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A snow covered Fiordland, South Island. A 7th June satellite image from Sentinel Hub.

Yes, of course there's a West Wing clip for everything

Taken exactly 97 years ago this month - in June 1928 - this beautiful autochrome study of a German garden in Baden is a wondrous riot of colour. I just love the 'twenties outfit with cloche hat and aqua marine scarf! It is all original colour, not colourised. 😍

Forget me not

If you ever wanted to see a detailed painting of a dragonfly, your dream has come true, courtesy of the sharp-eyed 17th century artist Jan van Kessel the Elder. Here’s the detail, and the larger painting in which it appears godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.com/search/label/J…

Okay, Australia. I got it. My inbox is screaming. I figure it’s about an hour or so before #qanda (hi y’all!) and so anyone still talking #auspol at this hour might be some of the folks reaching out wondering what the hell Aussie journos are doing getting shot in LA. Briefly:

What I have not yet seen, and you will not see just because the journo in question was from overseas, is any explanation as to why we are giving weapons and badges to people who are “afraid” of camera crews in full daylight. Still, this is not an escalation of anything except LA

What’ll happen now is a diplomatic kerfuffle where Albanese attempts and fails to explain to Trump that doing war crimey things like shooting foreign reporters covering a protest about possibly illegal immigration raids is a Frowny Cloud. Maybe a lawsuit. The city will settle.

I found some miniature cut-out French lithographed vignettes that a previous owner had applied to a sheet of A4 (adding a little pencil shading for the foreground) some 175 years ago. This is my favourite - just about 2.5 cm high. Isn't it delightful?

Donald Trump forcing US troops to sleep on the ground in the scorching heat in Los Angeles, since he made 0 arrangements to house or feed them and only wanted to use them as props for his fascist porn and political manipulation. MAGA will say "I voted for this"🤡

For the media dummies up the back: It is illegal to use military force against a state you occupy. This includes on land, sea & air. You’re welcome🙄

Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.

why are we allowing a small percentage of the population to destroy our country? seriously why x.com/i/grok/share/X…

BREAKING: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass just confirmed that Trump lied about the National Guard. This morning Trump claimed that if he didn't send the National Guard into LA, the city would have burnt down to the ground. Bass confirms that the National Guard only has one

People Watching: Tākaka main street, Golden Bay, Tasman district, on a Friday afternoon

This is untrue. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Higher Ed sector "crumbling under the weight of its broken business model" Claire Parfitt on uni governance, finances, free speech #auspol michaelwest.com.au/universities-b…

Ross Gittins: "How much natural gas would it take to persuade the French to let some company screw around with the 20,000-year-old paintings in the Lascaux Cave? But that’s not the way we value our ancient carvings." smh.com.au/business/the-e…

The joys of heading off for a library talk, and having a fire alarm evict the patrons (including my audience) into the cold. Understandably, some gave up and left. But the hard core stayed and even bought books.

He'll implode?