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Jacques Tilly, Germany’s best known maker of political carneval floats is on trial today in Moscow (he’s safe in Germany). These are some of his floats of the past years.

If you’re watching the Artemis II launch, I can not recommend enough TIME’s fantastic cover story about the crew and the mission by Jeffrey Kluger, the best space journalist in the biz time.com/7346146/arte...

After a HECTIC day at work, my message to you is this: find someone or something in life that makes you feel like this.

Some tips from Mad As Hell if you need petrol in regional Australia, 2019. (I’m the idiot on the bike)

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa. My oh my...

RIP Glen Baxter. No one understood cowboys and art better.

Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP

A statement on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association regarding James Hillier aka Nordacious and the QLD Government:

If Atlanta hosts, say, Netherlands v England the piss problem will make General Sherman's visit to the city look like NBD...........

Advocating for increased fossil fuel dependence during a fossil fuel supply crisis is quite something. #insiders

But kings and mightiest potentates must die, For that’s the end of human misery.

I suspect their pricing knows... NO LIMITS SORRY. (Not sorry.)

This Nasca ceramic bottle is in the shape of a monkey that looks like she’s having an existential crisis. Quelle horreur! In reality, she’s eating a pepino melon from a shrub in the nightshade family (like tomatoes). The hole in her head whistles when the bottle is filled. 🏺 1/ #MetMuseum 📸 me

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

Scenes from “Star Wars: Revenge of the Chick” being filmed on our Island

Photographer Kristin Jensen Huset captured a rare cloud #iridescence over #Norway. Cloud iridescence occurs when #sunlight is diffracted by tiny water #droplets or ice #crystals in thin #clouds, separating the light into soft, shimmering hues. 📸: @travelwith_kristin

Lithuanian PM Ruginienė: opening Taiwanese Representative Office has brought no benefits from Taipei “What did this bring us? Exactly zero benefit from Taiwan and a significant negative one from China,” Ruginienė said in an interview with Lrytas.lt.

Wonder if they’ll do better in the ratings with the beeb content?

Somebody convince me not to eat a slice of lasagna in between two slices of garlic bread A lasagndwich

"How are you all doing over there in Reykjavik?" We're on our fourth straight day of snow, 90 cars are stranded in the mountains, there was an earthquake swarm offshore, and the volcano is in a will-it-or-won't-it-erupt holding pattern. So, pretty much normal. #iceland #weather #geology

My daughter to her dad “It’s good you weren’t in business class” (we never fly business class)

Cyclone Narelle is making the case for one of the most incredible / unique Australia storm tracks on record. The storm originally made landfall in far northern Queensland on March 20, and is now forecast to outline most of the entire northern & western coasts of the country.

An amazing gold bowl with depictions of animals, crescent moons and cirlcles representing suns and/or full moons. It was discovered in 1906 during the construction of a railway line in Zurich-Altstetten, Switzerland. Dating around 1000 BC. With a weight of 910 grams it's... 🧵1/2 📷 me

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

What happens when egotistical fools and dilettantes are given their heads…

#kakapo chick Gale-A3-2026 during a health check at Gale's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. A week old, it's growing fast, putting on about 25% of its body weight per day. Tracking chicks' weight is one of our key measures of health assessment. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

So Qld’s reached the stage of arresting pensioners for holding a sign, just like the UK did.

Emotional support valkyries

It's Map Commission Thread time! Do you need a map? Or want one? I can help! I make my living drawing custom maps on commission. And I am taking commissions *right now*! There's more info at my website: surprisedeelmaps.com Most of my maps are for history books. Here are some examples! (1/5)

"The situation is very difficult. There's no water, there's nothing at all. Things are really tough in Bălți." More than 300,000 people in Moldova have been left without drinking water following Russia's attack on the Dniester HPP in Ukraine.

Geoffrey Watson on ABC Late Night Live reflecting on NACC Robodebt report, his involvement in drafting the NACC Act: • Says minutes of executive meeting under Brereton 'expressed a misunderstanding of its jurisdiction'. • NACC 'scared of stepping out of line', a 'culture created by the leader':

Me? Oh I’m just a Roman glass pig hanging out and chillin’. 🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Glass Museum, Cologne #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Portland pothole artists are seriously my favorite people. If you know one or are one and would be willing to talk about your craft, please DM

Tropical Low 34U (expected to be named Narelle this evening) over the northern Coral Sea, tracking towards Cape York Peninsula. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...

Here's a weird but true fact: The enamel on these teeth is older than the bones (evolutionarily speaking). Enamel began as the hard outer layer of ancient fish scale, a substance called "ganoine". Over time, this skin armor became... well, teeth armor🦷. Let's talk about the Outside-In hypothesis.

Such a great place to visit if you ever have a trip to Copenhagen. The time I was lucky enough to go, they had an exhibition of Picasso, focussing on the war years with Guernica.

Anne Bancroft at home in Greenwich Village finding out she has won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker, 1963

Also, buried in the article—Lord Howe Island is now rat-free and the bird population has rebounded SPECTACULARLY—Black-winged Petrels went from under 3% breeding success rate to 67%! mousefreemarion.org/australias-l...

As pointed out by many significant naval capacity is required for convoy/escort operations through the Strait of Hormuz in the current threat level Since 1988 the number of Western warships with escort/convoy capability has been reduced with up to 75% 1/4

In search of Banksy www.reuters.com/investigates...

Realised that a) today is the eleven year anniversary of Tones chomping into an onion; and b) the event has its own Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ab...

Just when I thought no more missing 1960s episodes of DOCTOR WHO would be recovered, two of the most sought-after episodes go and get recovered.

Happy birthday Barbara Feldon 📷 Neal Barr "Don Adams and I stood on our marks, a buzzer sounded, red lights flashed, the director called 'Action' and we became 'Max' and '99,' which was effortless for me, because Don’s energy was like a rocket blasting off with me attached."

Once again the Trump administration will need its European allies who have multiple times the US Navy’s mine clearing capacity. Turns out that for fighting wars in the Middle East, the US needs its European allies. No matter who sits in the White House.

The Kenny Everett Television Show (11th March 1982). Kenny welcomes the Bee Gees to the show.

NEW MAP MEN VIDEO!!!!! 🗺️ ...in which Mark and I play another game of GeoGuessr travelling to the real places. Will Mark get his revenge? Share and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tO2...

From Australia, Mar 1959: Kingaroy Peanuts ad from The Peanut Marketing Board (+Peanut Butter and Rocky Mountain Cake) «Eat "KINGAROY" PEANUTS for your Health's sake and win BIG MONEY too... IN THE "WOMEN'S WEEKLY" PEANUT RECIPE COMPETITION»

A very unique earthenware relief sculpture by Les Atelier du Bac on the facade of St Jean de Montmartre Catholic School, 31 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 #paris #art #facadeart #school #catholic #lesatelierdubac #ceramic #earthenware #pottery #montmartre #paris18 #saintjean