You've probably never met Calliope, because not many people have, but you should know that this is exactly what's she's like

Have you hearde the joke about a catte who doth lyve with a witch? Ich kan tell thee the punch lyne ys familiar.

I am in the artist alley with a special deal for attendees!

[watching curling] after 1 min: ugh this is dull 10 min: spin on that stone is off 30 mins: three in the house means nothing if your centre guard is ripe for a pick and roll 1 hour: SWEEP BITCH SWEEP

Guile... Guinan... Guilenan

You ever have customers who just need to fuck offffffff

Blue ribbon vs blue riband, discuss

We imagine every single one of our followers will be interested in this archaeology-themed colouring book for adults. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

I finished my Lego T-Rex display! I bought a used terrarium, then ordered the white baseplates, the stanchions, and the "rope" from Lego. The spotlights and the terrarium background were from Amazon. Minifigs were from my box of assorted Lego :-)

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

It's Light Night in Nottingham, which means there's a giant inflatable, illuminated, sleeping, purring cat with a moving tail in Sneinton Market.

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 488 investigatores antiquitatis nuper carnycem in Icenis effoderunt (Archaeologists recently dug up a war trumpet in Iceni territory). Minimus carnycem suum inflat; Silvius eum iuvat (Minimus blows his own war trumpet; Silvius helps him). @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

he’s right behind me isn’t he

I am watching the second episode of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (Aus) and have discovered the concept of a Halal Snack Pack which appeared to me to be kebab and chips. Can anyone who knows both confirm or deny?

Egg-cellent news! The first California condor eggs of the season have been laid at our wildlife conservation center, and more could be on the way.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

I don't know if I ever want to read Moby Dick but I do enjoy what I think I know about it

Melville’s chapter title are like random word documents saved on Desktop

I looked at the picture and thought this was going to be heartbreaking but actually it is nice! No death involved!

Mugs is it

Sir Guenter Treitel came to the UK on the Kindertransport. He became the foremost authority on English contract law. Famously, he held the Rolling Stones to their contract to play the Magdalen Ball in 1964 for £100 - they had suddenly become superstars after being booked as unknowns in 1963.

BISEXUALS! I need your help for a project on The Mummy (1999). I want to know what appealed to you about the film APART from the fact that everyone was hot. What is it about the Mummy that appeals to you more than, for example, Gone With The Wind or The Avengers?

I muted the word ice for a bit because foreign news can be overwhelming but now I want winter sports news so it's unused again. Going forward please can government death squads come up with unique names thanks

just showed this to T and they said "is that Bill and Ted?" and I CANNOT UNSEE IT

Contender for #EarlyModern name of the day: Marmaduke Peacocke 🦚🦚🦚

A blackbird told me it was February (sound up for some much needed birdsong dopamine-these are my very favourite birdy notes):

Suryavanshi is a phenomenon, isn't he? I really hope he has a long career because my pessimistic heart remembers exceptional teenagers in other sports who got injured or abused so that their early success is all their sporting success and we don't want that for him. But also c'mon England #u19CWC

Rain rain go away come again another day

*crucial*

Get letter online from ophthalmology, screenshot letter to show mama later, remember mama is dead, have a little cry, get back to work

This beautiful textile reminds us of the damage light can cause. Kept folded for years one quarter of it is noticeably faded. To help prevent this we can reduce UV levels by covering windows, use LEDs bulbs and dim lights over objects made from fragile materials.

The Winter Olympics that opens tonight, on the 6 February 2026, in Milano Cortina, Italy. View a delightful clip from our Ford Heritage archive of a Ford Cortina Mk1 being driven down the bobsleigh run at Cortina d'Ampezzo, scene of the 1956 by, among others, racing driver Jim Clark bit.ly/3Zhl35l

Fully assumed this was forced perspective but no, actually massive birds

Morning all! I’m supporting #ReadItForward! Pre-order my book, the Street Art Mystery, (out next week, eeek) and @bookshop.org will donate 10% to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social - uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... << thank you xx

We're thinking of beefing up our adult education programme. What would interest you? Ancient crafts? Latin lessons? Archaeological skills? Something else? Something specific? Let us know and we'll tell Head Office. They'll probably ignore us, but at least we tried.

Daily bunny no.3221 is a night owl

So those ski lifts, eh? Full going up but empty coming down. Makes you wonder. #TheMonsterAtTheTopOfTheMountain.

hello, I’m doing an online talk with the AOI Edinburgh illustrators’ meet-up in Feb - answering YOUR Qs about whatever, there are no stupid questions - for Edinburgh based illustrators from any bg, you do NOT need to be a AOI member to attend - more info & tix at bio.site/roughdraft

Look, I hated Ancient Greek at school* but it was undeniably useful to me and maybe you would like it because some people do *no I did not go to private school, classics are for everyone, I was just lucky

I had an ophthalmology appointment and this time they did do drops so I had to leave my car at my sister's and won't get it back till Saturday night. Two types of drops! I don't know why. The fuzziness was definitely worse than when I've had drops before.

This number is normal - I reckon I have this many mugs and I'm a single person who doesn't drink tea or coffee. Mine are all much prettier than this and also why would you keep them in a drawer? That's weird

It's true it seems, with no warning or explanation CIA simply discontinued and removed the World Factbook this week. I imagine they'd say we have wikipedia now wo who needs it, but check the footnotes and see how many wiki entries get their data from the CIA factbook. Lots.

OK pause on the timeline because everyone needs to see the curling baby from one of the Olympic matches today

There are few things more soothing on a rainy morning than people doing icy housework on the telly while Steve Cram burbles on about stones and ends and guards and draw weights and someone screams “HAAAARRRDDD” in the background

the forbidden candy

UPDATE: four minutes into the first event of the Winter Olympics, there has been a power outage

Tapati has just started, a festival done in Rapa Nui that celebrates their culture and ancestors. And because of that I'm going to talk about one of the most controversial items currently in the British Museum, the moai known as "Hoa Hakananai'a" (that can be translated as "Stolen Friend") 🔽🧵

Before the Olympics begins, I want to post some great figure skating from this season that you won't be seeing at the Olympics because: a) the country/skater didn’t qualify b) the skater doesn’t have citizenship for the country they compete for, or c) the country just has too many good skaters