Painting of a ghostly figure in a white dress in an old palace, accompanied by a black cat. There's another similar figure in the far background.

The Palace of the Spirits, Romolo Tessari (1868-1925).

Ok, going into Project Hail Mary without knowing anything, I have to admit I did not expect the Thing...
#ProjectHailMary

In the Irish folktale "The Haunted Cellar," a clurichaun—a drunker, more sinister counterpart to the leprechaun—breaks into an Irish lord's wine cellar, where he gets drunk and plays pranks on the servants. He's described as a six-inch man with a red and purple nose. #FairyTaleTuesday

Please, Not Again Is this idiocy starting again?  From the 1920s to the early 1960s, animation was correctly viewed as a format everyone could enjoy.  The theatrical cartoons of the Golden Age of animation (late 193…

Let’s not return to the “animation is for kids” fallacy, please. maggiemcneill.com/2026/03/16/p...

A white marble table leg in the form of a lion head and descending into a claw as the foot. The view is from above and since there is no table top the inscription of P. Casca Long can be seen engraved into the table top support.

View across an atrium of the so-called House of Casca Longus (he never lived here!). To the left a blue painted wall. In the centre-right an impluvium basin with a circular ceramic cistern head nearest to us on one side. On the far side the white marble tripod table support.

One of the most remarkable objects in #Pompeii is a marble table support with P. Casca Longus inscribed on it. Longus was the 1st assassin to stab Julius Caesar on #IdesOfMarch (today in 44 BC). On his death Longus’ possessions were auctioned & this table was bought by a Pompeian

I just blocked two people who were like “we need to see the bodies of blown up children for people to get how serious this is,” and as a former human rights lawyer I cannot tell you how wrong that is.

Do not inflict bystander trauma on people. It will make them shut down and go numb, not wake up.

kermit the frog and fozzie bear from the muppets are driving a car . Alt: kermit the frog and fozzie bear from the muppets are driving a car and singing "And Away we Go"

Me: "I'll read something, have a drink while I watch something short, and then straight to bed."
Netflix: "Pride and Prejudice is leaving soon."

A scene from the dtama: a woman, wearing an elaborate traditional Chinese red robe and ornate gold headdress, poses against a vivid red background, extending a sword forward with a focused expression. She wears makeup: her face is powdered white, her eyebrows are two strokes of black, and her eyes are contoured with a fine line.

Ok, I'm watching "Unveil: Jadewind", a Chinese period drama, and trust me, they mean business when they say drama.
Like, did she seriously embroider *that* on his back while he was still alive? I'm not saying she was wrong, but... wow.

Ravel's Bolero is a thing that can get me arrested. Like I swear, if I get in the mood, you can find me singing it aloud in the middle of a deserted street at 2 am.

Paparaparapaaaa parappPpaaaaa! Paraprapappappa pappappa papparappapprapaaaaaaaa!

Oh yeah. So much good material to draw from in the novellas.

a cartoon monkey is holding a sign that says dummm Alt: a cartoon monkey is holding a sign that says dummm

That's a movie I'll never shut up about.

That luxurious beard!

Oh no, I can't help you at all, then, I'm all the way across. Here the problem's you can't find decent canned pulled pork.

The only place I've ever seen canned spinach is in cartoons? Sorry, I had to say that. Where do you write from?

capital will always hate the labor they exploit

The heart button should read "I empathise with this," because half of the time "like" doesn't feel appropriate at all.
I know how many great ideas came from short stories first, and not being able to support yourself by/while writing them shoudn't be how things work.

I got my favourite trousers back from the tailor who did some mending on them, and they come from my time in Jerusalem, and have a label, and when he gave them back to me – my tailor's a huge middle-Eastern man – he said "these come from home", and my heart shattered in a thousand pieces.

Scientists baffled at mysterious ancient creature that doesn't fit on the tree of life as we know it An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.

And hey, ICYMI: Entirely new branch of the animal kingdom just dropped.

We've been just assuming Prototaxites was a huge fungus. It's not. It's its own thing.

www.livescience.com/animals/gian...

Also: Some dinosaurs appear to have had quills. like porcupines or something.

So all you paleoartists out there, new skin unlocked.

www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/n...

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

I... I'm afraid I can't raise my hand here. I'm "some people". Though, in my defence, I liked X-Men the same way I liked The Flintstones movie when I was a little girl.
(the reason being: it had Halle Berry in it 🤫)

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the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

A small plush owl (but a superb one) next to a glass of beer that needs refiling.

Superb owl night 'cause it's 1.30 in the morning around here.

Now THAT is a superb owl! Even has a mustache. Nice! From, of course, the great Hieronymus Bosch. #SuperBowl

What a superb owl! Perky pre-Colombian finial.

Photo of the described owl art. It looks like muddy scratch marks on a mottled brown cave wall. The head is very round with two upright lines for ears and a line in the center for a beak. Numerous parallel lines suggest plumage on the wings.

The oldest known image of an owl:

More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...

a man and a woman are looking at each other in front of a bookshelf with the words or written in blue . ALT: a man and a woman are looking at each other in front of a bookshelf with the words or written in blue .

The recent Wonder Man has brought to my attention that many of you superhero fans haven't seen Shang Chi, which I think is a shame. In the general panorama of that kind of movies it stands out in a genuine way. On the downside, it'll ruin Hotel California for you. Like forever.

Anyone know anyone at the Folio Society?
Failing that, other publishers of lavishly illustrated books?
Publisher i had as destination for projects has turned problematic.

I understand it has a very different texture and rhythm than many other shows of its kind, but I'm loving the meta and the acting is incredible.
To each its own, of course.