Erik Bruhn and Maria Tallchief in New York City Ballet's Swan Lake. Circa 1960. Photo by Jack Mitchell

Royal Ballet Principals Vadim Muntagirov and Marianela Núñez in rehearsals for Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardee - Photos by Dancer's Diary

Finnish National Ballet in Giselle - Photos by Roosa Oksaharju

rules, mini golf a lucy's amusement park, minot, north dakota, 1987

The stage is set for the first exoneration of an executed person in Canadian history Morning File by me

Greta Thunberg is among 28 French citizens, 27 Greeks, 15 Italians, and nine Swedes being flown to Athens today. #SamudFlotilla #FreePalestine

I'm in awe at the absurdity of this woman.

climate change and environmentalism are apolitical apparently

Look I know these new powers will be terrible But imagine if the Scottish govt used them on Orange Marches

BBC News - Norwegian oats win world porridge championship www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC News - Hospital's Hogarth opens to public for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC News - Feline fans on the prowl in Brighton cat tour - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ministers appear to be considering further welfare cuts that could deprive hundreds of thousands of disabled people of the support they rely on. They should remember how their last attempt to balance the books in this way went.

What is your favourite animal? 🐶🐮🦁🐱 Our collection is full of animals in the most unexpected forms. These objects show just how much humans have always been inspired by our furry, feathered, and armoured friends. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/discover

Harry Bush's 'Laggard Leaves', 1920s London Museum www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...

WATCH: Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol commander overseeing ICE’s expanded enforcement in Chicago, body-slam a man outside the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois this morning. Drop Site contributor Taha Syed (@MSyedt on X) captured the scene as demonstrators gathered during a visit from...

Green conference has voted overwhelmingly to call for the Israeli military to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. #Gpconf

Same as 2016: every despicable bastard in the country sees their moment has come, and they might as well lunge at it. And they’refinding there’s nothing to resist them, because Sensible Moderate Centrism tears like tissue paper.

UK politics October 2025. A Labour Government that plans to 'crackdown' on protests from people who say things it doesn't like & doesn't want to hear. An Opposition leader who plans to deport 150,000 people a year. Doesn't care who they might be, or where they will go. Things can only get better.

This gizmo is hanging on the wall in the toilet at my hairdresser's. Dying to experiment, but fear it might end in injury/embarassment/humiliation/Carry On-style farce.

all the press around the Ed Gein show seems to insist that Robert Bloch used Gein as the inspiration for Norman Bates - it’s become the accepted narrative - but here’s the thing: he didn’t!

How do you like to celebrate? 🎉 In Fête champêtre, the 17th century comes to life as if you could step right into the garden: music fills the air, glasses raised, couples dancing and chatting. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109343

PNB's Mark Cuddihee, Zsilas Michael Hughes, and Dylan Calahan in Emeralds from Balanchine's Jewels - Photo by Angela Sterling

Alicia Markova and Erik Bruhn in Giselle. American Ballet Theatre, 1955.

'Maiko' (舞妓), showing an apprentice geiko (芸子), from 'Selection of Customs of Japanese Women' (日本女俗選 Nihon jozoku sen), by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆, 5 October, 1888 - 17 November, 1960)

Caravaggio, Death of the Virgin, 1604, oil on canvas (369 x 245 cm), Louvre Museum, Paris

Elizaveta Mymrik and Mariya Shcheglova “Sleeping Beauty" choreo by Yury Klevtsov Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theatre Photo by Aleksandr Potapov

Kandinsky Klee Master House. Walter Gropius, Dessau, 1926.

Just about filled up my pin badges display

Broader powers for the police means narrower rights for protestors. That the liberal media are framing it as the former rather than the latter indicates their own sympathies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

You can argue all you like about whether Starmer is sincerely right-wing on immigration or just wants to be the prime minister. But there’s no doubt that his instincts on law and order are authoritarian. He’s a merciless sort of dweeb.

Makes me think of this, from Hilary Mantel: “…in Berkshire and the Home Counties, all causes are the same, all ideas for which a person might care to die: they are nuisances, a breach of the peace, and likely to hold up the traffic or delay the trains.” (The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, 2014)

I remember Laura reading out drivel texts she was sent by Dominic Cummings live on air, ones that totally contradicted the report she had just presented *which were also just repeating bullshit she had been told by Dominic Cummings*. Eventually, you realise the whole job is just repeating bullshit.

Ray of sunshine. #cats #caturday

Forget the chants. Both Trevor and Tracy are absolutely roaring, very cranky wingnuts. They have a right to their opinions but neither should be on television, explaining events of the day to the public. They should be propping up a bar somewhere, telling strangers who the real racists are.

Bargain Hunt filming at Wetherby racecourse a few minutes ago. With Jo intently examining a possible future purchase.

If the state wants to avoid cumulative protests, maybe the answer is to stop its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative inaction on the climate crisis and its cumulative complicity in genocide. It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable

Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live. Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK. www.bbc.com/news/article...

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.