Under a crescent moon, two cats fraternize on the rooftop. Below them is the shadow of two people conversing behind the translucent sliding screen. The marginal text comments that “there’s no difference between high love and low love” (Japanese postcard, 1908)

What happens when we lose a language?

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Dome of Hagia Sophia

when u tax the rich

“Jonny 5 IS alive!”

Much lovelier weather than I was expecting for my run this morning. Headed south on the Thames Path towards Culham Lock, then back.

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A little perspective. Which you won’t get from the media. Note that only England had local elections: Scotland & Wales had full parliamentary elections. #UK #England #Localelections

Zelensky's decree allowing the Red Square parade is important beyond its entertainment value. It shows Ukraine's military threat was credible enough to Pu that he had to beg Trump to beg Zelensky for a ceasefire. The proof that Ze's power goes beyond coms is in the 1000 POWs who'll go home tomorrow.

I think sometimes ppl forget that before he was a war hero and a president Zelensky was arguably the biggest and most popular comedian in Ukrainian history

One of David Attenborough's best speeches. Today we're celebrating the 100th Birthday of the humanist and naturalist David Attenborough! Thank you for a lifetime of inspirational broadcasting and devotion to science and the natural world.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...

'The Cunt Cheerleaders' (1970), students of Judy Chicago's Feminist Art program, CA Uni, Fresno #womensart #FridayFeeling

God, it really never gets old does it? He's just *brilliant*.

Feline checkpoint accomplished🐱 Frontline or not, furry majesties must be accommodated properly. 🎥In Ukraine

Looooovely. Thanks @theregister.com for the warning + instructions.

You cannot save people, you can only love them. Anaïs Nin

Angela Smyth, contemporary artist #womensart

“Europe punished Russian billionaires over the war in Ukraine. It should do the same to those abetting an ecocidal regime.” Just gonna go ahead and officially co-sign this on behalf of everyone in the US.

These 👏 crimes 👏 are 👏 being committed 👏 against 👏 me 👏, against 👏 you👏

A new secondhand bookshop is coming to central Oxford. Barker & Co. Booksellers plans to open on Monday in the Golden Cross shopping arcade. It will replace the Japanese pancake café Fluffy Fluffy which closed in March.

Meet Bumpy! This enchanting little chap was rescued over the weekend. This was Bumpy's first night with us, snuggled next to Keeper Simon. Simon put his mattress on the ground and the tiny hippo nestled by his side, swaddled in his cherry blanket.

The AI takeover that no one asked for is coming at a massive cost to people and planet 😮‍💨⁣⁣ ⁣ Behind the AI hype is a surge in energy use, data centre expansion and growing threats to democracy.⁣ ⁣ How can this be called progress?

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Good for her.

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

ok happy Monday I give you: ducklings and lily pads 🪶

Ouch. 🫣🤫

"I run while looking at the sky, and by doing so, I truly feel the universe." Life goal: to still be running this enthusiastically at 87.

'Rooks' by Jackie Morris, contemporary artist, author and illustrator based in a little cottage near the sea in Wales #Womensart

The Star Wars Day x Medieval Monday mash up that no-one asked for or wanted... May the Fourth be with you. All images available on Digital Bodleian: MS. Douce 178, fol. 049v; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 79r; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 21v; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 79v #MedievalMonday

[OC] Vanishing Point at The Barbican r/brutalism

The sunshine abandoned us today and left a proper moorland fog. Gustave Beer’s c1919 evening gown echoes the silvery mist and the luminous beech leaves so is therefore perfect for Unsuitable Dog Walk Attire #thekyotocostumeinstitute #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Fresh-faced young woman holds up a fine blue Chinese cup to enjoy the light shining through it, in this painting by US artist Joseph DeCamp (1909)

i didn't eat the sun but it poured into me poets.org/poem/i-didnt...

The Thames Path looking lovely in the early morning sunshine. This is the best time of year for it, the wet winter mud has dried out and the summer overgrowth has yet to crowd the trail to a tightrope narrow run.

One of my favorite Oscar Wilde anecdotes is that he once did a reading and Q&A in a mine. With miners. Like down a mineshaft. He had this crazy idea that everybody of every occupation deserved and could benefit from art and information

The Anglo-Saxon Abingdon Sword dates back to around 875 CE and is one of the most important examples of late Anglo-Saxon silversmith art. The sword was found in 1874 at Bog’s Mill near the town of Abingdon in Oxfordshire.

Who does the Koh-I-Noor diamond truly belong to? Why is it considered cursed? And should it be returned? youtu.be/n5IlzTE7wV4?...

Here! Everyone take a double rainbow and put it in your pocket for good luck. 🌈🌈

Tonight, look for May's full moon: the Milk Moon. 🌕🐄 An Anglo-Saxon name, it nods to a time when cows were milked three times daily thanks to lush spring pastures. Its other names, Flower Moon, & Budding Moon, also celebrate spring's abundance. Moonrise: 21:09*

Happy May! 🖼️ Grasset

Happy May Day! Celebrated on 1 May every year, May Day is a festival of ancient origins that marks the beginning of summer. In Oxford, celebrations begin at 6am with the Choir of Magdalen College singing from the tower, which you can see here in this watercolour by William Turner of Oxford.

UP THE MAY! In case you missed it, or you want to see it again, here’s a taste of the Hymnus Eucharisticus from the top of the Tower on May Morning. It was so wonderful to see you all packed onto the High for another beautiful May Morning. #maymorning #oxford #magdalencollege

Today’s run views, lots and LOTS of blue sky. 😎