I've been seeing so many orange-tips in the last few days; it's lovely! Yet to go anywhere with bluebells this year, but should be heading on a purposeful bluebell walk at some point

As it happens, weirdly, I just saw this post about quarter of an hour ago, but thank you so much for thinking of me and making sure I saw it, because I could very easily have missed it entirely!

Might not have time tonight, but thinking of buying a ticket so I can watch on catch-up at some point

And where better for such a monument than at the heart of a fountain!

A thin sickle moon in the evening sky, glimpsed among the branches of the trees

Moon! 🌙

Clare and Tess at Stonehenge in the 2009 adaptation.

‘The eastward pillars and their architraves stood up blackly against the light, and the great flame-shaped Sun-stone beyond them; and the Stone of Sacrifice midway.’ — Thomas Hardy, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' (1891) #BookWormSat

Don't Pooh-Pooh them!

When considering some angle θ, we have at our disposal some useful functions:

• the sine, sin(θ)
• the cosine, cos(θ)
• the ursine, 🐻(θ)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) Detail of a building showing curved staircase rising between columns below an oculus. .

‘The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite’

Susanna Clarke
Piranesi
#BookWormSat

I love it!

Oh this is excellent

Thin, illuminated sliver of a crescent moon against a deep black night sky.

Sliver of moon..

Really was!

Pretty pink and white flowers among little green leaves on a branch

The apple trees are blossoming!

Mikhail Belomlinsky- Bilbo in Smaug's lair (The Hobbit) 1976

Text from the article: But Google does say “we train on limited info, like specific prompts in Gemini and the model’s responses, to improve functionality over time.” That’s why “connecting your Google apps to Gemini remains an opt-in experience that you can adjust in your settings at any time.” It’s opt-in for a reason. Keep that in mind.

The article to which you're responding seems to say they are?

I agree that the whole thing's unpleasant, but it seems to be opt-in for the user (that said, I also agree with OP that that's not sufficient when there are inevitably others in those photos who won't have given their permission)

The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral rising over buildings

The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral and some beautiful blue sky photographed between sunlit green trees

Sun catching the towers of St. Paul's during the golden hour

Spectacular weekend in London, and my first time visiting St. Paul's!

Night sky, full moon, magpies roosting, golden key buried beneath a tree, painting.

Goodnight.
Apple Tree: Seven for a Secret, Catherine Hyde.

THE BISHOP OF DURHAM ATTEMPTS TO SURRENDER THE CITY by Susanna Clarke A beautiful green book cover bearing the golden silhouettes of a tree and some birds

New book announced from THE Susanna Clarke, and it's related to Durham – just as I'm sorrowfully coming to terms with having bidden farewell to that beautiful city after living there for eight years

At what point does one's love for an author's work begin to feel like a link of destiny?

Happy birthday!!! (and I agree, that birthday card is exquisite)

😂

Had to check elsewhere that it was an acceptable spelling, but INWREATHED (10)

Only one D :(

Daffodils, foliage and purple flowed with little brown bird perched on branch, painting.

Morning.
🖼️ Raymond Booth

Makes sense that he was a gynaecologist, because in this painting he's definitely serving c— *loud gunshot*

I've had to have very similar "not an umlaut" conversations

*gasp*

I have been accused of being a snob by a colleague because I include the diaeresis in "naïve."

Now admittedly, it was probably ill-advised of me to briskly say "It's not an umlaut."

One of those days I utterly lament the fact my degree wasn't in archaeology (or a relevantly related field). Oh, to return to Durham and get to study wonderful Corbridge! Oh!

Painting of red, white, yellow and blue flowers in brown pottery vase on table, grey background, painting.

Bouquet of Spring Flowers, Pierre Auguste Renoir.

Found in the ancient city of Monopolis

Earth, taken from the Artemis II.

I refuse to believe I'm meant to spend my one go on this floating rock celebrating cruelty and ignorance. That just can't be the point of all this.