Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 23h'The Rajah brought the girl down, while the crows circled' Katharine Pyle's #art for Tales of Folk and Fairies (1919) 040
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 23h"I Had Done a Hellish Thing," Engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It depicts sailor holding on to ratlines in crows-nest of sailing ship #art 030
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 23hThe Fox Hunt, 1893, by Winslow Homer #art It depicts a fox running in deep snow, menaced by hungry crows. His largest single work, it has been described as "Homer's greatest Darwinian painting, arguably his greatest painting of any kind." 030
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 23hA 13/14th century illustration of the fable of the Fox and the Crow from Kalila and Dimna, otherwise known as the fables of Bidpai. The story is familiar in the West as one of Aesop's fables #art 051
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 23hYatagarasu the sun crow guiding Emperor Jimmu and his men towards the plain of Yamato, by Ginko Adachi, 1891 #art 020
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 23hThe Crow and the Pitcher, illustrated by Milo Winter, 919 #art #aesop It relates ancient observation of corvid behaviour that recent scientific studies have confirmed is goal-directed and indicative of causal knowledge rather than simply being due to instrumental conditioning. 041
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How buses work in the UK: The bus is due in 5 minutes. The bus is due in 3 minutes. The bus is due in 2 minutes. The bus is due. The bus never existed. Haha, lowly mortals! ... The bus is due in 5 minutes... etc. 000
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Milky Way is captured over Durdle Door near Lulworth, Dorset, UK, 2016 #art Photograph: Matthew Pinner 110
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Lament for Icarus, by Herbert James Draper, 1898 #art 010
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Still life With a Cabbage (1921), by James Ensor #art 010
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' It is by M. R. James. The BBC has filmed the story twice as Whistle and I'll Come to You, firstly in 1968 in a version directed by Jonathan Miller, and again in 2010 starring John Hurt 1904 illustration by James McBryde #art 010
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A performer in Anthea Hamilton’s Tate Britain Commission, 2018 Photograph: Alastair Grant #art 010
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Priscilla Horton, later Mrs. German Reed, as Ariel in the final scene of Act 5 of The Tempest by Richard James Lane, 1838 #art #WilliamShakespeare 010
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Knight Errant, by John Everett Millais, 1870 #art 010
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Philip IV in Brown and Silver, 1632, by Diego Velázquez #art 030
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just watched someone crack their knuckles on their back. What?!? 000
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A Blue Room, by William Bruce Ellis Ranken Colour and Interior Decoration for Country Life, 1926 #art 010
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Mrs Gerard Tharp (Dora Maryan Hall) against Red Damask, ca 1920, by William Bruce Ellis Ranken #art 020
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Girl with a Bird, 1924, by William Bruce Ellis Ranken #art 020
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Fine Feathers, by William Bruce Ellis Ranken #art 020
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Scottish Town, 1914, by William Bruce Ellis Ranken #art 020
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Facebook keeps asking me if I have heard of Pret. So, of course, I answer no. 000
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Might replace my heart with black buttons. I want to scare blackbirds by rattling my chest at them. 000
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Jane Avril, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892 #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ 000
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Jane Avril leaving the Moulin Rouge, by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892 #art 020
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Jane Avril at the Jardin de Paris poster, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893 #art She was bankrupted by the Great Depression and died on 17 January 1943 (aged 74) in poverty and obscurity. 020
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Toulon, visite du Président Loubet aux escadres française et italienne, 10 avril 1901. by Félix Ziem #art 020
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Divan Japonais by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 1892–93 #art Dancer Jane Avril and writer Édouard Dujardin are in the audience. They are watching a performance by Yvette Guilbert. Though her face is not included, she is recognizable by her tall, thin frame and long black gloves 010
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Finished #reading Platform Decay by Martha Wells. Murderbot is in the middle of a mission to find his people, his humans. But then he has to rescue strangers. Mainly an escape novel. Loved this. A must-read. Very much recommended 030
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Set myself the challenge of reading 100 books by the end of the year. Starting today. 000
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026La cueva del Gato (The cave of the Cat), 1860 painting by Manuel Barrón y Carrillo depicting the hideout of the Andalusian bandolero of Spain #art 040
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Princess with a Monkey (1913), by Janis Rozentāls #art 040
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Monkey and the Dolphin, from La Fontaine's Fables (1880s), watercolour by Gustave Moreau #art 040
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"The Young Witch", illustration for a 1908 edition of Faust #Art by Willy Pogany 130
Bek Hobbes @greebohobbes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Finished #reading The Loathly Lady by Fiona Mozley. A retelling (I think because it seems very familiar) of King Arthur's quest to find what women want, a very ugly woman, and Gawain's betrothel to her. Loved this. A must-read. Very much recommended 010