Sounds delightful. As for a collective noun for Oxford dons. Hmmm. Thinking back to my time in academia, and assuming most academics follow along similar lines, ...
A murmur of dons when in an academic setting?
A gossip of dons when in a social setting?
A pedantry of dons when at a conference?
photo of a gas line utility cap surrounded by sidewalk cracks
sidewalk chalk drawing of a tiny turtle looking up at a large turtle whose shell is a gas utility cover set in the concrete
Visiting with Grandma
(repost from March 2024)
I'll be in Staunton, Va., next Saturday (March 21) for a daytime songwriting workshop and an evening concert at the Queen City Music Studios. You can sign up for the workshop and concert, or the concert alone. Please join me!
Cutest lunch date ever! Maybe Iโm a romantic, but I think itโs gonna work out between these crazy kids! #birds
Iโm afraid that horse has sailed.
Pepper pokes her head out of the water to catch snowflakes! โ๏ธ
๐น: Graphics Delaney
At this point it's barely even a boycott, I've just stopped thinking of Target as a place to buy the things I used to buy at Target.
Ethical non monogamy is emotionally exhausting because its 25% scheduling, 50% everyone dealing with feelings 20% bullshit and 5% sexytimes . Give or take.
But the ethical part requires that 75%. Else you're just lying to yourself and others and cheating on all sorts of relationships
This picture freaks me out for another reason: US archaeology has OSHA requirements. These chuckleheads look like theyโre digging down with zero consideration for safe egress or cave-in protections. ๐ฌ ๐ท๐ปโโ๏ธ๐บ
A warm yellow/white Hoosier pie in a square glass baking tray; cinnamon decorating the top creates the ฯ symbol
Happy #PieDay!
Dont forget to use a square tin - pie are NOT round.
ฯr2
Screenshot from 1960s Japanese movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. A serious-looking man in a suit is explaining his latest idea. Subtitle reads 'It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.'
The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.
Census sheet. First line is Hannah Craige, age 73, "Gentlewoman" born in England, worth a healthy 4000 dollars, and labeled "Insane" Living next to her is John Turner (54), his wife Eliza (40), their daughter Francis (18) and someone named John Coursey (45). John Turner was born in Mass and is a Seaman. Eliza was born in St. Domingo, West Indies. Their daughter, Francis, is a washerwoman and was born in Pennsylvania. John and his family are also Black. Free Blacks living in Philadelphia, John was born in Mass around 1806. Was he born free, or did he gain his freedom? You wonder if he met his wife while sailing to the West Indies or had she moved to the US? So many questions. And these were not at all my John and Eliza Turner, though I had run into Eliza's death info and wondered why she was 10 years older than what I thought. But she and my eliza died 10 days apart and are both buried in Fernwood cemetery. It's amazing the glimpses of stories you run across in this kind of research.
Looking up John Turner and wife Eliza in Philly, and found a second one. A lot going on here in the 1860 census.
Check out the Alt Text for more info.
#Genealogy #BlackHistory #PhiladelphiaHistory
lmao
Iโm a BoomerX (1963) with a GenZ kid. Iโve tried to expose him to the classics. He can recognize Louis Armstrong& Frank Sinatra in one line, and can differentiate disco from New Wave. He knows Monty Python, The Blues Brothers, and Elvis. Iโm trying.
Ballet husband here. I can testify. Dancers are supreme athletes. Have to be incredibly strong to make it look so easy.
The Three-Headed Lich
my latest private commission for a client/friend whom i've been so happy to return to working for, this piece was a fucking delight to paint
Yeah you should probably not be using meta for anything if you can avoid it.
It requires that I download languages to my device. Thatโs not a good option.
The terrible Bluesky translation ไปๆฅใฏ้ชไธญใใใฝใใใฃใฆใใใกใใใฎใฟใพใใใใใฎใใงใใใ Today I went to Sanno Sanpo and I only had a guy. It was fun.
Please put back translate to how it used to be, inline translate is so bad.
This isn't even a little correct.
My latest for @hyperallergic.com is on Egyptian Blueโ& a new study by Mishael Quraishi which prices out the Roman cost & manual labor needed to paint the โBlue Roomโ at Pompeii. Shout outs & thx: @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social , @diffendale.bsky.social , @chapps.bsky.social, @valentinadl.bsky.social!
Oof. I knew the global food supply was dependent, but the below really puts things into context.
"[A]round half the worldโs population stays alive because of these industrially-produced fertilizers."
100% this
You need people willing to openly advocate for positive things, otherwise voters are literally never persuaded because no one has made the argument to them
bsky.app/profile/biot...
lovely OCR error in British Newspaper Archive:
"was a gunner on a merchant weasel during the last war"
If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats
Photographs of a dinosaur-looking bird, the shoebill, and popstar Sabrina Carpenter, overlaid with a height comparison showing both are 152 cm, with visual graphics saying the magazine's name SSWAGGER and some Chinese characters
Photographs of a shoebill and popstar Sabrina Carpenter overlaid with a height comparison showing that, yes indeed, both are just 152 cm
I can't even begin to describe this photograph. I think that might be Taylor Swift on a night out with Sabrina Carpenter. But Sabrina is photoshopped to have a shoebill face and talons, with wing-tips coming out her coat but still Sabrina's hair
Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine
Any chance anyone has a PDF of Heinz Heinen, "Amtsรคrztliche Untersuchung eines toten Sklaven. รberlegungen zu P. Oxy. III 475", in A. Marcone (ed.), Medicina e societร nel mondo antico. Atti del convegno di Udine (4-5 ottobre 2005), Studi Udinesi sul Mondo Antico 4 (2006), 194-202?
Oil portrait of a young man dressed in high neckcloth, black coat and high-collared white waistcoat. He is turned to the viewer's left while his body faces 3/4 right. He has short hair, prominent but pointed nose, and pink cheeks. He has a semi-serious look on his face staring off to the viewer's left.
Peregrine Williamson's medal from the Mechanic's Institute for "an Improved Gold Pen" which I never knew he had invented. "Awarded to P. Williamson for an Improved Gold Pen September, 1838" This was towards the end of his life, a period I knew almost nothing about.
Love this! I published an article about a forgotten inventor and manufacturer in Baltimore, c1805-1820s named Peregrine Williamson. One of his descendants wrote to me and share a photo of his original oil portrait and all kinds of non-public info. It was a researcher's dream come true.
Just seen Hegseth described as a DUI hire and now Iโm hooting
