Why does every item in this doggy treat aisle in Morrisons sound like it belongs on Brian Butterfield's Saturday Treat Day?

if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼

Me, today, dealing with the algae build up in my aquarium with all the enthusiasm this entails. Sigh.

A #Roman figurine of a lizard, carved from a single piece of hyaline quartz. It was found in a Gallo-Roman tomb in Belgium, where it was buried as part of an assortment of grave goods about 2000 years ago (📷 MFAH, Brussels) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

When you die, your pupils are the last part of your body to stop living; they dilate.

I made a new t-shirt today which makes me laugh every time I look at it. Mediaeval marginalia cats are the absolute best. twin-fox.co.uk/product/beco...

BEHOLD! My first ever choose-your-own-adventure game! "i will strangle a horse" - over seven and a half thousand words of absolute nonsense, as you help Martin Jenkins on his first day at The Farm. brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran... Totally free to play! I mean, you can pay, but you can also not!

First week back at work post holiday funtimes, and I have worked HARD (400 emails on Monday, 5 hour meeting on Tuesday, etc, etc) - but each day has also come with one or two tasty museum shaped treats. Today's treat has been the best so far and I am filled with GREAT DELIGHT.

This is a box crab 📦🦀, likely Calappa calappa (from a Malay word meaning "coconut"). They're also called 'shame-faced crabs' because they pull their massive claws (chelae) in front of their face when alarmed. Why are they squirting? This is a way of moving water over their gills to keep them wet.

This will blow your mind.

This slides into my head every couple of days and makes me laugh every time

a lot of the people I follow are into computer games & the last computer game I played was Super Mario Brothers so I read a lot of posts that start "I got to level 3 & then the sword of Aaksdjfhk blasted my wiindle into boopfe & I lost all my power beedles" before I realise it isn't a post for me

Who says that a family crest has to be traditional? Take a day off; live your Abe Froman dreams.

Tuesday.

Featuring all four original members of the Air Scotia cabin crew - Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart, you’re in for a treat! Departing March 2026 with stops in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow & Inverness BOOK NOW🎟️ www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/the-h...

Just look at this nifty tapestry moving monorail! It took 100 people seven hours to move the Bayeux Tapestry out of its permanent home, so moving it to the UK against the advice of conservators is bonkers. Just get Jim's scarf instead. It's almost as long. museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

Trans joy will always exist because I exist, amd I am filled with it.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

re: the elephants drawn by people who had never seen elephants, it is ESSENTIAL to click through to the master interactive, where you can enlarge each successively worse elephant (and link to the original source!!)

£55k to be the CEO of bees. The BEO. Sign me up!

Tylenol was always one of those American things you didn't know what it was. Like Twinkies and Pottery Barn and Ted Koppel and whatever the hell a caucus is.

For those of you who've left Facebook but miss the ridiculousness of local groups... behold what turned up on our local freebies page today

Rumours (2024) was just the sort of nonsense I needed this evening. (And extra points for adding a character called Glob into your silly film about bog bodies. 😍)

Reminder that there are giant bears eating salmon right now and you can watch them fur free explore.org/livecams/bro...

Keir Starmer just wants fascism to be fully costed and more efficient.

Oh shit this has all been a misunderstanding based on a typo, the rapture isn't coming, the raptors are. *distant screeching* Hide!

It's #MosaicMonday! Here are some seasonally appropriate friends from the floor of the Great Hall in the Rijksmuseum!

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Saw this and thought of @skullsandsheets.bsky.social (complimentary).

0745 and Monday has already peaked.

Wonderful that Arsenal have introduced facilities to ensure no-one misses out on Escape to the Country

This is wrong on so many levels.

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS IT’S FAT BEAR WEEK

What's your sign?

At the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London, the latest in scientific innovation was presented. I present to you: George Merryweather's "TEMPEST PROGNOSTICATOR" which uses leeches to predict approaching storms. 12 leeches are arranged in pint bottles around the central pillar with a bell.

he planned to eat the cake and by god he did it

what's up with men not going off to seek their fortune with nothing but a bit of bread and hard cheese in their leather sack

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie. Well, alright. This is a selfie, but it's all I've got.

Watching Batman Begins with my children and DELIGHTING them by muttering about the billions of dollars in damage to infrastructure and civic buildings.

Today I was a content creator but only for newts

It's Friday night, and you know what that means! Time to put on a horse costume and stand motionless in my neighbor's garden for 6 hours

I have fallen in love with sleepy lizards (Tiliqua rugosa). They're slow-moving omnivores, so they tend to eat slow-moving food. When available, they love a good flower snack, slurping up daisies with their blue tongues. (📷: Rhys Moult, rhysatwork on IG)

The possibility for good with all these incredible technologies available and all we're going to use it for is Slow Death by Capitalism. metro.co.uk/2025/09/17/d...

I attended a baby horned lizard release this morning for a story! What a delight. (More on this at some point.)

Nice to see the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water dressed for a state visit.

a little distraction from this hellscape

Mindhorn is on iPlayer. Do yourself a favour.

All the new otter comics all together. I wanted to give you all a huge THANK YOU—through your engagement and print sales we raised 10k for The Marine Mammal Center. 💙🌊