Among the transformations explored in the great Terra Ignota novels of @adapalmer.bsky.social is the evolution of "Europe" into something that retains a unifying idea but is no longer bounded by a continent. Start with "Too Like the Lightning".

Belgian Draft horses originate from the Low Countries region of Europe, specifically central Belgium. They were highly prized in medieval Europe as powerful battle mounts capable of carrying knights in full armor. TT: draft_horse_athena

We've been under a Code Big Boat Stuck for 11 hours and I'm just hearing about it now? I take it all back, this site is completely juiceless.

I'm so proud of Yassin. He made Bristol and Britain his home. He has contributed so much as a Green Party Cllr to his city and to the community in Lawrence Hill. Solidarity in the face of this Reform fuelled racist hate. Hope always wins!

Connections Puzzle #1116 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.

This is something pro-AI politicians don’t seem to be able to grasp. Again, if *I* even rip a CD to MP3, I am breaking the law. But a tech org swallowing down everything it can access and not paying the creators? Yeah, that’s just fine.

A great thread, but this one made laugh out loud.

can't sleep won't sleep

www.maptap.gg July 1 97🔥 99🎯 88🎉 97🔥 96🔥 Final score: 951

I should be trying to sleep but I am not, in fact, trying to sleep

I mean this is obviously a bit, but I can't decide what's worse - her sleeve dragging through the slop as she pats the cheddar down, or the raw puff pastry

Fuck it, I'm going in.

Geordi, I have received an encrypted message. I am not certain how to decrypt it. Assist me. Worf

Abolish the Home Office

The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

I feel like she, specifically, should know better

JOHN LENNON: Imagine there's no heaven... BLUESKY: Um, wow; I'd rather imagine a world where the criminals in this administration are held accountable for their actions, but you do you, I guess 🙄

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

PANINIS’S

"the spirit of Margo [...is...] the Surbiton sum of all fears that rattles our dustbins and taps on our replacement windows, as if Cathy from Wuthering Heights was distantly whispering *well thank you very much Jerry* at our every disappointment and indecision [...]In the suburbs, Margo lives"

I was in two minds whether to post this image because I think it’s both a little niche and a little arch.

Quick, bring Godzilla on.

Penelope Keith did perfect drunk acting. She underplayed it and somehow that made her seem more drunk #TheGoodLife

I’m generally a libertarian at heart but I strongly believe that gambling should just be banned outright

Gracie the Giraffe has been found after days-long search through Texas Hill Country www.khou.com/article/news...

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

*a dog bites me, causing profuse bleeding and tissue trauma* julie andrews, stoned off her gourd: have u tried,, thinking about mittens. or kettles. that helps me in these situations me: im bleeding julie: think about wet flowers

I bet landing just right feels so good

Dr. Crusher, I do not understand the part you have assigned me in your play. Why does Puck want Bottom to have the head of an animal? Worf

Back to work in seven hours, bleurgh

I was also interviewed for this other piece on Burmese food by Gregory Doane which was pitched to me with a similar premise, but which did convey what I’d said, so please do read if you have a moment. open.substack.com/pub/gregoryd...

The wreck of the cruise ship MS World Discoverer, slowly being taken over by nature. She struck an uncharted reef in the Solomon Islands in 2000 and has remained there ever since. #Cruiseships #Shipwrecks #Pacific

Today let's not worry about the interesting map showing the distribution of hogs in the USA but let's appreciate the comments underneath the map...

Gloriously strange.

Yes that’s the definition of a child, well done

Our wild coyote population is zero.

Thunder! Heavy rain! Bring it on! It's still going to be me bringing it all in eventually, isn't it *sigh*

STRIKE WITH YOUR SICKLE

OTOH Italy have not one but *two* banging anthems just randomly thrown together

His master’s fan.

The way I've gotten this across in talks to US audiences is to explain that by the time the Battle of Gettysburg was fought... ...the London Underground had already been open for six months.

this is also why i actually really really really disagree with the school of thought that says we should /just/ accept countries asking us to change exonyms without trying to understand why. if you don't try to understand why you won't get these nuances

Anglophones always act like Welsh has a bizarre orthography, like Gaelic has a bizarre orthography, like Polish has a bizarre orthography, when in real life they could get around this with the simple realisation that not all languages pronounce the letters of the Latin alphabet the same.

Mini Hungarian language lesson