Free: gigantic nettle network root bulb, could be buried in enemies’ garden and ruin their life.
Olivia Smith
@oliviasmith.bsky.social
Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
Just been sent an ad for a job: copywriter at Karen Millen, which strikes me as very funny for some reason.
We saw this today. The bones of a deer caught perfectly in shape.
We saw this today. The bones of a deer caught perfectly in shape.
Ok, nice to glimpse everyone, I'm going back to my hermitage.
I walk past this house all the time, dusty and unattended, but very beautiful; set back from the road. It has recently been for sale. I love IM and also the quiet pace of these paintings and their magic energy all a secret for years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'A thrill' to find unknown Iris Murdoch artwork in Oxford attic
An expert on the author describes discovering 80 unknown works by the writer in Oxford.
bbc.co.uk
Hell I'll take any excuse to share my favorite Gerard Manley Hopkins poem and one I have had memorized for 30 years and say to myself in bed when I'm awake at night.
Jeremy Noel-Tod@jntod.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you've never seen Margaret Tait's film-poem based on a piece by Gerard Manley Hopkins, I suggest you take six minutes to treat yourself today. I wrote about why I think it works so well here.
Never realized the Life of the Mind was a thing I’d have to pursue discreetly in the corner, like a teenager sneaking a cig.
The best is probably what I left out, which was his love of P.G. Wodehouse and him telling me off the record how he did little walks in LA and London to visit places Wodehouse had mentioned/visited. He was very insistent that our conversations about Wodehouse were not to be mentioned.
Does anyone nearby have spare 'eclipse glasses' I could have?
Birdie Hatcher www.findagrave.com/memorial/765...
Birdie M Hatcher (1918-1996) - Find a Grave...
Find a Grave memorial for Birdie M Hatcher born 4 Apr 1918 and died 24 Jan 1996. Buried at Nashville National Cemetery, Madison, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States of America, North America
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Interesting new paper on cellular memory - link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Of what is “cellular memory” the name? Perspectives across the life sciences - Biology & Philosophy
In contemporary life sciences, memory is increasingly attributed well beyond its paradigmatic uses in psychology and cognitive science.Immunological and epigenetic memory are among the best-known unco...
link.springer.com
90s techno is the most effective giant spreadsheet music
Tired lady with gsoh seeks funny thing to watch on tv… any suggestions?
Thinking of doing a completist Shakespeare film watch (as in, all the plays). What are your favourites?
Thinking of doing a completist Shakespeare film watch (as in, all the plays). What are your favourites?
Just read a commenter explaining that British children's top three fears in the early eighties were: rabies, quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle. This is TRUE.
I’ve got my jumper on and I’m so happy. Oh ye gods of the weather please never let me have to be so hot again. I pledge myself to a life of devotion to my hot water bottle.
I am upstairs in the house, closing and then quickly opening each door in turn like an amdram Nosferatu. That has been proven to work, right?
This was in my bag and none of the usual suspects put it there.
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your paws for a hundred miles through the afterlife repenting. You only have to let the soft bear of your body love what it loves.
very sportsmanlike of England to wait until the entire nation of Croatia has arrived near the box before attempting to score
What’s the best way to get rid off quite a lot of expensive academic books?