Just started Bill Manley’s Sahidic Coptic textbook. Let’s see how far I get uclpress.co.uk/book/sahidic...

A graceful Ethiopian Su-30. Reposting for #SukhoiSundays

#nowlistening Kate Bush’s 50 words for snow. Ten years ago I started to play this CD then gave up after two songs. Rubbish! Now a decade has passed. Played the CD on a whim over the weekend and discovered that I love it to bits

I've finally been on 465908 which looks beautiful in the Network SouthEast livery & this livery brings back memories

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

Nose on Grids... 56103 and 56045 thunder along the Great Western Main Line on their way to Merehead Quarry. I do believe this is the last bastion of Grid working, as both the Grids work out of Willesden Sidings to the quarries down south. #SteelCityDoggoPhotography

Re-watched The Zone of Interest a few nights ago. I have seen it six or seven times now and each time I get something new from it which I had not spotted or thought about before #moviesky #justwatched #thezoneofinterest

Blimey! - a Lego Felon! Reposting for #SukhoiSundays

I went to Cambridge.

I'd already seen 4 Concordes and every SR-71 by the time I got to see my 1stMiG-25 Foxbat in Kyiv. Such a rare and special thing. The only MiG-25 in the U.S. (that we know of) is currently on display at the USAF museum in Ohio, an incomplete example that was found buried in Iraq.

Two McCloud River SD38 locomotives in the Salt Lake City UP Service Pit area. Salt Lake City, Utah. June, 1988. Photo by Warren Johnson.

It’s reached the point where my first thought on waking up is “has the USA invaded Greenland while I was sleeping”

I love Impalas. Must make a kit of one sometime

Well he’s gotta be in bed by now so it’s probably safe to sleep without waking up to a new war right

And the same model photoshopped into some views of Angola #scalemodels #histscalemodels #SukhoiSundays

A slightly different one for #SukhoiSundays. This is the Hobby Boss 1:48 Sukhoi Su-17 Fitter which I made recently, in Angolan colours. I enjoyed making it very much, but am not too impressed with how it’s turned out. Ah well, it is done now #scalemodels #histscalemodels

no notes, that's lara croft

Battleships HMS King George V and HMS Howe at Port-of-Algiers, 24 July 1943. They were part of a reinforcement of Allied forces in the Mediterranean for the invasion of Sicily Courtesy @mpwarwick.bsky.social

#nowwatching The Thing on Shudder. One of my favorite movies and in my rotation for my favorite John Carpenter movie. The setting, the score, acting, and special effects! It has it all and I never grow tired of it. I watched the Apocalypse Trilogy in the wrong order but oh well #horror #movies #film

Reposting for the image

Favourite paintings /2 Anna Airey’s portrait of Greta, painted 1920s I think. On display in Ipswich UK

We have had this serving plate for ages, but pulled it out today and realised... 🐋

Michael Mann’s The Keep (1983). Thought this was utter rubbish when I first watched it. But I was a teenager way back then. Forty years later I find it atmospheric, subtle, under-explained, interestingly flawed, and weirdly magical #justwatched #horrorsky #filmsky #thekeep

A 14th-Century Marvel Hidden in the church of St Nicholas, Dersingham, Norfolk, is one of England's most remarkable medieval survivals—a spectacular mid-14th century carved oak chest.

The MiG-23MS was manufactured between 1974-1978. It was meant only for export, the domestic Soviet Air Force version being the MiG-23M (first flew in 1972, produced until 1978).

Syrian Air Force MiG-23MS aircraft did not have roundels on the fuselage.

JRR, please forgive me

Happy evening beautiful people ❤️

Ummm yello.. 🧐 🍋 …. #art #oilpainting

The more classic films I watch the more references I can see in other films and by the time I am old I will be very knowledgeable and also completely insufferable

UP 3030, a 3,000 horsepower SD40, is sitting behind the Brigham City depot. This locomotive and the bay window caboose have been assigned to the local. Brigham City, Utah. April, 1985. Photo by Warren Johnson.

50 years ago today: Bob Dylan released <i>Desire</i> www.hotpress.com/music/50-yea... via @hotpress

From Russia With Love is such a funny movie. The Training School for Evil Henchmen is something that bond parodies wished they could do, but they can't, because they already did it as part of a real bond film

I love stone circle outliers

Framed 3. #nature #forest #photography #wander #Teutoburgerwald

Never ceases to amaze me how big the Stuka was. This is captioned as El Aden, I suspect 1941.

Shades of #fitzcarraldo. Ethiopia has transported a 188-seat passenger ferry, the Tananesh, from Djibouti all the way to Lake Tana in the Ethiopian mountains. According to @theeconomistnews.bsky.social the ferry’s road journey took over a year. Some pikkies here www.instagram.com/p/DMLrYGJzGXd/

a wave has such a great long start before it leaps, all round the world it runs, and then comes the spring!

Pretty sure this is the plan

If he carries on like this it's going to make the FIFA Peace Prize look ridiculous

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

The awesome word ‘tupolevism’ gets a shout-out on #TupolevTuesdays

Trump on Ukraine: “really certainly the most deadly war since World War Two, probably the biggest war since World War Two.” Wrong. Russia-Ukraine war since 2022: less than half a million dead (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualt...). 2nd Congo war: 5.4 million dead

“Self-Portrait” by Anne Harris (American) - Acrylic on canvas / 1998 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia) #WomenInArt #AnneHarris #artText #arte #PAFA #selfportrait #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #BlueskyArt #AmericanArtist #art #PennsylvaniaAcademyoftheFineArts #ArtByWomen

This war's been going on since February 2023 and the entire time it's been a Janjaweed vengeance spree against the Black people of Sudan for surviving the first round of this genocide. Nobody's given a real damn and evidently nobody ever will except the dead and those about to die.

The DRC is probably a bit busy with the whole 'Rwanda trying to break off the east of the country using proxy militias' thing tbf

A Drew Lewis Special is crossing The Weber River and the remnants of old Highway 30 at Gateway. Gateway, Utah. November, 1986. Photo by Warren Johnson.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls