We used to get dragged to Silloth on our annual holiday by steam train to Carlisle. Looked pretty much like this, in the early post-Viking Age. Spiky grass, high winds, freezing sea, my Dad in a shitty mood.

Paul@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 2h ago

An excavation at High Tarns Farm, Silloth, Cumbria, led by Grampus Heritage and Training began in 2024. Archaeologists and volunteers discovered a large hall, charcoal production pit and corn dryer, pictured, from the late Viking Age. 📸Grampus Heritage #History #HistoryMatters

Aurora over Raisting Earth Station - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pQvMHo

Blimey, they should launch THIS into outer space, see if anyone alien can disentangle it...

I Don't Like Your Tie@dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 9h ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZNX...

America has never been more America. Cheerleaders recreate 9/11

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god I think I found the video.

Veluti in Speculum https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-hofmann/veluti-in-speculum-1962

My first, the best, the peak of guitar band genius.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 20h ago

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As someone who politely replied to his previous post: I feel like the QTs and replies to this pretty gracious mea culpa are an illustration of most of the worst of Bluesky.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterday

Apologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

Vlad Dumitrescu

Des signes vitaux Dominic Turner

1 like = a giggly, self-deprecating lovable fact about me. 1 repost = a massive fucking thread about that time I did something incredibly noble but don't like to talk about it on social media as I'm a bit shy. 1 repost then an hour later unrepost then repost again = 150 amazingly banal facts about m

Favourite face I’ve drawn today.

Back when I had Twitter I used to offer free headshots for low-income authors, not sure I have much reach here but the offer is still there. London or Birmingham (although I’m in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of Aug and can fit in a session. Will have lights so can be indoors).

Istanbul moon

"Casals then practised the works for a full 12 years before mustering the courage to perform them publicly..."

Joanna Wyld@joannawyld.bsky.social · 6d ago

I wrote about Bach's Cello Suites for Alisa Weilerstein's recital at this year's Edinburgh International Festival. I particularly enjoyed revisiting the story of Pablo Casals finding a copy of the pieces in a charity shop and reigniting their popularity. Do have a read www.eif.co.uk/news-and-blo...

Aug. 2, 1926: Fascist Italy bans the manufacture of pastry containing pure white bread and loaves larger than the standard size as part of Mussolini’s stepped-up effort to achieve self-sufficiency in wheat production. Blackshirt militias will inspect bakeries to see that the decrees are enforced.

Now THAT's a headline

Mars Apparition 2020 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mgPzrv

It’s that bit where Rodney is having the identity crisis, as there were rumours that his mother was quite friendly with a touring band. [musing about his birth certificate] “Mother’s name - Joan Trotter, Father’s name - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass”.

I worked all through lockdown too. I had to teach key workers' kids in person, and plan lessons online for kids at home. Pitching those when you know some of those kids have no resources at home and 3 of them are accessing the content on 1 mobile phone was a nightmare. I'll never get over it.

New Personalised Typewriter T-shirts. What would you type? www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts

No, Lewis Goodall, schools weren't all shut during lockdown. My daughter had to work at her school throughout lockdown, because like many many others it had to remain open to accommodate key workers' children, you clueless warbling dick.

In case you missed it, my son Odysseas is going to be on University Challenge!!!!! Not this Monday’s episode, but the following one. August 10th. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... I am so proud I burst. #UniversityChallenge

Aliki Chapple@commonmugwort.bsky.social · 7d ago

Σε δύο εβδομάδες, η ομάδα του παιδιού μου θα παίζει στην Βρετανική τηλεόραση. 10 Αυγούστου. #UniversityChallenge

Rope-Swinger https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-hofmann/rope-swinger-1962

Ivan Eyre • Cloud Rows •

This sounds...good?

SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social · 4d ago

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

Yates’s Wine Lodge, Bolton, 1983, photo by Martin Parr.

Cathedral http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78686