Wall of a church with faint outlines of a doom painting. The top register is Jesus with Mary and the Apostles alongside an angel blowing the trumpet for Judgement Day. The second register is dominated by scenes of different people rising from their coffins for judgement. At the right against a deep red background are outlines of the angel Michael holding weapons next to a faint outlines of a demon. At the bottom of this register appears another demon, a cauldron and what may be a wheelbarrow or cart. The left had register depicts saved souls being led away by another angel.

Closer picture of the hell scene above what is thought to depict scenes of Christ’s life in smaller box registers. The scenes are very difficult to make out.

Yesterday’s adventure was brought to by my incessant and tangential deep dives. To my knowledge, it’s the northernmost doom painting in England. It’s 14th century and way bigger than internet pictures would have you believe. St Mary and St Martin’s, Blyth, Notts - a mere 10-15 minute drive for me!

Yesterday I went to Bolton Museum, so I am providing obligatory Bes photos.

Garages with shop cats will always have my loyalty. I’d never seen a garage cat until this week, and I will 100% go back just so I can pspspsps their cross-eyed ginger cat. I ain’t even mad I paid so much for tyres and realignment.

Drats. I can’t for the life of me understand the justification for it. I can see that local libraries subscribe to these external companies so you can access them if you go in person to the library, but it seems ludicrous that you would have to go through a private company in the first place.

Seeking a genuine, non-cynical answer as that’s where I automatically go - why do people in the U.K. have to pay private companies to access historical census data?

Why autism may not be on a ‘spectrum’ after all The idea of a single autism spectrum, stretching from mild to severe, may be misleading

An article that actually delves into nuance for a change

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Checks out. Needs Phoenicians though, and no, Carthage doesn’t count.

Realising furniture shopping comes with the need for understanding geometry. I was straight A material in high school until geometry came along and wrecked my world. 🫠

Shelf with Lindt bunnies that are biscuit flavours

Lindt Biscuit

I can categorically say Predator: Badlands is the best RomCom I’ve ever seen in my life.

Nice to see the U.K. can arrest a disgraced royal. Meanwhile, in America 🦗 🦗 🦗

Well I don’t see what everyone is complaining about. This copper is perfectly fine. I won’t stand for Ea-Nāsir slander.

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Orange-brown tabby hunting water fowl in the marshes from the tomb of Nebamun

New interest unlocked - the appearance of non-tabby coats in art and domestication. I suspect it was when when we made ‘wolves if you squint hard enough’ into lap dogs in the western world.

a bunch of purple grapes with faces and the words oh i member below them ALT: a bunch of purple grapes with faces and the words oh i member below them

Hey, remember when The Watchmen TV series showed how deep the Operation Paperclip rabbit hole went, and many people learned about NASA’s origins through popular media, but the storyline about the continuance of the conspiracy was the fictional part?

Yeah…good times, good times…

My Year 13s are currently learning Christian moral ethics and actions with the case study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Despite the years that separate us from Bonhoeffer’s death, some of his theology becomes more prescient every time I teach it.

Archaeologists Say They've Unearthed a Massive Medieval Cargo Ship That's the Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever Found Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the "Svælget 2" is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts say the 600-year-old discovery is "exceptionally well-preserved"

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

Yeah, everyone thought I was being dramatic when I said I didn’t want to watch Civil War because it was too close to the knuckle when it first came out.

Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato

I haven’t enough facepalms

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

So anyways

epstein-docs.github.io

Keir Starmer says UK 'not involved in any way' in US strike on Venezuela The PM has not spoken to US President Donald Trump about the US seizure of President Nicolas Maduro.

lol “Not our circus, not our monkeys.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

Well bugger me, I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It is the the sad truth of being an immigrant. You will never be able to go back to where you came from because it’s a place left back in time, and you’ll never be truly seen as belonging in your adopted home.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Oh my god, I don’t need hot honey on everything. STAHP

And a ribs record!!!

Stereoscope with a stack of stereoscopic late 19th to early 20th century photographs including one of the mummy of Seti

I’ve got a lovely little stereoscope, dee-dee-lee-dee and now I can see Seti in 3D.

Oh, it’s the time vortex part of the year where I lose track of day, hour, and year.

I hate the look of the new Nolan Odyssey film. If that makes me tedious and boring, so be it. If you want an adaptation that is wildly out-of-step with the period(s), Oh Brother Where Art Thou was brilliant.

The general fogginess has really helped capture the weird, ghostly factor once associated with Christmas 🖤

“Autism didn’t exist in my day…”

Seriously, I survived off of Kraft macaroni and cheese and the odd chicken tender specifically made by my grandmother for years. It’s a miracle I got through early childhood without getting scurvy. Anyways, happy this fella is doing okay now.

Going to try to fit a 6-7 tree in the boot of my Fiesta. Pray for me.