sophie gayne

lover of black olives, mass extinctions and fictional scottish islands

[Daily Dutch Masters 🎨 @Goudriaan2]

Breakfast Table with Blackberry Pie
Willem Claesz. Heda, 1631

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@yescynfria thanks! chillies too 🌶️

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

Jacobus Vrel (active 1650s to 1660s? 70s?) is such a mysterious figure and these two works of his are so eerie that in a vacuum I’d assume he was a creepypasta figure

[Andrew @Dub__A]

Which Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival poster should I get

[Stone Club @the_stone_club]

Older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid is The South Zeal Menhir Standing Stone at The Oxenham Arms.
Carved from Dartmoor granite by Neolithic people 5000 years ago

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@cal50 kimya forever

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@gorjogle2 my soul & dignity remains on that pirate ship

[Josh Dzieza @joshdzieza]

I've been wanting to do this story for years and am thrilled it's finally out: inside the surprisingly small, highly specialized industry that repairs the internet cables on the bottom of the ocean https://t.co/ChlU0gzGIU

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@KieranD ALL I SEE IS 2 KINGS

[Stone Club @the_stone_club]

The Uffington White Horse by Paul Nash

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@tweetodontosaur officially a stoner

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@KieranD 'a magazine' do not alter our origin story

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@no1_milf_fan please

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@richevans500 @weirdwalk I love this! 💛 my recent visit was a first for me. hope you got to dip some weary bones in the well!

[Natan Last @natanlast]

I have a piece in this week's New Yorker mag on two of my favorite things: word games and immigration. It's the story of Mangesh Ghogre, a crossword writer who got an "extraordinary ability" visa from India to the U.S.

https://t.co/7h6Z0LEbyI

[Stone Club @the_stone_club]

Walking the pathways of ancient Britain with the Kibbo Kift

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

walking weird today at sacred stones and ancient wells in Trellech; plunging my fractured bones into the spring water said to heal 'peculiar ailments of women'

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@the_stone_club stone stomp @ Harold's Stones in Trellech

[sophie gayne @sophiegayne]

@Volcanologist @fossiliam this was a lovely surprise to read today!