Nighthawks, #Fen edition... #DailyHopper

Book for the Mermaid's Tail tour or Queer Legends workshop, part of #queermaritimes at the National Maritime Museum. Both take place this Saturday, 15 Nov. This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️

#OTDH 1975 one of my favourite albums was released. 50 years old and still sounds fresher than a lot of more recent releases. #PattiSmith #Horses

Early morning cat

As antidote to current US government's reprehensible erasure of Black soldiers' WWII contributions, here's Jacob Lawrence's "Beachhead," 1947, a work in his larger War series. Lawrence himself served in WWII as an artist on the US military's first racially integrated ship whitney.org/collection/w...

I'm still confused about why people use fake nonsense when there are actual real photos you can easily find online. This Facebook page has close to half a million followers. On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.

I see your 'April 1805... Oceans are now battlefields', and I raise you...

Share to the original post, rather than to me.

The yellow wreath is a particularly poignant act of remembrance.

#RunningPunks #VirtualRunClub includes a #heron for the #BrokenPunks and all in the #NoRunClub, #SelfieSunday, a #DailyRothko, #FenLife and #TooManyHashtags

Extremely grateful to @lafeeverte.bsky.social for the #Sparks #earworm!

In case you wondered what "Dunmore Day" was all about

I was looking at the Heritage Craft Association's Red List of Endangered Crafts. I was interested to find out there are still two traditional orrery manufacturers in Britain: www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/skills/redli...

#LighthouseArt of the Day Joseph Wright of Derby (British, 1734-1797), A moonlight with a #lighthouse, 1789, oil on canvas. Courtesy National Gallery, nationalgallery.org.uk/ 🧵 1/2 #PharosFriday #ScapeDay #scape #art #artsky #OilPainting #landscape #harborscape #BritishArt

So I went for a run today (with @benefitstheband.bsky.social - third fastest run since my op. Recommend Constant Noise as a running album). There was a #heron, some boats and some autumnal action. #FenLife

Predictably... Anal Chimney is a class band name, though

#QuoteOfTheDay: 'Lots of quangos get a say in what they would like, without having to consider the costs. So you end up with perfect being the enemy of the good' (Helen Lewis on development). Simultaneously agree wholeheartedly and fundamentally disagree!

...and in great news - this is what £250,000 can buy you in a museum. We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔 #Archaeology 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some of the comments...

I do like a bit of #geophysics, me...

Oh that's a fabulous shot. So good I'm not even tempted to Photoshop in a giant gorilla holding a miniature Fay Wray...

'Tis the season to be...IT'S NOVEMBER! When they power this lot up it is going to draw enough power to write a 200 word letter with AI...

Four out of six ships called HMS Invincible sank (one of them really quite assertively). Proving that they were actually pretty vincible...

I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

This is the way...

We are thrilled to announce this year's rendition of the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition - an online lecture series organised by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project! The first talk will be on November 10th, with Jane Ohlmeyer, Tom Truxes, and John Shovlin on the Amity Papers!

I worked on a couple of alternative routes back in the mid-1990s. At this rate it will be quicker to get to the other side of Salisbury Plain by going the long way round...

Thoughts on KKKrumpf

In case this hasn't been said here yet.

No one is talking about Samir Zitouni's colour, ethnicity or religion, nor speculating on his motives. Why is that, do you reckon? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Continuing with learning to draw. The bow isn't quite right, but otherwise I am not displeased with this sketch of #HMSTerror just after dropping its towline (hence the odd yard positions). It is copied from a painting. #Drawing #Learning

This is powerful stuff: the reasoning behind Pillay’s commission finding that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. “Children who were meant to be born from these reproductive specimens will never exist. Families will be forever changed and bloodlines may end.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Low light and a shaky hand might qualify this as a #DailyRothko, @richardmortimer.bsky.social?

You know when people get all gushy about a celebrity and you have met said celeb and know they are a total bawbag but don't want to rain on people's parade? Yeah, that.

What's on the menu today, sir?

#LighthouseArt of the Day Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), Mouth of the #Seine, 1865, oil on canvas. Courtesy Norton Simon Museum, www.nortonsimon.org #BlueSkyMonday #art #artsky #seascape #harborscape #Monet #impressionism #lighthouse #phare #FrenchArt #ArtFrançais #MarineArt #MaritimeArt

Apparently Raphael Ravenscroft is still really unhappy that everyone thinks it was Bob Holness... #IYKYK

Random violent attacks are just that, random. Like acts of god and medical emergencies. And they are very very rare. So rare that we do not live in fear. We just go out and about and get on with our lives.

A terrible story, the telling of which demonstrates that @theguardian.com needs to employ better cartographers and/or get a better GIS...

Who is this short arsed wee bawbag calling a hobbit? And that's not the most ridiculous thing he says here. I thought he was meant to have left for Mars by now.

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

#RunningPunks #VirtualRunClub today includes #SelfieSunday, a #Heron, some weather, soundtrack by #Savages and thoughts going out to the #BrokenPunks and all in the #NoRunClub

Make trunkles* fashionable again *Trunkles/trunk hose - the massive breeks that make you look like you are wearing pants made of two giant onions

I had a pal* who wrote a song called 'Rhyming Dictionary', which went Ha ha ha Hee hee hee I've got a rhyming dictionary. It was lyrical genius compared to this tripe. I think Looza Fox is a Vogon in disguise... *Titus Toilet Seat, of the band Love, Chips and Peace. Yes, that's his real name.

Happy All Saints' Day, everyone!

I don't know what you said, but the cat isn't happy about it!