Katharine Tree
@treesandwords.bsky.social
Hobgoblin, garden seer, first year law. She who must be obeyed/Herself.
Wednesday. Watered the veg patch, shampooed the sofas, made several medical phone calls. Adulting like a boss.
This is a great article. The bit about botnet portscanning is so true. My freshman year of college, the average time to infection on the university's ethernet was 7 seconds. You had to get antivirus on disk from someone else before you connected.
@jdpink.bsky.social · 4h ago
15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.
I'm not doing this game, just noting that my answer to #1 is probably Goodnight Moon, which I don't think is what is being asked.
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
#MosaicMonday 🏺 Giant fishes could be a tricky catch for 3-4 C #Roman period boatmen in this lively scene from Utica, Tunisia. British missionary Nathan Davis excavated on behalf of British Museum at Carthage + Utica, also retrieving Greek, Latin + Phoenician finds that arrived at Museum 1857-1860.
Let yourself float on the gentle tides of the Mediterranean (even if only in your imagination in this moment). Feel the calm waters and the little fish brush past your fingertips. Wave to the passing squid with the long and short tentacles. #MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky🏺
In dedicatione ecclesiae: I(ngressus Ihs perambulabat Hiericho. Et ecce vir nomine Zacheus) St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 367; Evangelistary; second quarter of the 9th century; Reichenau; p.199 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
Full Bear Mode on my summer's first visit to the blackberry patch.
A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
Spending my Sunday Restday goggling at my favorite Instagrammer's feed. She has superb taste. I'm especially fascinated by the food she cooks. She seems to have a hard line at two kinds of dinners: roast chickens and pasta/and/or/beans with lots of veg added, topped with nuts. She makes salads ...
I post for the people who grew up wailing “ahhhh! ahhhh!” in perfect time with the lady slumped backward over a gravestone in the Masterpiece: Mystery! opening credits and still do it every single time.
Edward Gorey's Masterpiece Theater Animation
Alt: Edward Gorey's Masterpiece Theater Animation, first shot is the fancy 1920s people dancing and then we quick cut to the lady with the amazing batwing hat and the magic eye fan holding a shushing finger to her lips.
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We went to the zoo today. Rather than try to hit it at opening, we waited for the teenager to wake up & for everyone to be ready. Left the house just before noon; arrived to a zoo empty of small screaming children, who'd all gone home for their naps. Win.
QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
Dan Liimatta@danliimatta.bsky.social · 5d agoQRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
For #FindsFriday a richly decorated elk antler, interpreted as a shield, dated to the late 10th/ early 11th C. Supposedly from Louis the Pious's memorial chapel in Metz, but dating from long after his death in 840. Picture mine, from Het jaar 1000 (Leiden) now in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Do you love vintage cider adverts as much as we do? These Whiteway's advertising cards from the late 1920s-30s are some of our favourites stored in the museum's archive.
We got it with our new Windows 95 computer. Also Microsoft Musical Instruments. It is hard to explain how groundbreaking they were.
Jess Nevins@jessnevins.bsky.social · 6d agoWhoa, that brings me back with a rush. First time I sat down in front of Encarta and began playing with it...I may be a bit too dubious about singularities on a species-, civilizational-, or cultural-scale, but playing with Encarta for the first time was definitely a personal singularity moment.
Opus sectile of tigress attacking a bull, 331 CE. Basilica of Junius Annius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill, Rome. For #worldtigerday
Wednesday. Doing a moving-big-furniture/washing-carpet project this morning. yaaaaaay?
The seed dahlias are blooming thick and fast now, and a lot of them are pretty good.