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#MushroomMonday Laccaria amethystina - Amethyst Deceiver 💜

Ancient Roman amethyst intaglio showing Pan, the pastoral god, playing pipes under a crescent moon and a leaning tree, with a goat observing. Dated between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The gold ring setting is of a later date. Collection & Credit: Sands of Time Ancient Art.

Shoutout to @finsandphotography for an unreal encounter 🐙👽! While diving with @tweedgoldcoastdivecharters, he set out to find an octopus, and within seconds, spotted one right on a rock. One of his best octo encounters ever—pure joy and giggles through his snorkel 💙

THERE IS A CAT ON THE PICCADILLY LINE

The Yule cat, a huge and vicious feline from Icelandic Christmas folklore, said to lurk in the snowy countryside during the Christmas season and eat people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve 😼 #WyrdWednesday 🎨by Tao Tao Holmes

It might be a week for praying the Litany each day.

Chinese artist Shou Xin creates the most wonderful cats with just a few pencil lines

Male Reform MP is imprisoned for assaulting his girlfriend by repeatedly kicking her, female Labour MP mistakenly reports a phone was in the handbag she was mugged for 10 years ago. Guess which ones career the media are trying to destroy tonight?

This needs to be done for Python. Like ASAP. youtu.be/yup8gIXxWDU?si…

Periodic reminder that crime is most effectively reduced through better health, education, and deterrence not longer/harsher sentences.

I thought my favorite thread in Twitter history had been deleted and lost forever, but it turns out my friend had screenshots. See replies for the rest.

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One of the greatest and most insane dance numbers in Hollywood History. The Ross Sisters sing Solid Potato Salad from Broadway Rhythm. (1944) And then...

Meet Peter Campbell your Green candidate standing in the Herne and Broomfield by-election on 6 March.

I wrote about Jack Posobiec, the intellectual emptiness of the pro-Trump right, and their bizarre—and disingenuous—attempts to co-opt white nationalist thought. My latest for The Baffler: thebaffler.com/latest/unhuman…

The Japanese ambassador to the UK wishes everyone a happy St David’s Day with a Welsh cake and daffodil origami. Protect this man at all costs.

Consider, if you will, this peculiar Silicon Valley confession: “I worked for 36 hours with no sleep. Although I was dead, I also felt energized. I even fell asleep a few times while driving home in my Cybertruck, but fsd came in clutch. Happy thanksgiving.” People read this and

This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet, unfortunately, barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it. There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered