Mo Burns

The Poor Fisherman | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation

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This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

First they came for the malapropists, and I said muffin.

Had a walk along the prom & met some hells angels.

holy shit

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Judith Leyster self portrait

And look at this fabulously confident self portrait by Leyster

📷 Alan Schaller

🌐📌 Florence, Italy, 2017
#photooftheday #photography
#blueskyphotography #photokind

Gift of Jessie Leonard Hill, Charles R. Leonard Jr., and Laura Leonard Ault, 1978

Collar
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/1381929

"you sir are no Dan Quayle"

King Street, Manchester, 1900 (Manchester Libraries).

Cover of W.H. Auden's book , The Age of Anxiety

"LOOK AT ME I'M A TORTOISE, I'M SO SLOW, IT TAKES ME HALF AN HOUR JUST TO GET TO THE FRONT GATE"

"Fuck off Brian"

seated soldier eating from a can at L; parts of skeleton at R

Mahlzeit in der Sappe (Lorettohöhe) (Mealtime in the Trenches [Loretto Heights]), plate 13 from Der Krieg (The War) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/96546/

Every time this photo . Every time

This McCartney documentary about his decade post B band is fascinating. You don't even have to like all of the music ( impossible) but his process as an artist ...and how did I already not know that a Northern Irish guy (Henry McCullough) was an important musician in Wings?!

Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?

in amongst all the terrible shit he's done over the last decade it's easy to have lost sight of the fact that the american people elected a leader called President Fart

Hebden Bridge, 1975, photo by Martin Parr.

Someone should make a scented candle that smells like the smell you get when you blow out a candle.

Meanwhile in the #adult filter on #Bluesky.
#Photography Alfred Eisenstaedt (1963), Paris.
(Children watching the story of Saint George and the Dragon at an outdoor puppet theatre.)

Picture of the front cover of moon tiger by Penelope Lively . Early morning sunlight view of a pyramid seen from a hotel balcony

Moon Tiger (1987) by Penelope Lively.
Wonderful novel.

#bookerprize
#reading
#novels
#penelopelively
#booklovers

They tried to make Frankie Howerd go to rehab.

He said “Nay, nay and thrice nay!"

via Andrew Brechin

"Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour Pingu?"

📸 Paul Borg Oliver

"A moment in Black&White"
#photooftheday
#blueskyphotography #photokind

I’m so happy with this comp. No acetates or anything recovered from a degrading quarter inch… all songs that will be familiar to anyone who woke up to Wogan/Ray Moore/Steve Jones in the 80s. www.acerecords.co.uk/weds-morning...

Despite my silly joke, yes, it is a masterpiece and incredibly poignant even centuries later.