Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile https://theonion.com/melania-trump-slams-baseless-reports-linking-her-to-wrong-wealthy-pedophile/

What a shitshow the "land of the free" is. Texas court overturns sentence for man on death row for nearly 50 years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hello from #Lichfield. I gave it a good two and a half hours but have to say it is, by some distance, the most boring medieval cathedral I've yet been in.

Uppington church near where I'm staying a (possibly Saxon) dragon tympanum over the north door. #photography #dragon #churchcrawling

Hello, home town.

Old Govan Parish Churchyard. June 2023. #Glasgow #Photography

The most excellent ship atop the Pearce Institute in Govan - it's finer than the one on either the Briggait or the Merchant House. #Glasgow #Photography

My favourite bus stop. #Siena #Photography

Oh dear. #EndTimes charts.ecmwf.int/permalinks/n...

Walked into town, bought Tonkatsu Sando at Ho Lee Fook, local honey at the Barras Market, local sweets at the wonderful Glickman's, a boardgame at A1 Games - and now a coffee at Midnight Sister. No chains, no money leaving my city and all great quality. #Glasgow

The famous ethical Trolley Problem would be a breeze if this senile old arsehole was the one strapped to the tracks. Middle East crisis live: Trump uses expletive-ridden social media post to threaten Iran’s infrastructure www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the... Victorian architectural heritage. #Glasgow #photography #architecture

April Showers... #snow

Grear piece by @rorycarroll72.bsky.social on Roger Casement, one of the pioneers of human rights campaigning, whose biography he has written. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fate awaiting Trump and his cronies... Duomo. San Gimignano. May 20222. #Photography #SanGimignano #Trump

Some cyclists take an ice cream break. San Gimignano. May 2022. #Photography #SanGimignano #Italy #Cyclist

The 1666 oculus and lantern of the Duomo of Siena. Designed by Bernini and carved by Andrea Ferrari and Pietro Cremoni. #Photography #Siena #Architecture

The sun starts to creep around the Palazzo Pubblico onto one of the saints of the Capella della Piazza. #Siena #Photography

Detail of the Capella of the Campo. #Photography #Siena

Early morning light on James V's Gate at the Palace of Linlithgow. The four panels show Orders of Chivalry that reflect his European status. They are very finely detailed (see following posts). March 2022. #Photography #Linlithgow

'Descent of Christ into Limbo' - one of the four compartments of an altarpiece by Bartolomé Bermejo. From "things that caught my eye in the gothic collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya" in December 2010. #Art #harrowing

This is the world’s largest urban flood and water rescue training base. China’s Zhaotong facility uses realistic flood simulations, swift-water courses, and building fire drills to train thousands for extreme disasters.

According to Mym's Elven Taxonomy of Male Hotness Mr Smedley is probably a Telerin Elf, with possibly a bit of Third House of the Edain.

Looks better anyway without so many "romantic" trees. It was pretty bare in 1900. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS, THE OAKS ARE AWAKE 🥳🌳🌳

RURA on stage at the 2022 Dandelion Festival in Glasgow. I believe this splendid chap with the piercing blue stare is Jack Smedley. #Glasgow #Photography #RURA

Homer, one of the motivational statues on the façade of the old Glasgow Academy (Charles Wilson, 1846). #Glasgow #Photography #Homer

after i in the dust 17thC graffito on Glasgow Cathedral. #Glasgow #Photography

Dragons and birds chewing the shrubbery. Vault of the Blacadder Aisle. Glasgow Cathedral. #Glasgow #Photography #dragon

Generally speaking, I'd expect allegedly compassionate deities to intervene before someone kills themself, not just cart the body off afterwards.

Your much-vaunted Constitution has not protected Americans (or countless foreigners) from these monsters. Your reassuring myths about being "the good guys" convince no one. Your "checks and balances" perform neither function. Your Republic looks to be on its death bed. Prove us wrong. Please.

Rome! 10 years ago! Details of the Vittoriano. Inscribed on her shield is the phrase ascribed by Livy to Marcus Furius Camillus during the debate in the Senate when the Gauls invaded Rome in 390BC: "hic manebimus optime!" - 'here we shall remain in the best way possible'... #Photography #Rome

Details of James Thomson's offices for the iron traders Connal & Co. Built 1898-1900 in German renaissance style of Locharbriggs sandstone. Corner of Dundas St and West George St. From a photographic walk into Glasgow, April 2016. #Glasgow #Photography

East face of the crossing tower, Torphichen Preceptory. Headquarters of the Knights Hospitallers of St John in Scotland. Most of the church and buildings were pulled down in 1756. #Photography #Scotland #medieval

Scottish National Portrait Gallery. January 2023. #Edinburgh #Photography

Inverary. January 2023. #Scotland #Photography

Naughty putti on the Old Linen Bank. High St. #Glasgow #Photography

Hygeia, Goddess of Cleanliness, on the gable of the 1895 former Sanitary Chambers of the Corporation of Glasgow on Montrose Street, by the city Engineer, A.B MacDonald. It's very... busy. The Buildings of Glasgow is quite rude about it ('a horror vacui') but I rather like it. #Glasgow #Photography

In a functional republic he wouldn't be in post to start with.

These two pieces of gold are smaller than your thumb. Each weighs 0.3 ounces. And they were designed to sit under your palm where nobody could see them. Menuki are tiny ornaments fitted beneath the silk wrapping on a Japanese sword grip.

The Gnomes of Edinburgh. November 2021. #Photography #Edinburgh

I mind that time when the whole world came here... #COP26 #Glasgow #Photography #UnitedNations

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The Jedburgh Abbey tomb of William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian, Earl of Lothian, Ancram & Ancram, Viscount of Briene, Lord of Newbattle, Jedburgh, Nisbet, Langnewtoun, and Dolphinstoun &c. #photography #tomb

10 Fitzroy Place. Google streetview shows that this unusual inner door looked even better when it was unpainted wood back in 2008. It also shows that the spectacular brass fittings survived into 2024 but have sadly now gone. #Glasgow #Photography #Architecture maps.app.goo.gl/1PXpNMfHpNnq...

Presumably the other bell is for when you want to be ignored.... Woodlands Terrace. #Glasgow #Photography

For me, one of the curiously satisfying views in Glasgow is the sudden eruption of this wonky gothic rocket above the houses of George Smith's 1840s Lynedoch Crescent. #Glasgow #Photography #Architecture

A Crumbling #Glasgow special for @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social to explain. This is Woodside Terrace - you'd think they, at least, could afford to maintain stuff. Second pic streetview in 2020 when they'd applied some sort of cheap unsightly gunk that's now fallen off. maps.app.goo.gl/yoDeiCx63iuG...

A Glaswegian version of the famous Athenian Tower of the Winds atop the 1890s Buchanan Street extension of the Athenaeum. I think it's by J.J. Burnet. It has lead scratched graffiti from (among others) 'G Dog 2007', "Andrew Gorman 98' and 'Skid Mark Bowden'. #Glasgow #Photography #Architecture