Oh that should have been
#RandomActsOfKindess

Some free biscuits from a bakery in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Our daughter is just back from Pakistan. Near where her husbands family live is a bakery. It's a very good bakery. At the end of each day any unsold biscuits are placed outside the shop. Anyone who wants them can help themselves. The biscuits are good!
#TandomActsOfKindess

Living For The City YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic

#MusicChallenge
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic

Day 21- A Song With Syncopation

Stevie Wonder - Living For The City

Stevie Wonder often used a syncopated rhythm to drive the funk. This is a great example.

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These incredible Buff Tip Moths blend in so well with branches that you might mistake them for sticks. Nature's masters of disguise are truly fascinating!

This painting, titled "L'escalier" (The Staircase), was created by French painter Marc Chalmé, known for his mastery of shadow and light, often compared to Vermeer. His work captures "still light" in landscapes, still lifes, and scenes like this.

This painting, titled "L'escalier" (The Staircase), was created by French painter Marc Chalmé, known for his mastery of shadow and light, often compared to Vermeer. His work captures "still light" in landscapes, still lifes, and scenes like this.

"It is love that must triumph, not war." #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForPeace

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Somewhat later than I'd intended (I've been clearing out my Google account storage!), here's our traditional start to #SundayMorning: this is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup

Of course it's of no consequence but now I'm wondering what an 'accountable albatross' would be. Could it be a rather trendy gastro pub, or perhaps a later day mythical creature, in a fantasy novel, attoning for the misfortune it's kind has brought?

It is a sunny #SaturdayMorning here in our part of the world so I'm very thankful for that. As is my wont each week, here's our traditional start to the day & week-end: "Interior" by Brynhild Parker from 1930: it just seems to fit the moment! #BrynhildParker #EastLondonGroup

Erasmus Darwin is portrayed as a spectator, seated front left, in Wright of Derby’s most famous painting: An Experiment 1768. With profile largely in shadow, he is watching the experiment intently. Erasmus Darwin, Midlands Enlightenment thinker, physician, inventor, abolitionist, died #OTD 1802; founding member of Lunar Society (with Watt, Boulton & Wedgwood), grandfather of Charles Darwin, friend of Benjamin Franklin. National Gallery London

Portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby c.1770 Birmingham Art Gallery

Erasmus Darwin, Midlands Enlightenment thinker, physician, inventor, abolitionist, died #OTD 1802; founding member of Lunar Society (with Watt, Boulton & Wedgwood), grandfather of Charles Darwin, friend of Benjamin Franklin.
An Experiment 1768 by Wright of Derby
Portrait 1770 Birmingham AG - ALT

UK:

Mass rock, along the Glen Road, Mocollop, Co Waterford.

At Mocollop, with its derelict castle & disused church, near Ballyduff, Co Waterford, if you go up the Glen Road you pass the mass rock. It's quite moving to think of the religious persecution of the penal times in Ireland. This is where local catholics observed their religion, out in the open.

This photograph shows part of the interior Leeds Central Library. The library is situated on Calverley Street in Leeds city centre, next to the Leeds Art Gallery. The image highlights the distinctive mezzanine floor with arched wooden architecture and a complex coffered ceiling

Leeds Central Library is well worth a visit for its interior alone. It was constructed between 1878 and 1884 to a design by local architect George Corson, it officially opened on 17 April 1884 as the Leeds Municipal Offices. housing administrative departments for gas,

Oooh! Hot Money podcast fans will be interested to hear “Irishman Daniel Kinahan, head of a powerful cartel, arrested in the United Arab Emirates”

BBC radio DJ Andy Kershaw dies aged 66 DJ spent almost three decades working for corporation and was best known for Radio 1 show from 1985 to 2000

"Revealing his cancer diagnosis in a statement earlier this year, he said he was in “good spirits”, joking he was “determined not to die before Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Ant’n’Dec. That should keep me going for a while.”" 😔

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Physician May Chinn was born 130 years ago today. In 1926 she was the 1st Black woman to graduate from Bellevue, but then spent 14 years looking for a hospital that would allow her full practicing privileges on account of her race, practicing privately until she found a cancer research position.

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The Jordanhill Cross, one of the @govanstones.bsky.social in Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. It's the lower section of a celtic-style cross and is decorated with a figure on horseback and geometric knotwork designs.

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#glasgow #glasgowhistory #govan #govanstones #scottishhistory

They say that irony is dead. But this must surely be peak dead irony!
What would JD consider to be safer talking points for the pope: tennis; what he did on his holidays; Tolkien; how not to support genocide, or perhaps how oil companies are cashing in on war and environmental devistation?

"The future belongs to men and women of peace. In the end, justice will always triumph over injustice, just as violence, despite all appearances, will never have the last word."
- Pope Leo XIV in ALGERIA 🙏

A black-and-white studio portrait of Bessie Smith (1894–1937), the legendary Black blues singer known as the “Empress of the Blues” and one of the most influential vocalists in American music history. In this full-length, dynamic image, she stands confidently in the center of the frame, arms gracefully outstretched in a theatrical pose of joyful expression. She wears a shimmering, light-colored 1920s flapper-style gown covered in intricate beadwork, fringe, and floral appliqués at the waist, with a sheer overskirt and dark heeled boots. Her short dark hair is neatly styled, and her face is lit with a radiant, open-mouthed smile that radiates power, charisma, and delight. The dark, softly draped studio backdrop and dramatic lighting emphasize her commanding stage presence.

The 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴, Bessie Smith, was born #OTD in 1894.

She was the most popular & highest-paid Black female entertainer of the 1920s & 1930s and one of the greatest vocalists in American #musichistory.

Inducted, Rock and Roll HOF, 1989.

#musicsky #blues #music

No doubt to be followed by a sister publication: "Rhododendron: what could be prittier in place of dull native species"

I've a great idea for their next poll: 'Should proprietors of major national newspapers be able to be non domicile for tax purposes?'

Yoshino cherry blossom 🌸
#macro

Super Rare Magenta Aurora in the sky over Finland ✨

Thank you Dr. Gladys West for making navigation easier and accessible to everyone on Earth

Your legacy will be remembered

'Oslo patient' likely cured of HIV after getting stem cell transplant from his brother, who is genetically resistant to the virus A man known as the "Oslo patient" joins a short list of people in long-term remission from HIV following bone marrow transplants.

www.livescience.com/health/hiv/o...

Sade | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

👏 Congratulations to Sade Adu, the first British black woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. #MusicSky #Sade

rockhall.com/sade/

"If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f**k alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records." - Kurt Cobain The Advocate, 1995

Mood, every single day.

Valley signal box by the level crossing viewed from the station of the same name on the North Wales Coast Line near Holyhead. Semaphore signal VY23 is at danger on the left, with a ground disc at its base. The track-facing side of the box was in need of some TLC at this point.

Valley Signal Box and Semaphore, Anglesey. 17 June 2018. #railway #photography