Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning.

@exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Stetson obvs

Presented by Curwen Studio through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

John Piper, 24. St Mary’s, Paddington: by G.E. Street, 1964
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Concrete buildings

Coal store and steps up to pan floor

Linhay concrete style

When the Cornish did Brutalism before it was fashionable. China clay dry, Leswidden, St Just. Early 20th century, likely 1910-1930ish #brutalism #industry #archaeology

Hey hi Tom!

Sunrise over the St Michael’s Mount and d Jubilee Pool from the Western Promenade Penzance Uk

Good morning from Penzance

Up to a point. When the B1s currently arriving over Iran from Gloucs. hit anything but missile silos tonight it becomes clear we have no sovereignty. I don’t see how he has any option but to resign tomorrow. Maybe he knows this. Maybe it’s his ‘finest hour’.

Thinking about this as the bombers start to land in Gloucestershire fields, quite clearly against the wishes of the British people and their government.

I have a theory that the people that write these kinds of headlines see it as an act of satirical resistance. Pisstaking in plan sight.

Bonkery from the Daily Mail

good to see the Mail has a firm grip on the worst case scenario. “Worst of All” #unhingedheadlines

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE LABRADOODLES IN CHICHISTER!

Bonkery from the Daily Mail

good to see the Mail has a firm grip on the worst case scenario. “Worst of All” #unhingedheadlines

Cornish narcissi

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus

Sun rising into a blue sky over frosty hills

Shap, Cumbria. And something not seen for a while.

Sheep

I know this one. It’s a character.

It should be. But they always come back. Terminators in ermine and tweed.

Only two more sleeps before Ben Saunders @wessexarchaeology.bsky.social introduces Maritime Mapping around the Firth of Forth. Book your free ticket here👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news
#MaritimeHeritage #Coal #MiningHeritage

Oh dear. Can we not ‘make lists’ though.

‘Today in Parliament’

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

News report regarding apparent US ‘security guarentees’ for Ukraine

There seems to be a problem with the bleedin’ obvious here.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Remember maybe ten years ago when both historians and socialists were warning about the rise of fascism, as the media class smirked and joked on TV. Next time, I say we just listen.

a bald man is sitting at a desk and giving a peace sign . Alt: Dr Evil, a pale bald supervillain in a grey suit, doing air quotes.

‘I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.’

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

He strikes me as an honest thoughtful chap. I think his message might just have been quite simply ‘we don’t have an answer’. ‘This is a bit of a spot’.
Bleak.

If, and I think this was quite carefully what he was saying’ he, (and by extension the whole machinery of Govt) don’t have an answer to ‘what do we do now’, then the conclusion is that we really are very deeply fucked.

Time to come off the cloud?

Elevation map of the Fens showing present-day topography and major settlements. Insert: map of Britain with the Fens (an area of eastern England) highlighted.

The Fens, once the UK's largest lowland wetland, are under threat from environmental change. Examining changes in landscape, habitat, and species from the Neolithic to today underscores the need for integrated heritage and environmental management.

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🏺 #Archaeology