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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 3h

obsessed with the silhouette of St Paul’s

St Paul’s cathedral in London photographed during the day w/ a nice blue sky, the facade is prominent but the dome is very visible

a view across the Thames at night, bright buildings and the dome of St Pauls. The background is a murky grey instead of black on account of light and smog

a similar view but more rivery (taken from on a bridge) and at sunset, everything is pinkish

close shot of the dome rising above dark buildings at night

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 4h

I literally only learned to write coherently because I had a philosophy teacher in grade 12 who drilled me on essays, can only be easier to fall through the cracks now

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 1d

www.parliament.uk/about/living...

Above the Great Clock sits the Ayrton Light, a lantern which shines when either House of Parliament is sitting. Mounted on the roof above the lantern are heraldic shields.

Floral emblems of all four parts of the United Kingdom show the rose, thistle, shamrock and leek alongside a gold portcullis that symbolises Parliament.

The Irish shamrock and Welsh leek have been returned to their original green while the Scottish thistle is green with a bright purple seed head. The English rose has been painted red and white as in Barry’s original design.

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 1d

goes so hard

another shot of the clock tower, this time more from below

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 1d

reno’d big ben is astounding

The top of the tower of the Great Clock of Westminster, known as Big Ben. The dials have prominent blue designs on them and the gold is shiny.

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 1d

“ensuring that steam to escape”

glass Chemex coffee brewer and tea kettle on display

zoom in on the kettle’s placard:

Glass tea kettle
American, designed 1944

Designed by Peter Schlumbohm for Chemex Corporation, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Made in heatproof borosilicate glass, the stopper is a simple tube with cork balls at both ends ensuring that steam to escape and the neck is not too hot to grip. Schlumbohm, an immigrant inventor to America from Germany, patented over 300 designs, but few proved to be commercially successful.

Given anonymously

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

in spite of his poverty he was known to be a great believer in beauty, no?

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

st francis and the animals is such a poorly represented subject so I suppose they had little choice

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

please tell me the OFMs aren’t using a chatgpt image

Brothers and sisters: A guide to living justice, peace, and care for creation
Inspired by the Canticle of the Creatures of St. Francis of Assisi
by the Order of Friars Minor office for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation

illustrated with an image of St Francis and some animals which looks awful AI generated (bad lines, the cincture cord disappears between his hands, yellow filter)

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

please don’t tell me the OFMs are using a chatgpt image

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

2018 me*

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

once again, 2018 would’ve just loved seeing ross spread his wings like this

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

Ross’s thoughtful interviews and discussions consistently cover an impressive range all the way from indulging the domination fantasies of theocrats to desperately pursuing quack Lyme disease cures.

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

although the super small mobile view was quite useful

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

a reform of the reform where it stays mobile friendly but gets the parchment back

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

somewhat annoying to spend lots of my time going "AGI and superintelligence sound puffy but they are terms of art that it's useful being precise with so that we all know what we're talking about" and then having Sam Altman say this in an interview stratechery.com/2025/an-inte...

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

krajewski chatting about almoning

𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉. @kohsj.bsky.social · 2d

Live: presentation of Pope Leo’s first Apostolic Exhortation, ‘Dilexi te’
www.youtube.com/live/t8wRe2Q...

Apostolic Exhortation “Dilexi te” - Press Conference, October 9, 2025

YouTube video by Vatican News - English

www.youtube.com

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

this is where I tweet from

US Civil War reenactment, lady in blue dress and straw hat/bonnet thing has a phone hidden inside a hollowed out book

More US reenactors (I think revolutionary? they’re in olive green), the guy in centre field has his phone out for recording something

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

great post

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor

Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.

www.theatlantic.com

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Latinitas Animi Causa: Latin for Fun @habesnelac.bsky.social · 4d

The Antifacist Hymn “Bella Ciao” but in Classical Latin!!!

youtube.com/shorts/OGQHW...

#bellaciao #freedom

"Bella Ciao" in Classical Latin

YouTube video by Latinitas Animi Causa: Latin for Fun!

youtube.com

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 4d

I know proper editing but only in a random phone app so my edits have an amateurish quality

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 4d

just spent £50 on a train ticket and it may not even cover the train I’m on, positively awful country

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 4d

great episode to listen to at 1.6x speed

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.
open.spotify.com/episode/1Dio...

youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...