Roll Out The Barrel

Good stuff from #London, and beyond. Mostly art, culture and history. #SocialAction for good as well. Keep it Simple and Be Gentle ♥️

[Roll Out The Barrel @RollTheBarrel]

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[HAPPYNESS @HappyNoContext0]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 I know their hunting but the way they look around like "nobody saw that right"😂

[Empire State Building @EmpireStateBldg]

The Empire State Building shines red and white tonight in celebration of @Arsenal’s Premier League Title and trophy celebration.

See the lights live: https://t.co/iavtXSm3Fx

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Like a butterfly

Display of the Bohemian Waxwing bird

📹 wildsafarisaga and birdsinbloom

wild Safari Saga

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Between 1856 and 1859, Emily Mary Madden, then aged eight to eleven, dedicated a small notebook to her family's cat, Mouton.

The strokes are clearly a child's, but the eyes, whiskers, fur, and the dark hatching on the tail are carefully detailed.

Across the pages, Mouton encounters an elephant, appears before the queen, rides a rooster, tangles with mice, and takes up arms against a spider.

Mouton was actually a French tomcat given to Emily's father, Sir Frederic Madden, by a bookseller in 1854. Frederic was a distinguished paleographer and librarian who worked with manuscripts at the British Museum.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Look at this Norwegian church. It has been standing through Norwegian rain for over 840 years.

The trees were prepared for nearly two decades before anyone cut them down.

Workers walked into old-growth pine forests and stripped the chosen trees of their tops and their branches. The trunks stayed standing for fifteen to twenty years. The roots kept pulling resin upward. The pitch bled out of every old branch socket and saturated the heartwood from the inside.

By the time the trunks were felled in winter, the heartwood was no longer wood. It was malmfuru. Ore-pine. Functionally pressure-treated lumber, except the pressure was applied by the tree itself, for free, across two decades before construction started.

That is why iron was rejected. Iron rusts. Iron expands and contracts on a different cycle than the wood around it. After 100 winters iron splits the fiber and the joint dies. Wooden pegs swell with moisture in the same direction as the staves. The joints get tighter over time. Tongue-and-groove walls. Ground sills on a stone foundation. Four corner posts carrying load down through stone, never up through soil.

Then the tar. Pine roots and stumps stacked under clay, lit on fire, burned for two days under controlled airflow. The wood decomposes into pitch. The pitch gets reapplied to the church every 10 to 15 years. Including this decade.

Norway built around 2,000 stave churches between 1150 and 1350. 28 survive. Borgund is the best preserved because its corner staves rest on stone, not soil. The ground never won.

Modern lumber arrives at the construction site finished.

Borgund's builders made the lumber finish itself.

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Statue of Athene (“The Peiraeus Athena”). Medium: Bronze Date: 340—330 BC. Athens, Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A polite penguin patiently waiting for people to move out of the way.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit.

If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.

A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.

No more political violence.

[Hill Top Farm @hilltopfarmgirl]

A beautiful evening for our newest bull calf

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A device that attaches to a guitar, using buttons to press chords, simplifying learning.

[The Night Warrior @WarriorNight007]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell

[MP ☮️ @SassyKatPatton]

@Number10cat Frodo meeting a new friend

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

[Roll Out The Barrel @RollTheBarrel]

@SportsDirect_CS Done!

[Roll Out The Barrel @RollTheBarrel]

@SportsDirect_CS a package was delivered to our building many weeks ago. It’s addressed to a person why has not lived here for at least ten years. Attached is the info you may need. What should we do with it? Many thanks Sheila

[Roll Out The Barrel @RollTheBarrel]

@united I’m currently trying to use the app or website to rebook my flight for this weekend from IAD to LHR. This is the error message. Is this because of the EWR disruption?

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Let me ask Republicans: If Obama or Biden had published such a statement -- or Hillary or Kamala -- what would you have said? Whatever it is, please consider saying it now.

[Mig Greengard @chessninja]

@jaynordlinger This tip may also come in handy sooner than later: https://t.co/RasDFLFvM2

[Dovilė Šakalienė @DSakaliene]

🇪🇺 Europe must be part of negotiations, but words are empty without putting money on the table.

⚠️ Real peace requires real security guarantees for Ukraine.

💪 Real security guarantees can only come from a position of strength. Europe needs to grow military muscle NOW.

❄️ In 24 hours, we went from the illusion that the US will defend Europe to realizing we will defend ourselves with the US support. US wake-up call on our defense debt is harsh but necessary.

🔴 Today at the #MSC2025, I joined a panel on Peace through Strength: A Plan for Ukraine with
🇺🇸 @generalkellogg 
🇬🇧 @DavidLammy 
🇵🇱 @sikorskiradek 
🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha

🚨 putin will not change. The only way to prevent war on #NATO soil is to be fully prepared for it, down to the last bullet.

2025 will lay the foundation for either a stronger Europe - or its collapse @MunSecConf