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Wow!
"Kind Of Blue was the soundtrack to my childhood, because my dad would play that album every single morning. I remember waking up to it countless times, to the point where I have every note memorised."
Eartheater on #MilesDavies - Kind Of Blue
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Eartheater on #MilesDavies - Kind Of Blue
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July 22, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Wow!
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Joseph Alleman, American (1975- ), Prairie Sky, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 in,
Private collection
Private collection
June 8, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Joseph Alleman, American (1975- ), Prairie Sky, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 in,
Private collection
Private collection
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A Sherpa climbing guide who was believed to have died high on Mount Everest was found crawling back to Base Camp after spending almost a week on the mountain with no food or bottled oxygen: https://cnn.it/49GcCpI
June 5, 2026 at 12:07 PM
A Sherpa climbing guide who was believed to have died high on Mount Everest was found crawling back to Base Camp after spending almost a week on the mountain with no food or bottled oxygen: https://cnn.it/49GcCpI
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“Reading Is Fun!”
The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.
The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.
March 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
“Reading Is Fun!”
The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.
The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.
May the best team win
YNWA
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YNWA
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April 19, 2026 at 12:54 PM
May the best team win
YNWA
🏆
YNWA
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‘𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘳 noted that, as Britons could see live duchesses for free, “Why, then, pay £72,000 to see dead duchesses?”’
Elizabeth Goldring on the enduring desirability of Hans Holbein and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Elizabeth Goldring on the enduring desirability of Hans Holbein and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Elizabeth Goldring · At the National Gallery: Holbein and Henry James
More has probably been written about The Ambassadors than about any other work by Holbein. Is the painting a commentary...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 19, 2026 at 11:10 AM
‘𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘳 noted that, as Britons could see live duchesses for free, “Why, then, pay £72,000 to see dead duchesses?”’
Elizabeth Goldring on the enduring desirability of Hans Holbein and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Elizabeth Goldring on the enduring desirability of Hans Holbein and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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My painting SEA PINKS
April 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
My painting SEA PINKS
Oh!
Rest in peace
Rest in peace
April 18, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Oh!
Rest in peace
Rest in peace
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Let’s all stock up on books and read under the blankets until the weather gets better.
Then we can go read outside. - Michael
Then we can go read outside. - Michael
April 15, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Let’s all stock up on books and read under the blankets until the weather gets better.
Then we can go read outside. - Michael
Then we can go read outside. - Michael
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#birds #birdphotography #photography
#heron
A heron with its catch, possibly an eel (not at all sure). #slane #river #boyne
#heron
A heron with its catch, possibly an eel (not at all sure). #slane #river #boyne
April 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
#birds #birdphotography #photography
#heron
A heron with its catch, possibly an eel (not at all sure). #slane #river #boyne
#heron
A heron with its catch, possibly an eel (not at all sure). #slane #river #boyne
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April 7, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Pope Leo at Easter Urbi et Orbi: “Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
April 5, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Pope Leo at Easter Urbi et Orbi: “Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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seedlings
I like it best
when the parsley
decides what it is–
when it puts out
its frilly parsley
leaves
4.IV.26
I like it best
when the parsley
decides what it is–
when it puts out
its frilly parsley
leaves
4.IV.26
April 4, 2026 at 6:59 AM
seedlings
I like it best
when the parsley
decides what it is–
when it puts out
its frilly parsley
leaves
4.IV.26
I like it best
when the parsley
decides what it is–
when it puts out
its frilly parsley
leaves
4.IV.26
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"Stop striking or we punish the general population" is out of the Trump playbook
March 31, 2026 at 7:37 AM
"Stop striking or we punish the general population" is out of the Trump playbook
Who does Starmer think he is helping? I'm so tired of privileged people thinking they are doing us a favour. Starmer's attitude towards everything is just bad.
Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t
March 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Who does Starmer think he is helping? I'm so tired of privileged people thinking they are doing us a favour. Starmer's attitude towards everything is just bad.
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March 31, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Strong Winds And Cloud. 9°C at Sancton Hill. Oilseed in flower.
March 28, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Strong Winds And Cloud. 9°C at Sancton Hill. Oilseed in flower.
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‘In her stories, one scenario crops up time and again: an over-educated adult child cooped up, for reasons of infirmity, with a smug, intellectually limited mother.’
Edmund Gordon on Flannery O’Connor.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Edmund Gordon on Flannery O’Connor.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Edmund Gordon · Atheist with a Wooden Leg: Flannery O’Connor’s Judgments
In all of Flannery O’Connor’s work, there isn’t a single character you could describe as admirable, or even...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 21, 2026 at 9:15 AM
‘In her stories, one scenario crops up time and again: an over-educated adult child cooped up, for reasons of infirmity, with a smug, intellectually limited mother.’
Edmund Gordon on Flannery O’Connor.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Edmund Gordon on Flannery O’Connor.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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An absolute banger of a first book of the day. The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
March 20, 2026 at 10:12 AM
An absolute banger of a first book of the day. The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
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