spectacular November light on the marsh for the afternoon walk

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

I’m listening to The dB's - Let's Live for Today - New York Rocker Sessions by WOMR Live on my WOMR Community Radio app! womr.org

I’m listening to Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Oh Well - Live At Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Tennessee / 2006 by WOMR Live on my WOMR Community Radio app! womr.org

I’m listening to Susanna Hoffs & Matthew Sweet - Gimme Some Truth by WOMR Live on my WOMR Community Radio app! womr.org

RIP Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay Helluva singer who worked with the Grateful Dead & Elvis and put up with a shitload of misogyny. Tough, special lady.

Farewell to Donna Jean Godchaux, who sang with the Grateful Dead throughout most of the 1970s. relix.com/news/detail/...

#OnThisDay - 3 November - in AD 361 Constantius II died. He had come to power in AD 337, but the final years of his reign saw increasing challenges, including from his own cousin Julian. #History 🏺 Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

A section of Rome’s mediaeval Torre dei Conti has collapsed while undergoing renovation, leaving one worker seriously injured.

#NowPlaying #JimCapaldi #ThatHiHat!! #SteveWinwood #ThatOrgan!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXGF...

“Rojas crunched a 105.3 mph laser to left…Miguel Rojas had NEVER BEFORE hit a 105-mph laser…He does not have the bat speed to hit a baseball 105 mph. And yet he did. In the biggest baseball moment of his life. And that tied the game. That’s baseball.” www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...

Analysis of the waterline mark and measurements confirms that the new-construction submarine Khabarovsk is closely related to the Borei-A (as expected), but also that it sits much lower in the water. This likely means that it has much less reserve bouyancy.

For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“If you get offered a salary less than £250K, you’re kind of the sad guy” London becomes ‘quant’ powerhouse as traders rake in revenues - on.ft.com/4nxBa8o

"This decision is brought to you by Salt Typhoon."

#OnThisDay - 30 October - in 39 BC Julia, only child of the emperor Augustus, was born. A key instrument of his dynastic designs, Julia was married three times; but was then exiled in 2 BC. #History 🏺 Image: RIC Augustus 405; Münzkabinett Berlin (18202492). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

The Princeton University numismatic collection integrated into the Nomisma.org Linked Open Data cloud, with almost new 3,600 coins! 💰 If you don’t know about the Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) project (my fav of all), with many 1000s of coins and types, check it out! numismatics.org/ocre/

#OnThisDay - 29 October - in AD 437 Valentinian III, the Western Roman Emperor, married Licinia Eudoxia. Eudoxia was the daughter of the Eastern Roman Emperor, Theodosius II. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC X Valentinian III 2023; ANS 1970.201.1. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#nowplaying on #musicsky I’m listening to Talking Heads - ‘Psycho Killer’ by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app! womr.org

Watch @thebeths.bsky.social make their US late night TV debut on @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social

#OnThisDay - 28 October - in AD 97 the Roman emperor Nerva adopted Marcus Ulpius Traianus (Trajan) as his heir, likely as a means of appeasing the army with whom Nerva was unpopular. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 88277); Type = RIC II Trajan 726. Link - khm.at/objektdb/det...

⚡(Anne Applebaum) "Tell jokes, lies, and amusing stories or publish sinister AI-made videos, not in order to get Americans to believe government statements but in order to make them distrustful of all statements. If they aren’t sure what the U.S. military is really doing, then they won’t object."⚡

Overall, unless you need a specific timetable (that was my situation here), the NE Regional is actually more comfortable and obviously WAY cheaper. I support rail travel. I was excited to see the new offering. Fire everyone involved, they failed the public big time. /FIN

#nowplaying on #musicsky Richard & Linda Thompson, ‘Shoot Out The Lights, 1982

Stop me if I am off base, here, but: Not sure that we want to learn how to manage our business rivals from *checks notes to make sure* a man assassinated by his rivals? www.management-issues.com/opinion/7761...

⚡️FT’s @katie0martin.ft.com (not behind paywall) on our fundamental interest in what Buffett famously described thusly: gold is dug up, melted down, and reburied, serving no practical purpose (no dividend), which he suggested would appear baffling to an observer from Mars. www.ft.com/content/5605...

Amy Rigby

#nowspinning on #vinylsky Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, ‘Live From The Ryman Vol. 2,’ 2024, Southeastern Records #vinyl #records #vinylcommunity #recordcommunity #nowplaying #musicsky

#nowspinning on #vinylsky The Replacements, ‘Tim,’ 1985, Sire Records, #RecordStoreDay Limited-Edition Swingin Purple #Vinyl, (Ed Stasium Mix). The ‘Mats: Paul Westerberg, 🎤🎸🎹 Bob Stinson, 🎸 Chris Mars, 🥁, backing 🎤 Tommy Stinson, bass 🎸 Alex Chilton, backing 🎤 on ‘Left of The Dial’ #musicsky

#nowspinning on #musicsky Bob Mould, ‘Here We Go Crazy,’ 2025, Granary Music Bob Mould: guitar, vocals, keyboards, drums Jason Narducy: bass John Wurster: drums, percussion 🎸🎤🎹🎸🥁 produced by Bob Mould all songs written by Bob Mould #nowplaying #vinyl #records #recordcommunity #vinylcommunity

On 9 September 1349 a devastating #earthquake shook #Rome. The façades of the eastern buildings of #TrajansMarkets fell into the street below, and the last house had to be completely rebuilt in what I would call opus incertissimum, including a #cipollino column for #SpoliaSunday. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Bad news for Western Europe. Strategically, Russia aims to sit astride the strategic ‘sea line of communication’ (SLOC), and for the first time be in a position to press its finger on pulse of world trade. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Why do we need historical literacy and critical thinking? Let’s just take one example: people thinking this is a picture of Obama’s White House.

I particular like the colours of Vesuvius looking as though someone has fashioned it out of a lump of smooshed-together-different-coloured Play-Doh.

One million trees: Rome mayor hails “unprecedented” forestation campaign for the "greenest city in Europe".

it's Nebraska '82 - Expanded Edition release day! buff.ly/OQWyW1S #springsteen

#OnThisDay - 23 October - in 42 BC the Caesarean forces defeated those of the Liberators at the Battle of Philippi, resulting in Marcus Junius Brutus taking his own life in the aftermath. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RRC 500/6; BnF (REP-21411). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...

#nowplaying on #musicsky I’m listening to Elvis Costello & The Attractions - ‘(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding’ by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app! womr.org

#nowplaying on #musicsky I’m listening to: Tom Petty - ‘Swingin' by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app! womr.org

The gallows humor of "Swinging Party" meets the last-call flourishes of endgame addiction, the Replacements final LP 'All Shook Down' subverts the preachy tedium of the sobriety album while making it clear the party is over. Bad last call choices. Good as Jackson Browne ever did. Running on empties.

#nowplaying on #musicsky I’m listening to Pixies - ‘La La Love You’ by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app! womr.org

#nowplaying on #musicsky I’m listening to John Lennon - ‘Mind Games’ by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app! womr.org

#nowplaying on #musicsky I’m listening to: Jeff Tweedy - ‘Forever Never Ends’ by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app! womr.org

#nowplaying on #musicsky I’m listening to: The Fathoms - ‘Fathom This!’ by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app! womr.org

#nowplaying on (copper) #bluesky Sugar, ‘Copper Blue,’ 1993, Granary Music #vinylcommunity #nowspinning #vinyl #recordcommunity #musicsky #vinylsky

#nowplaying on #musicsky I’m listening to: @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social ‘The Act We Act’ by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app! womr.org

#nowplaying on #musicsky I’m listening to Los Straitjackets - ‘Sentimental Fool’ by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app! womr.org

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