The horrible gallbladder attack seems over so now ofc here comes the terrible migraine
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The horrible gallbladder attack seems over so now ofc here comes the terrible migraine
Mécanisme approuvé par l'Académie royale des Sciences, 23 août 1749 ; mécanisme présenté au roi Louis XV à Choisy, 7 septembre 1750 ; livraison de la pendue achevée à Choisy, 20 août 1753 ; installation dans la galerie du château de Choisy, 10 octobre 1753 ; placée dans le cabinet de la Pendule à Versailles, 15 janvier 1754 Pendule à sphère, boîte en bronze richement ciselé et doré, reposant sur quatre pieds en console, ornée de palmes, cartouches, feuillages, fleurs et médaillons à l'effigie des Quatre Saisons, garnie de glaces et surmontée d'un globe de verre présentant les signes du zodiaque et renfermant le système de Copernic avec les planètes tournant autour du soleil, cadran d'émail, guichets avec les jours, quantièmes, mois, années et phases de la lune. Mechanism approved by the Royal Academy of Sciences, August 23, 1749; mechanism presented to King Louis XV at Choisy, September 7, 1750; delivery of the completed clock to Choisy, August 20, 1753; installation in the gallery of the Château de Choisy, October 10, 1753; placed in the Clock Cabinet at Versailles, January 15, 1754. Sphere clock, richly chased and gilded bronze case, resting on four console feet, decorated with palms, cartouches, foliage, flowers and medallions with the effigy of the Four Seasons, fitted with mirrors and surmounted by a glass globe showing the signs of the zodiac and containing the Copernican system with the planets revolving around the sun, enamel dial, apertures with the days, dates, months, years and phases of the moon.
Pendule astronomique de Louis XV
Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 1749-1753
By Jacques & Philippe Caffieri, Louis Dauthiau & Claude-Simeon Passemant
Description in the Alt Text, en français, with a Google translation
The new rules for the independent military newspaper are the Defense Department's latest effort to put extraordinary restrictions on journalists covering the agency. n.pr/4dmG2f9
Los Angeles Times
A case of glass eyes from Germany, early 1900s
March 14, 1926: A glass eye that can be controlled by one's optic muscles has been developed by Carl Müller, a maker of the prosthetics in Jena, Germany. The need for artificial eyes has grown, especially among veterans wounded in WWI.
Frog and Toad in the woods, looking for Toad's lost button. From "A Lost Button" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*
They went back to the woods and looked on the dark paths.
TFW you find out "been there for decades" meant "since the 2000's."
I know! I’m like, “really, that’s been around since the ‘70s or ’80s?? Oh, wait…”
I watched this and was like “dude said decades ago and it was done in 2001” and now that the years have caught up with me I’ll take my blanket and tea on the veranda this evening whilst I ruminate on days gone by.
I love it but I do wonder how many people have tripped over that and absolutely eaten shit
Shoutout to every art student who was like "That was a mold"
That is the BEST show.
🧵 on THE BRIDE! which is a movie designed specifically to appeal to me. I am the venn diagram of this movie.
Einstein sits at a desk full of books & papers. Behind him, a blackboard with equations.
Esther Bubley took a series of photos of Albert Einstein on his 74th birthday, March 14, 1953.
This is in his study in Princeton, 72 years ago today.
Einstein, wearing a soft cap and raincoat, walks down a rural road. In the background, a group of workmen on the road look back at him.
Albert Einstein by Esther Bubley, 1953
He's way down the road & the workmen are still looking at the great man.
Einstein, wearing a sweater, stands in his study, in front of bookshelves, by a desk full of books & papers.
Albert Einstein in his Princeton study.
📷 Ernst Haas, 1955
"Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing."
The reboot of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is not moving forward at Hulu, Variety reports
tl;dr plotting anything longer than say ≈50k isn't actually writing, it's just a combination of document control and the world's largest sudoku puzzle. if you pencil in "9" you have to walk 100 feet away and bend over to erase "1"
Poster for the band Eels. Poster text reads: "The Triumphant Return of EELS The World's Number One Entertainers" Beside the text is a yellow drawing or rendering from a picture of the band's lead singer, Mark Everett. You can see him from the neck up, and you can see his hand holding microphone to his mouth. He is wearing welding glasses, with one lens reflecting the light and the other in the dark. They are vaguely manichean in that way. He has his mouth open in full-throated abandon, singing his heart out. And maybe your heart, too. His beard is full, but not excessive, and his teeth are visible. He looks like he's singing for all he's worth. If you ignore the microphone, he also looks like he might be screaming in despair after finding that local children have filled his mailbox full of slugs as a prank. He's emoting that kind of energy
So today, as you're celebrating endless numbers and tucking into your favorite fruit pie, spare a thought for eels, too. Put on some Stones, kick back, and raise a glass to the eel pie: the pie that Henry III loved and that helped bring you rock 'n' roll. /fin
Meme. Medieval painting showing the crowning of Henry III. The king is seated on a throne, still and regal. There are two bishops on either side of him, setting the crown on his head. Henry's hair is elegantly wavy around his narrow face. His face is pointed straight ahead, but the pupils of his eyes are pointed upwards, presumably towards god. The way his beard is drawn makes is look like chin is melting. He's wearing a red shirt and blue cape, and is holding a model of a cathedral in his left hand. His demeanor and expression look very much like an Irish Setter ignoring a physics lecture. The bishops, in brown robes and mitres, each have a hand on the kings crown. They are, clearly, meant to be setting it on his head. But the scene is more interesting if we assume that they are trying to steal it. Think: Indiana Jones replacing an idol with a bag of sand. I hope they can outrun a boulder. Meme text reads: "Bring me my good crown it's eel pie night"
It's #pieday today...so let's talk about eel pie!
Eel pie has been an important English food for a long time. Medieval cookbooks often included eel pie recipes, & everyone from peasants to kings at them.
In 1256, Henry III demanded eel pies from his bailiff at Fetcham! 1/7🗃️🧪
Once again I want to restart my subscription just so I can cancel it again.
Ah, the American billionaire business model! “I’m going to buy this thing you love, and then
I’m going to noisily RUIN everything about it, yet simultaneously demand that you love me and give me more money for a shittier version of it”
Just imagine....
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Washington Post: now with less journalism, for more money
Raising subscription prices after very conspicuously slashing staff and coverage is an interesting marketing strategy. . .unless you are actually trying to kill your newspaper. bsky.app/profile/wash...
Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
A drawing showing six eels arranged to form the number 3.14. Two eels make up the 3, with their tails intertwined in the middle. A single eel makes up the 1, and two more eels make up the 4. A smaller eel wearing a blue and white stripped sweater and a blue and white toboggan is curling around and eating his tail like an ouroboros. He forms the decimal point. * Beneath these ears are their shadows, and underneath that is a caption reading "Eel Pi." Behind all of this is a watermark of a stylized eel. * This little eel's name is Waldeel, and you can find him lurking in most of @grenouille78.bsky.social's eel drawings. ** ** We used to sell these on shirts and bags and whatnot, and likely will again.
I forgot that today was #piday until rather late in the day. I remembered, and I've now posted my Eel Pie day thread.
But you had to go all day wondering if I'd forgotten about you. And so I'm giving you this little bonus, drawn by the oh-so-talented @grenouille78.bsky.social and colored by me!
It hath ben a longe tyme sithen Ich have rockid and rollid
It hath ben a longe tyme sithen Ich did the strolle
O Let me retourne, let me retourne
Retourne to the place whence Ich went from (Oh Lord!)
It hath ben a longe tyme, ben a longe tyme
Ben a longe lonelye lonelye lonelye O lonelye tyme
Cracks have appeared in a concrete dome holding 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and debris from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests.
NOT NOW, NUCLEAR TOMB!
