This is weird, but I guess it's simply using what's possible for a game on the web. Never difficult if you are familiar with the material. Rankle #307 1/4 “The road goes ever on” 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 www.rankle.app

So now godlike Sarpedon's spirit impelled him to make a rush at the wall and break through its battlements. At once he addressed Glaucus, son of Hippolochus: 'Glaucus, why are we two especially honoured in Lycia with the best seats and cuts of meat, and ever-full wine-cups, 1/

Je déclare ouverte ma liste personnelle de one-panel-comics préférés. Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.

This is lovely. How genAI is gaslighting our souls.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Xenophon: I was unexpectedly dumped in the desert and had to walk home.

Time to watch "Vice" again. It covers the periods with wry flair.

Seasonable, but from nineteen seasons ago. Swansea, Wales, 2006. Retina II, Superia 200.

1/6. Because that church was exactly where I expected it to be.

Sigh ... what we have lost.

Tried to log into a gov uk site using their new app, but ... couldn't download the app because ... my smartphone is ... too old. Nine years old, ffs, and it's considered useless for official business ?????

Making pastry is killing my left thumb. Damned osteoarthritis. But it will be worth it.

I'd have been embarassed had I failed on my 100th round, though tbh, this is actually a suburb of the city and not the usual 'city centre'. But, there are unmistakeable signs to look out for of architecture across the centuries. So, nice.

It wasn't slow, it was very wrong. Johnson argued we'd stay open, he was quick off the mark with this very wrong policy set. He's pretending they were inept and slow, the reality is they were calculating and sociopathic in their pursuit of herd immunity via. mass infection using children as vectors

It's incredible how long it can take for stories like this to come into the open. It's truly an interesting one.

The little pleasure boats suggested what I needed to look for. It didn't take too long. 1/6.

Feeling sorry for any little bugs that wander around the studio. I had to blow one away from the top of a mould just as I was about to pour some hot wax. It would have died a horrible death.

Be prepared for the wave.

"The Arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them…. Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due." Wot Winston said. Hard (or stupid) to disagree.

It's a very thorough read, filled with details you wouldn't expect.

Worth reading to see if you can see yourself in this.

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon.... And why it was finally time to leave. Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

NOT cool. Really not cool. 3/6.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Very satisfying to add up the evidence for a location. 1/6.

And here is a junior male baboon standing on his hands and waving his willy to attract the attention of tourists who might throw food in his direction. He knew what he was doing!

It's the birthday of a great grand-uncle who was born in 1854. His siblings were born in various naval dockyards in England or else in the Caribbean. George was born in the middle of the South Atlantic, some days before docking in Cape Town. Anybody else born at sea?

Never fret over perfection or folks would have nothing to talk about. Seated portrait in Chavant wax in a PLA frame, 78x73mm. Almost ready for moulding.

Fuckit, I am muting the word 'farage' again. It's just a waste of attention.

Your occasional reminder that *monolingualism*, while limiting, if not also at times debilitating, is curable.

Some news: the two spiders that crawled onto me when I went outside and then wandered off when I got back to my desk have now been safely released into the wild.

3/6 I'd have had it in 1, but for that new flyover which opened last year. There's no sign of construction on the Unzoomed map so I guess it must be prior to 2018. But always nice to recognise the colour of the soil and the probable French influence in city planning. Oh well.

Neither sharp nor clear, but a grab shot of a 1992 Michelin map on the wall (ST PETERBURG, anyone?), showing road and ferry trips in and around Europe from the '60s to the '90s, scribbled before the WebAge began. Hitch-hiking jaunts or hops from one job to another. Other continents came later.

Is it only me that realises Tylenol is an anagram of Epstein?

I'm struggling with this one. Nope, nothing comes to mind. Nothing at all.

The grid, the traffic, and a nice straight river. 1/6.

I’m pleased to have a few images in this years British Photography Awards. If you like the photo, please do throw me a vote at the link below! is.gd/5GO57n

Who knows the name of a bar in #Chicago in the early 70s that had a large back room for #Blues guitarists and singers? It was well-known, but the web is not coming up with anything.

Patience if you don't know Dutch - THERE'S VISUALS. 😆

The most important graph you'll come across this decade.

1/6. Is it a game? Is it a quiz? Nah, just an excuse to look at maps. I happen to like maps, even more now that we have satellites showing immense detail.

Isn't it time we changed the spelling to WENSDAY. Think how many microseconds might be saved globally and put to some other good use.

This is good. Creepy content, obviously.

My introduction to politics was probably the battle between the Cake Bakers of Lerne and the Shepherds of Grangousier, where arrogant rudeness and a refusal to trade freely provoked war between two kingdoms. In 'Gargantua and Pantagruel' by François Rabelais.

1/6. Because I had a very good idea of where to look. One of those places that have stunning visuals when you get down to ground level.

One positive in watching The Kominsky Method a second time is that you see how well-rounded and balanced the script is. Done well.

This is a great episode of @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s new podcast and shows how easily we can reframe the debate on immigration and tackle the rise of far right thinking in our govt and media High recommend spending 25 mins of your life listening to this podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

A story to remember.

"Being human and being hurt are the same damn thing." It's a quote, OK.

Bookmarked.

Silence. And that's following a text a few days ago advising me to get exited about the vibration.