Two recovery helicopters awaiting the crew’s exit from the capsule. fr24.com/RCVRY12/3f2a...

Recreate your own Artemis splashdown with three Tunnocks teacakes and a Nespresso pod

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

I’ve survived the Artemis splashdown and the stress of all the potential Challenger moments but it seems that I now can’t go to bed until I’ve actually seen the astronauts come out.

Murphy

Is The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien cheating? If I have to pick, either At Swim-Two-Birds or The Third Policeman.

The Third Policeman

It’s gotten very serious out there—so let’s try and lighten the mood #funniestirishbooks:

WHAT! Apparently a piece of the Wright Brothers' plane (first powered flight in 1903) is on the Artemis II's Orion spacecraft! It's a 1 square inch swath of muslin fabric on loan from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. 🥺

This painting, a 1927 piece by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, is called Limits of Reason (also known as Grenzen des Verstandes, or The Bounds of the Intellect).

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so. But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging. It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening. (Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

David Bowie’s Let’s Dance single was at number 1 in the UK top 40 singles chart on this day in 1983.

‘Woolf took that very seriously: that Plato is right. That’s what human life is like; you can’t capture it. If you try to shine bright light on it, then you’ve destroyed it.’ Jonathan Rée on 𝘛𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, an extended extract from our Close Readings podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

This was The Beatles’ final public performance — their legendary rooftop concert on January 30, 1969.The show wasn’t publicly announced, so it took everyone by complete surprise. Crowds quickly gathered on the streets and nearby rooftops as the Fab Four rocked Savile Row

This reminds me of The West Wing episodes when they discuss the presidential image created by coat on/off at events: the need for a president and opposing candidate to compete on most energetic and healthiest. Mamdani vs POTUS is an underlying stark binary here.

The horror! The horror!

Melina Matsoukas to direct Octavia E. Butler’s classic “Parable of the Sower” for Warner Bros

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

‘Government needs to recognise failure of water privatisation’ – Feargal Sharkey www.channel4.com/news/governm...

Good morning! I'm getting texts letting me know that people who signed up for alerts are able to preorder today!! Preorders officially open tomorrow. www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...

Vavilov crater on the Moon, taken by Artemis II. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography #ArtemisII

Scientists develop AI tool to spot heart failure risk five years before it strikes

Tunnel Vision Taken at Tottenham court road London Underground station.

Billie Holiday was born #OTD in 1915. 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺 was one of the most influential #jazz singers of the 20th century. Her unmistakable voice--smoky, intimate, emotionally raw + her unique ability to manipulate phrasing & tempo forever changed the way jazz & pop vocals are performed. #JazzSky #musicsky

US photographer, film-maker, musician and author Gordon Parks created a groundbreaking body of work that made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. ‘Gordon Parks: The South in Colour.’

This is probably one of my favourite Artemis II images. Tiny Earth setting behind the Moon as taken from the far side. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotogtaphy #ArtemisII

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

This is the famous painting Red Balloon (German: Roter Ballon), created in 1922 by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee.

'The Little Tree', The Dove, Hammersmith by Roy Glanville (1911–1965) (Grundy Art Gallery)

This week in '85: ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ was released as a single in the UK.

#FilmNoir In a Lonely Place (1950)

“But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow.” —Chinua Achebe

Earthset captured from Artemis II Orion spacecraft during the Moon flyby. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography #ArtemisII

Solar Eclipse from Artemis II Orion. Taken during the Moon flyby. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography #ArtemisII

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.

Architect of the Easter Rising, hanged as a traitor: for Roger Casement, a pardon still seems far away | Rory Carroll

Carroll ♥️

‘If the stories were simply hazy nostalgia for bohemian New York, that would be one thing, but they are informational, like a stacked pantry of concrete detail.’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social on Willa Cather. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The #Artemis II crew are now further from home than any humans ever. 🌍 The record of 400 171 km was previously held by the Apollo 13 mission 🚀🌕. Astronaut Reid Wiseman “We choose this moment to challenge the current & next generation to make sure this record is not long lived”

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

Omg @alexckaufman.bsky.social @heatmap.news 😂😂😂😂😂

if anyone has just found me because they saw a post about my book, you may be interested to know that I make a lot of my work freely available in the form of online talks! You can find a playlist here of about 50!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2te...

Easter egg (and yes, it is a painting) Artist: Harry Wingfield from First Picture Book, 1971) Happy Easter

Bette Davis, 1931. #botd

This week's theme was London Landmarks. Hope you enjoyed it. Take a look at the timeline over the last week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.

O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

'The Day of Rest.' (1926) Although he was one of the most original artists working in England in the first quarter of the 20thC, Frederick Cayley Robinson remains an obscure figure. He spent several years in Florence studying Giotto and Michelangelo.