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www.slowtravelberlin.com@slowberlin.bsky.social · last wk.

"Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one."

Käthe Kollwitz, The Sacrifice (1922-23), Woodcut

Ian Kikuchi@curatorian.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well that didn't age well ...

Imagine my surprise at going to see The Odyssey only for it to turn out to not be a heroic biopic about the life of Bill Oddie.

Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · last wk.

The fact that this is a coordinated push with Reform is deeply deeply disturbing. This is one of those times for cis liberals with a platform to sit up and listen. This should worry us ALL removepaywalls.com/https://www....

Ministers should consider proscribing a militant transgender activist group which has targeted the offices of MPs, the government's former adviser on political violence has said.
Writing in The Times, Lord Walney said the conduct of the group Bash Back "deserves far more serious attention than it has so far received" and that ministers should test it against the same threshold that led to the proscription of Palestine Action.

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · last wk.

"Get in, loser. We're going to pull stuff."

Although as @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social observed, the picture on the side of this horse van makes this trio look like Mean Girls

Three grey heavy horse tethered underneath a picture of themselves on the side of a van. Amongst the many reasons I married Scornflake is she encourages my nonsense.

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · last wk.

How's that albino afro fit into a Spitfire cockpit? #RepeatPlease #GallantPoles

After a couple of years of bird flu getting in the way the poultry were back in force, mostly arriving in the form of unlikely chickens.

A Transylvanian Naked Neck Bantam. I'm not taking the piss - this is genuinely what the label said and it's exactly what you'd get if you bred a chicken and a vulture.

Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tfw there's an apology for hymns relevant to last week's gospel (wheat and tares) being boarded for today ... ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps #LectionaryWectionary

David Tennant's Doctor Who: Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey

Alt: David Tennant's Doctor Who: Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey

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Improved version of this headline: FOSSIL FUELS RISK YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME AND YOUR PLANET

Auston Habershaw@aahabershaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ruin a book by adding a word: Carol Smiley's People

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Big Sleep Apnea

Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Shower

Ruin a book by adding a word: Conversations with Imaginary Friends

Bradders633 🇬🇧@bradders633.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Lord of the Onion Rings

Ruin a book by adding a word: The IPCRESS Nail File

David KC@davidmuttering.bsky.social · 4w ago

"And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."

Lovely stuff

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History)@navalairhistory.com · 3w ago

Wrote a joke about Hephaestus but it hobbled a bit

Wrote a joke about Dido but it fell flat

Anupama Ranawana@msamrc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cymru am byth! Would that its English sister church would go and do likewise ...

Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...

Worry not, (not so) little 16th century Dutch fishy ...

Worried looking fish with bulbous head and eyes, head fin and corkscrew tail, with shells and coral around him, from a 16th century grotto design by a Dutch artist.

If it be not fren, wherefore be yt fren-shaped? #CanneIchPetteThatDawg?

16th century Netherlandish drawing of small bears wrestling, sleeping and standing in a forest.

St Peter the Paddler ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️

16th century Netherlandish drawing of Christ on the shore as a Peter with a billowing robe and raised hands wades towards him knee deep in the Sea of Galilee, rather than the more scriptural swimming. Galleon and boats in the background.

A Rachel for all seasons (she/her)@nerak3l.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Malfunction in the mantilla factory Nine Inch Veils

These should all be sent to Nine Inch Jails

Tfw Sunday morning has 'Jesus shall reign where'er the sun', 'Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour' AND 'Jerusalem the golden' ... (Not the Agincourt Carol for the voluntary though ... 😉) #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️ #EngFra

all bangers

Alt: 'All bangers, all the time' scene from Succession.

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Archivist in pom-pom slippers fighting coercive control, a scorching cast still not quite winning me over to Mamet, Canadian solidarity (with offstage moose), a trans Horatio stuck in a queer throuple with Hamlet and Ophelia, and finally sibling tensions over art restitution - looks like ...

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3w ago

... featuring the Trojan Kitten.

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

🌈Dr. Frizzle@swilua.bsky.social · 3w ago

Qing China, 1838:

Unfortunate

A sign that says ALL CHAI IS COMING
STRICTLY WITHOUT OPIUM

*James Graham puts his pen down, melancholically* #ArgEng #EngArg #WorldCup #DearEngland

Two Simpsons characters, one with a hard hat in his hands and another with a rolled up plan. Caption: There'll be no glorious second rewrite, then. I'll tell the kids.

Small boy bawling something indistinct in the street below and even a sportphobe like me is tempted to go to Alistair Sim, stuck my head out the window, and say "You, boy, what score is this?". #EngArg