Medieval stile @lakesstiles.bsky.social

A well dressed Saint Martin on a high stepping and fancy horse #ridersonsmallhorses

Interesting responses about the options available for generating your own electricity

10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...

A gentle reminder that this is one of those generational good books which will still being read in 20 years time.

This could be game changing for dental treatment

From ‘The Spider & I’ (1984) —Lynn Bullard #poetry #poem #booksky

Me want

Similarly, radio can function in the same way as podcasts, keeping people (me) company when they're alone. Too many radio stations now throw parties full of strangers in my kitchen instead of entertaining me.

Rother District Council say this company is organising a clean up. nurdle.org.uk

Swifts have declined 70% since 1994. They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites. A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings. The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it. Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.

A medieval lady rider sitting astride. Is she pregnant or is that her bundled skirt? #ridersonsmallhorses

Archaeologists at rest and reflecting on the important aspects of their craft

Yup. This works

Sat in my shorts and t-shirt in our living room, my wife with only 2 layers on. The heating has not come on today. It was 17C in Herts today, average 10C. Plants in the garden think it is spring 😱 Follow @extremetemps.bsky.social for more trauma. It is happening and it is awful!

Fabulous series

Something to keep in mind. China is presently the only major economy experiencing deflation. It's trying to export its way out, which will end up spreading its pain gradually to the rest of the world.

The new horse is lame, already. Probably age related but he's going to need the vet. I shall pray to the gods of medications and supplements for a solution and swift recovery before he gets fat again

Half of the 50 participants ... viewed paintings at the Courtauld Gallery in London, while the other half looked at copies of the works in a normal environment. What is a normal environment? I've never considered an art galley an abnormal environment. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

So - that Louvre robbery! We give you the inside gen in the latest episode of the podcast they could not stop! Also, we go to the pink party, and Bendy chastises me for liking Manet’s Olympia. I stand by my words! I am what I am! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge4F...

www.bing.com/maps have removed the Ordnance Survey layer from their maps. Boooooooo

Who said art isn't political.

www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

Are you a fan of Starlings? They don't get the amount of love they deserve, in my opinion! 😍🐦😊 #birds 🪶 Here's a blog post about all my bird products for Christmas! 😀⬇️ ko-fi.com/post/Lots-of...

An extra hour in the day Lovely

What a cool thing. Wonderful details #ridersonsmallhorses

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice? 🧵

That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp

German speakers, do you know what's written on the posters?

This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived. How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died. acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

The horse is giving us a bit of side eye

Bonfire night has arrived early in West Reading. So much noise this evening

Horse was clipped yesterday. He took off like a rocket as I was getting on and dumped me. I didn't even get into the saddle properly Owwwww. Nothing broken but now everything hurts Just waiting for the whiplash and bruising to settle in overnight and leave me crippled for a week.

This breakthrough is one step closer to making same-day genetic analysis available for patients in crisis. Specifically, the advance could make it easier to craft targeted treatments for critically ill babies in the neonatal intensive care unit based on their genetics. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

I can relate to that

Use shift right click

1776: The redbreast's note is very sweet, & pleasing; did it not carry with it ugly associations of ideas, & put us in mind of the approach of winter.

The fact that the "Beg Button" exists in so many cities is messed up. For the privilege of crossing the street, pedestrians are required to press a button, wait, and then scurry across while cars + trucks give them a few seconds of grace. Here's one I'd press in a second... 🧵

The planet has reached its first catastrophic climate tipping point. 160 scientists from 23 countries warn that unless global heating is cut to 1.2°C as fast as possible, warm-water coral reefs will vanish “at any meaningful scale.” The science is clear: We need to act now.

Riders with droopy moustaches and horses with curly tails #ridersonsmallhorses

Did someone say horse?

A profound rethinking of the history of #biodiversity. "In new view, plants did not colonize a barren wasteland, but rather world prepared for them over eons by the ancient and persistent activity of the fungal kingdom." scitechdaily.com/earth-was-a-...

Satanists! As there is no description of the Devil in the Bible he/she had to be invented by artists! They did a fabulous job of imagining the unimaginable. So in Art’s Most Satanic next Tuesday on Sky Arts at 9pm I throw caution to the waves and go Devil hunting! And I end up in weird places!

Literally crying... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’m back on the Beeb! Tune in tomorrow and come with me on an art historical adventure!

stop thinking right now

As I said a couple hours ago about a different fake video, you don't need to feel stupid if you fell for it. The entire internet is drowning in this AI shit. And there's no easy solution. We're just fucking cooked as a society.

I'm going to look out for this just for the Colin & Tilda combo