If you are the captain of an Icelandic trawler and decide to have a game of deck cricket, whatever you do, don't field first upon winning the toss. Your crew will likely mutiny and it is easy to make your fall look like an accident. It's cold down there.

THE MEN OF KENT HAVE MET TODAY TO PUT OPPRESSION DOWN AND JOINED WITH ESSEX' VALIANT SONS TO MARCH ON LONDON TOWN WITH SURREY AND WITH MIDDELSEX WITH SUFFOLK, NORFOLK TOO AND GALLANT LADS FROM HARTFORDSHIRE TO SEE THE STRUGGLE THROUGH WITH BALL AND TYLER, WRAW AND LISTER GRINDCOBBE AND JACK STRAW

when will my husband return from the sea?

The 'Agris Helmet' is a Gaulish ceremonial helmet from the La Tène period (350 BC), covered with pure gold leaf. See Alt for more 🦡👀 #AncientBlueSky #Artwork

A poem I wrote a while ago that feels like it fits our current moment annoyingly well.

I feel seen

Le Chat Noir

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

SUBSTITUTION: You ordered *normal January* which was out of stock. We substituted *extra length Hell January* at no extra charge

Photo shows 5 Greenlandic women in their national dress with beaded yokes. In the late 1920s Norway sought to possess East Greenland. Norwegian knitting designer Annichen Sibbern Bøhn designed a sweater which mimicked the Greenlandic beaded yoke. And that's how yoked sweaters became a thing. 🧵

R.E. the Brooklyn Beckham drama. I don't know the Beckhams, or what goes on behind the scenes. But I can share this. 1/14

Head canon: Pingu is clearly seen interacting with a polar bear. Pingu therefore can only be a northern hemisphere penguin - aka the great auk, aka the OG penguin. Pingu is amongst the last survivors of a species thought to be extinct.

Britain kinda lost a war to Iceland within living memory. Seems only fair the US now do the same.

The ball didn't answer.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

"after the storm I see again a weasel" I'm sorry dude was cooking here. He should have rolled with it. You expect to see a calm sea after a storm, but a weasel is new and refreshing.

Have seen many variations of this & broadly agree—but the part that struck me in the moment wasn’t “this is a microcosm for how America sucks” — it was “this is a microcosm for trying to behave democratically & respectfully of one another in a complex, evolving situation with things we can't know.”

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

Oh I'm definitely dying from "haven't seen the sea in a long time"

Haven't written one of these in a while! sillylittlewalk.substack.com/p/i-go-on-a-...

this is a quiet time for this, because it feels quite big, so I want to keep it low for just now, but - Lads, I have a new job. Meet yr latest exams administrator of East Kent, starting late February

One for anyone familiar with being autistic at work or who has read @garius.bsky.social's thread on Able Seacat Simon. Spoiler: The scritch made me well up.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

I was not previously aware of the existence of the Blue Eyed Black Lemur and I'm glad that is no longer the case.

Today I went to Ilford pet cemetery to pay my respects to Able Seacat Simon, spy pigeon Mary of Exeter, and blitz rescue dogs Irma, Rip, and Crumstone Psyche.

He should be allowed to graduate immediately. There's nothing more for him to learn about art.

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

no comment but

years ago when i was working in casting during my gap year i was queueing for a sandwich in soho wearing a long old stripey scarf when a voice behind me boomed "I LIKE YOUR SCARF" and when i (and everyone else there) turned around it was only Tom bloody Baker. a truly fine moment of my life

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

Fascinating essay on *why* some cultures are terrified of reheating rice and others just...do it every day. The justification cycle - racialised thinking, call to science, appeal to long past and/or 'traditional' wisdom - seems universal for this sort of food story #histFood

Perfection

hey @therationalcolonel.bsky.social

Cow Tools www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

It's Monday night and it's 5pm so it's time for Episode 2 of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' We're already midway through January and the days are steadily lengthening at both ends. AND IT IS THIS LIGHT! 💡

Timeline Cleanse #タイムライン浄化剤投与

@avantgardening.pl DM

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

i keep coming back to this to look at that curvature. you can SEE how small it is because of how much more convex that horizon looks. blows my mind how alien it would feel to stand there and see the edge of the world so much more clearly than you do on Earth

Connections Puzzle #953 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

the travel industry hasn't cottoned on yet to this latest calendar sensation but we're confident that with enough iterations and enough cows, the history of English cattle will some day have a significant part to play in driving global tourism

I’m playing both sides by doing nothing, this is grown up politics. Nothing is more serious in politics than nothing is what I always say. I stand for Nothing, Nothing is what you get. Thank you -KS

Objectively, at this point, you have to say The Meek really need to pull their collective finger out.

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

Props to Frodo's horse's agent, for getting him included in this.

This and also the McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit was not frivolous like you have probably heard

Gott ist tot.

I will think about this poem until I'm dead.

Did she get those tights from Snag??