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Revision for the next quiz, @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social ! @bertsbooks.bsky.social #booksky #trivia

Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought: ‘You know what this needs? A leg!’ Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆 Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

“Totoro”. Studio Gibli, Japan

I'm reading this collection of Forster's short stories. They are marvellously strange and not what I would have expected from him. The title story is very prescient. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #booksky #dystopian #shortstory

World, meet Gerald. He lives in a rockpool and he’s got some very important life lessons to share with you.

One of the best author endorsements ever. #booksky #briandillon #liedown @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Did IKEA Accidentally Create the Perfect $6 Hi-Fi Accessory for CD Collectors?

More cheese Gromit? #hobsbawm #booksky #morecheesegromit

Good use of an excellent book. @briangdillon.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists

New train service connects Finland and Sweden for first time in decades

Count Binface has a donation webpage at ko-fi 👇 ko-fi.com/countbinface

The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️

Imagine supermarket, hospital and station car parks that: ☀️ Keep cars cooler in summer. ☔ Keep people drier in winter. ⚡ Generate renewable electricity. Britain considered making it happen. It quietly decided not to.

Very sad about this www.economist.com/britain/2026... #lomgwave #radio #weirdvibes

That feeling when you find the best shady spot to sit in. 📷: River God on the Long Walk at Woolbeding Gardens, West Sussex by Laurence Perry

Heatwave survivors: If you haven't yet read The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, now is the time. It is set in a flooded city of the future which has become tropical lagoons with only the tops of buildings emerging above the water. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #booksky

Trailer for a documentary about Leo Records. I hope it finds distribution and some kind of streaming release; I'd love to watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h7X...

If you’re going to hobnail the shoe, then bloody hobnail the shoe, that’s what I say. 1st/2nd C AD, @vindolandatrust.bsky.social #FindsFriday

In his keynote speech to Harvard graduates this week, @thedailyshow.com host Ronny Chieng said "Fuck AI!" Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed. Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...

Scientists have discovered a tiny blue octopus lurking beneath the waters near the Galápagos Islands. About the size of a golf ball, the newly identified deep-sea species was found nearly 1,800 meters below the surface during an expedition in the Pacific Ocean.

Schwarze #Ästhetik erobert Leipzig: Rund 20.000 Fans feiern das #Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2026 www.l-iz.de/leben/gesell... #Leipzig #Pfingsten #WGT #Gastbeitrag

I'm a little freaked out by this but today I picked up and began reading David Kynaston's Austerity Britain. The first quote on page 1 is from the Mass Observation Project and it turns out that 12th May is the day each year to submit a day diary. massobs.org.uk/12th-may/

This is a simply glorious sentence from @praddenkeefe.bsky.social , discussing the career of Mark Burnett, producer of reality TV programmes.

web.ub.edu/en/web/actua... #archaeology #indigestion #romani

The new voice of Google Home sounds suspiciously like Sandi Toksvig. She just added vodka to my shopping list. #qi #scandinoir #spookyvoices

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

Still one of my favourite pop facts: the vocal sample is Peter Cook saying "voodoo rage" but the memory on Gerald's sampler was so small it cut off the end of the second word, and he just went with it anyway.

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2... I love reading John Lanchester's essays.

Congratulations everyone

Vendel Helmet 1. Iron helmet with bronze fittings from a boat grave in Vendel, Uppland, Sweden, c. 550–793 AD. 📷 Swedish History Museum samlingar.shm.se/object/F0DD4... #Archaeology

'Cats of the Louvre' by Taiyo Matsumoto. #trochęsztuki

I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

oh damn (it's almost like we need the arts? to survive?)

2073:

It will be such a shame if these services are cancelled. Please sign this petition. agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa... #trains #nighttrains