Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876–1950) "Sailing Boats in the Morning, Inland Sea", 1926. Color Woodcut, 54.5 × 40 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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fannish with too much to watch. tired also. cdn/uk. (she/her)
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
Lupus Londonwolf@lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · yesterdayI was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.
not only is the guy across from me on the train trying to have a virtual meeting while in the quiet car, his earbuds keep trying to pair with my phone
Yep, that's me in Canadian Tire's fall experimental hats catalogue. I'm all decked out in the Butter Knife Dynamo. My nephew Chip Xanadu sports the Vulture Intimidator, while Alderman Bub Hotplate looks manly in a perfectly-felted Le Corbusier Spare Room, a tribute to penthouse apartments.
In Japan they don't call it a train of thought, it's the Thinkansen
today's simple 45min train ride home turned into a nearly 3h saga, involving three different flavours of train delays and failures shout out to the A Winter Sun Wakes the Wind in Spring Hills' Dream OST for making it a chill and zen journey 😌🎧
queen victoria told me the northwest passage keeps eating her poorly planned expeditions so i asked how many expeditions she has and she said she just goes to the royal academy and gets a new afterwards so i said it sounds like shes just feeding ships to the ice and then prince albert started crying
yaoi gagarin@mel.bzky.team · 4d agovictorian exploration missions be like hi yes hello i am admiral johnifer von planningfailure, meet my ships the HMS sinkable and the HMS hellfire, stocked to the brim with the best leaded goulash cans money can buy
"Alanis Morissette covered Season of the Witch for the Hudson Williams horror-mystery series about Baba Yaga" They're finally making brand-new sentences for good again
The thing about DMBJ is that at some point you just have to throw your hands in the air and go "yeah sure what the hell🤷♀️"
70s Bowie song: ooooooh im a space boy, lonesome and violent 80s Bowie song: asian women... funk and swing... i find this things interesting 90s Bowie song: *double tracked vocals over whatever type of electronic music is popular that year* it's so strange, so sad, so lovely... to be a space boy
No thoughts, only this bat from the opening credits of My Neighbor Totoro (1988).
it's 9pm and tomorrow is a school day and I should NOT watch another episode tonight but yujin just picked up gong yu for jingrui's birthday 👀
char@charloween.bsky.social · 2w agothe great part about rewatching nirvana in fire is you get to watch xie yu hiss out "mei. chang. su." in episode 16 and watch his eye twitch and then you get to cackle aloud in delight
I got to the end of the ball with my new yarn bowl and am delighted that the yarn didn't tangle or snarl or otherwise need management as the centre-pull ball collapsed. Magic! Or at least, much better than the bag that I'd been using #knitting
char@charloween.bsky.social · 2w agoafter [mumble] years of knitting, last month I finally bought a yarn bowl, and uh, wow that makes a difference
I was expecting two deliveries yesterday but both were eventually delayed, meaning all that waiting brain was for nothing :(
despite myself I keep watching Overdo, and one of the side characters just proclaimed to his love interest "no matter how many times you try to assassinate my father, I will always protect him", and then we had a nonspecific war and a time jump of seven years
dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.
just LOOK at its LITTLE FACE
Jason GRIZZLED Bittel@bittelmethis.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING NEWS: New cat species just dropped! 🧪 What is a tilcayo, exactly? Well, it's a small wild cat in the genus Leopardus and a member of the tiger cat species complex, but it is NOT a tigrina, oncilla, kodkod, Geoffroy's cat... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
![script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read
ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]
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the best thing about being in my 40s by far has been the freedom to refer to anonymous guys in their late teens/early 20s as “kid” like Han Solo calls Luke in Star Wars. been waiting my whole life for this. worth every second. indescribable feeling of power.
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
had a dangerous thought: if i'm this tired and it's only partway through welcome week, what'll be waiting for me next week after I'm back in a classroom... 😬
it doesn't feel nice to look at these figures and tot up all that I've paid over the years, but it feels worse to see that I was extremely lucky that I emigrated when I did
Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…
Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year
thebureauinvestigates.com
char@charloween.bsky.social · 3w ago🙃🙃🙃