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Tristan F.

@tristanaef.bsky.social

Writer, history enthusiast. Queer 19th-century naval history, lit, and art. Probably thinking about medieval Arthurian lit or trees at any given moment.🌿he/they🌲My highlights: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6dyms7eafdp4wvoybtxx5nbo/feed/aaacmdeeay5mc

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · last yr.

Ok! Clips that will attach the seed packs to the posters have been added. Next batch of seeds arrives tomorrow, so I can make seed packs of these 3 species (milkweed is already here, stratified in my fridge). Should be able to get them out into the neighborhood this weekend??

a 3 by 3 grid of posters, each with 9 clips of various colors glued to the posters. All of them say "Plant Native Plants, learn more with a QR code, and Take one and Plant" The top has bee balm, the middle has milkweed with a monarch and monarch caterpillar and one has a wasp on echinacea
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · last yr.

Next phase of the pollinator-positive street art collab with @megstampede.bsky.social is almost ready. Just picked these up at Fireball! I’ll be adding clips to posters tonight for adhering seeds below the words “take one and plant”

Three posters on a table filmed from above. all three of them say plant native plants learn more take one and plant with a QR code under learn more. The left most poster has Bee balm. The middle one has milkweed and monarch butterflies both in the adult stage and caterpillar stage and right most one has purple cone flower with a local native wasp with a blueish yellow butt
Tristan F.@tristanaef.bsky.social · last yr.

Shameful interview about gender-affirming trans healthcare on today's @npr.org Here & Now. The UK is an example of how NOT to treat trans youth. No mention of the recent report from several European countries that SUPPORTS trans healthcare for minors and rebukes the Cass Review. (1/) #trans

ultima thule@thethousandthpart.com · 2y ago

Visited Thomas Abernethy yesterday after a long time. His gravestone had survived another winter - no mean feat in Peterhead AND facing the sea - but this is Abernethy, whose widow would have needed a massive wall of granite to reflect his service record in the Arctic and the Antarctic alone.

A general view of some of the gravestones, a chapel and remains of a wall at Old St. Peter's Kirk, Peterhead, on the first sunny day following weeks and weeks of rain, wind and raw cold. Close-up photo of a gravestone of Thomas Abernethy, a seaman, polar explorer and one of many Franklin Expedition searchers. He was a local boy who came from nearby Longside, and spent most of his life when he wasn't at sea, in Peterhead (apart from a spell in Chatham). Image of transcribed words from Abernethy's monument: "Erected by Rebecca Young in memory of her deceased husband Thomas Abernethy, second officer of the ship Victory, and who shared in the perils and privations of the expeditions to the Arctic seas commanded by Sir E. Parry and Sir John Ross in the years 1823, 1829, 1833. Born 1803, died 1860. And the above Rebecca Young."
Becky Wallower@bwallower.bsky.social · 2y ago

#StainedGlassSunday 1898 memorial window to Edward Oates, Lord of the Manor of Over Hall, in Gestingthorpe. Erected by his children incl Capt Laurence Oates, the man on Scott's Antarctic expedition in 1912 who went into the blizzard to die in hope of saving his fellow explorers.

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Dr Cathryn Pearce@cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 2y ago

I should also say that this museum is completely volunteer-led. They are redoing their displays, and clearing out objects that are not linked to Newhaven, so there's room to develop a narrative of Newhaven's long history. The Brazen wreck is an important part of their identity. #NavalHistory

Dr Cathryn Pearce@cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 2y ago

Photographed some artefacts from wreck of HMS Brazen in 1800. I tried to see if the spoon had been engraved, and who the maker was. It looks like there's a W and an N visible on the back of the stem. Who might be able to help? Recommendations gratefully received! @danpascoe79.bsky.social

Photo of a (silver?) spoon with the bowl someone corroded. It sits next to a ruler to show its size. The stem is around 15cm long.
The New Polar Times@newpolartimes.com · 2y ago

Are you an independent researcher, writer, artist, or creator? Are you fascinated by the history of polar exploration and looking to explore this in your work? The New Polar Times needs you!

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Alison@finger-post.blog · 2y ago

In 1960, Library and Archives Canada took possession of a can of Mystery Meat recovered from Beechey Island in Nunavut, and put it on display. (They thought it was a #FranklinExpedition artefact, but it's likely to have been from the Search. Image below is of a replica).

A replica Goldner's Patent food can, similar to the ones used by the Franklin Expedition. This replica was used by Peter Carney in his talks about the victualling of the expedition and the types of food the crew would have eaten. From http://erebusandterrorfiles.blogspot.com/2019/04/my-talk-at-mystic-seaport.html
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2y ago

Business in Hispanic neighborhoods is already down: restaurants, grocery stores, everything. Immigrant customers and employees are afraid to leave their houses. If they can't leave, we can. Show up for your immigrant neighbors and their businesses, everywhere.

Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social · 2y ago

As many of us seem to be undergoing our own little Winterreise... 'Krähe, wunderliches Tier, Willst mich nicht verlassen? Meinst wohl bald als Beute hier Meinen Leib zu fassen?' ~ Wilhelm Müller Crow. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, 85 × 132 mm, 2022. 1/2

Painting in gradated black ink washes of a crow on a bare wintry branch, photographed with a penny and the traditional Chinese brush used to paint the piece for scale. The penny could obscure about half of the crow.
Alison@finger-post.blog · 2y ago

Robert Anstruther Goodsir died OTD in 1895, aged 71. Much of his life is opaque. But what we /do/ have shows a brave, brilliant, compassionate man, who often put himself at great risk to help others. He's also the best writer by far of all the people who searched for the #FranklinExpedition.

Image shows a very goth gravestone. There is a bronze bas relief of sail ships in an icy landscape near the top. The inscription reads: Robert Anstruther Goodsir M.D. Arctic explorer and traveller who in 1849 sailed in the ship "Advice" in search of the Franklin Expedition and again in 1850 as surgeon accompanied the expedition fitted out for the same purpose by Lady Franklin. Born 1823 Died 1895 The grave is located in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.
Dean (N7DPW) Walton@deywalt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Flew over Greenland a few days ago. That was a cool experience. I had the only open shade on the plane. Look what they all missed out on! I am guessing the mountains are flat-topped from glacial/icepack action.

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Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social · 2y ago

I couldn't share this clip when I first posted this thread, because Bsky didn't support video then, but here's the pop-up being opened. The Nutcracker, Walker Books, 2015. The book is still available (dead name, boo). #ArtAdventCalendar #NHPNutcracker

Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social · 3y ago

Fritz eyed the nutcracker enviously. "That's a boy's toy," he said -- & he snatched it & threw it to the ground. There was a sickening CRACK. Clara cradled the broken nutcracker, angry tears in her eyes. "Please, Dr Drosselmeyer -- can you fix him?" 1/ #ArtAdventCalendar #NHPNutcracker

1st spread of The Nutcracker, illustrated by me, published by Walker Books, 2015. Ink, watercolour, and gouache on Arches hot pressed paper. Silhouette illustration with elements in colour. A scene in an elegant drawing room set in 1818, festively decorated for Christmas. Part of a Christmas tree can be glimpsed through a door. In front of a fireplace hung with stockings, a young boy stands sulking with his hands behind his back. His kneeling sister cries as she looks at a broken nutcracker, shaped like a soldier, lying on the rug before her. The children's parents and godfather stand around them, concerned.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks@rossbrooks.co.uk · 2y ago

Happy Christmas! 🎄 'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship', Charles Darwin, 25 Dec 1831 🍾 thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social #histsci #histbio 🗃️

Christmas on HMS Beagle

Charles Darwin spent Christmas day of 1831 in Devonport awaiting favourable weather for the departure of HMS Beagle. Darwin wrote in his diary for the voyage: Christmas day is one of great importan…

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Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Merry Christmas! 🎄 Christmas card design I did for Papyrus back around 07/08? Ink and gouache. It echoes my illustrations for Clement C. Moore's The Night Before Christmas, published by Walker Books just a few years prior in 2005 (see following post).

Silhouette illustration in black ink with touches of red and green of Father Christmas on his sleigh being drawn by his eight-reindeer team across the sky over the rooftops.