Raw Eiffel Tower-shaped pasta in different colours just added to a pan of chicken broth with chicken and carrots in it
Cooked green Eiffel Tower-shaped pasta in a spoon over a bowl of chicken noodle soup
Sure you’re fancy, but are you ‘making your chicken noodle soup with Eiffel Tower pasta’ fancy?
"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."
I want to make it mandatory for anyone who designs cycle paths to have to use them.
"move fast, break things"
-a toddler's internal monologue
a lot of postwar fascism’s energy has been spent on finding points of entry, wandering around outside the liberal house and trying every window and door
yes - it's the emphasis on the public realm, a century of public broadcasting models, public health, public education, public funding for arts, culture, built environment - the idea that we are communities in society not solely individuals
I went on a reporting trip to Hungary in late 2010, Orbán's Fidesz had recently returned to power with a big majority. People we met, incl journalists and NGOs, were scared to talk openly about the political situation, and that was only a few months in.
🇵🇸 Boycott AirBnB & Booking. com if you’re not cool with ethnic cleansing, land theft & genocide.
They support it & profit from it.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Your outie lives in a stable, progressive, equitable liberal democracy
A remarkable statement: Jeff Bezos decrees that henceforth, the Washington Post opinion pages will serve the rightwing political project.
Probably self-evident to many people, but I think it’s worth unpacking why that is explicitly and unequivocally what this statement means:
Fantastic opportunity for a reporter to wear out some shoe leather, work with a lovely team and do the city some service. 📰
This is the “war on women’s sports”.
See also: fewer than ten trans college athletes in a cohort of, what was it? Half a million?
Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla
Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin
(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )
Always fascinated to read about languages I’ve never heard of… one group in this article pulled out all the stops to grow the number of people who could speak their language from 10 to 100+ ❤️
‘I can still hear their words’: the fight to save the Híɫzaqv language. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Detail from a wall fresco depicting a naturalistic and lush garden from a reception room at the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii. The garden is filled with trees, shrubs and flowering plants. There is a birdbath and birds which include a dove, a wood pigeon, a golden oriole, a magpie and sparrow
Enchanting Roman wall fresco of a lush garden, rich in plant and bird life. From a reception room at the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii. 1st century BC - 1st century AD 📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
The perfect headline doesnt exi—
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Feeling pretty aggrieved that we seem to have gone from the plague years straight to the Rise of Fascism years without having much of the decadent Weimar republic years in between
Roll up, roll up! Get your genteel middle-aged content here.
High praise from your most inimitable self. 🫡
Although people might doubt you when they see my random pics of walls and the like.
Picture showing the high, almost windowless red-brick wall of a building on the Guinness site in Dublin, Ireland. It’s drenched in morning sunlight, while the Dublin street below is still in shadow. In the foreground, you can see the figure of a man passing the railing-topped perimeter wall of the Guinness site, which helps put the size of the brick wall into context.
Love how that red-brick back of a Guinness building catches the morning light. #Dublin
In 1518 the Archduke Ferdinand of Habsburg found himself and his fleet unexpectedly in Ireland, thanks to stormy weather. While there, one of his aides, a young man named Laurent Vital (age 16) wrote an account of their time there. It is extraordinary for many reasons >
The Anglian York Helmet is composed of four main elements; a composite cap (brown in colour), two hinged cheek-pieces (also brown in colour) and a curtain of ring mail as a neckguard. The brass-coloured nose guard is covered with intricate interlaced animals. The 'eyebrows' have animal-head terminals, and an inscribed copper alloy band that runs over and across the crest of the helmet. The interlacing animals on the nose guard have open lips, comma-shaped eyes and spiral hips. Between the ‘eyebrows' and facing downward, is a larger animal head with a rounded snout and comma-shaped eyes, like those on the nose guard. This animal has ears on either side of its head that merge with the inscribed copper alloy band. An inscription on the band reads: 'IN. NOMINE. DNI. NOSTRI. IHV. SCS. SPS. D. ET. OMNIBUS. DECEMUS. AMEN. OSHERE. XPI.' This abbreviated Latin inscription may be translated as 'In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God and with all we pray. Amen. Oshere. Christ.'
The remarkably well-preserved York Helmet is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon Britain. A Latin inscription bears the name of its owner ‘Oshere’. Discovered by a digger operator in Coppergate, York, in 1982. Iron and copper alloy, dated AD 770-775 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
I heard the term
"The Nerd Reich"
used to describe these companies and I think its quite apt.
#MosaicMonday - Sometimes you've got to embrace the brilliance of a delightfully dapper cephalopod. This little fella is one of a few surviving fragments of a huge mosaic from Villaquejida: ca. Early 3rd Century AD. #Octopus #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (3615)
Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!
Picture of a yellow sign saying Polling Station. It’s on a planter outside a school building.
Guilt-tripped myself into going to vote this evening, as have been horribly under the weather. Glad I did now I see the turnout figures. Yikes. #ge24
Normalise reading books with your dinner in Eddie Rockets 📚 🍔 🚀
So many good recs there. The Ministry of Time was one of my favorites this year.
