The Boxer (1933, Somov) X Drew Starkey in ‘Queer’ (2024, Guadagnino)

Jane Seymour: The Other Woman Today we are continuing our dive into Tudor history and are going to be discussing the wife that came after, or maybe even during, King Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour. Hello and…

Jane Seymour: The Other Woman - an episode of The Medieval Murder Podcast youtu.be/lefylsmDE3I?... #JaneSeymour

“The game's afoot: follow your spirit, and upon this charge, cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’”
Wishing all my followers a very happy St George’s Day x

Manuscript illustration of a dragon being fed a cake. Many more cakes are on a table next to it. The dragon is both pleased and trying to give the impression that it has NEVER HAD TREATS in its life and STARVING.

This 23 April, why not try being kind to your dragon and feeding it treats instead of sticking nasty sharp things into it?

Dragons endorse this message.

[Bibliothèque du Château de Chantilly, Ms 139, f. 14v].

Meta has faced particular scrutiny because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—which are all owned by Meta—are among the most widely used online platforms by Americans, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. In late 2025, Reuters reported on a set of internal Meta documents that detailed how the company dealt with fraudulent and prohibited user activity, including a May 2025 presentation that estimated that its platforms were involved with a third of all successful scams in the US. Another presentation cited by Reuters alleged that an internal Meta review found it “is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google.” One Meta document from 2024 that Reuters cited estimated that the company would earn 10.1 percent of its revenue that year—around $16 billion—from ads that were actually scams or other types of prohibited content. To put that figure in perspective, the FBI estimated that in 2024, Americans lost $16 billion from all internet crimes. At the time, a Meta spokesperson called the estimate “rough and overly inclusive” and said that the set of documents

That Zuckerberg's business model is a scam of breathtaking scale isn't even an argument anymore. He knows it and we know it.

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

The steepest decline in the US’s global stature is here. For generations, a reputable source of health intel. Now peddling info from your uncle who thinks we’re not getting the real story about the common cold

“This was not a disease that was killing healthy people. It was killing sick people”.

RFK Jr. lying about the COVID19 pandemic.

She should have gotten a Best Supporting Actress Academy Awards nomination for "Spy"(2015).

Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins in "Bull Durham" (1988)

Happy #StGeorgesDay

A day when traditionally new appointments are made to the Order of the Garter, the highest order of chivalry in England

You can see their badges on displayed at St George's Chapel within Windsor Castle

#StGeorgesDay2026
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Tamworth Castle by Mease Valley Photography

It’s publication day! 🎉🎉🎉 @hodderbooks.bsky.social #thehouseofboleyn

Changing faces of the Royal Family as they celebrate the late Queen Yesterday would have been the late Queen Elizabeth II's 100th birthday and in the century since her birth the family that surrounds the throne has, unsurprisingly, changed dramatically.

The changing faces of the Royal Family as The Firm celebrates what would have been the late Queen's 100th birthday

www.dailymail.com/news/royals/...

I forgot that Bluesky is a hive for the most radical and dangerous coalition in our politics (Philadelphia sports fans)

I wrote about the upcoming Paramount-Warner Brothers merger, the open letter rallying talent against it, and why it’s bad for Hollywood, freedom of speech, and audiences for @avclub.com.

Read the full story below 👇 thanks to @markruffalo.bsky.social for sharing.

If you're reviewing a pizza joint, the mission is to evaluate the quality of the pizza, not to complain that the joint doesn't offer steak or lobster. And if you hate all kinds of pizza, maybe let a pizza lover review it instead, while you go to a steakhouse...

screenshotting because I feel a rant coming on and I don’t want to direct all my ire at the person unlucky enough to to have invoked this argument for the one millionth time

it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.

Incredible piece. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

“People Just Don’t Care”: ‘Leaving Neverland’ Director on Why Michael Jackson Won the Court of Public Opinion Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

Kate and William join Charles and Camilla in celebrating British centenarians at Buckingham Palace as Royal Family marks the late Queen's 100th birthday www.dailymail.com/news/royals/...

Queen Mary’s Emerald Shamrock Brooch Happy Birthday to Lady Gabriella Kingston, who turns 44 today! The accomplished writer and singer daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, who is 57th in the Line of Succession and was sadly widowed a few years ago,  Lady Gabriella notably wore Queen Mary’s Emerald Shamrock Brooch!

Queen Mary’s Emerald Shamrock Brooch was inherited by her daughter-in-law, Princess Marina, and then seen on Princess Michael before being worn by Lady Gabriella Kingston, who celebrates her 45th Birthday today, to the Coronation of King Charles III

Actor Hudson Williams, from the TV show "Heated Rivalry" (2025), giving two thumbs up.

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.

Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

The Swan (1956)

THE SWAN (1956) — 10:00 am ET — 1h 52m
(TCM Daytime: Spring Is in the Air)

Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan; directed by Charles Vidor

On the eve of her marriage to a prince, a noblewoman falls for her brother's tutor.

#TCM #TCMParty

Queen Elizabeth II Centenary Reception at Buckingham Palace The Royal Family joined King Charles III and Queen Camilla as they held a Reception to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II in the Marble Hall of Buckingham Palace on April 21st, concluding several commemorations over the past few days.

The Royal Family joined King Charles III and Queen Camilla as they held a Reception to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II in the Marble Hall of Buckingham Palace