White glazed Stromness teaset with blue Per Mare crest decoration and Souvenir: cup + saucer with arms of Burgh of Stromness. "Florentine China".
We hear it’s #nationalteaday, which we find is best served in a Stromness ‘Per Mare’ (‘by the sea’) tea set 🫖 ☕️
I think the governments need to arrange a swap of some kind
God that’s horrible. Again.
(and yes, I know Stanley didn’t hire Goodsir; just ignore that bit and let the joke happen)
The header on that screenshot really annoys me too. As if ‘AI’ just did that autonomously, without any prompting.
Also, fanfic has been mashing up stuff like Star Wars and LOTR for decades, and better!
Screenshot from Fast Company (I know; don’t @ me) of an advice letter that could’ve been written by Dr Stanley of HMS Erebus about Harry Goodsir. It reads: I'm in a midlevel position at my company and I have one direct report. I hired this person and we work closely together, and he's really good at his job. The problem is I don't think he respects me at all. He doesn't do or say anything that's blatantly out of line, but it's a general feeling I get from most of our interactions. I feel like he thinks he's smarter than me or that he could do my job better than me. I'm not threatened by him (I know I'm great at my job and I think I'm a good manager), but I don't know how to confront him about this since maybe it's just a feeling I have from his tone and general vibe. Any advice?
This is the most Dr Stephen S. Stanley-coded thing I’ve ever read. Apart from his actual letters, obviously
Some people call me the space cowboy
Some call me the jockey of death
Things that have been moved from their proper places since my other half took over the housework:
The container of rice
The paprika
My entire shell collection (also reboxed)
A pack of notebooks
Spare chargers
The cat litter
The pile of books at my side of the bed
Every day, a surprise!
post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):
In Stuck Boat news, not quite where you’d expect to find a Stuck Boat but there one is
An advert from the latest issue for "The Bootleg Betjeman" - The UK's foremost poet laureate tribute act. With special guest support from "Fraud Byron"
From the latest issue (sorry no refunds). shop.viz.co.uk/viz355bs
I imagine he’s changed his name and gone into hiding by this point
Vance attempting to challenge <checks notes> the head of *his church* on its theology is…yeah. Such a devout Catholic, he doesn’t recognise the Pope’s authority. People have been excommunicated for less!
This is so good. Constant optimisation and everything done not for its own sake but in service of some self-centred goal or other does not make for a pleasant world
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...
Growing up, I loved looking through a telescope at the rows and rows of puffins, sitting like little ornaments on the cliffs near where we lived. They’re such sweet-looking birds.
I have so much on today but all I want to do is read John Hunter’s A Treatise on the Venereal Disease that I’ve just realised I’ve had open on my phone’s browser for two days #displacementactivityisgo
What, and I cannot emphasise this enough, the fuck.
I loved it! She weaves in the anachronisms so brilliantly, writes speech really well and believably for the setting and her use of language is wonderful. I don’t think she’s published anything else, which is a shame!
Viper Wine is so good! I’m reading Helm at the moment and really enjoying it; it’s a strange book, in a very good way
Happy Praying Mantis Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate…
CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly?
DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to
CHILD: So not all people follow the same religion?
DAD: No, son… we’re in sects
I see they went with the old ‘a volunteer done it’…
Hopefully they’ll replace it with an image of actual Erebus and no more lazy slop.
Cone snails absolutely terrify me haha! I’ve only seen a couple, in Australia, and I didn’t dare check whether the animals were still in the shells 😂
Hair needs to be greener 😂
THAT photo of the green-wigged, miserable employee at the Willy Wonka Experience, clearly regretting ever answering the job ad, standing behind a table full of My First Chemistry Set-type apparatus and some bottles
The actor playing Dr Stanley really went for it
Fish paintings based on Mark Catesby illustrations. From the album ‘Collection de fleurs, d’oiseaux d’insectes.’ Drawn and colored by various students of the Royal School of Sorèze. Manuscript, 1783-1789.
Harvard’s Houghton Library.
#naturalhistory #sciart #animalart
Oh no 😳
Someone in the group has asked many, many times now about the end date, and there’s been no reply. I feel like they’re trying to do a lot with very little
I admit I’m interested in seeing this, but the lack of detail on what will be on display, the apparent reluctance to give an end date and now this are all raising red flags
A street corner, with a sign reading "Play Area & Cholera Burial Ground".
Saving for "State your mood in one image" threads.
