(1/2) Resembling the tiny parts of an impossibly intricate and eye-catching timepiece, strewn from a watchmakers toolkit, these are in fact fossil Crinoids, Corals, Bryozoans and Brachiopods.

When a nation in need sought a hero, there he was

Not quite high enough resolution for #NorthArrowsReviewed but this one is bold with the stepped detail on the compass points. Suitable for a burgeoning city with ambitions. Provisionally 8/10

This is a case study in motornormativity, car-brain, sloppy journalism and numerical illiteracy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "£100m in e-bike insurance claims push up premiums for motorists". Big scary numbers, all the fault of lawless bike riders. Let's see, shall we?

Look at these 🏺 pictures 🤩

When cartographers go Chaotic Evil

Bread delivery man Cairo, Egypt 📷alyhazzaa

can't park there mate

Nerdsniped by this at bedtime. Does a map have to be spatial, or can it be purely topological / relational? How am I going to able to fall asleep now?

🇩🇰 Tørkeindeks, april-juni 2026 Filmen er sammensat af enkeltbilleder fra DMIs #tørkeindeks — ét billede pr. time. Én dag svarer således til ca. ét sekund på filmen. Der mangler nogle billeder hist og pist.

Triticum aestivum (common wheat). https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/1429/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triticum_aestivum #plants #roots #illustration

Ryszard Kaja’s Wódka - I’m not really a vodka drinker, but I could be persuaded by posters like this…

I *wish* my coauthors in archaeology/ the humanities would be more open to working in LaTeX. It's difficult to explain how beautiful it is, and what a cognitive load fighting formatting in Word is for r the easily distracted like me. Otherwise Markdown is OK. Even LibreOffice. Just anything but MS

Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-cataloguesFireworks #Fireworks appeared in Japan sometime around 1600 and were called hanabi — a combination of the kanji “fire” and “flower”.

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

Genuinely do not understand how Orange matches are allowed to disrupt Glasgow the way they are doing. Genuinely unfathomable.

Anyone got approximately £800k they could give me?

Most years the birds get to the cherries before I do. Not this time you flappy feathered fuckers!

The 1934 photograph of the family of Ezequiel Arce Garcés with the fruit of their labor, their potato harvest at Ccatcca, Peru, reveals Quechua photographer Martín Chambi’s non-nostalgia aesthetic, the ‘Indio’ being not an artifact or victim of the past but an active part of the present, engaged in

The Danish Foundation Models (DFM) project is adapting our modular FlexOlmo architecture into a lighter-weight system that runs on commodity hardware—putting collaborative model building within reach of smaller research groups & organizations. 🧵

Avena sativa (oats). https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/994/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avena_sativa #plants #roots #illustration

Most years the birds get to the cherries before I do. Not this time you flappy feathered fuckers!

“I CURSE thair heid and all the haris of thair heid; I CURSE thair face, thair ene, thair mouth, thair neise, thair toung, thair teith, thair crag, thair schulderis, thair breast, thair hert…” In 1525 Gavin Dunbar, archbishop of Glasgow, pronounced a Great Monition of Cursing on the Border reivers

Today's album is another blast from the angsty past. I'm very much looking forward to reading the reviews... 1001albumsgenerator.com/albums/4zvKU...

Study in Denmark reveals that #cyclists break 5% of road rules whilst motorists break 67% of such rules. Source: road.cc/content/news...

So I searched for "Reverse Centaur" on our local bookseller's website... @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Varmepumpepuljen er åben! Det betyder, at det nu er muligt at søge om tilskud til en varmepumpe derhjemme. Læs mere hos Energistyrelsen 👇 ens.dk/presse/varme... #dkpol #dkgreen

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

“John Bull is ignorant of the States; he is probably ignorant of India; but, considering his opportunities, he is far more ignorant of countries nearer his own door…” —Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Foreigner at Home” in MEMORIES & PORTRAITS via @gutenberg.org #C19 www.gutenberg.org/files/30598/...

"Canonization is the difference between work that does today’s task and work that is accretive. (and value exists in both)" Canonization and the Overhang, Kellan Elliott-McCrea laughingmeme.org/2026/06/30/c...

For some reason dead QR codes are a common problem in the museum sector. People don't realise they're free. In addition to Adam's site you can also right click anywhere on a page in Edge to generate a QR code. If you use DuckDuckGo you can enter: qr before the url it will return a qr code

QR CODES ARE FREE THATS LITERALLY LIKE WRITING SOMETHING ON PAPER AND THEN THE PAPER COMPANY TELLS YOU YOU HAVE TO PAY TO KEEP YOUR TEXT ON THE PAPER. THIS ANALOGY IS WEIRD BUT TRUE!!!!

My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes

This is one for Australians and archaeologists (and other outdoor labourers) to follow

The woods, again.

"Right Up to Date -- Men Fight a Duel on Bicycles" The Illustrated Police News, August 1896

The woods, again.

The woods, the now

Multi Tool 1580

A line of evenly spaced spoil craters snakes along the surface of the desert from the high Elburz Mountains in Iran, and is the only evidence of an invisible, subterranean man-made water stream called a qanat, first constructed by the Persians during the first millennium BCE

Listen to blood work @bloodwork.show

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. 📷 Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

There is nothing so emblematic of Danish summer as a big sack of fresh peas.

What's it like in my head?

Lol, a paper that describes my life. My natural reaction to feeling like I'm finally getting the hang of something has always been to drop it and try something else. And somehow I still often feel like I'm not getting out fast enough.

I really hate that we have delegated keeping our collective knowledge to these vampires.

Another example of why we need to make the distinction between genAI and machine learning tools trained to tackle specific problems. These things are not the same, and the muddying of distinction is intentional by people who would very much to part you and your money.

Wankee Doodle Handy!