#SharkAwarenessDay you're never more than six feet away from a friendly shark, highly evolved masters of camouflage 🦈😻
36th new word of 2026: ✨ 'polytunity' ✨ YES! inject this directly into my veins I used to work at the 'Overseas Development Institute' while bemused by how Britain couldn't fix its own internal inequalities, then more alarmed, then curious — and now seeing new possibilities beyond our stuckness
some very beautiful things here, across an impressively wide range of styles and subjects love this
Alan's article encompasses the awful details of the Codrington Estate, and some beautiful attempts at local memorialisation more abstract but of vast consequence are the innovations to managing public debt, and the creation of the joint stock South Sea Company very worth reading and sitting with
the article is almost impossibly long and detailed, and reminds me both of how football helped entrench Murdoch's toxic influence, and dodgy leagues with vote-buying on a new global, industrial scale I remember booing Blatter and Osborne at London 2012 but things are even worse now it's a monster
when I go to the National Portrait Gallery for their annual award exhibition I always fall in love with several, find them utterly mesmerising it used to happen to be at the NHM Wildlife Photography Competition, but now both also this by Hassan Massoudy, of course, because just look at it 😻
every 🐘 calf is so precious I've been so lucky to interact with many, over the years 💔 industrial tourism is fundamentally incompatible with ecological stewardship another aspect of a wider 'enshittification' beyond crappy apps but I would frame the much wider problem as #DesperateEconomics …
there are links online for resources and help if you or somebody you know may be at risk of domestic violence womensaid.org.uk/information-support/ National Domestic Abuse Helpline 0808 2000 247 www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/how-we-can-support-you/
something just fell on my bare neck from a tree and I think it's solidified heat-extruded sap?
any infrastructure can be and while you're looking, may i interest sir in some fine pylons, barely used...
thinking of how the seTswana word pula means rain and blessings totally on the money
I used to work in a print shop just as digital DTP was coming in, so I do just remember using that — and going through carousels and catalogues of typefaces but I feel that I only came across Letratone more recently
ah, I don't remember this — but it may be just before I came to the UK your question has me remembering other things too, and almost smelling them, old memories are often entangled sensory things thank you!
El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole threatens other problems for people living close to the Equator