Alt: a headline saying NASA's dart mission successfully alters asteroid's solar orbit, followed by an image of earth, rather ominously.
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Alt: a headline saying NASA's dart mission successfully alters asteroid's solar orbit, followed by an image of earth, rather ominously.
Time, gentlemen, please.
Still thinking about the plushie I saw for sale that was a pink "plague nurse". A version of a plague doctor but, you know. For girls.
Two women are in black riding habits warily step in to a bedchamber. The haunting may be the rats on the other side of the bed.
Allegedly, 'A Visit to the Haunted Chamber' by William Frederick Yeames (1869) depicts Anne Boleyn's bedroom in Hever Castle.
#art #PhantomsFriday
In Scotland and before the union of the crowns but this might blow your mind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moa...
This is incredible. UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
"Biology is complicated. Kindness and respect don’t have to be." A fascinating and important thread from Dr @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social.
![Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) Original Trailer [FHD]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u7uz6j63gg3s2hqnc2jrwbah/bafkreia2bxcmb5nw6wrem4cpfyl6jtfaan4qxi5qt6m4aarclvfb73ki7q)
#blackandwhitefilm of the day: Seance On A Wet Afternoon, 1964 British psychological thriller with Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough as a mentally-unstable medium and her cowed husband. It's brilliantly disturbing on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
at 1.05pm youtu.be/oLrtv6YfyVE
I mean there must be a sizable number of people who watched CMBYN and were just baffled because they'd only ever encountered peaches that had flesh like an apple
Some people live outside the geographical range of a really good peach and if they don't know that, they might think peaches are bad. However once they get the taste of a good one they will be heartbroken and forever yearning, so.
Ach! Forgot actual book 6 (making Helen of Nowhere no. 7) was Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier. The titular story is brutal (though, gasp, imo the film is better!). Sci fi existentialism was fun. Also the story set with a group of tourists in Jerusalem admirably disgusting
A copy of Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman lying on a stripy bedsheet. The cover has the faded fingerprinted patina typical to Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sixth book of 2026: Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman. A play-like structure and, in the end, some literary gossip at play. I did enjoy the excavations of big nature writer men
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Aside from the obvious (dancer in the dark, requiem for a dream, grave of the fireflies) got to hand it to new discomfort peak, the zone of interest. Excellent film, no thank you.
'Incurious and intellectually incapable of grappling with what Catherine and Heathcliff mean to one another, the movie settles for 'They like smashing their crotches together.'
So accurate.
Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III – so #Orkney & #Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb 1472
NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/nort...
With every fibre of my being, let me say this in a loud, clear, booming voice: this should have happened when Virginia Giuffre was alive to see it.
An incredibly lifelike illustration of Paddington Bear, official psychopomp to the British royal family, gently escorting a man in top hat and tails (carrying a Puzza Express takeout) to Belmarsh
Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy
BREAKING - Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Andrew shared sensitive state information with the billionaire child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
He was arrested as he celebrated his 66th birthday.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
Maddest is an interesting one, possibly La La Land. But less mad more energetically irked is that I'm just out of "Wuthering Heights". The hollow heart of that film has many chambers I am still pondering
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
I was recently reading the famous five to my kid and do we remember George with the curly hair who wants to be a boy and how everyone mostly just accepts that as fine and normal
Written between the 40s and early 60s.
You might know it but 99% invisible is always solid, scripted and finds a new and fun way to talk about design.
now that is a poem title
There is nothing more fun in cinema terms than sitting with a whole roomful of people going "urgh!! Ahaha! Yuck!". If you'd like that, consider going to see Send Help
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
The collection is not out on submission, enhancing the extremity of miracle required
A screenshot of an eBay listing for a khaki coloured dress, with hand painted flowers, listed as "Beautiful 1930s long silk dress with hand painted hem"
If I miraculously sell my short story collection i could buy this glorious 1930s gown, oh oh
