It’s quite the coincidence that the Strait of Hormuz is open when the stock market is open and closed when it isn’t.

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

The Titanic hit an iceberg at 11.40pm on this day 1912. Wallace Hartley, leader of the band that carried on playing, came from Colne, Lancs. There is a plaque to the musicians in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, and a monument on Liverpool waterfront to 244 engineers who died.

Monochrome photograph featuring a landscape with tall trees and a group of people on a track

Off to Market, 2000 by US Beth Moon, photographer who explored and documented some of the oldest and most striking trees in the world over a 14 year period #womensart

Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇

Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

This new furry friend is often sleeping on my feet, I think he’s home.

The face of a two year old hairy lurcher called Doodle and owner Leon a bearded man in his 40s wearing a tweed baker boy cap and kneeling at dog height. Taken from below the dog’s chin outside a shop on a blue sky day

Doodle. A 2 year old boy lurcher. We’re on week 4

It is truly remarkable that after the Vietnam War, after the Afghanistan War, after a catalogue of US military failures in the post 1945 world, people claiming to be serious analysts are saying because the US dropped alot of bombs it won this war.
It did not.

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

A black-and-white, head-and-shoulders portrait of a young Phyllis "Pippa" Latour. She is captured in a three-quarter profile, gazing upward and to the left with a contemplative expression. Her dark, wavy hair is styled in a voluminous 1940s fashion, and she wears dark lipstick. She is dressed in a dark, patterned blouse with a high neckline. The background is a simple, dark gradient, focusing all attention on her face.

Remembering the legendary #WWII spy Pippa Latour who outwitted the Nazis with a silk hair tie.😮

Six weeks before D-Day, she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Normandy (age 23). Codename Genevieve, she bicycled across France selling soap while secretly transmitting 135 coded messages to London. (1/2)

At least 254 killed in Israel’s devastating attacks across Lebanon Israel carries out 100 strikes across Lebanon in 10 minutes, health minister says hospitals overwhelmed with victims.

Where to find the words anymore?

What to say when Israel continues to behave like this?

And no condemnation at all from the UK Government. They carry on business as usual as if Israel aren't carrying out genocides in both Gaza and Lebanon.

aje.news/jf7llm

Four images of a giant sculpture of a spider colvered in stripes of wool in photos taken at night and day

Louis Bourgeois’s 'Maman' sculpture yarn bombed by Magda Sayeg, 2018, a noted textile artist known for her eye-catching wool coverings to turn everyday objects in the environment into explosions of color #Womensart

Canadians are boycotting American goods and buying Canadian.

Like this potato.

Mine too. Three weeks in

Who’s this beauty? I just got a hairy lurcher. His name’s Doodle

More Brexit batshittery from the clowns

Brexiters will be arguing the UK returns to a hunter gatherer society in an effort to save their Brexit clownshow

Absolute cookers

Sympathies from a similar vintage. Hoping it sorts itself out

An excellent reason for voting against ReformUK is so that all these filthy rich non-doms who want to foist a far-right party on the rest of us lose their money.
They thought they had a sure bet.
Let's show them they are wrong.
#ReformUK #Farage

Side-by-side composite image. On the left: a 17th-century oil portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, showing her as a fair-skinned woman with curly brown hair, wearing a black dress, white sheer shawl collar, pearl necklace and earrings, and a jeweled brooch. On the right: the colorful cover of the book Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis, filled with her detailed, vibrant scientific illustrations of butterflies, moths, insects, flowers, and a lizard against a white background with a gold border.

Maria Sibylla Merian was a pioneering naturalist, entomologist & scientific illustrator whose meticulous artwork & observations revolutionized the study of insects and laid early groundwork for #ecology.

She was born #OTD in 1647.

#ecosky #entomology #artsky #WomenInSTEM

A 2x2 collage of four colorful children's nonfiction picture book covers celebrating trailblazing women. Top left: Queen of Physics — an illustration of Chien-Shiung Wu in a white lab coat smiles at a desk covered in papers and scientific diagrams, with atoms and stars floating around her. Top right: Wangari’s Trees of Peace — Wangari Maathai, wearing a bright yellow patterned dress and headwrap, kneels to plant a tree against a backdrop of African mountains and sky. Bottom left: The Amazing Story of Jane Goodall — Jane Goodall in a green shirt kneels in a lush jungle, gently interacting with a chimpanzee. Bottom right: The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes — close-up of Dr. Patricia Bath, a Black woman with dark hair, holding an eye-examination device against a purple background decorated with cartoon eyes.

📚 Happy International #ChildrensBookDay!

Today we celebrate the wondrous children’s books that introduce young readers to remarkable women—from Drs. Wu & Maathai to Drs. Goodall & Bath & so many more. Share their stories of exploration, discovery, courage, persistence...

#kidslit #litsky #booksky

Three square greetings cards arranged on a William Morris tablecloth. The card images are a woodland path through bluebells, a road winding through the English countryside and past a farmhouse, and a shady path under trees alongside a river.

Three new greetings card designs now available. All from my linoprints. Find the whole range online or come and see them when I open for York Open Studios next month.
www.janeduke.com/ourshop/cat_...

This oil painting is titled "Quartier Latin Paris - View of Place de la Contrescarpe" by the artist Mona Edulesco. It depicts a textured, post-impressionist view of the Parisian cityscape from a rustic interior window.

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Feeling moderately vindicated cashing out of tech in January

'Police gave chase hoping to retrieve the haul, but the thieves just gave them two fingers'

With over eighty acting credits across his career, no one would ever accuse Back to the Future’s James Tolkan of being a slacker.

David Hockney

Peter Brown
(British painter, b. 1967)
The Landing, 2025
Oil on Canvas