Alex
@alexandtheweb.bsky.social
Writes and bakes. Unremarkable sort of person.
Anyway, my penguin butler has arrived so today isn’t all bad
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Anyway, my penguin butler has arrived so today isn’t all bad
Ah shame. At least it was Reykjavik not a tomato factory
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Ah shame. At least it was Reykjavik not a tomato factory
As northern lights sweep overhead tonight, let’s have these lines from James Clark Ross, age 19, who witnessed the aurora whilst overwintering in the Arctic on HMS Hecla in 1820. Written for the expedition’s gazette.
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
As northern lights sweep overhead tonight, let’s have these lines from James Clark Ross, age 19, who witnessed the aurora whilst overwintering in the Arctic on HMS Hecla in 1820. Written for the expedition’s gazette.
I’m so sorry to hear that. Imagine that this waiter penguin (as seen on an envelope I found on eBay) is serving you fish
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I’m so sorry to hear that. Imagine that this waiter penguin (as seen on an envelope I found on eBay) is serving you fish
Schrödinger’s windfalls
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Schrödinger’s windfalls
First frost on the plot
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
First frost on the plot
Best T-shirt from best husband
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Best T-shirt from best husband
I was intrigued by this sign at the cemetery so searched for more details.
Seems a committee of enthusiastic Irish folks cleaned and painted the grave of Limerick soprano Catherine Hayes Bushnell and now there’s been grumblings 😅 Too jolly perhaps?
Seems a committee of enthusiastic Irish folks cleaned and painted the grave of Limerick soprano Catherine Hayes Bushnell and now there’s been grumblings 😅 Too jolly perhaps?
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I was intrigued by this sign at the cemetery so searched for more details.
Seems a committee of enthusiastic Irish folks cleaned and painted the grave of Limerick soprano Catherine Hayes Bushnell and now there’s been grumblings 😅 Too jolly perhaps?
Seems a committee of enthusiastic Irish folks cleaned and painted the grave of Limerick soprano Catherine Hayes Bushnell and now there’s been grumblings 😅 Too jolly perhaps?
Robert McCormick. You get a rose even though you shot all those birds on the Ross Expedition
October 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Robert McCormick. You get a rose even though you shot all those birds on the Ross Expedition
Badly subsiding John Barrow Jr 😥
October 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Badly subsiding John Barrow Jr 😥
George Back??? Maybe??? Inscription is all but gone. Nearly wrecked Terror back in 1836. Excellent artist. Francis Crozier slagged him off a bit in a letter to Ross.
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
George Back??? Maybe??? Inscription is all but gone. Nearly wrecked Terror back in 1836. Excellent artist. Francis Crozier slagged him off a bit in a letter to Ross.
Sophie Cracroft. Such a simple monument to a special lady.
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Sophie Cracroft. Such a simple monument to a special lady.
Okay, let’s have round up of everyone who got a visit this morning.
First up, that old troublemaker John Ross. Listing so badly to port they fitted him with a sensor. How embarrassing! Anyway, he gets a rose.
First up, that old troublemaker John Ross. Listing so badly to port they fitted him with a sensor. How embarrassing! Anyway, he gets a rose.
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Okay, let’s have round up of everyone who got a visit this morning.
First up, that old troublemaker John Ross. Listing so badly to port they fitted him with a sensor. How embarrassing! Anyway, he gets a rose.
First up, that old troublemaker John Ross. Listing so badly to port they fitted him with a sensor. How embarrassing! Anyway, he gets a rose.
Pretty on the seafront tonight
October 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Pretty on the seafront tonight
Chicken butt feathers on my eggs always make my day
October 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Chicken butt feathers on my eggs always make my day
My general vibe these days
October 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My general vibe these days
....except it isn't. It is a copy of this image by Walter William May which was included in Francis McClintock's published account of his search of Sir John Franklin in 1857. A funeral on the ice for the ship's engineer Robert Scott (!)
October 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
....except it isn't. It is a copy of this image by Walter William May which was included in Francis McClintock's published account of his search of Sir John Franklin in 1857. A funeral on the ice for the ship's engineer Robert Scott (!)
And indeed the Royal Institution does seem to hold a small watercolour done in Ross' hand. Seemingly the only one we know of.
October 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
And indeed the Royal Institution does seem to hold a small watercolour done in Ross' hand. Seemingly the only one we know of.
Yet another little example of how, trained on bad data, AI will tell you with great authority something that is 100% untrue.
Many polar explorers, including ship's captains, were talented artists who documented their dramatic voyages. Was James Clark Ross one of them? Let's ask Google.
Many polar explorers, including ship's captains, were talented artists who documented their dramatic voyages. Was James Clark Ross one of them? Let's ask Google.
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Yet another little example of how, trained on bad data, AI will tell you with great authority something that is 100% untrue.
Many polar explorers, including ship's captains, were talented artists who documented their dramatic voyages. Was James Clark Ross one of them? Let's ask Google.
Many polar explorers, including ship's captains, were talented artists who documented their dramatic voyages. Was James Clark Ross one of them? Let's ask Google.
Exceedingly pleased at being able to make an entirely homegrown coleslaw (cabbage, carrots and beetroot)
September 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Exceedingly pleased at being able to make an entirely homegrown coleslaw (cabbage, carrots and beetroot)
Kerry James Marshall at the RA is almost overwhelming. Jaw dropping, epic, all the big adjectives.
September 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Kerry James Marshall at the RA is almost overwhelming. Jaw dropping, epic, all the big adjectives.