"The practice of goldsmithing, like many of our Mandaean rituals, is fading into history. The craft that had once flowed through the veins of our family like a confluence of streams, canals and waterways is now about to dry up."

The Weight of Gold: A Mandaean Journey Through Exile

Cut off from the society that nourished their way of life, the followers of this ancient Gnostic religion are slowly disappearing

newlinesmag.com

As Twain wrote, the Mississippi River is well worth reading about. If you agree—and you should—check out @boyceupholt.bsky.social's book THE GREAT RIVER, which I had the pleasure of reviewing for H-environment. www.h-net.org/reviews/show... 🗃️ #EnvHist

"Why would people still want to work at the mine? Practically speaking, this was more a question of home, and people wanting to stay living in the community where their families had lived, worked, and died for generations." - @historiamagoria.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2020/10/29/t... #envhist

The Town (Once) Called Asbestos

Local and familial understandings of place and risk are unique and personal. For that to change requires time and, to some extent, mourning.

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To answer the obvious question yes we do cover the waterways filled with poop

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

What resource comes to mind when you think of the Persian Gulf? If you're the worst merchant in Ur, probably copper A sheltered sea, the Gulf has long served as a mini-Mediterranean permitting seaborne trade In 1750 BCE, that trade included Sumer and Dilmun, where Ea-Nasir got his subpar copper

The Gulf of Mexico, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, *and* the Persian Gulf We're tired. So tired. Follow @waterways-project.bsky.social

Waterways@waterways-project.bsky.social · last yr.

The Gulf of Mexico, the Panama Canal, *and* the Suez Canal. WTF is it with these people and waterways? Follow @waterways-project.bsky.social

“our multitude of #rivers is another powerful image that represents what #Wales is about – connection, and people, and politics, and the use of resources, and where history is remembered and legends are made." @raehowells.bsky.social @arachnepress.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers

Arachne Press says Afonydd (Rivers) was inspired by success of A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd

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Did you know there was a sixth Great Lake for three weeks? In 1998, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy passed a law naming Lake Champlain a Great Lake so Vermont could get money to study it under a Great Lakes program An uproar from Midwest senators quickly reversed the move, but Vermont kept the money

It may look cute, but did you know the North American river otter is kind of a dick? Native to Canada and the US, it's a trickster in many Indigenous cultures In an Ojibwe story, the otter tricked the bear into losing its tail by saying it could catch fish by sticking its tail into freezing water

It may look cute, but did you know the North American river otter is kind of a dick? Native to Canada and the US, it's a trickster in many Indigenous cultures In an Ojibwe story, the otter tricked the bear into losing its tail by saying it could catch fish by sticking its tail into freezing water

Is Lake Superior actually a lake, or a sea pretending? It's a lake in English, but it's “Ojibwa’s Great Sea” in Ojibwe, an apt name given it's the world's largest freshwater body Superior's sea-ness has made it useful for shipping, with lakers like the Edmund Fitzgerald hauling Minnesota iron ore

Unbelievably on brand for Faneuil Hall to be built on trash lmao

Waterways@waterways-project.bsky.social · last yr.

Boston almost certainly has more reclaimed land than any other city in North America Here's historian Nancy Seasholes explaining how the city used trash and large chunks of Beacon Hill to fill in Back Bay and other areas of the city

I was today years old when I learned this. HOLY CRAP.

Waterways@waterways-project.bsky.social · last yr.

Boston almost certainly has more reclaimed land than any other city in North America Here's historian Nancy Seasholes explaining how the city used trash and large chunks of Beacon Hill to fill in Back Bay and other areas of the city

Did you know the Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize modern Boston? Located on the Shawmut Peninsula, 1700s Boston was almost an island Land reclamation in the 1800s changed the city's coastline, filling in the location of the Boston Tea Party and creating the entire Back Bay neighborhood

This reminds me of how I just learned on a @fullstorybaltimore.tours tour that Water Street in Baltimore is named Water Street because it just to be the street that abutted the water before they filled it in and created the land that is now south of there.

Waterways@waterways-project.bsky.social · last yr.

Did you know the Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize modern Boston? Located on the Shawmut Peninsula, 1700s Boston was almost an island Land reclamation in the 1800s changed the city's coastline, filling in the location of the Boston Tea Party and creating the entire Back Bay neighborhood

We have updated our Waterwork Tier rankings to include Maori Agricultural Adaptations, the Dambuster Raid, and Boston's Land Reclamations What do you think?

Waterways@waterways-project.bsky.social · 2y ago

We have updated our Waterwork Tier rankings to include Andean terraces What do you think? Do you have a waterwork you'd recommend we check out?

Brb fixing the Bay area’s housing problem by filling in the bay and building houses there

Waterways@waterways-project.bsky.social · last yr.

Boston almost certainly has more reclaimed land than any other city in North America Here's historian Nancy Seasholes explaining how the city used trash and large chunks of Beacon Hill to fill in Back Bay and other areas of the city

Boston almost certainly has more reclaimed land than any other city in North America Here's historian Nancy Seasholes explaining how the city used trash and large chunks of Beacon Hill to fill in Back Bay and other areas of the city

Boston's History of Made Land | Inundation District | Clip | Local, USA

YouTube video by WORLD

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this looks like a map of the Forbidden Sector of Boston, uninhabitable to baseline humans since the Calamity. none know the horrors that may be breeding within its unknown depths, but we keep watch day and night from outposts on the harbor, ever vigilant against its fell threat

Waterways@waterways-project.bsky.social · last yr.

Did you know the Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize modern Boston? Located on the Shawmut Peninsula, 1700s Boston was almost an island Land reclamation in the 1800s changed the city's coastline, filling in the location of the Boston Tea Party and creating the entire Back Bay neighborhood

Did you know the Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize modern Boston? Located on the Shawmut Peninsula, 1700s Boston was almost an island Land reclamation in the 1800s changed the city's coastline, filling in the location of the Boston Tea Party and creating the entire Back Bay neighborhood

Did you know the Vikings made swords from swamp water? Groundwater from a spring carries dissolved iron; when this water reaches a bog, acidity and certain bacteria can turn it into iron oxide Sifting this out, one gets ore to make "bog iron", the main source of iron in Scandinavia until ~1300 CE

Did you know Star Wars' Death Star attack was inspired by exploding dams? During WWII, the RAF launched Operation Chastise, which used 'bouncing' bombs to destroy Germany's Möhne and Eder dams The raid was subject of the 1955 film 'The Dam Busters,' which inspired the climax of 1977's A New Hope

At least it didn't have a nuclear bomb on it this time

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

A $60 million US Navy fighter jet was lost at sea after it fell overboard from an aircraft carrier.

Did you know Star Wars' Death Star attack was inspired by exploding dams? During WWII, the RAF launched Operation Chastise, which used 'bouncing' bombs to destroy Germany's Möhne and Eder dams The raid was subject of the 1955 film 'The Dam Busters,' which inspired the climax of 1977's A New Hope

The Romans called the Mediterranean "Our Sea," but did the Etruscans get the last laugh? A major power in Italy before Rome, the Etruscans ('Tyrrhenians' in Greek) were conquered by their more famous neighbor But their name lives on in the arm of the Mediterranean west of Italy: the Tyrrhenian Sea

The Romans called the Mediterranean "Our Sea," but did the Etruscans get the last laugh? A major power in Italy before Rome, the Etruscans ('Tyrrhenians' in Greek) were conquered by their more famous neighbor But their name lives on in the arm of the Mediterranean west of Italy: the Tyrrhenian Sea

I explain why suspending the Indus Waters Treaty is a bad idea. Doing this, India doesn't stop Pakistan's share of water flowing into Pakistan, and it also helps the illegitimate government & unpopular army chief in Pakistan to use it for their survival. www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/why-...

Why suspending the Indus Waters Treaty is a bad idea

The attempt to weaponise the Treaty is not only impractical, it has dangerous long-term diplomatic and political consequences

nationalheraldindia.com

The Gulf of Mexico, the Panama Canal, *and* the Suez Canal. WTF is it with these people and waterways? Follow @waterways-project.bsky.social

Waterways@waterways-project.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Gulf of Mexico. The Panama Canal. Waterways are scary relevant these days. Somebody should look into that. Follow @waterways-project.bsky.social

Did you know 'Ratty' from the children's book Wind in the Willows isn't actually a rat? He's a water vole, a semi-aquatic rodent most closely related to lemmings and hamsters Water voles reside in small burrows on the banks of rivers, with Ratty's home believed to be on the River Pang in Berkshire