Oh that one looks SO stuck

Headhunting in the Age of Reason: Enlightenment Origins of the Global Trade in Skulls - Yale University Press Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett— Headhunting is not the first association that most people would make with the Age of Enlightenment. Indeed, many might never associate headhunting with the......

Where or whenever this ‘collecting’ started, it involved very specific crimes including theft, murder, massacre, and enslavement - the inevitable concomitants of empire and colonisation. It’s why @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I refer to it as head hunting. yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/11/20/h...

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

How far down can you read before punching a wall

You've just invented keeping a diary 👍 (healthy)

It's not a bent it's literally just a satire news site.

It's not that AI is useless.

It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.

Yes I like this 👌

LOL

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Gonna print this out and stick it to the back of my phone

I do love a ghost gable like this found near Ancoats in Manchester - but it's rarer still to find the intangible signs of the puff of smoke from the chimney...

I'm always peeking into the over-engineered, concreted spillways and creeks of Newcastle hoping to spot a fun creature, gutted I missed this opportunity

I always knew scream sneezers were made, not born

Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Several believe that was a double, and honestly I'm hoping it was

Surprising eh

Just seen this, love it, and from where else but Bromley, the spiritual home of English Punk! Well played people, well played.

Holesome fess

They are not afraid of anything

How to digitise a VHS tape YouTube video by David M. Green

Here’s how we digitise our VHS tapes at VHS Revue (Warning: Tedious) #vhs

It's described as Kafkaesque and it totally is. Also very clear that the majority of family care is taken on by women family members

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

Wow!

H/t Kristin Thompson

This is confirmation that Stanley is The Best One

Me, on a stage, next to a screen showing Kenneth Williams and the other 'Round the horn' radio cast.

Just to say... if you ever need someone to talk at you about queer history... you can pay me to talk at you about queer history! 😅

Youse/yezz forever

This is extra fun for people without perfect goddam bodies. Kill this with fire pls.

#Blaschka So, Leopold was probably only speaking German as the Czech revival was just beginning. He married Carolina Zimmermann (So German!) in 1846. She died of cholera alongside her son and father in 1850. He married again with a....Carolina (interesting pattern?) Riegel... You get the point!

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got