🐳 EPISODE 10 🐳 We're back after a week off, doing what we do best. In this case, explaining biblical themes in Moby-Dick through daytime TV. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. 🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod

Pet for robot Pearly King

William Bastard Silly England and Wales, Census, 1851

A BLOB from a big old set of 35mm film slides that were found in a skip outside an FE college (and found their way to me thanks to @welchtoons.bsky.social !)

absolute SCENES in my parents’ flat as my father attempts to vacuum a live WASP out of the air

VITAMIN: VIII

Last night's dream: David Attenborough - uninvited - did an air pressure test on our dinner. I could hear it going "shhhhwwwwshhh" and knew that was all the flavour leaving it. That ruined, he served us a couple of scoops from his own cauldron: a layer of soup on a layer of bread on a layer of jelly

Author Henry James learned to ride the bicycle at age 52, and rode whenever he visited the countryside. He was a bit self-conscious due to his age and lack of prowess, however. He once wrote to a friend, "I too – deride me not – do it". Happy #BicycleBirthday, Henry! April 15 (1843-1916)

VITAMIN: A

Slide scanner!

I don’t want to get blocked here*, so I’ll instead just note that quite a lot of commentary now is just “I feel stupid admitting that the dirty hippies were correct”.

The Flipside of Dominick Hyde just started on TPTV

The Tommy Raye cover Tom mentions in this is a great version. It's actually the white Memphis singer Tommy Ray Tucker youtu.be/cNWN16JWHQM?...

This is really cool, properly curious reporting - about the neighbourhood I live in and the ward I've been campaigning in. Turns out Muslims care about more than Gaza and white people want more than managed decline with extra racism on top! Who knew? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So many great lines. "Sufficient ink that should last you a whole year", "You can stop it when you want" etc

If we want the gardai to clear the blockades at the refineries, we’re going to have to do the unthinkable: gently drape a Palestinian flag over one of the trucks

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Any sufficiently deep marine biology is indistinguishable from science fiction.

Saturn is the size of a football, its rings at a tilt, and most of the colour worn away. Weather patterns. It's part of a scale model of the Solar System. The scale is 1:575,872,239. Size and distance. The model is spread out along 6.4 miles of the trail. I've missed Jupiter. Almost a mile back. 42/

Beano #439, December 16, 1950

Been hearing the sound of (2nd album) Blumfeld in a bunch of bands lately, and here's one now: officedog.bandcamp.com/track/front-...

Just seen THREE red kites circling overhead. More common than sparrows round here! (not a complaint, though I would like the sparrow flocks back )

Semi accidental collage - I like this one!

"bosch" doesn't sound like the name of a guy who'd make paintings like that. but when you add "hieronymus" to the mix it starts to make sense

This is totally someone you would have seen in The Air Balloon, Portsmouth in 1989

For #InternationalBeaverDay 🦫: when taxidermy goes wrong 😬 Sarah Stone (1760-1844) drawings, mostly of zoological subjects, for Sir Ashton Lever's Museum, 1781-5: Plate 4, Beaver. NHM London: nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44... #WomenArtists #BadTaxidermy

Accidental fried egg

Just spotted a bit of pareidolia in this one

Could not be less arsed about work. We should all just get 2 weeks off at Easter and have done with it

Turniture II by Lester Walker (1970)

Ash heaps 💥👌

My Vintage RAG DOLL handmade BABY beautiful 1970s white baby clothes not haunted eBay listing has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my eBay listing

Last night's fever dream: had to provide people with stats on their physical composition by converting my own leg into long thin bars of varying materials - see illustration. Each bar would tell me eg the person's weight, how much iron they contained etc

Digging this scene at Woking

new story up on INFINITE GOSSIP. it's called THE END OF THE PARTY. the full text is here but please subscribe for more & so i feel good infinitegossip.ghost.io/the-end-of-t...

Alert, folks in NE UK:

The now defunct head part of a sentry. The last image shows how it's eyes would have looked while still operational

Imagine being able to take a summer's day and fit it inside a box?

Some of my art is not sold, which seems wrong. Sharing this (etc) may lead to good things that Jesus would probably like. www.chloecumming.com

Neatly bricked up

Something about looking up at the flat top of a railway embankment; don't think I could describe it without sounding absurd, but it's a POWERFUL VIBE