45 y/o, in a nightclub for first time in years. Young lad burst into the toilets & caught me furtively trying to open a little ziploc bag. He said "just a heads up, the bouncers come in here to check for drugs". Couldn't tell him it was my bag of googly eyes, to stick on a poster

“Our government insists we can fill these massive staffing shortages by training more native healthcare workers. We can’t. For one thing, we need more doctors, nurses, and care workers now, not ten years from now.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

Yeah they missed the roadkill top of the pyramid

I genuinely don't understand the existence of Dutch climate change denialists.

So many things are bad right now, but I interviewed @maggietokudahall.bsky.social about painting pigeons and small acts of survival. 📸 by @estefancy.bsky.social

i do not regret to inform you that biscuit loves her new house. she refuses to leave it

Cone nebula | Christmas tree (NGC2264) - This is still a work in progress. I’ve been imaging this nebula for about three weeks, fitting it in between unstable weather and other projects running in parallel. This is the emission signal mostly due to ionized hydrogen (Hɑ) >>> 🔭 #Astrophotography

Crack-brain-court!

Yup. For me it's ALWAYS been about the lies.

Wife: I found this picture of you The picture:

I could really use a sale, could you use an octopus dressed up like a cinnamon roll? ko-fi.com/quietnovastu... 🧶 #amigurumi #crochet #octopus #cinnamonroll #cinnamonbun #cinnamon #breakfast #ocean #brunch #SciArt #art #craft #bsnm

I love how this is the absolute polar opposite of the Dutch one, under which at least ⅔ of all meals should consist of supermarket sliced wholemeal bread with margarine on it.

✨Opal is ready for her close-up! This confident and curious otter explores the world with her teeth. Behind Opal’s fluffy whiskered face is a powerful bite rivaling the king of the jungle! 🦁

A friend who's into Magic: the Gathering sent me this, and I can't get over how GOOD it is.

This is how enjambment can work in a poem. Bridge 77 on the Macclesfield Canal allows a horse to cross the canal without having to untie it from the canal boat.

In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers. "A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.

My art for Ocelot Pride was revealed today! I’m so honored that I got to create something for a Magic the Gathering card that is popular with many players!

Our friend Bustamente's Tree Toad lives in the Amazon basin of Peru! They are also known as the Amazonian Tiny Tree Toad and grow to less than an inch long! They spend a lot of their time in trees but return to ponds to breed! (photo by Claude Kolwelter)

The thread is getting long so I'm going to continue it over here. Raising about another $700 or so if I can. I appreciate all the looks and shares.

There’s so much Miller on the timeline, cleansing with Dolly Parton and a cat ✨

If you missed it when it first came out, here it is: www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

mate, cmon. sort yourself out.

I think we are really gonna come to treasure cute animal and baby videos from the past because we can know they are real.

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

I'm posting this for no other reason than goats Well, solar's a pretty good reason, too And also, solar is the GOAT

There needs to be a word for when you're really sick with flu, you get out of bed for water or something and it feels like an epic quest, and just how good it feels to get back into bed.

Dog's bar, Paris, 1940s. Photo by Tore Johnson. digitaltmuseum.se/021015930847... Interesting mosaic!

I never remember which slang words mean breasts and which mean buttocks, which can lead to some very odd mental images.

Quick, does anyone know of a way to nip a potential flu-like illness in the bud? Cough, chills and aching kidneys so far. (Have been vaccinated against Covid.)

It's Their Time

OK, I was wrong. It wasn't Mick then. #TheArchers

You know those vet's examining tables with the built-in scale? I want a worktop like that.

Share and Enjoy!

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

oh my dear holy fuck this is apparently not AI

Golly, it's the People Who Can't Cook Meetup Group.

Mini painting goals

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And at the moment has a rather fetching alligator companion on it!

"Despair is a sin."

OK now I am in favour of trad masculinity

Tired: leopard print Wired: trout print (I would seriously wear this, which would be very amusing in a country where leopard print is an extremely popular item of ladies' fashion)

Fuck everything, I'm making cornbread

I would invite Tony Robinson's Sheriff of Nottingham, Walt Disney's Sheriff of Nottingham, and Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham. For Chongqing hotpot. It would be AMAZING.

Pro tip: If you have a go at a stranger in a pub, don’t do it in a pub which literally named a beer after me.

International Twist Your Seatpost Day https://www.guyjeanbikes.com/2026/01/02/international-twist-your-seatpost-day/ Happy International Twist Your Seatpost Day to all who celebrate! And that should include everyone who has a seatpost. It’s very simple to play along: Loosen your seatpost clamp […]

The best argument against imperialism in all its forms actually requires reading exactly zero Lenin, requires exactly zero ideologically doctrinaire Marxian thought. It is simply the principle you were supposed to be taught as a child: not everything is my business. Other people's shit is not mine.

This Tokyo subway poster warning passengers not to rush onto trains gets updated every year to match the Chinese zodiac. (This year it’s the year of the horse.)

'Look Back 3 Red' - Ono Tadashige, 2003. #Caturday #JapaneseArt