Summer memories

Forget museums — these cities carry the Middle Ages in their streets, etched with battles and bargains. Let’s uncover the world’s most breathtaking medieval cities. A thread 🧵 ↓

this photo of sadie sink and maya hawk #metgala

From top to bottom: Saturn, Mars, Venus and Jupiter

The surreal beauty of Palmanova, the Italian fortress that looks like it fell from the heavens. A thread on the Ideal city of the Renaissance:

This Camogie/skort issue is like something out of the 1950s, how in this day and age in Ireland are women having to fight for the right to play in shorts. Absolutely fucking ridiculous. Misogyny whether internal or external is alive and well on the emerald isle.

Everyone goes to Italy for Rome, Venice, and Florence. But the real marvels? They’re hidden. They’re ancient. They’re nearly forgotten. Here are the soul-stirring places in Italy that tourists miss but you shouldn’t this summer. 🧵

The most mysterious places on Earth🧵 1. “Hang Son Doong is one of the few unexplored places on Earth, which is linked to mysterious sightings of strange reptilian and gray creatures that stand on two legs.

Michael D. Higgins consoling a young girl at Garda Kevin Flatleys Funeral 🥲

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Paul Mescal has a big Irish head on him at the best of times, but no more so than when he's being praised. Which is when the big Irish head is at its most biggest, Irishest and headest.

Sicily's villages in Italy are offering abandoned houses for just 1 euro. Would you take the risk and move here?

The most beautiful monasteries on Earth 🧵 1. Abbey of San Galgano, Italy

If this isn't impressive, I don't know what is. St Peter's Basilica (1506)

The perfect bookshop doesn’t exis… oh myyyyy Scrivener’s Books and Bookbinding, Buxton, England

Art Deco was a Golden Age of Architecture. The 21st century doesn't even come close.

Obsessed with this pool

Lowest Supermoon of our lifetimes, captured three nights ago, rising behind this magnificent tree in the countryside, UK.

Warm today... well this cow felt the need to find shelter from the heat of the day and soothing waters for her cloven feet in Coalfell Beck.

This is the entire curriculum at Thomas Aquinas College. This is it. No majors. Just a deep dive into the Western intellectual tradition. They consistently turn out the most exceptional graduates I have ever met. This is what a serious undergraduate education looks like.