Snowbeasty

Tiny extract from a railway employment register, with a column headed 'Cause of leaving' and underneath the single word 'dead'. The next column, 'time-keeping', has the entry 'Good.'

A stark reminder of the bureaucratic logic of work & how we're all just so much productive efficiency ... until we're not.

Nice to know that he was good on his time-keeping though.

Presumably until he was dead.

From an LNWR employment record, 1920s.

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Radical Rural gallery trail Discover the artists, activists and movements championing rural England's people and places today.

We're also marking the launch of Radical Rural, a gallery trail championing many more voices who champion and care for rural England today. From summoning the folk spirits of England's woods and tors, to meticulously mapping the data of who really owns England.

merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad...

Recently found this, which is good too.

Laudanum!

Over my more than 30 years as a creative professional, I have slowly learned to be very wary of people who put a lot of time and energy into creating and nurturing a public persona.

I have often found that there is something really bad hiding behind that persona.

Oooh this is good, thanks. Have several of these and this is very interesting for dating, etc!

That renowned and respected lover of truth and journalistic integrity.... THE KREMLIN.... has stepped up to defend Trump in his battle against the BBC.

SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...

Herb Robert?

Reminds me of the Owl Service plates. 😍

Owl faces?

Too hard for him. 😆

Archbishop Chichele's cadaver tomb in Canterbury Cathedral. d. 1443. "I was pauper-born, then to primate raised. Now I am cut down and served up for worms. Behold my grave."

Oh this’ll end well

Legend. 😆

Marie Curie's notebooks, open, with yellowing pages.

Marie Curie's notebooks are radioactive and must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.

Her darker stories in the collection 'Among the Shadows' are worth a read, for anyone who hasn't seen them.

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

The Deathcap Weaver(Latrodectus muscaria) is a venomous spider that mimics the appearance of a fly agaric mushroom. Its bite induces an intense psychedelic state, causing disorientation, vivid hallucinations, and paranoia.

#sciart #entomology #insects #mushrooms #mycology

Yo! Wassup?

St Mary's, Beverley.

Evening all,

I have a couple of tickets left for my Her Wild Self tour, celebrating the women of Hampstead Cemetery for #internationalwomensday2025. Sign up if this is your jam - this tour covers the controversial, artistic, creative and tenacious women from the Victorian fin de siècle and beyond!

#GirlsOwnCC

'My dear young people, I cannot possibly agree to your marriage. With your degree of consanguinity, your children will have hands like Halloween decorations.'

Superb.

As a child, the only Whispering Skulls in the ossuary that frightened me were the ones behind wire. I assumed they were in bone jail and must have done something terrible to be put there. It was only years later I learned the folklore that suggested my speculation was right.– Sam Powney #VOH

A murder grave. Burford church.