Timothée Mallette

At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890

Chonk

My favourite 'burn'👇🏽

Very sad to see the news on Sam Neil. Some great performances and he always seemed to be a genuinely fun and decent chap. His little vids with his pigs were an utter joy.

Nooooo.......on the train for work for the first time in 6 weeks and i am without #Wodehouse

This video clip of a swan landing on a lake is best enjoyed with AUDIO ON. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are among the heaviest flying birds & require a long runway, which means we get the majestic approach, a few furious moments of webbed feet slapping on water, then the majestic splashdown.

Noel Gallagher going to watch violent rapist Connor McGregor, and calling him 'the great Conor McGregor' should be remembered as you spend your monthly wages on the next oasis gigs. And I say that as a huge oasis fan. Noel Gallagher is a twat who now publicly admires a violent rapist.

Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

Good first day at Nagoya. Solid performances by most of the Sanyaku with the obvious exception of Onosato. Is he injured still or just Yoshinofuji got the better of him again? Might be a bit of both, his face after the bout made me think he is not fully fit still. #sumo

Donald abandoned his 3 oldest kids, when they were all in grade school, to run off with a mistresses. He had a child with that mistress, speculated about the eventual size of that baby's breasts, and then abandoned her too. He married his next mistress. And cheated on her with someone in porn.

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

Cursed, yet also magnificent image.

Robbed off Facebook

Dr Spooner's career as a continuity announcer takes another turn for the worse

Happy birthday to Mavis Staples. Here are the Staple Singers with their version Slippery People by Talking Heads. Mavis has two shows lined up at London's Union Chapel next month

The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a shame, especially when we need to be connecting with nature more than ever. If we want people to protect our wildlife, we have to show them it! Add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...

There was coverage of the British Wimbledon semifinalist on BBC2 earlier, but now he’s on BBC1. Cross-channel Fery.

Right, Wiki, i've donated my tenner - please leave me be 😅

Day off but too hot to do anything. Feels like a waste. More news as it doesn't happen.

Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…

Can you believe it's just oil paint on flat panels? Almost miraculous. Annunciation as trompe l'oeil sculpture by Jan van Eyck, d. OTD 1441.

"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French." The Luck of the Bodkins - PG Wodehouse

And now, for your entertainment, PUPPY BUTT

Hydration break

My working day so far

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

Magnificent portrait of a woman, 1620, by Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born on this day in 1593.

Here I am slagging off Keir Starmer for accepting some free glasses. Because that is so much worse than accepting £5 million from a crypto billionaire or using the house of a convicted fraudster while he pays for my staff, security and social media.

Magic!!!!!

Not unhappy to see Paraguay out - an absolute joke tonight both their fouls and their ridiculous play acting - not unlike Rivaldo back in the day.

I absolutely refuse to believe the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.

we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever

It is traditional on Friday for me to say: perhaps someone would like some original art, and to support a person who is me. www.chloecumming.com

Cooling down by watching a 1935 version of Scrooge ⛄️

Dante’s lost tenth circle of hell discovered.

The 40th ending of the Iran Israel war might well coordinate with the 4th of July so it's nice that the two can be celebrated together. No news on when the 41st ending will be yet.

Going to start using “bobble off”as a insult in meetings “respectfully, you can bobble off and reconsider that action” Sounds suitably northern, but also not actually offensive.

Here's a thing. The Oval was packed tonight for the women's T20 World Cup semifinal. Pretty much nobody is covering it - the football world cup, the Stokes debacle, Wimbledon, they're all taking up the space. But still. The ground was totally full. That tells you everything about the state of it.

What does this even mean?

Takahashi Shotei (Japanese, 1871–1945) "Moonrise at Tokumochi", 1936. Woodblock Print, 39.2 × 26.5 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Very sorry to learn that the magnificent David Potter died on Sunday evening. A pioneering mathematical physicist, he founded Psion, created the first hand-held organizer and oversaw Symbian, the standard mobile operating system. He was a wonderful philanthropist and supporter of @opendemocracy.net

Very young Bryan Cranston in the Murder, She Wrote on ch 50 at the mo.

Work doing a World Cup quiz via Teams this week 😀 😬🙄 Lol, anyway i hope they have fun but the prizes are various denominations of Amazon vouchers....do they have to get all the money all the time? Find some local businesses ffs, limits where you can spend i get that, but even so.

London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)