🌋Sakurajima in Japan erupted again this afternoon.

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🌋And todays stupid award goes to....

They climbed to the top of Santiaguito Volcano in Guatemala yesterday even though there is a complete ban.

If anyone in Edinburgh fancies an 8 string ukulele (I think it's a concert size) for 60 quid please ask. Local to save on postage. We could meet somewhere and swap cash for a ukulele. Like some kind of twee drug deal.

This is Jemma and Bean. Jemma likes to eat her cheese snacks. Bean prefers to eliminate hers. 13/10 for both (TT: bjkuhn)

Today marks 10 years without Prince

🙏💜🕊️☔️

You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2.

A few warnings:
Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is.
Absolutely /do not/ lick it.
Keep far away from any Supermen.
If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts.

Let's talk about the science here.

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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When you really need to let people know where the best bit of the text is located - 15th century, Avignon, Bibliothèque Ceccano - 1094, f. 195v

Clouds behind the City skyline at dusk.

The City of London, looking east from Waterloo bridge.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

💖 Hope this Quokka brings ya
joy 🌿 Happy Everything 💚🤎

'Autumn Morning, Clapham Common' (2022) by Mark McLaughlin
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Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

There’s been quite a lot done by philosophers exploring the phenomenology of reading. Also, but not so recent, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s writings on hermeneutics are interesting in relation to this.

Monday

Wisteria flowers hide the house they are growing on.

Wisteria flowers in the morning sun.

Now the leaves are growing we won't see most of the front of the house again until the Autumn.

Transformers! More than meets the eye!

This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America.

The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here.

(📷:zedasd)

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Stained glass window with image of a peacock with tail open facing forwards

East window, St. John, Honiley, Warks, UK 1924 by Theodora Salusbury, English artist in the Arts & Crafts style, the peacock was her signature #WomensArt

Two more ‘elephants done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 11th century, BAV Vat. lat. 5729, f. 342r

Monday already

My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.

This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!

Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

This guy ducks

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.