Jonathan Urquhart
@jonathanurquhart.bsky.social
Book lover | film fan | nap enjoyer | feeling older
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Congratulations, podcasters. You've re-invented television.
Apple goes all-in on video podcasts - and it’s a game changer for creators
It’s the feature creators have wanted for years and now the biggest distributor of podcasts is coming to the party.
It’s the feature creators have wanted for years and now the biggest distributor of podcasts is coming to the party.
Apple goes all-in on video podcasts - and it’s a game changer for creators
It’s the feature creators have wanted for years and now the biggest distributor of podcasts is coming to the party.
tvblackbox.com.au
February 17, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Congratulations, podcasters. You've re-invented television.
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This is how you live a life
February 17, 2026 at 2:32 AM
This is how you live a life
The Winter Olympians are amazing.
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 AM
The Winter Olympians are amazing.
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Beautiful Bouquetin (ibex) dating to the Middle Magdalenian 14.400-13.300BP. Galleria Inferior de la Garma. Omoño Ribamontán al Monte, Cantabria. 📷 At Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria in Santander. #FindsFriday
February 13, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Beautiful Bouquetin (ibex) dating to the Middle Magdalenian 14.400-13.300BP. Galleria Inferior de la Garma. Omoño Ribamontán al Monte, Cantabria. 📷 At Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria in Santander. #FindsFriday
Funny guy, Molière.
February 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Funny guy, Molière.
Some light spring reading.
February 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Some light spring reading.
Take it to The Repair Shop team.
The crown of Empress Eugénie was one of nine invaluable royal ornaments snatched by burglars during the Louvre heist in October, but the thieves dropped it on the sidewalk before making their escape. The Louvre announced it will soon invite restorers to submit proposals for the crown’s repair.
The Louvre Thieves Dropped This Priceless Crown. Now It Looks Like This.
Empress Eugénie’s crown was left lying on the sidewalk after the Louvre Museum heist in October. The museum has now released pictures of the damage.
nyti.ms
February 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Take it to The Repair Shop team.
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I had the pleasure of talking about the process of writing Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts with Kirk McElhearn for Scrivener's Write Now podcast. Scrivener was invaluable through the many months when the manuscript was just a collection of fragments.
www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/write-n...
www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/write-n...
Write Now with Scrivener, Episode no. 59: Brad Bigelow, Biographer - Literature & Latte
www.literatureandlatte.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I had the pleasure of talking about the process of writing Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts with Kirk McElhearn for Scrivener's Write Now podcast. Scrivener was invaluable through the many months when the manuscript was just a collection of fragments.
www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/write-n...
www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/write-n...
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Avarian Warrior Tomb: Hungarian archaeologists uncover 1300 year old Avar warrior burial with intact sabre and other grave goods. A team from the Szent István Király Museum has discovered an elite warrior’s grave near Aba and Székesfehérvár in central Hungary.
February 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Avarian Warrior Tomb: Hungarian archaeologists uncover 1300 year old Avar warrior burial with intact sabre and other grave goods. A team from the Szent István Király Museum has discovered an elite warrior’s grave near Aba and Székesfehérvár in central Hungary.
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Letters to Dead Authors (1886) — a book of letters written by Scottish writer Andrew Lang to 22 bards, poets, and novelists from Homer to Rabelais to Austen: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/letters-to-dead-authors-1886
January 31, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Letters to Dead Authors (1886) — a book of letters written by Scottish writer Andrew Lang to 22 bards, poets, and novelists from Homer to Rabelais to Austen: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/letters-to-dead-authors-1886
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This specially curated list of 100 books celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The titles are personal recommendations from some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, & luminaries & curated by the Schomburg Center’s reference division.
www.nypl.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This specially curated list of 100 books celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The titles are personal recommendations from some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, & luminaries & curated by the Schomburg Center’s reference division.
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"Mississippi Goddam" (1964) - Nina Simone
Recording session: Live in Antibes, July 24-25, 1965
🗃️🎶🎧 #coffeebreak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25...
Recording session: Live in Antibes, July 24-25, 1965
🗃️🎶🎧 #coffeebreak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25...
Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam
YouTube video by Aaron Overfield
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM
"Mississippi Goddam" (1964) - Nina Simone
Recording session: Live in Antibes, July 24-25, 1965
🗃️🎶🎧 #coffeebreak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25...
Recording session: Live in Antibes, July 24-25, 1965
🗃️🎶🎧 #coffeebreak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25...
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"Sounds can shed more light on #Philosophy than any other quality, which is why the #science of #Music should not be neglected even if all singing and playing were completely abolished and forbidden."
Marin Mersenne (1636)
A Catholic priest, polymath, prodigious writer, "father of acoustics"...
Marin Mersenne (1636)
A Catholic priest, polymath, prodigious writer, "father of acoustics"...
January 24, 2026 at 6:47 PM
"Sounds can shed more light on #Philosophy than any other quality, which is why the #science of #Music should not be neglected even if all singing and playing were completely abolished and forbidden."
Marin Mersenne (1636)
A Catholic priest, polymath, prodigious writer, "father of acoustics"...
Marin Mersenne (1636)
A Catholic priest, polymath, prodigious writer, "father of acoustics"...
youtube.com/watch?v=x359... A cat song from a more innocent age.
Harry Roy and His Orchestra My Girls Pussy 1931
YouTube video by iKnowBadeaux
youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:13 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=x359... A cat song from a more innocent age.
Crazy ass Rashomon world.
youtu.be/xCZ9TguVOIA?...
youtu.be/xCZ9TguVOIA?...
Rashomon Trailer (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
YouTube video by Janus Films
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Crazy ass Rashomon world.
youtu.be/xCZ9TguVOIA?...
youtu.be/xCZ9TguVOIA?...
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Just did a tight 5 about prehistoric creatures that destroyed with a toddler and I’ve never felt so alive!!!!!!!!!
January 16, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Just did a tight 5 about prehistoric creatures that destroyed with a toddler and I’ve never felt so alive!!!!!!!!!
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Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70
Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70
The internationally acclaimed film-maker was renowned for beautifully shot cinematic epics
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70
What a year 2026 was. Happy 2027 everybody!
January 5, 2026 at 4:24 AM
What a year 2026 was. Happy 2027 everybody!
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
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NEW #Neolithic axe-heads from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney. One of the most iconic tools of Europe's first farmers, macroscopic wear analysis reveals they were treated in diverse ways, used for cutting wood, chiselling stone, scraping hides and more.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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🏺 #Archaeology
January 2, 2026 at 8:13 AM
NEW #Neolithic axe-heads from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney. One of the most iconic tools of Europe's first farmers, macroscopic wear analysis reveals they were treated in diverse ways, used for cutting wood, chiselling stone, scraping hides and more.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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NORDIC NOIR 🖤 🎞️ Coming to the Criterion Channel on January 1! The dark cloud of disillusionment that spread across international screens in the wake of World War II didn’t spare the land of the midnight sun, as evidenced by this selection of stylishly shadowy, ripe-for-discovery crime dramas
December 31, 2025 at 6:27 AM
NORDIC NOIR 🖤 🎞️ Coming to the Criterion Channel on January 1! The dark cloud of disillusionment that spread across international screens in the wake of World War II didn’t spare the land of the midnight sun, as evidenced by this selection of stylishly shadowy, ripe-for-discovery crime dramas
Leaving 2025 in style.
January 1, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Leaving 2025 in style.