Don't yall get tired of this? Don't yall enjoy the puzzle of figuring out what a story means?

A Receipt to Make Black Ink Take 5 Ounces of the best galls of Alleppo. Bruise them and put them to 2 quarts of rainwater. Let them stand 48 (?) hours being shaked often then add to it 2 ounces of gumarabick and 2 ounces of green copperas and so in proportion for a greater or less quantity

Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷@book-historia.bsky.social · 3h ago

Would anyone like to try making some iron gall ink? If so, this book on miniature painting has a recipe for you!

✨Its the Porcelain Pots of your dreams ✨ Avialable on www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · last wk.

Ooh fresh batch of crawler pots online! Some very nice pink ones and a clutch of smaller white ones www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available

Ida Lupino goes bowling in “Road House” (1948) #FilmNoir

the.... MONCHER! #SciArt #InvertebrateOfTheYear www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year

At last! It’s time for our invertebrate of the year competition as voted for by you. Today, the immortal jellyfish – come back on Wednesday to find out who else made the top 10

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Petra Korlević@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · yesterday

the banner changes as more goobies are revealed! with a little sneak peak of tomorrow's invert's BUTT #SciArt #InvertebrateOfTheYear www.theguardian.com/environment/...

the banner changes as more goobies are revealed! with a little sneak peak of tomorrow's invert's BUTT #SciArt #InvertebrateOfTheYear www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year

At last! It’s time for our invertebrate of the year competition as voted for by you. Today, the immortal jellyfish – come back on Wednesday to find out who else made the top 10

theguardian.com

Petra Korlević@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2d ago

bug is out of the rug, I got commissioned by @theguardian.com to #SciArt illustrate this year's goobies for #InvertebrateOfTheYear there are some really good ones stay tuned! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this is your reminder that people from other states and even other countries have traveled to Cleveland for our sewer and stormwater festival. so your excuse for not attending may be invalid. Clean Water Fest returns 9/19. cleanwaterfest.com

god can you imagine telling a Youth about elder statesman of the Senate Ted Kennedy and how popular he was by the time he died and THEN telling them about Chappaquidick

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew@amandasmith.bsky.social · 16h ago

Same post, different font

“In Salisbury, the Eastern Shore’s biggest city, about 10% of the 33,000 residents are Haitian, many of them employed under #TPS as farmworkers, caregivers and in the poultry plants that are the region’s economic backbone.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 3h ago

“Empty pews and fear of ICE grip Maryland’s Eastern Shore after #TPS ends for Haitians. As Temporary Protected Status expires, many Haitian immigrants in Salisbury retreat from daily life, fearing arrest and deportation." haitiantimes.com/2026/08/05/m...

Ahh, I see what the ad meant by the July date: On an August '04 scrape, there's a news piece about Volume 1 of the DVD releases rolling out prior to the Adult Swim broadcast.

She's so Number Nine… Two years after it first aired in Japan, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex received its Adult Swim broadcast on November 7th, 2004. Not sure if it got delayed from a July slot as the ad here seems to suggest it was due for. 📖: Electronic Gaming Monthly, August 2004

"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou

I'm tired of being angry about AI, so everyone say Happy Birthday to the Curiosity Rover 💗 14 years of Mars science!

Regulated my jacked up nervous system with this last night. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s Clinamen at Park Avenue Armory, extended through August 9th.

🚨🚨🚨“Virginia Department of Health investigating dengue virus in Northern Virginia, first-ever documented case of virus being acquired locally.”🚨🚨🚨

VDH investigating dengue virus in Northern Virginia, first-ever documented case of virus being acquired locally

The Virginia Department of Health announced they are investigating a confirmed case of dengue virus that occurred in a resident in Northern Virginia.

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Would anyone like to try making some iron gall ink? If so, this book on miniature painting has a recipe for you!

I would submit that there is no place in the DMV that has changed as much as College Park and the Route 1 corridor in the past 20 years, more than even DC or Arlington

Mark Clements@princegeorgesplaza.bsky.social · 18h ago

@justupthepike.bsky.social and i talk about this all the time, but the redevelopment of college park is one of maryland’s greatest present day success stories. walking home today, i really can’t believe how much it has unquestionably changed for the better

This is a cute picture of Thomas, but what I want you to look at is the orange comforter. See? It's very orange. We THINK it's from JCPenney's originally, but we don't know for sure. Most importantly, it's old and well-loved, and dying. I need to find a new one, same comforter, to replace. Help?

To be clear: If “TTRPGs” in your scholarship, teaching, & outreach start & end with D&D — or even GMed games — that’s a skill issue you need to reconsider. You’re gonna get left behind.

Not to toot my own horn but I wrote about a lot of zombie media that goes against the popular take that the genre is inherently right wing www.patreon.com/posts/158711...

Deconstructing the Dead: An essay about Zombies | Dorian Dawes

For a lot of millennials who experienced the cultural drought that was the aughts, the concept of the zombie feels like something that belon

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Philby Bear@philbybear.bsky.social · 5h ago

I have been shown maybe one of the most ignorant takes on the zombie genre I've ever seen and I'm... I'm not mad. I'm disappointed. Some people, I swear, their knowledge of zombie fiction begins and ends at The Walking Dead.

Seahorsification. I skimmed the paper, this is the real deal, the species most closely related to Australyichthys are indeed elongate ropelike pipefishes! 🧪🦑

Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 22h ago

Looks like a seahorse, but it’s not. It evolved the same body plan independently! journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...

Just as a heads up, passwords are protected in legal situations, like when police or customs wants to “just see” your phone, but biometrics are not.

I tell this to everyone who has a biometric ID on their phone

SeasonalPun@pixelfish.bsky.social · last wk.

Just as a heads up, passwords are protected in legal situations, like when police or customs wants to “just see” your phone, but biometrics are not.

My take on boots discourse is that we face a lemons problem with many consumer goods, given the acquisition of many storied brands by companies aggressively milking accumulated brand equity for higher profits, such that price and reputation for durability does not reliably predict higher roi.

The important thing to know about boots is that Dr. Martens was bought by a private equity firm a while back, the boots are now garbage in terms of construction quality, but Solovair set up to make similar boots on the old equipment in the old factory and their versions are much better quality.

Will Wilkinson@wlknsn.xyz · 6h ago

My take on boots discourse is that we face a lemons problem with many consumer goods, given the acquisition of many storied brands by companies aggressively milking accumulated brand equity for higher profits, such that price and reputation for durability does not reliably predict higher roi.

Corrado Giaquinto, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Contemplating the Sacred Heart of Jesus, c. 1765 (Private collection)

One of the penalties of a̶n̶ ̶e̶c̶o̶l̶o̶g̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ ̶e̶d̶u̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ any niche expertise is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. - with apologies to Aldo Leopold

there is nothing better than the movie critiques of experienced professionals that are intently focusing on things they would have done differently m.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Ej...

Limited Perspectives Collection on Letterman, 1982-84

YouTube video by Don Giller

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I'm asking bc the crest/lion/unicorn show up on the boards of Forget Me Not 1825. Those represent British crown, England & Scotland, but look at all of the swords poking out 😵🤯and what seems to be battle ships(?) but nothing living. Seems to be drawn by Pugin? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ #periodicals @rs4vp.org