Claude Monet, French painter, 1840-1926.
Boats Lying at Low Tide at Fécamp, 1881.
Oil on canvas.

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📷 The Art Institute of Chicago | Painting and Fine Arts

Verse 1:
I heard a song by Leonard Cohen
With haunting tune and lyric poem
But you don't listen to the lyrics, do ya?
'Cause if you did, you'd surely glean
The song's about a bondage queen
Whose sub submits while singing "Hallelujah"
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

I love this one!

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

Hello! I still badly need work in narrative design or game writing etc. I’ve been in games for 20 years and I’m responsible for the mobile smash hit Lily’s Garden. I will take on full-time or contract work but I really need to pick something up soon. Please get in touch if you have/know of something

A Bald Eagle swoops on birds on a lake

Happy #EarthDay 2026!

Bald Eagle swooping on birds, Lake Washington, Seattle
📸Don Clapp

I was hanging out with a friend once and we were doing the whole “what do you want for lunch” “oh I don’t mind what were YOU thinking” thing and after three minutes she goes “I’m not allowed to do this” and pulled her phone out, called her Dominant and says “where should we eat”

I’m still laughing

Washington inoculated soldiers against smallpox. And at that time the inoculation wasn’t anywhere close to as safe as vaccines today.

I love how i don't need to know French to understand this.

So jealous of you Illinois folks today. Outlawing book bans is a hell of a step forward.

An Osprey flies with a fish in its grasp.

An Osprey hunt from last summer.

#BirdOfTheDay #SplashingAround #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #Photos #ECK

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

A Lesser Whitethroat perched on a slim branch showing its grey head, white throat and off-white undersides and a grey/brown back. It has a light brown eye and a tiny white eye ring.

A sole Lesser Whitethroat has been singing on patch for the last two summers, but today it was joined by a second bird. They were so preoccupied with each other they took no notice of me sitting in the shade of a hawthorn nearby. #ukbirding #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 for England.

To my uncle Wight’s, by invitation, whither my father, wife, and Ashwell came, where we had but a poor dinner, and not well dressed; besides, the very sight of my aunt’s hands and greasy manner of carving, did almost turn my stomach.

whom shall I speak today? Brothers are mean, The friends of today do not love. To whom shall I speak today? Hearts are greedy, Everyone robs his comrade's goods. To whom shall I speak today? Kindness has perished, Insolence assaults everyone. -"A Dialogue Between Self and Soul," Twelfth Dynasty, c. 1991-1778 BC

Incredible piece of Ancient Egyptian Literature
#booksky 💙📚

"Totem" Art by Sarah Yeoman

"Totem"
Art by Sarah Yeoman

#CorvidCrew

Its gonna be great when a carrier gets taken out of commission because all the soldiers are down with covid.

Inside The Dragon Age II 'Writers' Pit' “People who weren’t writers were very leery of going in there, because if they did, they wouldn’t leave for a while, because we would suck them into some conversation. […] It’s where productivity went...

The special sauce of peak BioWare was the Writers' Pit, an almost TV-style writers room of very talented people working on extreme deadline.

At @aftermath.site (and un-paywalled): an excerpt from our latest book, DRAGON AGE II by @charlottereber.com.

aftermath.site/boss-fight-d...

Babies! 🦦

Our zoo just had otter pups, they look like muppets 😍

The people banning books are never the same people who actually read books.

Oh totally, he sounds like an asshole.

I mean, that did start my deconstruc-tion from evangelical Christianity. 🤮 “Why does Jesus want us to kill people?”

I didn’t realize how accurate Holy Grail was until I read some Malory. 😅

Mallory is like twiddly diddly dee alas courtly love excuse me while I SLICE THIS MAN'S SCALP OFF WITH A POINTED STICK WHILE HE'S STILL ALIVE forsooth!

(Terry Jones would have written this post better.)

I think I've seen Holy Grail once and my main memory is that the bit with the guy who gets his limbs cut off is not that far off how absurdly violent La Morte d'Arthur actually is. Really only A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has also captured how phenomenally dangerous jousting was, for me.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

“We’re helping too many people with disabilities” is a hell of a line from a Labor government

I am setting a boundary. Oh god. I should not have done that. They’re gonna be so mad. No. I have a right to protect myself. Then why do i feel so guilty?

A comic about setting boundaries.

universal studios osaka was the last place i ever expected to get a good aussie meat pie at. the world can be beautiful sometimes.