Echo Lake, North Conway, NH, on Dec. 28, 2025

Starting my New Year of film watching with a rewatch of a favorite that is also my fervent wish for the New Year

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

British Pathé newsreels are a great teaching resource, with an easy-to-use database. Short lengths make them ideal for viewing and analysing in class, esp. for history students not used to working with film. Fabulous shot of a Sudanese woman front and centre here, too, at :18 seconds. 🇸🇩🇸🇸🗃️🎥

Nat Schachner & Arthur Leo Zagat's Jed, from “In 20,000 A.D.” (Wonder Stories, Sept. 1930) and “Back to 20,000 A.D.” (Wonder Stories, Mar. 1931). In the distant future the world is populated by Masters and Robots.

Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say: 1. What is a “serious” historian? 2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.

"All serious historians agree."

A detailed look at what authors (and publishers) may actually receive from the Anthropic settlement. A lot depends on how many claims are filed; based on what I see in the list of eligible works, my guess is that many works will go unclaimed www.authorsalliance.org/2025/12/19/b...

Yeah, man, socialists aren’t allowed to buy things, everyone knows this

The sad thing about this story is that it began with an act of compassion. The mother at the center of it all was obviously unwell and just needed someone to watch her kids. The daycare said no so she did the reasonable thing and just dumped them on their doorstep and drove off. The smart thing 1/

Bristol Britannia #avgeek #hdrphotography #aviationphotography #canonphotography #digitalphotography

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Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, I wish you everything you hope for in 2026. Thank you for the conversations over the last year. This is Christopher Nevinson's  'Among the London Searchlights,' painted from a hot air balloon tethered above London Bridge in 1916.

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Atomic Bomb Test in the Nevada Desert, 1955

quizagon, print ad, imagery (1983) archive.org/details/crea...

What has happened to Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Egyptians, Libyans, and many more? What happened to pretty much every country where British wingnuts have loudly yearned for the freedom of the people, this century? The results are instructive!

🌒 Daily Loci: Observations from my camper-van-camino 🚐✨ — A Grain of Sand. www.digest.andymarsh...

Saturn - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/5SXyo2

My last read of the year: The Martians by David Baron. It's a good history of the 'canals' on Mars and Percival Lowell. #booksky 🔭

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 10 (1993), pages 13-14 #Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk

So long, 2025

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

You may not like it. But this is what peak male performance looks like

Happy New Year everyone.

Just wait until you read about London; it's turned into a hellscape www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

The idea that we need to deport 100 million people - almost one out of every three Americans! - was, a year ago, a deranged claim you’d hear from neo-Nazis to give themselves permission for limitless mass violence. Now it’s coming directly from this horrific agency’s horrific press office

Perhaps no man embodies our time more than he did. 🫡

HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎆

As a historian, I fully embrace that the 1990s are now considered a historical era worthy of being analysed properly. As someone in their mid-40s, this is also an outrageous insult to suggest that a significant passage of time has occurred!

This post is a perfect Trump microcosm: wrong bird (Kestrel), wrong country (Israel), wrong year (2017), but absolute certainty.

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

Hinode Views 2012 Venus Transit (NASA, Hinode, 06/05/12) - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/cc9PHL

Too many book reviews are like “this is a well-informed study of the history of citrus-growing up and down the Italian peninsula. Unfortunately, the author fails to explain how this knowledge helps us to break the power of the Dark at its midwinter height.”

once again: the onion called it

Happy New Years Eve! It's time for your yearly reminder: If you press 'play' on JOHN CARTER (2012) 23 seconds past 11:36pm, you will be asleep at EXACTLY midnight!

New Year productivity inspo courtesy of boys' adventure author GA Henty (via Sam Leith's The Haunted Wood): *140,000 words in 20 days*

On Wednesdays We Wear Black 🖤🎉

On Wednesdays We Wear Black 🖤🎉

It isn't hard to spot the tomb of a former member of the Duat Club in Ashcourt Necropolis or any other county boneyard. They all display some form of gaudy Egyptomania. You can't help but wonder if rumours of mummification are true, just what grave goods they hold. – #MattAdams

Return from the River Kwai (1989) TMDB score 50% A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that

Checkmate heliocentrists

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.