Of all the things that were going to keep me awake worrying tonight, I never could have predicted that my probable mispronunciation of forehead would instantly shoot to the top of the list.

We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.

The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.

The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

Think of all the money we could save if every country in the world just agreed not to be run by stupid cunts.

Interesting cheese content.

Artwork in greys looking down on a rural track on which a small figure walks with fields either side and hills in the distance

Katja Lang, Road to E. (2022) #WomensArt

This is a field I know nothing about, but after reading that thread, I’m in. Looks great!

Based on my own extensive experience with all five of those countries, this is something I've also long argued.

Talking to pro “free speech” UK right-wingers who admired Orban I have often referred to this detail - which I still find astonishing.

(From @iandunt.bsky.social’s How To Be A Liberal)

All the worst cunts in the world - from journalism to politics, the Kermlin to the White House - are suffering tonight.

Public space is ruined by #UKCarCulture, which drives people indoors, which exposes them even more to a steady stream of online poison, which spreads the idea that #UKCarCulture = freedom.

And so the cycle continues. But it's a cycle we can break.

Screenshot of Elmo next to his pet's fishbowl in Elmo's World. The subtitles say "We. Dorothy's been thinking abou and down to what’s her daughter."

four birds in a cartoon from Sesame Street, with the caption reading "Oh, shit"

Another Sesame Street cartoon saying "Oh shit"

Screenshot of Big Bird in Hooper’s Store with live human Alan and a flying red bird. The subtitles read: "Time for the birth of terror. Me"

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

I can’t remember which one it was in, but they had a Wigan A-Z in their van.
I think there was one shot showing Gromit flicking through their letters, which were to an address in Wigan too

Very true. I think that boundary change might have happened before I was even born, yet like everyone else I know, I still write “Wigan, Lancs” on the envelope of every letter home.
I imagine that would take centuries to change 😁

Aren’t they from Greater Manchester, strictly speaking?

Looks like all of TLI is back on BBC Sounds now

FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea

🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation
🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship
🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund

www.carbonbrief.org/...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

I think that's an Angine de poitrine track

Best use of the UK national emergency alert service would be to send this video out to everyone immediately. It may just heal us.

in 80 years historians will simplify the cause of WW3 to the US President being a pedophile, sorta like WW1 was archduke ferdinand getting shot

I will fight anyone - possibly with tops aff, bare-knuckle in a pub carpark if pushed - who tries to use this as a stick to beat McCartney over the head with.

It's a *beautiful* record. A charming nursery rhyme with a tune to warm your heart.

And I am unanimous in that.

And inspiration for placards at the anti-far right demo the other week

Yes! It's a children's song, written for children, and so the only people deserving of any say in whether it's any good are children.
Any grown-ups whining about it are just angry that he didn't write a song aimed squarely at them.
Speaking as a former child myself, I loved it. (Still do, tbf)

Ah, I never get the chance to be smug and say this so I’ll seize it now. I was there!

Happy Easter

Photo realistic painting of a traditional foil wrapped Easter egg tied with yellow satin bow. The foil has been peeled back a little to reveal the chocolate beneath.

Easter egg (and yes, it is a painting)

Artist: Harry Wingfield from First Picture Book, 1971)

Happy Easter

Thank you!!!

Woah, I admit I can’t think what the reference is, but is this also the origin of the mention of Pontefract Cakes in ep1 of Small Prophets?