The mythological painting ‘Vaidilutė’ (1873) by Wincenty Sleńdziński (which only returned to Lithuania in 2025, now on display at Vilnius Picture Gallery) represents one of the earliest attempts to depict a figure from Baltic mythology in art - a vaidilutė was a Baltic Vestal

This was my response too.

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 24: A song with 5 syllables in the title 'The People Matter' - Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan (2025) @warringtonruncorn.com is a recent discovery for me. I hope you enjoy this track too. It's an epic slow-burner.

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

My most boomer-coded political belief is that if you have a loud car or motorbike we’re gonna take it from you and we’re gonna destroy it with no compensation.

Remembering this gem today

What every music lover wants to hear:

the hungry observatory

🇪🇺 Dear EU-based online stores whose shopping destinations are limited to the civilised West and don't ship to savage, polar bear-ridden bloodlands such as Poland: fuck you.

We all do fade as a leaf lovely gravestone epitaph

If you spoke Old English and were boiling something, you'd use the verb sēoþan – from which English today gets two very distinct words: - From its infinitive/present tense, we get 'seethe', now used for strong emotions. - From its past participle ġesoden ('boiled, cooked'), we also get 'sodden'.

Cold War shelters once preserved as historical curiosities are becoming relevant again as Poland races to prepare for a more dangerous Europe.

Maybe Americans are not satisfied with the world they've created, and they need to destroy it.

Happy World Bee Day! 🐝 (art: Emily Duffin)

Bookish friends are the best 🎨 Jess Mason

May this cute skull bring you joy on this Tuesday.

About a third of my follows here will want to hear this.

夜を連れて歩く猫(2019.5)

OK, so the NHK late night radio programme has just played a track from the LP which I listened to yesterday afternoon and the theme song from the anime I watched last night. The boundaries are blurring, the veil is thin! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdks...

Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure - the title-track of their 1973 album #BrianEno #BryanFerry www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUhY...

The word “girl” used to refer to a child of any gender. A “hussy” used to refer to a housewife (literally a ‘house-y’). A “knight” used to refer to a boy. The meanings of words constantly change. This is called semantic drift, semantic shift, or simply semantic change.

The Messiah (pink) Returns!

While bakeneko are tricksters, nekomata are truly cat yokai malevolent. The magic stored in their two tails allow them to commit to truly cruel and often fatal trickery against humans. #FolkloreSunday 🖼: M. Meyer

Reading a book that argues we all have a moral duty to use AI in order to 'humanise' it, which feels a bit like saying we all have a duty to offer our blood to vampires to endow them with as much life force as possible

I’m teaching my kids about the great music of the 1980s. This is one of my favorites.

Your regular reminder that one of the European Broadcasting Union’s other Eurovision initiatives was one TV play recorded in multiple different languages across Europe, and if that had taken off instead we could be sitting down to watch 20+ different versions of Ingmar Bergman rather than this.

here's to Robert Fripp at 80! his "Wimshurst" solo on Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire" is one of the loveliest, most dazzling things he ever recorded. when i'm low, it never fails to lighten my spirits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKc...

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Juniper Blessing sings “Se tu m’ami” in the finals of Canzonnette Italiane

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

It’s time for the annual repost of the entertaining interview that TELEX did with ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK, topics includes the trio’s 1980 entry for that song contest, turning a rock ‘n’ roll classic into a robotic funeral march and much much more 🎤🎹🎤🇧🇪 www.electricityclub.co.uk/telex-interv...

Have some Japanese dolphin synthpop this morning. youtu.be/ImGBH3EgQAE

From the archive: The marshal marches on Warsaw

Talking Heads: Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On); co-written by David Byrne and Brian Eno Produced by Brian Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T_...

Me, when someone tries to get me to use AI:

People who get AI to summarise everything so they can complete their doctorates should get the title ‘[tl;]Dr’

I want it on a t- shirt.

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

Two human rights groups have accused Poland of co-operating with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport more than 50 Ukrainians from the US back to their homeland. ft.trib.al/kvZngXd

What lessons does the history of Ireland have for the future of the UK? Check out this brilliant analysis covering 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪 by best selling historian @jameshawes.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social 🎧 pod.fo/e/412e45 📺 youtu.be/wt5HwHNZA-I?...

A British political system ruthless enough to topple failing leaders when they have run out of road still looks a lot healthier than an American political system that can't bring itself to topple a failing leader that has tumbled into complete insanity

For any of my friends interested in Britain's history and future, this interview with one of my favourite historians is essential listening. Can't recommend it highly enough.

The UK may soon have a 7th prime minister in just 10 years. Before 2016 the UK had 8 PMs in 52 years. Whether it's the calibre of those appointed, the preparation they receive or the conditions of the job, something is badly wrong. We discussed what here. www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

A great discussion about one of my favourite films.

“In order to save urban Russia, they manipulated the weather and made radioactive fallout rain on rural Belarus. But they didn’t tell anyone in Belarus about it” fivebooks.com/best-books/c...

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