Dunnottar Castle near Stonehaven (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up. A Keith family stronghold built over earlier wooden buildings burnt down by William Wallace in 1297. Site used for the filming of Mel Gibson's Hamlet in 1990. #DunnottarCastle #ScottishCastles

Seongsan Ilchulbong Sunrise Park, Jeju, South Korea #SouthKorea

Can I get the big salad?

THESE ISLES: Irish astronomy writer Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907), born in Skibbereen, County Cork, developed an early interest in stars by looking through her father’s telescope. Her book ‘A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century’ remains a classic. 1/8

Here is the image, via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, that stirred the White House's ire

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

Bosnian satirist Dr. Nele Karajlić recently claimed that the entire Yugo rock scene of the 1980s was created by the socialist State; but what if he isn't joking? The Yugoslav Psy-Op That may have Given us #Laibach… and Inspired Rammstein buff.ly/QT6Cu3y

The German Type XXIII coastal U-boat U-2326 surrenders at Dundee Harbour, navigating into the Tay Estuary after WW2 ended. May 14, 1945.

The perfect Sunday morning thread "so we 'ad a cup of tea"

British illustrator Peggy Fortnum was the first artist to give a visual form to Paddington Bear, the marmalade-loving bear from “darkest Peru.” Her whimsical drawings helped make Paddington an instantly recognizable & beloved character worldwide. She died #OTD in 2016. #artsky #WomensHistoryMonth

93 S MM 10.0 🕒 7:39 PM - 9:07 PM ET 🌡️ 31°F | Partly Cloudy 📍: 42.853976,-71.317663

Now that I'm a dad I use this all time. Usually in tandem with "you can tell the buggers that don't have to pay the bills in this house"

Joe Jordan is back in Greenock - where he started his career with Morton before going on to play for clubs such as Leeds, Manchester United and AC Milan. Great to meet the legend this morning. What a man! ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Happy weekend! 🦛 ❤️ Ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Today in 1954 at Bikini Atoll, the United States conducted Castle ROMEO, its third-largest thermonuclear weapon test (11 Megatons, a proof test of the Mark-17 bomb) and the first detonated on a barge (inside the March 1 BRAVO crater, because testing was rapidly vaporizing the atoll’s coral islands).

The EC-17 was a free-fall gravity bomb. It had inherently dangerous arming and fuzing systems and no drogue parachute to slow its descent. Given the bomb’s high yield, the lack of a parachute created a greater-than-usual risk to the delivery aircraft—the massive B-36 bomber—if it had ever been used.

Spectacular preview of Alien from Heavy Metal magazine 1979

Jackson Hole, 3/26/2026, 2:15:10 PM

Smokefree Scotland: a public health success story that continues to shape the nation’s wellbeing. theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/25/s...

You'd cross the street if you saw this lot heading your way

#DundeeUnited #DundeeUtd (1974).

oh my goodness ❤️

picture, thousan words, etc etc

#SeriousBunnetry - At Bayview c. 1930.

The army caved in the ‘00s and started offering dental insurance to guard and reserve soldiers because of the atrocious rates of non-deployables we had due to the abhorrent state of the nation’s healthcare/health insurance system

A great example of just much of a headache military leaders throughout history have had in dealing with the simple act of getting their soldiers to poop in the right place (Source: “The Gentlemen and the Roughs,” Lorien Foote, p. 52)

This is Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America, enjoying the sun outside 5 Sydenham Road, Glasgow some years after the civil war. Having previous business connections, he was invited there to recuperate after his long term imprisonment for treason. (From Facebook)

Guess what! Turns out I’m not ‘busy’ after all! @markradcliffe.bsky.social @thejase.bsky.social @philwilliamsradio.bsky.social 👊💥👇🏼

Loanhead of Daviot Stone Circle. Don't know if this counts for #StandingStoneSunday

PARTNERS IN PROSPERITY (1980)

Fantastic thread on the artist Jacob Vrel. These pictures look straight forward at first glance but there's something off or unsettling going on. Some are down right scary! Can I offer a link to an article as well as I had to go and read about Vrel www.dailyartmagazine.com/a-dutch-myst...

A sad story somewhere here. Is the cradle empty? Why no fire in the hearth? I worry. Fortunately she has a cat. And a dog! Also fascinating but impersonal window geometry from Jacob Vrel.

Spring has sprung in the Northern Hemisphere! In early spring, seabirds begin to nest along the cliffs of the Kitsissut Islands between Greenland and Canada. For almost 4500 years, Indigenous people have made the dangerous water crossing to hunt them. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Front room of sparse, clean home. Mother delousing daughter's hair. Boy wedged between halves of door, looking into street. Thinking. By Jacob Vrel, whose day is today.

Your UD match this weekend will be East Grinstead Town vs AFC Croydon Athletic in the Isthmian League Division One South-East, and I swear to L Ron Hubbard that I've lost my mind by choosing this particular place on this particular weekend. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/words-and-...

Wyatt Earp was born Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp 178 years ago today

The latest excellent episode of The Man from Uncle courtesy of @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. The Dove Affair, starring Ricardo Montalban and written by Robert Towne!

128th anniversary today of this rather important story appearing in the Lawrence Daily Journal, Kansas

30 years ago today The Beatles (Britpop’s most important forebears) released the second album of their Anthology collection. David Quantick was suitably impressed! @quantick.bsky.social

Does someone want to let Lake Michigan know it's springtime?

Current* conditions near Sturgeon Bay, WI:

RIP Len Deighton. #booksky

Barbara Loden's WANDA as a neo-noir and a new book on the art of Renato Fratini - my latest Substack newsletter is live and free to read at the link below. andrewnette.substack.com/p/barbara-lo...

Love this version of Car Wash Hair performed by Jonathan and Grasshopper from Mercury Rev plus Dean & Britta youtu.be/c9JlYusC_dE

Dear God get Michael Stewart tae fuck. Can that havering cunt not just shut the fuck up. #PremierSports #DundeeDerby #DunvDunUtd

44 years ago today Siouxsie and The Banshees - in session for Kid Jensen - March 15, 1982 #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #gothpunkrock #siouxsiesioux #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Nice. Let's rack up that score #6Nations