Yes. YES. THIS. My god, this.

Amen

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

In a sane administration, the FBI Director doesn’t go on the morning news to prove he’s not a drunk, the Defense Secretary doesn’t quote Tarantino to prove he’s a man of God, and the President doesn’t take multiple cognitive exams to prove he’s not insane.

Ergh. Ew.

It's not just me that thinks that influencers and people of that ilk are getting more extreme in order to keep peoples' attention, is it? What's that? Seeming less relevant? Why not put out some absolutely poisonous rage bait?

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

Gosh, that's a horrible position to be in.

My god.

'A turtle makes tracks on a beach after burying its eggs in the sand in June 2021 in the Ras Al Hadd Turtle Reserve in Oman. About 10,000 green turtles make the trip on this beach every year' (Haitham Al Farsi/Solent News/Shutterstock)

The Strait of Hormuz + surrounding seas are critical ecologically as well as politically.

Coral reefs, whale sharks, dolphins, endangered Arabian humpback whales, seagrass meadows supporting dugons, islands harbouring green turtles - just some of the creatures + ecosystems in + near the Strait.

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The stunning underwater world that’s at risk as the Iran war drags on | CNN Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf is a one-of-a-kind marine ecosystem that’s home to dolphins, sea turtles and coral. How do oil slicks affect them?

A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz

@greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk:

www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...
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I can't go on, i'll go on (Beckett) 9" x 12" acrylic on board

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Sybil Andrews (British, 1898-1992)
The Storm, 1935
Color linocut on brown Japanese paper
36.5 × 26.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

A perennially good point.

This was the perfect recommendation

Online hasn't proved fruitful, as yet.

This feels like what talking to someone with dementia is like.
But less heartbreaking.

Some people call me the space cowboy
Some call me the jockey of death

Oh, very good.

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

This website had 62 million hits in February...
edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Does anybody know where I can buy a large, detailed wall map? I am working on a project and want to stick it to the wall in my office so I can learn the geography of the region better...

Where does one buy maps, these days?

Women will be blamed for the downfall of civilisation.
Women who have been second-class citizens in terms of health, wealth, safety, self-autonomy for their entire existence.

We will be blamed for protecting ourselves against or distancing ourselves from, for example, men who visit rape academies.

Somebodye once tolde me the worlde ys goinge to roll me, for beholde among the tooles yn the shedde the sharpest Ich am not.

This seems... Wrong.

A functioning gargoyle with modern rainwater goods added

A grotesque face

if it has (or had) a water spout, it’s a gargoyle, if it doesn’t, it’s a grotesque. thank you for coming to my tedtalk, see you all next month when I give it again

Accurate.

You'd make an excellent roadie.