Gorgeous, but unforgiving!
10.03.2026 20:00
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Gorgeous, but unforgiving!
GUNKY is not a serious word.
99.9% of the time it's applied to women, normally in the presence of men—there's a vibe about it I'm...wary of.
"And as we come to the final of the Women's Free Skating Programme, Edith Warburton will be hoping nail her triple lutz to Frank Zappa's 'Don't Eat the Yellow Snow'."
#GirlsOwnCC
Absolutely fascinating. I got back to 1100-1000, though my blogger was looking to get to heaven, rather than stalking a Wolfman, but hey.
Does "Play the Marseillaise!" count? (Casablanca)
or "Hinesie. Hinesie!" (Pajama Game)
I just think that, if I were a #pterodactyl, I might think there's a #Dinosaurs Only club that the bouncer wouldn't let me into, and I'd be sad and pissed off. Do the Dinosaur gate-keeping nerds really want to be responsible for sad pterodactyls everywhere?
I have to say, as someone who has been observing academics making material available for free online (or refusing to do so) since online became a thing, that linguists are leaving just about everyone far, far behind.
This, for example: wold.clld.org
"World Loanword Database"
The image shows a Wordle grid. The last entry is the word ENDED. The Wordle bot has assigned it a Skill score of 0/100 and commented "Although your guess eliminated seven words, I think EMBED was far more likely to be the solution."
#Wordle people, can anyone explain the bot's reasoning here? 10 words down to 3 *feels* like an OK result.
Impossible not to tear up. Spread this as widely as you can so that—perhaps—it might reach those who need to hear it.
Just a suggestion, but don't forget who's making it...
The "A" in "AI"? It's "Artificial"—as in Artificial flowers, Artificial food colouring, Artifical grass, Artificial jewellery, Artificial smile.
Tbh, the only articifial thing I might try would be Articificial Poison, and even then I'd write my will first.
Done!
PS Kobo is having problems with this particular book, which they are looking into now. Eventually got it via Smashwords.
profoundly dislike the hobbit's trademark loose curl, if you turned up in Hobbiton with a sleek bob people would die
Here's a health to them that's awa Robert Burns Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; And wha winna wish gude luck to our cause, May never gude luck be their fa'! It's gude to be merry and wise, It's gude to be honest and true; It's gude to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue. Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to Charlie, the chief o' the clan, Altho' that his band be sma'! May Liberty meet wi' success! May Prudence protect her frae evil! May tyrants and tyranny tine i' the mist, And wander their way to the devil! Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; Here's a health to Tammie, the Norlan' laddie, That lives at the lug o' the law! Here's freedom to them that wad read, Here's freedom to them that wad write! There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard, But they whom the truth wad indite. Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; Here's chieftain M'Leod, a chieftain worth gowd, Tho' bred amang mountains o' snaw; Here's friends on baith sides o' the Forth, And friends on baith sides o' the Tweed; And wha wad betray old Albion's right, May they never eat of her bread!
May Liberty meet wi’ success!
May Prudence protect her frae evil!
May tyrants and tyranny tine i’ the mist,
And wander their way to the devil!
—Robert Burns, “Here’s a Health to them that’s awa” (c. 1792)
In advance of #BurnsNight #C18th
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertb...
But nobody ever talks about the real problem with Sunshine / Grumpy—that we are meant to applaud when Sunshine wins Grumpy over. I want it to be the other way around with Grumpy converting all the Fotherington-Thomases of this world. "Hallo, clouds! Hallo, goalposts!" Pah.
The Ambassadors? Lee Remick? That adaptation sent me on a James kick, but I never quitefound Paul Scofield's wry sophistication on the page.
One of the best unknown museums in Scotland.
The image shows a White young man in a tartan shirt and tortoiseshell glasses standing on top of a moorland hill. Behind him stretch the hills of Dumfries and Galloway.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/jack-mccon...
I'm for anyone who's trying to bring appropriate jobs to the region. (Sorting out our potholes too would be a bonus.)
My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows: Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles, each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines. Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet! Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines. Bottom right: all set against a black background. A central band delineated with white lines contains white ‘s’-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background. This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
Something lovely for the weekend!
Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me
#Archaeology
A mannequin wearing huge and voluminous dark green velvet gloves that extend up the arm in giant proportions to the shoulders
There are gloves. And then there are GLOVES! These beautifully madly extravagant gloves in verdant velvet are pure #Schiaparelli, early #1950s and utterly de trop #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
You probably didn't know that you need to see this video tonight, but you do.
youtu.be/7RUjb9zHh-A?...
That small boy is really worried by WN.
This is not about lazy dogs and quick brown foxes.
A very large carefully clipped conifer ~20 feet high outside a suburban house. The conifer has grown up round a street lamppost, which just pokes out of the top of it, looking like a submarine periscope.
Up periscope.
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
GOP should be a shoo-in.
@goddessblade.bsky.social
(aka May Peterson) has just worked on my first sprawling efforts. She's been understanding of what I'm trying to do, clear-sighted in where things have gone off track, & heart-warmingly supportive of the bits I've got right. A fantastic experience. 10/10 would recommend.
@goddessblade.bsky.social (aka May Peterson) has just worked on my first sprawling efforts. She's been understanding of what I'm trying to do, clear-sighted in where things have gone off track, & heart-warmingly supportive of the bits I've got right. A fantastic experience. 10/10 would recommend.
Hanging on for Spells 3! And I do like that there are little treats that you release through the year. Thank you.