due the temperatures of over 40°C in the shade, we try to start riding as early and do as many km as possible before noon.
we took a break in the shade of a tree on the side of the road and suddenly a bushfire approached us quickly. what a shock. we never packed up so fast...
in addition to the high temperatures our adrenaline level is permanently high. the N1 autoroute direction Tambacounda is filled with overloaded camions which force us honking to go off the road, we are talking about cm...
50 years ago: Beg to go out and play in the snow
40 years ago: Drag XC skis out of the garage and mess about
30 years ago: Play in the snow with the kids
20 years ago: XC ski with the kids in the hood
10 years ago: Outfit the neighborhood kids with leftover XC skis
#Today looking at the snow out the window with a steaming cup of #coffee in hand
"It's much harder for people to deny your humanity when you speak their language."
https://www.jmberlin.de/en/exhibition-inside-out-etgar-keret
An extraordinary pharmaceutical #chemist to celebrate for #BlackHistoryMonth - Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.
Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later.
A lone tree grows in the sorting of the abandoned post office in Gary, Indiana
Somehow I pictured the ‘world’s tallest filing cabinet’ as supersized in all dimensions, but you can’t dispute it does exactly what it says on the tin. #Burlington #Vermont #WeirdPointsOfInterest
A decaying warehouse full of vintage motorcycles
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/kohls-motorcycle-salvage
Hello everyone!!! Welcome, please make yourselves at home. I've just boiled the kettle, and I think a nice slice of cake is in order here, don't you?
My name is Emmalena and I’m a novelist from the UK, but now based in Suffolk where I live with my partner @ishambard I'm a lover of vintage, cooking, baking, reading & writing. I'm also an author, my first novel 'Ginsterpigs' is available on Amazon & several other global booksellers
I look forward to meeting you & making some new friends soon.
Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮
Hikeshi baba is a yokai that appears as a scary old woman with white hair. She wanders from house to house late at night blowing out lanterns. While not dangerous herself, she creates dark and gloomy conditions which are suitable for other yokai to get up to all sorts of mischief.
#JapaneseFolklore #yokai #DailyFolklore
🎨Mizuki Shigeru.
#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany alongside her brother Hans. Hans was also killed.
“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”
I'm not sure he'll post on here atm due to bad signal, but I was asked by the internet sensation that is @jimllpaintit to recreate one of his iconic artworks for his 10th (yep, 10th!) anniversary, so here's my #clay interpretation of Walter White Postman Pat! 🎉
Jim's asked some other artists to take part in the celebrations, so he'll be sharing their takes on his works over the next few days on Insta, FB, etc. 🥳
'cheikh' who tailored us some clothes, invited us to stay in 'gagué bokar'. they where setting up tents for an event. we stayed there for 2 nights. we drunk a lot of tee together. tasted from their traditional 'tschibutschien' and 'mafé' and cooked vegetables with rice and bouillonsoup for them.
1. cheikh and paco
2. fiona taking portraits
3. marc learning how to handle a donkey
4. the tents for the event
Thoughts on Episode 2 of Dinosaur with #stephenfry
So far, #Stephen #Fry is talking about accuracy the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park. While showing Iguanodons eating grass.
Something that didn't evolve until millions of years after the dinosaurs went extinct, much less existed 120+mya
Stones, glass houses?
I'm going to keep watching this and roasting it as I go. I don't blame the paleontologists. From what I have heard the production was not flexible, ironically, when it comes to accuracy.
Retired polymath with a background in pure science, IT, publishing and music.
Originally from the UK, I now live in the state of Vermont in the US.
I love puzzles, especially crosswords, and do a lot of cycling, hiking and yoga.
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#Brattleboro #Vermont #Crosswords #JigsawPuzzles #Cycling #Hiking #Yoga #Cats