Drama in my neighborhood today: the crows have decided that they are fed up with the juvenile hawk’s bullshit and are mobbing it from one end of the valley to the other.
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To prevent fading, store in a cool, dry place. Avoid exposure to sunlight. Home of Crows Before Bros! (she/they) https://strangehours.com
Latest blog post is about how, despite my active lack of musical ability, I harnessed the power of a 1600s song book to make some crispy old video game sounding tunes: bzedan.com/blog/an-ear/
An ear • B.Zedan
I made some songs, even though I am: not good at music.
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Thousands of Helen clones were employed at the Trojan naval base, where they repaired submarines, monitored the coast, and launched ships
Garum posting hours. www.tastinghistory.com/episodes/pat...
The History of Fish Sauce - Garum and Beyond! — Tasting History
The history of different types of fermented fish sauce throughout the world and a sweet recipe using my homemade Roman garum
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Mx. Coreo Jones@coreopsismajor.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is horrible and yet I want these guys to get to taste the Forbidden Sauce. I do not, myself, wish to taste the forbidden sauce, because hard no to that many expected amines and aldehydes. Many formyl group compounds make me violently ill just _smelling_ them. defector.com/abandoned-fi...
What if Murderbot, but not ace and not cybernetic.
Slippy@damnslippy.slippy.me · 6d agoFeel like this would be a good Hot Frosty double feature. I'm seated.
Gotta remember to introduce “ad astra” into the email sign off repertoire, gotta give “godspeed” a break.
This is just to say I have turned into pigs the men that were on my island and which you were probably saving to row you to Ithaca Forgive me they were disgusting so male and so disrespectful.
Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · last wk.This is just to say I have eaten the sun god's cattle on the island which you were probably saving for Apollo Forgive me they were delicious and so charred and so warm
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Apparently the library is now… basing their acquisitions off of my ILL requests? Because, and I quote, “we trust your judgement.” 😳🥹 I have gotten a good grade in library patron. which is normal to want and possible to have.
Chronographia@chronographia.bsky.social · last yr.I know librarians try to refrain from being arbiters of taste—but the ego boost I received from our regular front desk lady where I recommended a book to her that was so good, the rest of the librarians read it in record time.
Hummingbird giving me a fly-by to judge me for not planting more red flowers (there are lots of red flowers, they just aren’t big this year) before zooming off to a house that has a jive-ass sugar water dispenser. Hummingbird sighting CONFIRMED. This is not a drill.
Chronographia@chronographia.bsky.social · last yr.The hummingbirds do not know where to escape our various midday pelting rainstorms, and are just out there vigorously shaking off the water and glaring at the sky. Hummingbird sighting CONFIRMED. This is not a drill.
Hashtag #themassivecontinuityofducks (Also just about all of your favorite painters were also printmakers.)
The Zen of True Art@thezenoftrueart.bsky.social · 2w agoMary Cassatt , "Feeding the Ducks," etching/aquatint, c.1895-96; Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. #art #arte #cassatt #marycassatt #femaleartist #womanartist #impressionist #etching #aquatint #printmaking #modernart #museum #artgallery
Sometimes you’ll be reading an Agatha Christie and she just casually drops in the word “degenerate.” And you gotta remember that *these* 1930s that adapt so well for costume dramas are also *those* 1930s.
Penelope taking apart her 9k piece LEGO Titanic set every night, telling her suitors she'll answer them once she finishes it.
Anyway, now is the second-best time to make yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal box to filter air effectively. Be safe, don’t hate on your lungs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E...
Corsi–Rosenthal Box - Wikipedia
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Pittsburgh Scanner@pgh-scanner.com · 3w agoDay two of the smoke event has kept EMS and the Fire Department busy with numerous calls for overexertion and smoke related respiratory issues. Forecasts suggest conditions should improve somewhat once the expected rain arrives tomorrow night. There is a city out there somewhere.
It’s always Picklesburgh in my HEART. And also my kitchen.
Chronographia@chronographia.bsky.social · 3w agoFurther adventure in doctors’ offices: Told the dental hygienist that I was going to celebrate Picklesburg by staying in and making my own pickles. Stopped short of recommending a recipe, but still dangerously On Brand.
Further adventure in doctors’ offices: Told the dental hygienist that I was going to celebrate Picklesburg by staying in and making my own pickles. Stopped short of recommending a recipe, but still dangerously On Brand.
At the point in this shitshow where baby raccoons are coming onto my front porch to drink the planter water. (It’s easier to run from than the bird bath.) Their anxious eyes ask me not to be a narc. (Don’t be a narc. Their habitat is being destroyed and so is yours tbh.)
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
Have we tried running a ttrpg campaign where the cleric is a Jane-Austen-esque clergyman? (Mr Collins, Edward Farrars, Edmund Bertram, etc.)
🚨HORSE ALERT AT THE FURRY CONVENTION🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL. HORSE CONFIRMED.
☀️Houndsaint☀️@houndsaint.bsky.social · last mo.
”We have algeacide and *shock*” Local hardware store not fucking around in the slightest.