St Michael & All Angels Church, #Alphington, #Exeter #Devon A fine Norman font with intersecting arches below & scroll roundels above. #FontsOnFriday #Romanesque

An epic early 12th century tub / barrel font featuring a crozier carrying St Michael (?) fighting 2 serpents / dragons / wyverns 🐉🤺🐉 St James church Avebury #Wiltshire 📷 Dec 2025 A #FontsOnFriday spectacular 🤩

The Lewis Chessmen These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀 From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

It’s my favorite day! #fontsonfriday

Sol 1694: Left Mastcam-Z Camera, acquired at 11:40:29.051 (local mean solar time), image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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St Leonard, Hatfield 11th century font. #fontsonfriday #flowersinchurches #flowersonfriday

Jupiter PJ33_29 Crop, Exaggerated Color/Contrast - From Brian Swift (bswift.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kUXkDV

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Tiny remnants of the past, atop an old cottage in Sherborne, Dorset.

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑 Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

Arguing neighbours on the 12thC font at St Mary the Virgin, Wansford. #FontsOnFriday

Hubble Checks out a Home for Old Stars - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/BQwDW2

The remarkable 12th century south doorway of the Church of St. Mary and St. David at Kilpeck in Herefordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Kilpeck #Herefordshire

The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/9a2kmG

Outcrop in South Séítah - sol 168 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mh3XPt

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Despite the extensive Victorian restoration, All Saints’, Ballidon still posses one very interesting medieval feature. Dating from the 14th century, the medieval font is covered in intriguing and eclectic carvings, including what is presumed to be a sheela na gig. 📷© CB Newham

Parallel - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qPjteo

AI chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social media go.nature.com/4hBqDrB

Morgan studied the genetic characteristics of fruit flies, which became the basis for the science of genetics.

Vertical Milky Way over the AAT / Vía Láctea vertical sobre el AAT - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/JeKHHQ

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The Baptistery #Siena #FontsonFriday

He bulldozed the White House during a government shutdown to build himself a ballroom, then sent a letter to the states saying that SNAP benefits for 42 million people may not go out in November to those who rely on it to eat.

See the top 10 teams in each class and how @HLpreps voted this week.

This photo of Trump destroying the White House, while he destroys our nation is going to be in the history books.

Farmers are struggling this fall despite a bountiful harvest. Production costs are high, crop prices are low and the trade war has closed off one of their biggest markets.

This stunning carving of Christ in Majesty was found face down in the floor of the north aisle at St John the Baptist, Barnack in the 1930s. It could possibly be as early as the 11thC or 13thC or somewhere in between.. Over 3ft high it's truly a thing of beauty #SundayStonework

The fabulous font from the Church of St. John the Baptist at Snape in Suffolk. The font dates to around 1500, and in one of the finest in the county. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Snape #Suffolk

More than 1,300 staffers at the health agency got notices they were fired — but more than half were reinstated. The cuts will hobble some divisions, employees say. n.pr/4n1JBbJ

The reassuringly solid 12th century magnesian limestone font at #Selby Abbey. It is one of the oldest items on the site. #FontsOnFriday #Yorkshire #ChurchCrawling 📷 my own

Barnard's Galaxy Deep Field - 29.5 Hours - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/23av3gA

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

Space may be a vacuum, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it's silent. 🎶 Celebrate World Space Week by listening to some ethereal sounds derived from the cosmos: buff.ly/MXNCPmr

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From Gaza to Ukraine to South Sudan, children play to deal with the stress — and find a moment of joy.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

St John the Baptist, Edlingham, Northumberland. The barrel-vaulted south porch protects an eroded 12th century doorway, with a slightly offset, smaller 17th century door.

14th century font on display at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. It’s original location is unknown, but if may have come from St. Mary’s Abbey, or St. John’s Hospital (both located in Cirencester). 📸 My on. #FontsOnFriday #Cirencester

Religion is declining worldwide in a predictable sequence - across generations, participation drops, then importance of religion, and later belonging. This is a broad model for understanding religious change around the world. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out WG president Danilyn Rutherford on NPR discussing what Donald Trump's Medicaid cuts mean for caregivers. the1a.org/segments/wha...

From @Facebook #octopus helping divert at work. #nature how can anyone eat farm such incredible animals?

So exhausting..

BREAKING: Over 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry says.

900 year old font in the Church of St Mungo, Dearham, Cumbria. Listing says it appears to have been a cushion capital, carved with dragons and symmetrical designs in scrolled panels. #FontsOnFriday