They weren't that keen on the historical papacy either.

I am now apparently unblocked. Bsky life is so confusing.

Whenever I come across one of the chapels of the Black Fathom Faith told in driftwood crosses and shells, I wonder what happens within their walls. All along the coast there are rumours about their inner beliefs. Talk of the King-Under-the-Sea, Drowned Dead sumonings. – #MattAdams

dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

Goodnight from Mabel Creed, immersing her grandmother’s rings in the River Darrow to wash clean of curse. Goodnight from Arthur Lamb, crunching the gears on his battered Hillman Husky as he tries to speed through the bit of Northmoor so troubled by UFOs. Goodnight from Hookland.

Anzac Day 2026: how the poppy has endured as our symbol of war and remembrance

From real to cloth to plastic and now virtual, the poppy demonstrates how material objects become imbued with profound meaning over time.

I'm on this list and I'm an utter no-name. I am an AI hater, it's true. Well, semi-true, I understand that it has its uses in coding and machine tasks or whatever the technical terms are. Just wish that gen AI didn't have to download a car.

“I loved soul music, blues music and that was a chance to work with some of the brass players that had worked with Otis Redding, who’s my all time favourite singer.”

“Sledgehammer” Vocals, Piano, Synthesizer [CMI, Prophet] – Peter Gabriel Bass – Tony Levin Drums – Manu Katché Guitar – David Rhodes Guitar, Tambourine – Daniel Lanois Saxophone – Mark Rivera Trombone – Don Mikkelsen Trumpet – Wayne Jackson Backing Vocals – Coral Gordon, Dee Lewis, P P Arnold

“Sledgehammer,” the chart-topping lead single from Peter Gabriel’s ‘So,’ was released 40 years ago today. 🔨

Its Stephen R. Johnson–directed video remains the most awarded in VMA history.

Our Number Ones review: stereogum.com/2111226/the-...

Medieval manuscript image of three men wearing crowns asleep in the same bed; above them is a bright star and an angel emerging from a cloud with a scroll.

ge-mǣtan, wk.v: to dream. (yeh-MAT-ahn / jɛ-ˈmæː-tan)
Image: The Dream of the Magi from a psalter; England (Oxford), 1200-1220; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Royal MS 1 D X, f. 2v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

barþ, n: type of ship. (BARTH / ˈbarθ)
#OldEnglish #WOTD

share a gif from a western movie you love

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

Photo of a longhaired tortie cat lying on a sunny sidewalk with grass lawn on either side. It has a round little dark object in front of it, a toy maybe.

Photo from my collection, writing on the back says “General Nuisance. Summer 1954”.

Murray and Pierre return to the lab after an evening out to find a blue glow emanating from the aparatus

On this day, 20th April 1902 Marie Skłodowska Curie and husband Pierre successfully isolated one tenth of a gram of Radium, the first sample of a radioactive element, from 8 tons of pitchblende.
Artist: Frank Hampson
‘Madam Curie’ (1970)

Why oh why do so many crisis/emergency orgs have Facebook and X as their main comm options when you can't access those sites if you're not a member?

for those abroad, the the treaty of waitangi is new zealand's founding document, intended to giuarantee Māori some measure of equality in our own country. Any "repeal" is itself a treaty violation and a betrayal.

Rhinestone Cowboy is an American masterpiece

the thing is that sometimes there are cases when the fans are actually right

and it’s still not a good idea to listen to them because then you start listening to them when they aren’t, which is most of the time

if fans have their own ideas about how things should go, great

that’s what AO3 is for

Woops, here comes our share of the rain warnings. I left that walk just a little too long.

I don't want the left to sleepwalk to victory off the back of Luxon being so bad. I want them to present an alternative with vision and increased equity for society. I don't want Labour with their milquetoast "we couldn't possibly raise taxes on the extremely rich".

1906 San Francisco earthquake YouTube video by Dr. Wendy Rocks

Today marks 120 years since the Great San Francisco earthquake.

youtu.be/OiZxnUCYxe0?...

Gardening is lovely as a hobby, and you can supplement a diet and reduce some costs, especially for items like salad greens and herbs. But no-one lives on salad greens and herbs alone, ya know? And successful gardening takes time, and luck and at least a little bit of seed money. As it were.

Here’s a feed cleanser.
Dogs catching treats.

I don’t know what tax bracket you have to be in to care about govt spending or debt but I know I’m not in it. Literally could not give a shit. I’m in the tax bracket where I want kids to be fed, homeless people to be housed, people to be able to access and receive quality healthcare timely.

Ladyhawke Is it a Lady? Is she a hawk? Why not both? A hawk, a wolf, and a bishop meet in a medieval Italian city—and Sarah is joined by living history reenactor Ari Ryan Ailin, aka “The Turnip of Terror,” to…

Ladyhawke - Episode of Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast youtu.be/uzhwkIVy-o8?... #Ladyhawke

My Mount Rushmore of Superman comics -

Byrne's Man of Steel
Morrison & Quitely's All Star Superman
Waid & Ross's Kingdom Come
Busiek & Immonen's Secret Identity

Black and white photo of a tabby cat, which is up on its hind legs with its front paws braced against the screen of a large cabinet TV. There is another cat lying on top of the TV.

Black-and-white photo of a tabby cat, which is standing up when it’s hind legs braced against a large cabinet TV. There’s another cat lying on top of the TV and its tail is draped down over the front of the television where the tabby cat is grabbing the tail with its four paw.

Brat of yore caught on film.

Catch me as Dogged Morel in a new series from the creators of The Silt Verses and I Am In Eskew! Thanks so much to Jon and Muna for having me!

So, I have an idea on how Marvel can get Wolverine back to selling over 100K...