Trump's "deals" vs a proper negotiation

Restored late-medieval wall painting of St Clement with his anchor. (He was drowned by being thrown into the sea tied to an anchor). Church of St James the Great, South Leigh, Oxfordshire. 📸2026

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

Another home collapses into Atlantic, the 20th to fall in Buxton since September 2025

(cartoon Bill Bramhall) #politics

'Prachtkerl' #FotoVorschlag Perseus mit dem Haupt der Medusa dar und stammt von Benvenuto Cellini #ClassicMono #blackandwhite #statues

Definitely the cat deserves an Oscar. 🏆 😸

Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon by John Huston (1941)

As a bald Englishman abroad….rain doesn’t bother me! 😂🤣 It might bother Stormy though…were Daniels here in the south of France! #photography #marseille

This is important. FDA approved ensitrelvir, an oral antiviral, to prevent COVID-19 in people ages 12+ who have been exposed to the virus. A trial found it more than halved the risk of developing COVID-19 among household contacts of infected individuals. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

I might never leave.

You mean... that explosion could have been bigger?

The not obvious results of war : this is the last of black current nalyvka this Kyiv hidden bar has - Russia bombed the Kyiv warehouse of this brand with 30,000 bottles in it . It’s a local brand making the very local drinks - nalyvka - spirits on fruits . And it’s my favorite one

Morning Kitten

If gas taxes are for road maintenance and EV drivers should have to pay a similar fee, then gas drivers should also have to pay a separate carbon tax for their pollution.

So true it hurts

@ncgovernor.bsky.social Listen to the engineers, not the politicians. The Pinehurst roundabout, aka traffic circle, needs modernisation.

#EpigraphyTuesday This small vase, inscribed with the twenty-six letters of the #Etruscan alphabet, may have been a container for ink. The head acts as a stopper and could be attached to the bird’s body by a cord. The missing tail no doubt curved downward to form a third foot. 🐔

The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

The Eternal City

Los Angeles, California - A teenage Cher (then a seventeen year old runaway with a boyfriend named Sonny, more than 10 years her senior) at Gold Star studios. July 1963

Cartoon by @bishtoons.bsky.social

Popped into the British Museum to see my boo: I’ve been visiting the horse head of Selene (inspiration for chess pieces everywhere!) for over 40 years, but the older I get the more sure I am that she should be in Greece…

Olympias (c. 375–316 BC) was a daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, sister to Alexander I of Epirus, fourth wife of Philip II, the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia, and mother of Alexander the Great. #CelebratingWomen

Two men behind a juke joint in the Delta. One bottle. One harmonica. One man killing himself with whiskey while the other watched and couldn't stop it. Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson. Free on Substack. Link below. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

Torcello

Night sky

It’s the Second Time he has done this for our State! Thank You Stephen Colbert….

The UN Secretary-General has added Israeli security forces to a UN list of parties accused of sexual violence in conflict. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A pint of Shambles Dark. #York

The jacaranda trees are coming into their own right now. These are in a square down in Menton.

The Tower of London’s place in the City.

Some good news on the medical front.. Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients.. www.newscientist.com/article/2528...

Just in case you were wondering, our Bicentennial Celebration in 1976 was held in multiple venues, and the artists included: The Eagles Fleetwood Mac Loggins & Messina (Their final performance before splitting up) Dan Fogelberg Elton John The Beach Boys America Elvis Presley Bruce Springsteen 1/2

Made a soy, ginger, garlic and lime glaze to top this. Soooo much tastier than my usual Friday night pizza. 🤤🤤

Trust the women. They truthfully warned you.

New BYD Yuan Plus Hits Global Automotive Sweet Spot. When Will It Hit Global Markets? cleantechnica.com/2026/05/28/n...

In the Queens Larder, Bloomsbury- showed this pic to my my mate on BP tablets who quipped that he’d beat Arbroath’s goal record against Bon Accord if he was here

#Scape #Abstractia #Stress #AlphabetChallenge #Uniform #SensoryArt #Forgotten Suirokaku Aqueduct in Kyoto, Japan, built in 1890. #ECK #Aqueduct #Kyoto #Japan #Brick

“Less than half” are the minority who reads at a 6th grade level. These people believe a man was raised from the dead, but refuse to believe anything scientists based.

#RecipeOfTheDay is Coconut Shrimp with Turmeric Yogurt! It might not feel like the ideal weather for a spot of (even very small-scale) deep frying but, as Fiorello La Guardia once said, if the ends don’t justify the means, I don’t know what does. www.nigella.com/recipes/coco...

Unexpected Bugatti in Wisbech Tesco of all places.

This administration seems unmoved by art. There is no Shakespeare in their language, no Baldwin in their conscience, no Springsteen on their radios, no Swift in their playlists. And when leaders feel nothing for beauty, it’s the soul of a nation that suffers.

Au Chat Noir, Brussels 25/3/18

Princes Dock Hull. With Princes Dock Street #over-yonder #hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #urbangaze #cityscape #visithull

Vast wealth? He’s bankrupting the country.

When you're not entirely ready to face real life just yet, so you just stand in the bathroom wrapped in towel for a bit longer 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Anacreon, from Monte Calvo in Italy. 200AD, from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Thanks @jkimisyellow.bsky.social for sharing 😁

Bologna