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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
a scribe sitting at a writing desk, in a setting of around 1400 Europe. he is writing with a quill in one book, while another book is opened, and two more books are present on and in the writing desk.
Tab hoarding is leading to stress and information overload, and distraction, since the Middle Ages. #tabhoarding
A riddle from Bledri, a 12th-century Welsh storyteller, as relayed by Gerald of Wales:
"There are among us men who, when they go a-hunting, carry their horse on their shoulders until they come near to their quarry. Then, to catch their prey, they mount their steeds. ...
Do you want to improve your knowledge of medieval manuscripts from England? Book now for this summer school course, in person, in London, 8-12 June. 👇☀️📚 #medievalsky please repost!
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I certainly wasn’t expecting this article in the Guardian on the Milan fashion week to have a final section on Sutton Hoo
Nationally, Labour is losing twice as many voters to Greens and Lib Dems as they are to Reform. (John Curtice on BBC)
🔴 BREAKING NEWS: The Green Party's Hannah Spencer has achieved a stonking win in the Gorton and Denton by-election! Reform UK came second, and Labour in third.
The terrifying rise of the letter G will plunge us into a permanent socialist winter
For @ccurran.bsky.social !
This is incredible
Thank you 😀
Just checking — is it Jun or Jul? I have a sixth former who is interested but he’d have to miss a day of school …
![Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigse57u6yvi5or4mnvpm5jbn3y3kzbxyzypmjmhbu7spcn6fe4wtm@jpeg)
Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?
Plums
xkcd.com/3209/
I was impressed & moved: the BM had obviously worked carefully on the presentation with members of the Hawaiian community. The presentation of images stolen from Honaunau was incredibly powerful — they are in a display case behind a gauze sheet, with a soundscape from their original home playing.
Ki’i (image) of Kū (god of governance and warfare) stands high on a pillar outside the Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery. He is of dark, shiny wood — carved from the trunk of a breadfruit tree — and stands in a haka position, with legs braced, fists clenched and mouth open. He wears an apron of paper mulberry barkcloth (donated by its artist, Vera Takashima, in 2018, and worn for the last big exhibition Kū appeared in: Oceania, at the Royal Academy).
Hawai’i: a kingdom crossing oceans @britishmuseum.bsky.social : thoughtful, respectful, mind-expanding, beautiful.
definitely never left! 🏴
A pattern among women's names gave me a reason to dig very deep into linguistic prehistory, lost grammar and language's arbitrariness. These rank among my favourite interests, along with 1990s pop music.
Put them all together, and I can offer you this long read:
dannybate.com/2026/02/19/m...
Photo taken through an angular window with a bookshelf below it, showing a landscape of desert hills, mountains, and a palm tree in orange sunrise light.
Every morning, afternoon, evening — something interesting happens in the desert sky.
(Books, morning light, hills: three of my deepest favourite things)
Sharing my favourite noise generator for writing again, just in case anyone else could use a more meditative background today mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...
The red dragon from Cardiff Castle, seemingly enjoying the grey and rainy day — mouth open in a smile, and front leg raised with claws out. A seagull flies overhead.
Took my son on a half-term day-trip to Cardiff and had a lovely time. 🏴
A kitchen windowsill with a blue sky and sunshine outside and a tea towel pegged out on a washing line. On the windowsill is a big amaryllis with three buds, two of which have opened and are striped cream and salmon pink.
My Christmas amaryllis is blooming, there is blue sky and sunshine, and a load of laundry on the line 🌺☀️🧺 #tinyjoys
Such a powerful interview. Thank you.
I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.
Love is in the air at Manderley Press! Thanks for all your support - February is a tricky month for indie businesses but all your orders have put a spring in my publishing step! Happy Valentines Day, in advance! #booksky #valentinesday
A. C. Benson on M. R. James as Provost of King’s: ‘He lives his old easy life, quite alone, quite contented, hating his business meetings … hopes that nothing will happen to disturb him, catalogues MSS, reads Dickens & plays cards’.
A thoughtful card sent along with an etsy purchase “Every vintage treasure holds a vhispered secret. This necklace has crossed Years to find you-drawnto your hands, your life, your light. May it remind you that beauty never fades, it only transform” Warmly, Helenn
What a delightfully thoughtful touch from an etsy shop 🥹
A (Lord of the Rings themed) plate containing a slice of gluten free toast topped with ‘Beren’s Vegan Scramble’ (from Robert Tuesley Anderson’s ‘Elven Cookbook’) — mushrooms, tomatoes and parsley with crumbled tofu.
Middle-earth cookery adventures with my daughter again. #ElvenCookbook Today it’s Beren’s Vegan Scramble (Beren is canonically a vegetarian, although access to tofu in the forest feels a stretch!).
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The unmistakable spire of Salisbury Cathedral — the tallest in Britain.
A spectacular shot taken earlier this week by Martin Cook 📸