Is there a better way to start the day than by immersing yourself in a small section of William Faden's 1819 revision of Richard Horwood's "PLAN of the Cities of LONDON and WESTMINSTER the Borough of SOUTHWARK, and PARTS adjoining Shewing every HOUSE"? No, I don't think so either...

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (228.31485, 40.51875). 51 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

"We aren't super heroes. We are four ordinary women.” #OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1996, Andrea Needham, Joanna Wilson, and Lotta Kronlid break into a BAE aerodrome and damage a Hawk warplane destined to be used by Indonesia’s regime in East Timor. #BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD 🗃️ 1/4

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Boris Karloff on the set of The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). 📷 Roman Freulich

i love that rightwingers genuinely seem to believe that political ideology is a set genetic inheritable trait

Leeds, 1954, photo by Marc Riboud. Young French photographer on his first assignment for Picture Post.

this may be controversial, but i think we should be much more skeptical of life advice offered up by people in their early twenties.

Having lived in my own tiny home, they are: - painfully loud (zero sound insulation) - cold - hot - breezy - leaky - unsuitable for bush fire or flood prone areas - prone to mould and rust

a 1/144 model of the "Titov V" spaceplane from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY this appears briefly in the novel, and in the movie script - but made it to screen only as a blurry model on a desk in the space station's Hilton Hotel (Aeroflot cabin crew are visible in the scene) 1/2

Don't miss it! It's free to attend our Print the Legend Spotlight event on 27-28 Feb online, and we have the full conference, in person in Kelowna, BC Canada and also online, so do join us! We are still accepting papers for the AvCultures Conference in June, for details, see below!

It’s terrific to share and expand on a peer’s insight - rare when we’re BOTH Jameses, ha! Do come along to hear and several other experts (not called James) at the forthcoming ‘Print the Legend’ free online Spotlight. Join us for the Q&A there too!

'London' (commission for Great Western Railway, 1932) by Charles Pears (National Railway Museum)

Chat is this good

channel 7 news right now blaming the rise in interest rates on the Barmy Army

"Seven individuals have left us a legacy--live, love, laugh, learn. I can think of no better tribute to them than to follow their example." -Doris Grigsby, #NASA program officer, on the #Challenger disaster, 40 years ago today. (Science & Children, 3/86) #histSTM #Challenger40 #OnThisDay #AdAstra 🚀

Watching Red Dawn, and just thinking how much the makers of this film's heads would explode if they learned how NATO is likely to dissolve (it doesn't start with Russians taking advantage of food riots)

Victorianisation has reached Canberra. This sounds bad. I take it everyone is saying celery and salary the same way there now??

That it's a cop on vacation makes this more likely to be Die Hard In A Ski Resort than Under Siege In A Ski Resort, imho. But that could change if special forces experience and/or martial arts training are also in play

“The discomfort comes from the fact that historians are often disrupting or destroying connections people have already made between the past and the present, connections that may be based on no evidence at all, but that are an integral part of how they understand what the world is like…”

Jesus Christ you freak, they’re just my neighbors

“Never again” is simply that; not “Never precisely that set of circumstances for exactly the same people again”.

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

The historian in me feels oddly incensed at the 1911 Parliament Act being called 'archaic'. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

“ANZUS has slipped from being an opportunity for a chat to a continuing display of Australian subservience and servile support for US military power.” - Allan Behm, Advisor, International & Security Affairs Program, The Australia Institute Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4q8vEdP

proposal: maximum age limit for social media. if you're above it and online you get hellbanned to endless pvp against stateless bots

this is good. we should all do this more

I've only just been made aware that there has been a backlash against astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg, Australian of the Year. I've been over on Facebook responding to (mostly male) critics who clearly have no idea how astronauts work. We can't let them be the dominant voice. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

lol lmfao

Bob Katter is unique in that he’s probably one of the best read and intellectually omnivorous MPs in Australia, but at the same time he’s one of the most profoundly cooked

Reminder

american conservatism is not the preservation of fire but the worship of ashes

Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial: ▪️cottagecore ▪️extremely toxic fandom ▪️aggressive side part ▪️weird childish curses ▪️puritanical, but also ▪️horrifyingly perverted RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok

hey i know y'all are having a hard time now so i thought i would let you know that we have a train that runs from santa fe to belen, with my city, albuquerque, in the middle. it's called the rail runner. they all use the "meep meep" loony toons roadrunner sound to indicate the doors are closing

Honestly, if the situation in the US was not so serious, this would be funny. Done by the work experience kid, it reminds me of something l would have seen in a 1970s British comic like 2000AD or in a cheap 1980s science fiction movie in which a band of rebels battle an insane American dictator.

This reminds me of the absolutely delightful English man I once met who was employed by the German embassy in London during the 1980s to insert jokes and quips into the ambassador‘s speeches, so a British audience would pay more attention. Does the French embassy need a Party planer now?

French embassy only serving water and juice to attendees until the evening's speeches are over, a misunderstanding of what Brits look for in a drinks reception of such proportions that I can only assume the declaration of war will come overnight

#potd from the MartinPhotos collection: Catalina flies through a grey sky martinwilkinson.redbubble.com martinphotos.picfair.com 🛩️⚔️📷

Astonished at the sheer nerve of this Facebook page posting an AI fabrication of the Birkenau gatehouse as a “commemoration” of HMD. framingthequestion.blog/2025/06/29/s...

'Home Through the Rain', Bank Station (from 'Public Services: The Water Supply', 1969) by John Berry

Galactica 1980, your favorite spin-off, started 46 years ago today on ABC. "When the Battlestar Galactica finally arrives at Earth, they find they must subtly raise its tech level while protecting it from the Cylons."

28.1.1986 1 in 5 Americans were watching the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on TV, thousands at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 73 seconds after take-off, Challenger exploded, killing everyone on board as millions watched live across the world. #otd #history

Bus Shelter, Newbury Park Underground Station 1948 Oliver Hill www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/newbury-park...

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Very pleased to announce that the cover design for my first book has been finalised. Co-authored with Professor Adam Fairclough, Madam V: Virginia Vernon's War will be published by The History Press in August. The story of this fearless woman needs to be told! #histbookchat #booksky

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Front cover of "Paris Match", today 26 January 1939. Spanish Republican refugees. And on that same morning, cold and grey like this morning in 2026, Franco's invading army entered Barcelona. Five days later "legal" executions began. Some 1700 would be judicially murdered in the city in next 10 years

An interesting fact about the forthcoming royal commission is that the attempted terrorist attack in Perth on Monday will likely not come under its terms of reference

Yes professors should be forced to retire. For our own good as much as anything else