Tom Furniss

SUN - NIL.
SEA - NIL.
SEX - NIL.

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Belsize Park London Underground station

Top Perspective - Belsize Park

I love this vantage point looking down at the platform through the walkway bridge above. Taken at Belsize Park London Underground station.

A frowning, egg-shaped mascot with a cross on his head and a yellow and blue samurai helmet stands in a car park.

Uto City's mascot, Uton Yukinagasyan, is a a legendary local lord but egg-shaped.

Hello! Hello!! Anybody home?? #stoplightparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #parrotfish #coralcitycamera

The Picture Of The Day - Lake Rotoiti (5), Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand via Google 📷

#Kikorangi
#NewZealand
#PictureOfTheDay

As plum blossoms peak, cherry blossoms awaken 🌸
📸 03/04/2026
📍Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City

#spring #kyoto #flowers #photography

Do you remember that guy in the black teeshirt on the coach? His name is Trevor and he lives in Pontefract and keeps phoning me up. I've bought some black stilettoes and also the Tubeway Army LP which is really ace.

King👑🐈

#cat

Paris flooded with Japanese prints in the 1880s and Van Gogh collected them obsessively.
In letters he praised their flat color and bold contour—elements he folded into his own design of space and line.

My photo shows part of a limestone wall panel carved in bas relief from the Fifth Dynasty mortuary temple of king Userkaf at Saqqara, Old Kingdom, 2465-2458 BC. It shows a Hoopoe, a crested bird with black and white wing pattern, and an ibis, with long curved beak, amongst papyrus plants in the marshes of the river Nile. My photo was taken in 2022 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Lovely naturalistic relief of a Hoopoe and Ibis, carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago!

Limestone wall relief from the 5th Dynasty mortuary temple of Userkaf at Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me

#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology

Cutiepie floating by!! 👜🐟 #spottedtrunkfish #trunkfish #boxfish #swimminghandbag #coralcitycamera

A good crop of purple and white crocuses along Melville Drive.

At The Meadows this afternoon…

A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

Hilde the cat descends the staircase. The comic is structured like a staircase wrapping down around a pillar, with the stairs and columns forming the borders of the panels, like the panels are wrapped around the cylinder. Each floor of the tower is three panels wide... One floor is jungle ruins, one is a dark torch-lit hallway, one is an aquarium, and one looks ornamental. At the base she runs into a yellow doorway

Where is she going?

A photo of a northern flicker perched on a branch. The bird has a spotted belly, a black bib, and red cheeks.

I'm not sure I could pull off such a flashy look, but the northern flicker looks great.

#birds #nature #wildlife

The Picture Of The Day - Lake Rotoiti (4), Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand via Google 📷

#Kikorangi
#NewZealand
#PictureOfTheDay

I might be a tiny bit biased because I work there but I think Merrymac does some of the finest timeline cleansing on bluesky. A+ follow IMO.

A light green alien mascot with antlers and a diamond-shaped mouth and a perspex cranium through which you can see an orange pear.

Nashiro (mascot of Hita City) is an alien with a see-through cranium, showing its brain, which is a pear.

‘What AI writing lacks is taste: it has the ability to deploy techniques, but not the wisdom to know when to do so’: and if we’re not careful, something ‘unmeetly weird’ might happen to the richness of the language.

I hope ypu enjoyed it.

A round brown mascot with whiskers, pointy ears, and a green leaf atop its head stands next to a cardboard box.

Yahata Inu, the mascot of Kai City, looks like a cat but is actually a mix of a potato and a dog, with a leaf from a local zelkova tree on its head.

A full moon in the sky reflected on still water on which a boat with three people is passing. Reeds grow on the shore in the foreground.

'Moonlit Sea' - Koho, ca. 1930's.
#FullMoon #JapaneseArt

Bright sunlight highlights vibrant green moss, a small light brown mushroom, and the main subject, a large Amanita muscaria. Amanita muscaria is a tall mushroom with a long and thick roughly-textured white stipe and a bright red, dome-shaped cap. The cap is covered in raised white patches which just barely allow the bright red to show through between them.

An Amanita muscaria living in a fairytale scene along the stream behind our house

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400
Stack of 9 images
11/7/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

a dalmatian with small brown spots all over sits up and smiles up at you with a goofy open-mouthed grin and sparkling light brown eyes. he is wearing a white plush unicorn horn, and he’s balancing beautifully on one front paw. both his ears are inside-out, but he doesn’t have a care in the world.

This is Timmy. He's here to wish you a happy Tripawd Awareness Day, celebrated of course on 3/3. It’s his lucky number. 14/10 (IG: jackson_the_dalmatian)

Black and white photo of an older white lady standing on a house porch wearing pants, a plaid blouse, and her white hair puffing out from under a plaid cap. She is smiling at the camera and cradling a shorthaired tabby cat in her arms.

Look at these cuties. 💕 Photo from my collection, no date but the back says “Tiger and I on porch at home.”

Weeping plum blossoms, Japanese daffodils, and hellebores are in bloom. Spring is finally arriving! 🌸

#photography #flower #spring #japan

Digital painting of a bright blue sky filled with fuzzy white clouds. In the bottom half of the frame, the clouds are arching up in unruly, but defined wave patterns.

We report: we are almost late somewhere, and we certainly do not have time to linger, but we found some supercilium clouds in the windy sky. This is an unofficial classification for short-lived, eyebrow-shaped clouds. We take the risk to keep watching them embrace the airflow.