Seraph necklace by Moss Pixie jewellery, NZ.

It is the Glorious 25th of May. I always forget. Well, not FORGET exactly. "Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably-Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!" GNU Sir Pterry. [If you haven't read Night Watch, ignore this and keep scrolling.]

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

I'm not saying it's Katharine Birbalsingh. But I'm not saying it isn't.

Kira Panina (Russia)

A waist of time and space

David Foster Nass www.instagram.com/david_foster...

Finally got round to finishing Stranger Things. Part of its charm is down to the cast. Part is the fantasy appeal of an alternative USA in which racism and sexism and homophobia might actually start to die, and hope for the future might exist. I choose to believe that USA still exists somewhere.

Peter Holme III (USA): "Lighthouse Before the Storm" (NB the artist does composite photography - not AI as far as I can make out. But let me know if I'm wrong about that.)

Russian poet, body-builder & futurist Vladimir Holzsmith hypnotizing a chicken in 1923. I think the chicken has the upper hand.

"The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind." - Mignon McLaughlin

I know which CHARACTER would have been 100% down with AI: Saruman.

Are the Pet Shop Boys the It's A Sinfluencer?

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

It might be a cliché, but it really does seem to be true that how someone treats serving staff tells you a lot about them. If someone's a dick to serving staff then I will avoid socialising with them again.

We really must use less packaging. I'm doing my part.

I refuse to change how I write just because someone might consider something an AI flag. I love m-dashes. (You may hate them; that's fine.) I see no reason to stop using them. I'm pretty sure that overall my prose does NOT resemble AI slop.

Michiel Schrijver.

The Aral Sea.

If they let me write The Punisher, I will introduce his nemesis: The Rewarder! He brandishes a massive carrot.

Christopher Nolan has bowed to pressure and will be replacing Lupita Nyong'o's scenes in the Odyssey. Reshoots will begin as soon as they can find an actress who was hatched from an egg.

In 1950, Orson Welles cast a young Eartha Kitt as Helen of Troy in his Paris stage production of The Blessed and the Damned (also known as Time Runs or Dr. Faustus).

Door on Charlottenstrasse in the Mitte district of Berlin, c. 1910.

Tanya Gomelskaya.

We’ve been lucky to receive high-profile support since we started our campaign, and we know visibility and vocal allyship matters. It doesn’t come much higher than Sandi Toksvig, who’s done so much for women’s equality and inclusion. Thank you 🙏 notinourname.org.uk

Orlando Agudelo-Botero (Colombia): "Serenade to Venus" (2017)

“English people of the present day are apt, I know not why, to look somewhat down on incident, and reserve their admiration for the clink of teaspoons and the accents of the curate. It is thought clever to write a novel with no story at all, or at least with a very dull one.” —Robert Louis Stevenson

🎶 If I only had an Uzi... 🎵

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone.

Biomechanical Siren Skeleton by Alma Seleno

I don't know about other people, but for me, creativity can only happen if I believe humanity is not irredeemably evil. Some days I believe it, others I don't.

Storms Never Last by Friedrich Kunath

Max, master of the side-eye.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb

Ksenia Istomina, Russian painter (St Petersburg): ‘The Melody of Stairs’

Wait is Burnham wearing shorter shorts than Thomas Magnum??

Numbering of monarchs is so very dull. We should go back to descriptors. Alfred the Great! Aethelred the Unready! Edward the Confessor! Sweyn Forkbeard! And now: Charles the Patient!

Me whenever Netflix's algorithm tells me it knows what I like.

Reminded of this from years back - I still want one (even though I'm still a terrible chess player).

It's so hard seeing someone else live your dream

Vera Kober (Belgium)

I don't know whether this adaptation of The Odyssey will be my cup of tea, but if it annoys racists, that's cool.