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One of my highlights from lockdown was discovering Joe Tracini. This was my introduction, just over 5 years ago.

If you were a Bezos or Musk level of rich what frivolous thing would you do? I don’t want all the goody cure world hunger/cure cancer stuff. I want to hear the proper mad shit.

If you think Star Wars doesn’t take creative risks, you’re not paying attention

I mistyped an email sign off as “all the bees” instead of “all the best”. I reckon I’m going to stick with it. I can’t think of anything negative that can possibly come of wishing someone all the bees.

fring portrait i made a couple years ago #breakingbad

It’s ok to do this

World news presenters having to do man-on-the-street interviews with people about the pope’s death while they’re all drunk is going to be a genre

🔉Sound up for 10 seconds of wood frogs declaring that this pond is open for business - frog business 🐸🌿

is any one in power willing to stand up and punish donkey kong for all the horrible noises he has made during his games

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

Preface to the book “I Tempi di Roma” (Edizioni Bolis, Italy, 2000) written by Henri Cartier-Bresson. “Time runs and flows and only our death can stop it. The photograph is a guillotine blade that seizes one dazzling instant in eternity.” Henri Cartier-Bresson.

1974-2025. Till Death Do Us Part. My parents have been inseparable for 51 years. I wasn't lucky to find a partner for life like this, many of us are not. Seeing their photos and Super 8mm films from the old days warms my heart.

Happy #BreadDay to all who celebrate! #OnThisDay - 19 April - someone in #Pompeii felt so excited that they just had to record that: "XIII K(alendas) Maias panem feci" (CIL IV 8972) 'On April 19, I made bread' Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (84596)

I am watching the movie Heat and I wanted to check if the actress is a young Angelina Jolie so I went to google and-

OTD 2 years ago in OK, I chased the most incredible storm of my life. I documented 8 tornadoes, including two sets of twins and the widest tornado I've seen (1.3 miles). The structure and lightning was unlike anything I had seen. It was a true behemoth of the plains. Real time clip:

when the sigur ros guy sang "achoo" 12 times over an aching and hypnotic three chord progression that lasted long enough to make a whole pot of macaroni and cheese...I felt that

The Pillars of Creation in all their glory, as the light from newly formed stars pierces the swirling dust and gas, beautifully revealed in infrared... (Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA)

Playing Blue Prince hour 100.

‘Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over in 3 days’

Jenny Holzer, The Beginning of the War will be Secret

Sorry I missed your call, the frogs had my phone again.

they’re doing that thing where a new coach discovers his NFL team has a ping-pong table in the locker room and orders it removed to build a winning culture focused on football and all the players resent it and he gets fired after 3 sub-.500 seasons, but for The Army

This might be the most accurate skit that has ever appeared on TikTok and that’s a strong field

me, unlettered & wanting to write poems about werewolves in space vs really feeling the need to contribute financially to our household — youtu.be/7hRSfvpOz4A?...

youtu.be/MvjVuJNHdyc?...

Simnel Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay: it gets an airing but once a year, and it’s time has come! For those not from these shores, futher explanation can be found in the recipe intro/headnote. www.nigella.com/recipes/simn...

good evening, fam gare du nord PABLO'S BLUES (a remix of robert johnson's COME ON IN MY KITCHEN) youtu.be/yJxw33gwmtA?...

Love your independent bookshops as the friends they are. Loe them as the places of magic they are. #Bookshops #Books

Just captured the most amazing rainbow I have ever seen!

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

Fascinating world of ancient glass: an amazing pitcher. The handle is terminating in an appliqué decorated with a head of a Bacchant, a follower of Bacchus, the god of wine. Such an appliqué is an appropriate decoration for a pitcher used to pour wine Dating ca 50-75 AD 📷 Corning Museum of Glass 🏺

a pigeon finds some gum on the sidewalk

A long day of sorting out the logistics of hauling Wrack out of the water for repair, long-overdue maintenance, and antifouling. We even managed to pay the boatyard's fees up front. The countdown to departure from Almerimar and the beginning of our voyage across the eastern Med' has begun.

The voice note I leave my estranged son at 4:34am.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

wow. if you want to go on a real journey, here you go pbfcomics.com/comics/traum...

This is high art

A 19th century map of the lower reaches of the Congo River, reflecting surveys made by the British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat, Sir Richard Francis Burton, in 1863.

A 1580 map of Tlacotalpa, a small river village in the southeast of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Drawn by Sevillian navigator, explorer, cosmographer and cartographer, Francisco Gali, it is one of the first examples of local nautical cartography in Hispanic America.

The Rolling Stones Let it Bleed 1969 #nowplaying #vinylrecords #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #musicsky #nowspinning #rollingstones #blues #rockandroll #freshvinyl

Earth Magic

"While bees have long been understood to be conduits between the living and the dead, bearing witness to tears from God and the grief of common villagers, less is known about the grief of bees themselves." – Emily Polk, from Telling The Bees [via @emergencemagazine.bsky.social]

I've just learnt a new word of Hookland dialect – crawfarlow. It means the holding of a reasonable fear based upon the knowledge of things under the water's surface. – #MattAdams, 1981 #Hookland #WOTD

Hey friends! I’ve started a Patreon page, writing about the maps I’m working on & the books they’re in. I’d appreciate your support; you can subscribe for free, and it will really help me to generate new mapping business. And then I can keep doing daily eel history! www.patreon.com/SurprisedEel

Good when the sun shines for your anniversary…and yes, we got married on April fools’ day. Fools in love…

Toshiro Mifune’s birthday Here he is drunkenly getting ready to shoot people but Lee Marvin stays cool as a cucumber for a very good reason.