There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.
Giovanna Vitelli
@giovannav.bsky.social
Glasgow based 🇮🇹 museum person, archaeologist and anthro increasingly involved in Things Scottish and multicultural. Continually meeting people with wonderful stories to tell. 🏺
The A896 heading east from Shieldaig Village yesterday. The temperate rain forest on the north side of Ben Shieldaig (seen here) only gets direct sunlight for about two months of the year.
FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Ah yes the good old classic longue durée lighter – as used at every Annales School barbeque 🙃 🗃️
Overlooking the ocean, 12 massive sculptures by Galician artist Manolo Paz were created in 1994. The granite sculptures were inspired by the Neolithic menhirs that are found throughout the Iberian Peninsula. They are called Menhirs for Peace and are popular at sun set. #StandingStoneSunday
the interior spiral staircase of the Torre dei Lamberti in Verona, Italy
‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,” #Scotland www.thenational.scot/business/259...
Alyn Smith: Dependency on oil is ludicrous when Scotland won the green energy jackpot
An independent Scotland simply won’t run our energy market like this.
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Sometimes I too feel ‘misbound but perfect’, Francis Jenkinson. Written in a copy of Gaspar Ens’s book on Dutch discoveries in the New World (Cologne, 1612). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social N*.5.51(G).
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Cyberdyne Genealogy Dept@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 6mo agoI have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents
Breaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
Judge denies DHS bid to rush removal of Liam Ramos and his family
Kristen Stenvik, superintendent of the district where Liam goes to school, said the ruling provides both “additional time” and “continued uncertainty.”
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
I think the thing that bothers me most is seeing this mountain of email evidence across the Epstein network of the absolutely solid existence of a two tier system of (self invested) power, and the total disregard for those outside the tent. We are seeing the tip of the iceberg.
One of the best examples of ancient #polychromy that I know of is this terracotta thymiaterion - incense burner - in the form of a group of colorfully dressed women sitting around a wellhead. The iconography reflects a local cult, perhaps of Demeter and Kore. 🏺 1/ 4th c. CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
Tips on coping from the Renaissance Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Self portrait - Edward Hopper, 1925-30. Source : Whitney Museum, New York 🇺🇸
A pilot just flew through one of the strongest aurora storms in years — and saw the sky explode in color. From the cockpit of a Boeing 787, pilot Matt Melnyk had a view like no one else. Flying at 37,000 feet over Manitoba, he watched as the auroras filled the entire sky.
@palaeokatie.bsky.social any similar Scottish traditions?
Hannah Booth@hannahbooth.bsky.social · 7mo agoNorth Sea Friday Folk #2 — lives shaped by the shallow sea on our doorstep Today it’s the turn of St Hild, first abbess of Whitby Abbey Shown here with ammonite fossils at her feet — a nod to the legend that Hild turned local snakes to stone 📸 Wilson44691 (CC0)
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
Chess Piece of a Queen Spanish 12th century Walrus ivory, which was cheaper than the elephant kind. (Walters Art Museum)
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'
Imagine being a 12 yo newly landed in an Anglophone country and learning most of your English from reading Sir Walter Scott.
David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe problem with being a fan of classic literature is that you end up knowing so many fantastic words that basically never come up in everyday conversation. Do you have any idea how rare it is to get the chance to drop an "illimitable"?
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a glass mosaic face bead. 1st century AD. 📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg
