the ghost of cee

@horationelson.bsky.social

she/her, 30s, leftist, queer, spouse, historian, southerner, cross-stitcher, german speaker, bog body. icon by @mxmorel.

I find men support genAI more than women and I think it has a lot to do with genAI being yet another part of patriarchal capitalism promising "greatness" to mediocre men without having to do any work at all for it. And men eat that shit up like crazy.

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Archaeology news! Researchers in Sardis (Turkey) have found a 5th century BCE statue of a young man, which was later cut in two and reused face down as part of the pavement of a Roman road! It is suspected to belong to the Lydian culture and still has fragments of its original polychromy!

Archaeologists working on the statue found in the ancient city of Sardis, Manisa (Turkey) The statue is dated to the first half of the 5th century BCE. Lydian culture.
TRT NEWSThe statue how it was found, in two fragments, face down and part of the pavement of a Roman road.
TRT NEWS.Archaeologists working on removing the statue fragments from the Roman pavement.
TRT NEWS.The two main fragments of the statue, depicting a young man holding a fruit. Lydian culture. First half of the 5th century BCE.
TRT NEWS.

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"

I realized today that the only AI I interact with is against my will. I don't really understand any of this. Is ChatGPT a place on the internet? Don't tell me. I don't care and I don't want to know. I think the is the hill I'll never find that I'm gonna die on.

i've had covid one time and i hope to keep it that way, which is why i still wear a mask (and still get made fun of) in public indoor places. when i had covid in august 2022, i was already vaccinated, which is what probably kept me out of the hospital, but it was still close. 1/ >

If I had a nickel for everyone woman I went to high school with who married and then divorced a shitty man to later find happiness with a woman, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but weird that it's happened thrice

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

ANYWAY hey here's something more pleasant: a Baltimore architectural art piece. Available for purchase, $275 + shipping or free local delivery The backing is reclaimed matboard so the dimensions are a little janky; if it looks slightly crooked to you, that's why

Photo of a cut-paper art piece depicting a historic white cast-iron-front building in downtown Baltimore, at night. The interior windows of the building are many different colors of paper. The art piece is photographed in the artist's hand to show the scale of it (pretty small), against a plain grey wall.Photo of a cut-paper art piece depicting a historic white cast-iron-front building in downtown Baltimore, at night. The interior windows of the building are many different colors of paper. The art piece is photographed on a black fabric background.
dr. e. katherine@actualkatherine.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm working on a wycinanki art piece of the Wilkens-Robins Building rn, if any Baltimore architecture appreciators want to call dibs on it in advance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkens...