Sarah M

Awwwww

Oh I know there are actually lots of places in Australia with native names too!

My husband and I have been map-nerding lately and he out of the blue pulled out an enraged rant about the fact that Europeans named everything in Australia these stupid, boring, repetitive British names when people have been living there for millenia. I didn't know he felt so strongly about this.

out of Compton

a hobbit in red sits on a white pony on a cobbled roadway in a hollow in the late evening, with a caravan of firelit traders' carts in foreground and hobbit barns in the distance

same hobbit on horse views a distant lamplit village across a rolling green dotted with a few ancient trees, under a starlit sky

Logged back into LOTRO for the first time in, oh, 10 years? Mainly because I've just had a hankering to wander around the Shire again.

a very crummy overhead shot of Carter Lake, IA, a u-shaped oxbow lake that used to be the route of the Missouri river until it straightened. The Missouri river itself is visible in the background. All the land on the far side of the river is Iowa. All the land on the near side EXCEPT the town inside the "U" of the lake is Nebraska. That town existed before the river changed course and was retained by Iowa in the Supreme Court Case "Nebraska v. Iowa", 143 U.S. 359 (1892).

And then sometimes the wiggles get to be too much and the opposite ends of an oxbow meet... and cut off the wiggle into its own lake!

wdym your workday ends at 3:30 instead of 5:30 😜

Solidus of Julian (355-363)
Minted at Antioch in 362
At Dumbarton Oaks

This looks so good

yep!

"Somewhere in Galilee"

I am a tea addict for whom tea is comfort and peace so I understand and appreciate it very much!

Thank you 🥰

To be clear, nothing is actually wrong

Having one of those weepy days where crying just sort of happens.

No, Eusebius quotes it in the text. It’s pretty short and doesn’t say anything weird or special.

Guys, this book has a fragment of a letter purportedly FROM JESUS.

I’m currently reading a second-hand copy of Eusebius’s history of the Christian church and it’s pretty marked up by the previous owner. I’m afraid the previous owner only had dumb and obvious things to say though.

Uh-oh it’s not getting better

Reluctant applause

Nooooo I’ll miss you!!

Medieval manuscript image of women working together to reap grain with sickle; two are on their knees at work while a third stands taking a break.

samod-wyrcende, adj: cooperating, working together. (SAH-mod-WUER-chen-duh / ˈsa-mɔd-ˌwyr-tʃɛn-də)
Image: Luttrell Psalter; N England (Lincolnshire), 1325-1340; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 42130, f. 172v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #InternationalWomensDay

A CLASSIC fun fact that is one of my all-time favorites

nothing wrong with trade school if your goal is a “this person is employable” endorsement; but if that’s what you want out of college you should not waste your time, your professors time, or your parents money fighting against a system designed for people who intrinsically enjoy learning

The Abbey breakfast board was laid with plum and greengage tarts, hot hazelnut turnovers dripping with honey, pancakes with pears, and beakers of redcurrant an' roseleaf cordial.

Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Yesterday I said I was going to “bite the bullet” and return some stuff to the store, including some Nerf guns, and my 7 year old looked at me in shock and said, “why would you bite the bullets? That ruins them!”

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

Hell is empty and the devils are all here.

Yes, I even sing that exact aria.