omg I can't say 🫣

If you are looking forward to Osaka Expo souvenirs disappearing from the shelves, unfortunately Yokohama Expo 2027 merchandise is starting to appear. This is the Horticultural Expo edition.

What's your sign?

最高すぎたので全フォロワー見てほしい。 x.com/legendhamster/status/...

The reduction in the number of people coming to the United Kingdom is going to improve Labour's polling, the political debate around immigration and the British economy any day now.

"Whereabouts in Colorado do you live?" "Boulder." "Oh, okay. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞?"

CAPRA-CAPYBARA CAPRABARA

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

It's not a peacock. It's a rocket-propelled goose. #MosaicMonday

She left Lima with a Japanese surname, but in Japan she was still treated as a foreigner. Sandra Takayama’s journey captures the challenges — and resilience — of the Peruvian Nikkei community.

Columbo Board Game Where is the 'Just one more thing' card.