Post of David are original:www.instagram.com/p/DV4Zp1wDIes/

Stories of Our Time, by Mario Torre, Massimiliano Torre, Marco Chirico 11 track album

It’s #Bandcampfriday again! Lots of great music to choose from, but if you search for some inspiration, here’s my own self plug: mario-torre.bandcamp.com/album/storie... also available on limited edition #vinyl

Mixed garden flowers in a vase, watercolour (mostly carnations I think)

Mixed garden flowers, watercolour sketch (some foxgloves on the right)

Sketch in watercolour of mixed garden flowers

Sketch of carnations in watercolour

Some watercolour flower sketches in a 16"X12" 300gsm pad quickly done from garden flowers in the last 2-3 years. More to come this year I hope.
#watercolour #flowers

Jacob's ladder (Polemonium reptans) Jacob's ladder (Polemonium reptans) is one of our native, ephemeral wildflowers. It grows in rich, open woodlands throughout much of the eastern U.S.

Jacob’s Ladder is a bee magnet and attracts many beneficial insects. #herbChat www.backyardecology.net/jacobs-ladder/

With apologies to Rob and Alan, for today's #BirdOfTheDay, I’m going to go against theme and post a beautiful Scarlet Macaw I was fortunate enough to see in Costa Rica a couple of days ago.

#birds 🪶 #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin

Most probably, I did reading most of his papers and watching nearly every interview he’s given. Even so, I couldn't put this book down during my entire three-hour trip. I truly hope read his autobiography(I hope he decides and writes) one day.

An oil on board showing a degree day at the Cambridge Senate House showing the famous cast iron railings and Constables in top hats and tail coats. It was hung rather badly at a Cambridge Drawing Soc exhibiition and didn't find a buyer so it is still in store. As I type this I haven't got a note of it's size but it is probably 24" X 32" ish and framed

This painting of mine from 2017 shows graduation day at the #Cambridge Senate House. It's an oil on gessoed board and was shown at a Cambridge Drawing Soc exhibition. Still have it. Perhaps bsky.app/profile/cam.... would like it? It would look quite good in one of the rooms in the Old Schools

the piegon and I accepted all cookies ☺️

#java

#fosdem

Flower oil painting on board with some fruit on a round metal table

Here's a fairly large and riotous flower oil painting on board that found a buyer. I think I only posted a photo of this in progress a month or so ago but not the finished painting. I won't attempt to name all the flowers but they're from my garden.
#oilpainting #flowers #botanical

Miss Moxy | movie 2026 | Vincent Bal with Pieter Embrechts, Barbara Sarafian, Frank Focketyn en  Tine Embrechts.

miss moxy

www.cinenews.be/en/m30901/

The Cure - Pictures Of You YouTube video by TheCureVEVO

pictures of you youtu.be/UmFFTkjs-O0?...

Like so many of us I am thinking of John Lennon today. Here is a beautifully designed tribute I saw one year at Strawberry Fields. 😢💔

It's worth remembering that without the vision and leadership of billionaires we wouldn't have life-changing technology like the metaverse.

If I had that sort of money I'd probably have wasted it on world hunger or something.

JDK 26 has been branched from the main line and is now in Rampdown Phase One: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd...

openjdk.org/projects/jdk/26/

#JDK26 #OpenJDK #Java

summary of day

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs for JDK 26, Spring RCs, Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J, Gradle This week's Java roundup for October 27th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs proposed to target for JDK 26; release candidates of Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Data; point releases of Q...

www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...

3⭐️ himmm hommm 🥲

Cartoon cats and science machinery painted on a window.

Cartoon cats and science machinery painted on a window of a comic shop. The text reads 'Physics for Cats: Science cartoons by Tom Gauld"

I went to Gosh comics today and painted the window. Just in time for the release and launch party for Physics For Cats. Come along and get a book signed tomorrow (Thursday) 7-9pm!
pic 1. In progress (from inside)
pic 2. The complete window, just waiting for the books.
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...

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terrific is not terrific word is terrific: the most recursive word ever 🙃

GitHub - hcoles/voices: Fast, in-process text to speech for Java Fast, in-process text to speech for Java. Contribute to hcoles/voices development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm meant to be editing a novel, so instead I've written a text to speech system.

github.com/hcoles/voices

#java #procrastination

🪭saturday 🪭

Mutation Testing in Quarkus: Go Beyond Code Coverage

Learn how to expose weak tests, strengthen your assertions, and build enterprise-grade confidence with PIT in Java applications.

www.the-main-thread.com/p/mutation-t...

The new charade with Israeli “influencers” in Gaza is just disgusting. I’d like to ask these “influencers” how do they see themselves when looking in the mirror. Shame on you.