Just seen the "I'll just have the one" glass of wine that keeps getting topped up as the "sip o' Theseus" and, folks, this is a nation of considerable poetic genius.
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Just seen the "I'll just have the one" glass of wine that keeps getting topped up as the "sip o' Theseus" and, folks, this is a nation of considerable poetic genius.
The painting "Night in the Steppe" shows a vast plain under a bright full moon, the light being distributed over the landscape and the water in an almost magical way.
This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.
Skateboard stop-motion
Currently on a spectacularly ill-timed trip to the Saudi-Yemeni borderlands...
Amazing vox pop on the 6 o’clock news. Woman buying fish in Waitrose: ‘I won’t buy mackerel if it’s being overfished’. Reporter: ‘But you’re buying it now’. Woman: ‘Well, it’s already dead’
Frogspawn in the garden pond
Time lapse of the nice aurora surprise display at Burrow Beach on Tuesday night when the clouds cleared at a perfect time.
hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
Lovely morning in Clontarf. Golden light and reflections.
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.
Today is 2025-12-13, the sun sets at 16:05:43 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 00 secs. #GrandStretch #ZeroStretch
On March 31, 2005, just minutes after the Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan during the Titan (T-4) Flyby, Cassini viewed Saturn peeking through Titan's thick atmosphere. Saturn's rings are seen here casting dark, dramatic shadows across the planet's northern disk (upper left). This composite is made of images that were taken by the Cassini spacecraft's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on March 31, 2005 and received on Earth April 1, 2005. Cassini was approximately 1,200,000 km away from Saturn and 7,000 km away from Titan. The images were taken using red, green, and blue filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Ian Regan / Val Klavans
Saturn through Titan's haze - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/TbspjU
11am Saturday and rain continues in parts of East and midlands. Video taken just now at Powerscourt waterfall shows the volume of rain coming down off the Wicklow Mountains with a lot of reports of flooding coming in.
sallow (comparative sallower, superlative sallowest) (of skin) Yellowish. (most regions, of light skin) Of a sickly pale colour. (Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
My favourite Hiberno-English-ism isn't any of the obvious ones, it's the fact that when we say "sallow" we mean the opposite of what everyone else means. It's not sickly yellow, it's healthy, positive
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.
Real life:
Ireland is on the receiving end of an atmospheric river stretching 5,000 kilometres to Bermuda. #StormAmy will develop rapidly overnight. WeathÉire takes a look at the science behind the first named storm of the season.
READ: weatheire.com/news/climate...
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Not a book but a podcast that may be of interest
apocrypals.libsyn.com
Don't make me tap the sign.
Picture of the OJ Simpson car chase with the caption "millions expected to travel this Memorial day, breaking 20-year-old record"
Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
"British beauty retailer Lush Cosmetics has launched a new campaign in support of trans rights in partnership with UK organisations TransActual and My Genderation. In Ireland, Lush has partnered with Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI)." gcn.ie/lush-trans-r...
“To the civilians left unprotected, no apology can suffice. But I am truly sorry that we are unable to move the international community to prevent this injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
Saturn on September 2, 2015, as the Cassini was nearing the apoapse of its 221st orbit around Saturn. This calibrated color image was taken through Cassini's RED, GRN, and BLU filters. Image Credit: NASA / JPL / Cassini-ISS / Justin Cowart
Saturn - Rev 221 - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/P1ZZy8
If a thought like : “Why not transpose Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music to Ondes Martenot amplifiers” resonates with you, I got you:
youtu.be/HToHmqdyk_I
Spiders capable of climbing vertical walls often have specialized furry 'toes' called 'claw tufts’: where thousand of microscopic hairs (setules) protrude from each hair shaft.
This allows the spider to use Van der Waals' force to adhere to any surface. It is also, objectively, cute.
The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists
I love this
