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Proof of walk this morning with Amigo and Cypher at Whitesand Beach before the sunrise....
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Proof of walk this morning with Amigo and Cypher at Whitesand Beach before the sunrise....
Counting Crows
"Mr. Jones"
Shalalala la la la
Uh huh
I was down at the New Amsterdam
Staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
With a black-haired flamenco dancer
You know she dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
And we all want something beautiful
Man, I wish I was beautiful
So come dance this silence down through the morning
Shalalala la la la la, yeah
Uh huh, yeah cut up, Maria!
Show me some of them Spanish dances
And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me, help me believe in anything
'Cause I wanna be someone who believes, yeah
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
And we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."
Smiling in the bright lights, coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely
Well, I'm gonna paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful
Yeah, well, you know gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso, I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. I don't think so. She's looking at me."
Standing in the spotlight, I bought myself a gray guitar
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely
I'll never be lonely
Said I'm never gonna be lonely
I wanna be a lion
Yeah, everybody wants to pass as cats
We all wanna be big, big stars, yeah
But we got different reasons for that
Believe in me, 'cause I don't believe in anything
And I, I wanna be someone to believe
To believe, to believe, yeah!
Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
"She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me."
I wanna be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
When everybody loves you, ah son
That's just about as funky as you can be
Mr. Jones and me, staring at the video
When I look at the television, I wanna see me
Staring right back at me
We all wanna be big stars
But we don't know why, and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me
I wanna be just about as happy as I can be
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars
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No, Barcelona’s Sagrada Família is not almost finished.
Despite some headlines saying otherwise, it will still be many, many years before Antoni Gaudí’s Modernista masterpiece is truly complete. However, the otherworldly basilica is nearing a major construction milestone.
June 10, 2026 — the centenary of Gaudí’s death — is the deadline builders have given themselves to complete the Sagrada Família’s central Jesus Tower (the last of its 18 towers still under construction). When this happens, the church will finally shed much of its scaffolding, which has long dominated its roofline.
This is why some are saying the church will soon be “finished.” But in reality, the Sagrada Família still has a long way to go. Elements like the baptistry, Chapel of the Assumption, and Glory Façade remain works in progress — and Gaudí’s original hope for a grand esplanade leading up to the entrance hasn’t even been started.
That said, completing the Jesus Tower is a huge achievement that's worth celebrating.
So if you visit Sagrada Família after June 10, 2026, you’ll still encounter some work zones and scaffolding... but no longer will you have to use your imagination to picture the basilica’s iconic towers.
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Stobnica Castle, Poland 🏰
The monumental 15-storey structure is situated on a partially man-made island on Lake Stobnica in the Notecka Forest.
Photographer: @areckinthesky
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Where pigeons get their sense of direction
Pigeons (Columba livia) seem to be able to sense magnetic fields by detecting tiny electrical currents in their inner ears.
Researchers performed advanced brain mapping as well single-cell RNA sequencing of pigeon inner-ear cells. Both lines of evidence point to the inner ear as the birds’ ‘magnetoreception’ organ. Such an organ gives the birds an ‘inner compass’ that could help to explain their navigational nous over long distances.
“This is probably the clearest demonstration of the neural pathways responsible for magnetic processing in any animal,” says sensory biology researcher Eric Warrant.
Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Alfred H. Osman had a long-standing interest in racing pigeons: in 1898, he abandoned his career as a lawyer’s clerk and established and became first editor of the Racing Pigeon, a weekly magazine still in publication today.
In his 1928 volume, Pigeons in the Great War, Osman described the carrier pigeon service as “practically infallible” and gave an unsubstantiated delivery success rate of 95-99%.
The advantages of pigeons are clear: they could fly silently through the air without indication of place of departure or destination; they did not have difficulties with shellfire or gas, and were remarkably resilient against gunfire while on the wing; they were quicker than runners, mounted orderlies or dogs; they could easily fly distances of over 50 miles; finally, they were more easily replaced than alternatives such as horses or men.
However, carrier pigeons did have some flaws: while they could be released from anywhere without the aid of wires or equipment, they had only one location of arrival – their home roost or loft.
Additionally, carrier pigeons were not necessarily scalable: it took around six weeks to train a carrier pigeon as to where their home roost or loft was located.
Furthermore, pigeons could only be used to carry short messages and so were mostly used on the frontline for espionage and for emergency messages.
Source: Nature and Science Museum
Pictures: The Pigeon Spy and His Work in War from Popular Science monthly, 1916. Image available in the public domain via Internet Archive.
British Army staff bandaging the leg of a carrier pigeon which returned wounded with a message.
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"It's a good day to dive". 🤿
Doors.....
Tiny fish make a BIG difference. 🌊🐟
Forage fish — like sardines, capelin, and herring — may be small, but they power entire ocean ecosystems and support coastal communities worldwide.
That’s why Oceana fights to rebuild and protect these essential species. Our wins — from stronger catch limits to new rebuilding plans — are helping depleted populations recover and restoring ocean abundance.
On World Fisheries Day, we’re grateful for the progress so far — and committed to restoring ocean abundance for generations to come. Learn more about our work and how you can help: 
ArtnetNews: Guitarist Ronnie Wood’s new paintings celebrate his 50th year with the Rolling Stones.
In 1973, with the deep wisdom of his mid-20s, Ronnie Wood helped pen the lyrics: “I wish that I knew what I knew now, when I was younger.” They were for the song, “Ooh La La,” a classic for Wood’s then-band, The Faces. What could Wood possibly have known then? Two years later, he officially joined the Rolling Stones, and the rest is history.
This year marks Wood’s 50th anniversary with the band, and he’s released new artworks to celebrate the occasion. His Paint It Black series, which feature himself and his bandmates, went on view earlier this week at Redhouse Gallery in Harrogate in the U.K., and signed, personalized prints of the paintings are available from the Redhouse Originals Gallery in limited editions of 100, priced at £1,250 ($1,630) each.
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Born on this day in 1941, Dr John,
(Malcolm John Rebennack), US R&B pianist, guitarist, singer. He wrote 'I Walk On Guilded Splinters.'
Active as a session musician from the late 1950s until his death, he gained a following in the late 1960s after the release of his album Gris-Gris and his appearance at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music.
Rebennack recorded thirty studio albums and nine live albums, as well as contributing to thousands of other musicians' recordings.
In 1973, he achieved a top-10 hit single with 'Right Place, Wrong Time'. He died of a heart attack on 6 June 2019 age 77.
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Carved into a sheer mountainside nearly 2,200 years ago, the 'Bhaja Caves' in India raise a simple but staggering question: how did ancient craftsmen pull this off with nothing but hand tools?
These rock-cut monasteries feature perfectly rounded columns, vaulted ceilings, and a massive chaitya hall carved out of solid basalt — all done without metal drills, electric lighting, or modern surveying equipment. Every surface had to be shaped by hammer, chisel, and sheer endurance, yet the symmetry and acoustic design still hold up today.
We know Buddhist monks and artisans built them during the 2nd century BC, but the exact logistics — how many workers, how long it took, or the methods used to keep everything perfectly aligned in dark, confined rock — remain unclear. The caves stand as one of those ancient engineering achievements that remind us just how skilled early builders really were.
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