That's a very good dog indeed
11.03.2026 08:55
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That's a very good dog indeed
At midnight Aragorn stands at the Stone of Erech. ‘Oathbreakers, why have ye come?’
A distant voice cries, ‘To fulfil our oath and have peace.’
‘When all this land is clean of the servants of Sauron, I will hold the oath fulfilled, and ye shall have peace and depart for ever.’
My photo shows a famous wall painting from Pompeii known as the Sappho fresco. It shows the head and upper body of a young woman framed inside a painted circular border. She faces forward. Her eyes are large and dark, gazing to one side with a calm and thoughtful expression, as if pausing mid-thought. Her skin is pale, and her hair is dark brown and tightly curled, forming small ringlets around her face. A thin golden hairnet holds her curls in place. She wears small gold hoop earrings, and a brown cloak over a green garment. In her right hand she holds a thin dark metal stylus (writing tool) up against her lips, as if thinking about what to write. In her left hand she holds a small rectangular wooden wax writing tablet. The fresco is now on display at the Muso Archeologico Nazionale in Naples
The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii.
A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay
She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me
#Archaeology
A rough beast? Slouching toward Jerusalem? In this economy?
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Somehow every bit of it is unexpected. And I truly admire Spark’s offhand references to a backstory she will NOT expand upon – there’s a bit where she says something like ‘apart from her stay at the clinic she hadn’t missed a day of work’, and then the clinic is never mentioned again.
Closeted in Helm’s Deep, Aragorn looks in the palantír. Sauron sees him for the first time—and the sword of Elendil reforged. Aragorn then wrests the stone to his own control.
Looking abroad, he sees fleets near the coast, stopping southern Gondor from reinforcing Minas Tirith.
It deepens like a coastal pelf
NF er en rik krimforfatter som går i veien for en ekte politikvinne, ganger x antall sesonger. Jeg vil si det er en nøyaktig gjennomsnittlig amerikansk krimserie. Noen ganger er det jo det man vil ha.
Kanskje tiden er moden for et gjensyn med Castle?
Hvordan, *hvordan* har Nathan Fillion fått så mange hovedroller? Hva er det han vet om tv-sjefene?
Not a day goes by I don't wish I could wear blinkers like a horse. Oh what's going on over there? NONE OF MY BUSINESS.
In the darkness, the Ents and Huorns reach the edge of Fangorn Forest and crest the ridge that overlooks the ring of Isengard. They begin to quietly fill the valley all around Isengard’s ring of stone.
RIP “I feel liberated. We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.” - you had a great run as the best quote in the FT from people who really would benefit from reading the FT, there's a new sheriff in town.
Éomer sets aside the law of the Rohirrim. ‘You may go; and what is more, I will lend you horses. This only I ask: return with the horses… In this I place myself, and maybe my very life, in the keeping of your good faith. Do not fail.’
‘I will not.’ The three hunters ride north.
'Leading yourself to water' is such an apt image, I think it will enter my internal lexicon. Thank you!
The Mordor-orc Grishnákh seizes Merry and Pippin, hoping to escape and take the hobbits to Mordor. He slinks between two watch-fires—but is seen, and killed by a Rider’s spear.
When more Orcs attack from the forest, the Riders draw their ring inward. The hobbits crawl away.
You're laughing? Someone told a funny joke on Bluesky and you're laughing?
He's a full grown man, and he's not afraid to cry-y-y-y
Get me the most Belgian street name possible.
No, that’s too Belgian.
one thing I love to do is to type and type and type and think oh woah, I must have nearly written a whole article here, I've typed up so many things, and then look at the wordcount and stare at "283" for a while
So very much this. Today's work is currently at 219, and I honestly can't see how I might get to 220
a medieval illustration of adam and eve in the garden, watch from a giant eye in the sky by god
"come on Adam just eat the apple, nobody is watching"
this is just to say
I have killed
the darlings
that were in
the first draft
and which
you were probably
hoping
would make it in the final draft
Forgive me
they were making the plot too complicated
so difficult to write
and so long
Even if the rest of the world eventually abandons social media it will continue in the UK because we will never exhaust class discourse.
As a foreigner, this is the most confusing part of the British obsession with class. I keep seeing examples of this and thinking 'Isn't being middle class … a good thing?'
I just subscribed. @jim.londoncentric.media and his colleagues are doing really impressive work. Proper hardcore local journalism!
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
