🪨🤯What are the chances of finding an identical tool but in a different material in two different localities 7 miles apart? These flake tools are so similar it’s like finding evidence of the same person. Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic c.6,000-3,000 BC. #Archaeology #Lithics #Prehistory #Wirral

The famous Gloucester Cathedral in England.

This well preserved Roman bronze cavalry 'sports' mask has some beautiful details. Thought to have been used for parades or tournaments - part of maintaining morale and fighting effectiveness - these masks may also have been used in battle. 🏺 1/ #ancientbluesky 2nd c. CE, #MetMuseum loan.

Good morning, my dear friends! Me wishes you all a nice Wednesday and hope you are doing well. The sun is shining from a light cloudy sky but it's still freezing cold, -1°C. The snow is nearly all gone but new snow is on its way. Enjoy, whatever you are doing today and be blessed 🙏 🙏

The three Magi carry torches as they make their journey towards the Christchild, on the 12th Century font at Fincham, Norfolk. Fincham: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/fincham/finc... 1/2

I love a good reliquary.

Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne Cathedral Der Dreikönigsschrein 1180-1225, rare Mosan Romanesque gold-plated silver reliquary, holding relics of The Magi: Caspar, Melchior & Balthasar; set with gems & ornamented with 74 high-relief figures. #ThreeKingsDay #Epiphany

Ok, ‘sweet’ was not on my bingo card for Wife Swap: Real Housewives Edition

Just watched Sorcerer. Holy shit. Really puts the Westfield car park experience into perspective

Me: sick, trying to sleep Brain: Hey! Found this song from 1999 and wanted to play it for you 35000 times! Me: Brain: aren’t you wondering what Perez Hilton is doing these days?

You can’t shoot it with a gun Raw and idle, the shiny metal racks of shit I don't need not enough to derail the swirling top in my head, I drive the ten- minute trip I never take to the deserted park to watch the past selves of an almost love that I don't think about flit between my memories and…

My favorite part of reading is when a book gets so good you have to set it down, (finger marking the page), and just let your mind be blown for a minute before picking it back up again.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

🪨A collection of flint debitage or waste flakes created during the production of flint tools. These are from a Neolithic occupation site. Read more 📖👀👉🏻 prehistoricwirral.com/tool-making.... #Archaeology #Lithics #Flint #Prehistory #Wirral

“The gemstone dates to the late 1st century B.C. or early 1st century A.D. It was set in silver and converted into a seal between 1200 and 1400.” 🏺

Never forget this beautiful sad Starfleet twink.

Everything is coming up Channing Tatum

“Confirm”

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Some days just require Saxon. youtu.be/mKlF9o2R3cI?...

GUYS, it’s okay, relax, we have accrued enough punches on our FIFA Peace Prize Card, and it lets us have One Free Unconstitutional War Maneuver — and presidential abductions are not exempted, so it’s totally fine!

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

Good morning to any man of mine! I’m gonna getcha good and find out whos bed your boots been under! From this moment on we dont be stupid. Because when you kiss me, man, I feel like a woman. Ka-ching! You win my love! ::chainsaw noises:: home aint where his heart is!!!

No I don’t want to visit your website, it’s why I called on the phone.

Turns out a lot of these conspiracy theories end up being…*checks notes * mostly true…

An etruscan 🇮🇹 amphora that is pretty wild. It dates to the 6th century BC. It is now on display with other repatriated art (almost exclusively Etruscan or Greek) in the Aula Ottagona, a part of the Baths of Diocletian now used as a exhibition space for the National Roman Museum in Rome 🇮🇹

From the opening of Jean Cocteau's LA BELLE ET LA BETE, released 80 years ago today.

Ancient Viking Rune Stone Lunar Calendar #Thorsday #FolkloreThursday

This is pretty not okay.

The belief that we stand apart from nature is the root of our crisis. We breathe its air, drink its water, eat its cycles. Arrogance is poisoning your own well and being surprised you get sick. #OneHealth #Ecology

Librarians are civilization.

I’ll take it.

ANYWAY, HAPPY NEW YEAR, FRIENDS AND READERS AND FELLOW WEIRDOS *holds up the carcass of 2025 to let 2026 know we are without mercy, so it better be on its best goddamn behavior*

And Kirk wears the sexy uniform

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

goodbye 2025... it was the best and worst if times, and everything inbetween...

Mt. Fuji Above the Clouds, copy after Hokkei's print from the set of Three Lucky Dreams | Toyota Hokkei

Turntableau #nowplaying #vinylsky

'Sigmund and the Witch Woman' by Harry Clarke

Rarely have a year wrap this cleanly. Some personal business horrors are put to bed, received the final acceptance of the year for my Southern gothic story “Half Moon Bend,” now upcoming in The Phoenix literary journal. Submissions queue empty. Lot to celebrate, Happy New Year! #writersky

Henry Lamb: Bryan Guinness (1930) #art #man

This being New Years Eve, it's also the feast of St Sylvester, a 4th Century Pope probably best known for convening the Council of Nicaea in 325. He's on the right on the west front of Notre Dame, Paris, along with St John the Baptist, St Stephen and St Genevieve.

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

It has been such a joy and a privilege to see these books included on so many year-end lists. I’m very proud of these novels and it’s been such an honor to share them with you. Thank you for a wonderful 2025! Looking forward to more debauchery in 2026 ❤️

Reading that spooky stuff

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.