LiberalDespot
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Likes Photography, Italy, Whisky, The Magnetic Fields, Autonomy, Glasgow, &c
Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.
Glasgow, Yr Hen Ogledd
Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.
Glasgow, Yr Hen Ogledd
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LiberalDespot
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· Nov 20
18 years ago today I took one of my favorite photos. I followed a small path behind a church in Pienza and suddenly : sunset on the slopes of Monte Amiata, from behind the palace of Pius II...
#photography
#Italy
#photography
#Italy
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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My new website's now fully up and running, with 1000s of images ( growing all the time) free to view, all of which can be bought as prints, or originals where available www.martinrowson.com
Martin Rowson
www.martinrowson.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My new website's now fully up and running, with 1000s of images ( growing all the time) free to view, all of which can be bought as prints, or originals where available www.martinrowson.com
In the local auction house this week...
The Poebrick!
The Poebrick!
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
In the local auction house this week...
The Poebrick!
The Poebrick!
Friends of the Necropolis should get over themselves... literal gatekeeping from a bunch that can't cope with the current gates. This is a great idea and should be welcomed.
"Council plans for a new £210,000 feature at #Glasgow Necropolis "could be the end" for the historic graveyard, says charity"
"Council plans for a new £210,000 feature at #Glasgow Necropolis "could be the end" for the historic graveyard, says charity"
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Friends of the Necropolis should get over themselves... literal gatekeeping from a bunch that can't cope with the current gates. This is a great idea and should be welcomed.
"Council plans for a new £210,000 feature at #Glasgow Necropolis "could be the end" for the historic graveyard, says charity"
"Council plans for a new £210,000 feature at #Glasgow Necropolis "could be the end" for the historic graveyard, says charity"
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Noisy bastards, everywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Noisy bastards, everywhere.
It's #stew night here. Made a huge pot of pork shoulder cooked in dry cider, with potatoes, parsnips, sage and rosemary. Then once that was out of the pressure cooker in went the 4 elements of Peposo : a big, thick-sliced joint of beef, red wine, garlic and a vast amount of black pepper.
November 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It's #stew night here. Made a huge pot of pork shoulder cooked in dry cider, with potatoes, parsnips, sage and rosemary. Then once that was out of the pressure cooker in went the 4 elements of Peposo : a big, thick-sliced joint of beef, red wine, garlic and a vast amount of black pepper.
This is just great.
We have lots of student notebooks containing sketches on anatomy, diseases etc, however, this one is by far our favourite. It shows Joseph Lister, father of antiseptic surgery, disappearing through a trapdoor after his lecture in Glasgow in 1868. Now that's how to make an exit!
#Museum30 #Sketchbook
#Museum30 #Sketchbook
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is just great.
Good to meet @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social in the Pot Still earlier this evening. Always good to discover someone is as interesting in person as their public persona implies!
November 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Good to meet @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social in the Pot Still earlier this evening. Always good to discover someone is as interesting in person as their public persona implies!
Gratitude offerings in the Chapel of St Casimir.
Looks like he saved a lot of legs.
#Vilnius #Catholicism
Looks like he saved a lot of legs.
#Vilnius #Catholicism
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Gratitude offerings in the Chapel of St Casimir.
Looks like he saved a lot of legs.
#Vilnius #Catholicism
Looks like he saved a lot of legs.
#Vilnius #Catholicism
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A Flaxman monument in St Mary, Petworth.
Erected by Philadelphia Smyth to her parents.
#churchcrawling #Sussex
Erected by Philadelphia Smyth to her parents.
#churchcrawling #Sussex
November 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A Flaxman monument in St Mary, Petworth.
Erected by Philadelphia Smyth to her parents.
#churchcrawling #Sussex
Erected by Philadelphia Smyth to her parents.
#churchcrawling #Sussex
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Detail of the Flamboyant brick Gothic of St Ann. Vilnius.
#Architecture #Photography #Lithuania #Gothic
#Architecture #Photography #Lithuania #Gothic
November 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Detail of the Flamboyant brick Gothic of St Ann. Vilnius.
#Architecture #Photography #Lithuania #Gothic
#Architecture #Photography #Lithuania #Gothic
The Cicero quote above the door of the rebuilt Grand Ducal Palace in #Vilnius.
RESPUBLICA EST SOCIETAS HOMINUM UNO DEO-IURE-REGE AD COMMUNE ET PRIVATUM BONUM-IUNCTORUM
A REPUBLIC IS A SOCIETY OF MEN UNITED UNDER ONE [LAW] FOR THE COMMON AND PRIVATE GOOD
RESPUBLICA EST SOCIETAS HOMINUM UNO DEO-IURE-REGE AD COMMUNE ET PRIVATUM BONUM-IUNCTORUM
A REPUBLIC IS A SOCIETY OF MEN UNITED UNDER ONE [LAW] FOR THE COMMON AND PRIVATE GOOD
November 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Cicero quote above the door of the rebuilt Grand Ducal Palace in #Vilnius.
RESPUBLICA EST SOCIETAS HOMINUM UNO DEO-IURE-REGE AD COMMUNE ET PRIVATUM BONUM-IUNCTORUM
A REPUBLIC IS A SOCIETY OF MEN UNITED UNDER ONE [LAW] FOR THE COMMON AND PRIVATE GOOD
RESPUBLICA EST SOCIETAS HOMINUM UNO DEO-IURE-REGE AD COMMUNE ET PRIVATUM BONUM-IUNCTORUM
A REPUBLIC IS A SOCIETY OF MEN UNITED UNDER ONE [LAW] FOR THE COMMON AND PRIVATE GOOD
A reference in the stucco decorations of the Chapel of St Casimir to the Order of the Ermine. Created in 1464 by Ferdinand I of Naples, the motto was Malo mori quam foedari - I would rather die than be dishonoured.
It seems correct Latin was not a skill of the Lithuanian designer...
#Vilnius
It seems correct Latin was not a skill of the Lithuanian designer...
#Vilnius
November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A reference in the stucco decorations of the Chapel of St Casimir to the Order of the Ermine. Created in 1464 by Ferdinand I of Naples, the motto was Malo mori quam foedari - I would rather die than be dishonoured.
It seems correct Latin was not a skill of the Lithuanian designer...
#Vilnius
It seems correct Latin was not a skill of the Lithuanian designer...
#Vilnius
As a vague gesture to the day I went to this.
It was very studenty. With some infuriatingky theatrical audience reactions from their friends. Exaggerated laughter (at frankly wierd points) instant screaming standing ovation etc etc.
www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/let...
It was very studenty. With some infuriatingky theatrical audience reactions from their friends. Exaggerated laughter (at frankly wierd points) instant screaming standing ovation etc etc.
www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/let...
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
As a vague gesture to the day I went to this.
It was very studenty. With some infuriatingky theatrical audience reactions from their friends. Exaggerated laughter (at frankly wierd points) instant screaming standing ovation etc etc.
www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/let...
It was very studenty. With some infuriatingky theatrical audience reactions from their friends. Exaggerated laughter (at frankly wierd points) instant screaming standing ovation etc etc.
www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/let...
Well, Haleon Great Britain and Ireland can fuck right off. Wonder how many managers that anodyne shite had to be signed off by?
#Shrinkflation
#Shrinkflation
October 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Well, Haleon Great Britain and Ireland can fuck right off. Wonder how many managers that anodyne shite had to be signed off by?
#Shrinkflation
#Shrinkflation
The 1903 statue of Electra by Juozas Zikaras. She symbolises the arrival of electricity and enlightenment through technological progress and stands on top of the first ever Lithuanian power plant building (now the Energy and Technology Museum) in Vilnius.
#Vilnius #Lithuania #Statue #Photography
#Vilnius #Lithuania #Statue #Photography
October 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The 1903 statue of Electra by Juozas Zikaras. She symbolises the arrival of electricity and enlightenment through technological progress and stands on top of the first ever Lithuanian power plant building (now the Energy and Technology Museum) in Vilnius.
#Vilnius #Lithuania #Statue #Photography
#Vilnius #Lithuania #Statue #Photography
The exceedingly camp poses of the statues of Grand Dukes on the south side of the Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus and St Ladislaus of #Vilnius.
#photography #statue
#photography #statue
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The exceedingly camp poses of the statues of Grand Dukes on the south side of the Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus and St Ladislaus of #Vilnius.
#photography #statue
#photography #statue
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM