Thousands of holes arranged in a snake-like pattern on Monte Sierpe in Peru could have been a monumental accounting device for trade and tax

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Tawny frogmouth fledgling, resting between flying lessons

It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.

Robert Potter's THE GERM GROWERS (said to be first alien invasion story) had some good illustrations. However I think this was one just hanging around the publisher's office, as the book is set in Australia, not Africa

The crabs overrun it?

Give it to Ted Lasso

Also born on this day, in 1607, the remarkably brilliant & talented Anna Maria van Schurman. Made this print to advertise her own genius. A+ for complete lack of humility!

And the typeface outside the Oval Office?

It just kills me that ad campaigns for universities seek to communicate ‘innovation’ by savagely disrespecting basic categories of nouns, adjectives and verbs Deakin ad just now: “See the wonderful possible”

My colleague spotted this today and all I have to say is this is a cult. That’s fucking religious propaganda.

Two guys with the exact same taste in interior decor are Donald Trump and Uday Hussein

Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care. And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

A big thanks to those that dug into the Nationals decision to drop net zero and discovered it was based on “research” from the Coal Australia lobby group. #auspol www.aemo.com.au/-/media/file...

1. An 1892 book by Hutchinsons in London, author Robert Potter, an Anglican canon in Melbourne. It has interest as early Australian science fiction, and has been claimed to be the first alien invasion novel.

This @witmerlab.bsky.social piece about l'affair Nanotyrannus is extremely sharp and even-handed about some of the dynamics that made this particular argument so contentious and -- occasionally -- bitter rdcu.be/eNv94

Shurely not hard to bankrupt them all?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

#GOP #EpsteinFiles

This is what it can look like when research is rooted in lived experience. A key piece of context on this report is that DAIR researcher Adrienne Williams is a former Amazon delivery driver and organizer herself, and the report builds on many in-depth interviews. ⬇️

"The English profs keep sweeping our work under the rug, but that rug is about three feet off the floor by now, and things are coming out from under it and eating the English profs." (Ursula K. Le Guin, Prospects for Women in Writing, 1986)

Bogong moths have started their long migration from across Australia to the Aussie alps. Invertebrates Australia is calling on citizen scientists to help keep tabs on the endangered moth by snapping pics of any sightings 🧪 Upload your pics to Moth Tracker: mothtracker.swifft.net.au #BogongMoth

One nice quirk of Dutch elections: you can vote in many museums, including Anne Frank House, the Frans Hals, maritime museums in R’dam & A’dam. Cast your vote, then see some art. Nice. Or if you prefer, there also polling points at former concentration camps 😳 www.museum.nl/nl/zien-en-d...

Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

“Dragging a ladder through long rows of bookshelves can be exhausting. It’s much more efficient to have a co-worker who’s able to reach the top shelves on their own or at least give you a boost climbing up.” #miragaia #stegosaur #dinosaur #paleoart #library #librarian #books

One of the best documentaries I have ever seen: www.stan.com.au/watch/reveal... For non-Australians: the live spider used refers to local slang for paedophiles, Rock Spiders

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

What if he gave the army money to overthrow the regime?

Look Blue Sky is grouse, but can we have a little less of the stuff already posted in the other place, which largely consists of US moaning and gnashing of teeth? I'd like some more moaning and gnashing of teeth from other parts of the world

#RomanFortThursday - coming to a Welsh hill or valley junction near you in AD 48-78...😬 Intimidating reconstruction of a C1st AD Roman timber fort gateway tower at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall. These were built roughly every 15 miles - or a day's march - during the conquest period 📷 My own, May

We’re going to need a shitload of quicklime

Break bread together

Édouard Vuillard 1868-1940 Stylish Woman at the Moulin Rouge (1909)

Grip marks, blood and fire damage hint at the fascinating history of a non-returning boomerang.

People are puzzled about why the West Australian space junk was still burning on the ground. It's unusual. But Skylab chunks were burning when they hit in 1979 - we have eyewitness accounts. What do the two spacecraft/events have in common? 🧪 🏺 #SpaceArchaeology

“It’s 007…” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Soccer is even worse

aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"

So he happens to be a jackass?

A Cistercian Monastery with a vow of silence? And his wife to become a Poor Clare?

And the rapey PM?

Usha Vance, Modi, and President Xi should appreciate that

He is trying to do to the White House what Canada did waybackwhen?