Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.

WH Auden - September 1, 1939

"Fatigue" by artist John Brosio #crustmas

I’d just like to put on record that, after a long and sometimes arduous journey, I have finally reached my wits’ end.

Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍

An amazing 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian mechanical dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking, by using a lever below its chest.

Met Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Project Here.

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...

at Tynemouth and at Seaton Sluice,
the sea works bits of England loose,
and redeposits on the land
the concrete tanktraps as blown sand

Tony Harrison

Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago.
Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.

📷 by me

#archaeology 🏺

'However it ends, the Anthropocene will be brief.'

John Gray

We don’t have to choose this fate. But I fear we will.

'For in the long run our Christmas dinners would be safer if we could make sure that everyone else had a Christmas dinner as well.' - George Orwell