Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped

Caught the "golden hour" yesterday.

morning

Happy Birthday! Did you know that Pontius Pilate is said to have been born in Fortingall in Perthshire. The Royal Scots regiment was nicknamed Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard. Though they claimed that if they had been on guard, the body of Christ would not have left the tomb. #folklorethursday

First of the year. There are actually three in bloom.

Carlo Ginzberg is dead. The giant of microhistory. If you don't know his book The Cheese and the Worms, seek it out. When I first read it as a student it changed my sense of what history-writing could do. I had the pleasure of hearing him speak in Stockholm - via zoom - last year. A brilliant mind.

On a chilly June morning with the rain battering off the roof, something bright from earlier this year.

Sony has patented a controller with buttons that harden when you play with it www.eurogamer.net/sony-control...

Latest "Art to Keep Me Sane". DH Dreaming. An absolute [expletive deleted] to photograph due to it all being done in fluorescents and metallics.

George Smiley's age revealed in new Le Carré:

I hope all my friends are planning to be either Gladys or Harry.

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 20/20 La Trinità con tre membri della famiglia Datini - Niccolò di Pietro Gerini - c1400-10

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 19/20 The Marchesa Casati - Augustus John - 1919

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 18/20 The Fall of Icarus-Henri Matisse - 1943

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 17/20 Bird Superior-Portrait of Max Ernst - Leonora Carrington - 1939

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 16/20 Portrait of a Boy - John Quinton Pringle - 1910

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 15/20 The Adoration of the Magi - Bartolo di Fredi -c1390

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 14/20 Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool - Edward Wadsworth - 1919

"...man". Particularly groovy roadworks on the M6 (Southbound) yesterday.

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 13/20 Portrait of Marguerite McBey - James McBey - 1950

Move over Ed Milliband

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 12/20 No 1 Map Corridor - Eric Ravilious - 1941

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 11/20 Autumn Equinox - Jamie Reid - undated

What is a mandalorian and what is a grogu? wrong answers only! A Mandalorian is an unsuccessful 80s stringed instrument with four sets of double strings and a stainless steel body. A Grogu is someone with a large following on social media who claims to be an expert on the care of houseplants.

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 10/20 Le Rêve -Henri Rousseau - 1910

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/artists you’ve seen live: Cornelius Damned Dead Kennedys Einsturzende Neubauten Foo Fighters John Martyn Napalm Death Pixies Sonic Youth Swans

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 9/20 Le lever du soleil - Joan Miró -1940

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 8/20 The Red Tower - Giorgio de Chirico - 1913

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 7/20 The Building of a Palace - Piero di Cosimo - c1521

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 6/20 Untitled - Jean-Michel Basquiat - 1982

Anyone know why cats have a default setting of "human on stairs, much reach out & attack from landing"? I've just made 6 trips whilst tidying up and Pico has attacked 5/6. The other time he followed me down and back up at zoomie speed. No pics, but here's Fudge about to do the same 40+ years ago.

🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Eco-Socialist Economic: collectivist Social: strongly progressive Sovereignty: strongly cosmopolitan Military: leaning anti-interventionist Authority: libertarian Constitutional: reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 5/20 The Yellow Glove - James Cowie - 1928

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 4/20 The Stoning of St Stephen - Adam Elsheimer - c1603-4

Middlemarch, Middle*******march!?! There's rage-bait and then there's Guardian ragebait! 🤣 www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 3/20 Coventry Cathedral 15 November 1940 - John Piper - 1940

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 2/20 Wood on the Downs - Paul Nash - 1929

So, if he doesn't get the numbers over the weekend, does anyone have the odds on Streeting defecting to Reform? 😁 Might be worth putting a tenner on it.

#20ArtworksChallenge Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - No particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just #art 1/20 Charles Conder - Sketch for 'Aux Ambassadeurs: Gens Chics' - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1893

I can't be having you do stuff.

When NY was both cool and a shithole. youtu.be/Mmm3KTa601s?...

Inside of me are three dogs: 1. A Golden Labrador who wants to know where the sixth egg fried rice has gone. 2. A Braco Italiano who is going to follow the scent for 500 miles when the rabbit is 3 feet away. 3. A Springer Spaniel with an IQ of 150 who knows that playing stupid is where its at.

A pneumatic goblet designed by Ismail al-Jazari in the 13th century. When the goblet is filled with wine, the duck on top begins to scream and rotate before stopping with its beak pointed at a random partygoer. It doesn't stop screaming until the chosen person has drained the goblet completely.

Won't someone think of the people with £900k houses in Scotland 😢. I just checked house prices in Elgin. The most expensive on the market in town: a 4 bed, 3 bath, 3 reception Victorian villa for £695k.

I'm gonna need a smaller violin.

Happy Beltane Eve, Walpurgisnacht, May Eve or St James’ Eve depending on your celebration. It’s certainly a glorious evening here in Elgin and forecast to be a glorious day tomorrow, so anyone thinking of recreating traditional celebrations here has a nice night for it. 1/5

“not to point fingers but-“