Great Indian Fruit Bat - Painting attributed to Bhawani Das (Indian) or a follower, ca. 1777–82 Pencil, ink, and opaque watercolor on paper www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

La Corona and the Tin Frog, Russell Hoban, illustrated by Nicola Bayley I bought this as an adult because I love Nicola Bayley’s art, plus his writing for children is as good as his writing for adults.

Because I haven't found it anywhere else online, here's Hoban's "The Dragon underneath the Mat." Sometimes I hum a dragon song.

I’m having to go on a quest for a really good custard tart, not the tasty little Portuguese ones, but the old school English ones and I welcome recommendations. No soggy bottoms. No tasteless pastry. Nutmeg essential.

you can literally travel to Mongolia, take a taxi from Ulaanbaatar to Choirin, find the last house in the outskirt, and ask Munkhbat who's about fifty or eighty, no one knows for sure, he spent his entire life drinking and throwing rocks at passing cars, he would say "Peter Mandelson? He's a c*nt."

Blurt www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgo...

Roses are red, Your loved ones are dear, www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...

I don’t know what a xenoblade 1 cutscene is, but I know excellence in sound design when I hear it.

The twat in a hat is good at one thing, which is specious rhetoric.

No water, no heating, no power, -15 degree weather outside. It is not on the front pages of your newspapers, but Ukraine is living through a humanitarian disaster right now because of Russian bombardment and the world has barely noticed.

the fun thing about measles is that it deletes your immunological memory so it won’t just be measles it will be a cascade of other diseases as more and more people lose immunity from getting measles

Here’s Kitty ❤️ Go to sleep smiling x

A treat for tonight to get the blood pulsing and make the heart strong www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldkd...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

I wrote a piece on this open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

The one in the leather coat has a van and the tent, the one in the leather jacket thinks he’s the brains behind the outfit, the one in the black down jacket is keeping en eye on temu hitler for his mum

I feel rancid. I have a cold and I never get colds. I am not a brave and strong soldier, I am someone who seems to be nothing but a bag of snot that aches.

Early Arthropods xkcd.com/3199/

Just been down to tear a strip off my neighbour who has woken me up with window rattling loud music, which I’ve put up with for years. If you knew me, you’d know I’m the archetypical mild mannered wimp, and shouting at someone does not make me feel any better, but at least it’s quiet now.

And thanks to the people who came into work with streaming colds, I’m in bed sneezing (again), you bunch of pilchards in a bulging tin.

Boderation www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFHz...

This whole album is a corker, this is one of my favourite songs on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4wc...

96 in the shade Read the story about this one aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2021/10/24/1... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwE5...

Santa Barbara www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au76...

Bam bam www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz-G...

Boops youtu.be/VVIsTZPp0iM

Labour’s sister party in Spain doing the right thing from a humanitarian perspective, a social cohesion perspective and an economic perspective…. But of course mainstream UK politicians are allergic to evidence-based policy on immigration.

Time to post this rather incredible photo again. The largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, with one of the Solar System's smallest moons, Phobos, crossing it. Photographed from Mars orbit. Credit: Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social CC BY

1st mistake: Salford is not Manchester, you turnip

Oh this is amazing - Reece Shearsmith reading Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Hopefully the arsehole vote will be split by Goodwin and Galloway both going for the same seat.

Really interesting to see a total counterweight to the rest of Europe's migration crackdown—Spain proposing to regularise the status of 50,000 undocumented people www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6947...

Blokes of Blockoville always have a photo of a dog and only follow women.

I’m lying in bed, drinking vodka, and you can’t stop me

Dancehall Fever www.youtube.com/watch?v=qznX...

Re: the apology, most likely a marketing ploy (I had no idea an album was coming out next week), but I have sympathy for anyone who has to live with bipolar - my neighbour, an otherwise lovely person, stopped taking their meds and after I brought them some milk they locked me in their flat &

How and when did domestic cats conquer the world? 🐈 The aDNA study recently published in Science tells a fascinating story about the human-mediated dispersal of our purring furry friends. doi.org/10.1126/scie... #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics #cats #zooarcheology #domestication

Thank you for your resilience, your persistent brilliance...it transformed how the world navigates & understands our planet. Your work touches nearly every modern device & journey and more people should know your name. Goodnight and godspeed, Gladys West.🕯️ thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d... #WomenInSTEM

Dropped my wallet in Paphos airport, & after some amount of minor panic, it was returned to me…& I think that’s where my luck for the year maxxed out - had a deranged taxi driver from airport who phoned me up from pick up point & kept telling me I had to go to level 1 of the multi-storey, then made

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Mia May as the embodiment of the goddess Astarte in the silent film The Mistress of the World, 1919.

*sigh* mutes eyelash man

I see the blokes who only follow women are at it again. Last train to Blockoville for you, fella.

So many British people are clearly unaware of the downside risks and consequences of the Greenland crisis, including, many people whose job it is to inform the country about it:

How your email finds me Les Prodigues, Thomas Couture, 1855.

Had my second therapy session today and it's definitely helping with the anxiety, but I'm supplementing it with this just to be on the safe side

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Found some copper ore on Factory Hill (Fabrika Hill) in Paphos! (now I know why it’s called factory hill) No holiday is a holiday if there are no interesting rocks.

The thing you guys have not learned as that there's an information war going on out there. It runs along side the other wars. And some of you get duped into doing the wrong thing in the information war.