that's nice and how much of it do they need to counterbalance the 4 million barrels of oil they pump out every day?

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Plate with man eating pasta (Mangiamaccheroni), Laterza, last quarter of the 17th century, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza

It's very odd, I keep getting something in my eye when I see this piece of news. 😍

In a fit of #earlymodernist whimsy several years ago, I named my internet router menocchio. Ginzburg was one of the three historians (with NZD and EPT) who transformed my understanding of early modern history as an undergrad.

The hill I want to die on is that newspapers should make people read at least one thing about linguistics before paying them to write shit about language. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

one for @stronglang.bsky.social

This looks like a great CFP!

Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...

What a lovely thing.

There are pointlessly gendered products, and then there’s this 1737 book on Newtonianism for Ladies by Francesco Algarotti about which I learned today 👌🏼 old.maa.org/press/period...

Initial comparison of Readers' vs Critics' top 100 novels: jtauber.github.io/guardian-nov...

Looks like Guardian readers are a lot more into SF/fantasy/speculative fiction/whatever it's called than Guardian staff. (I'm not arguing with a list that has both Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi anyway.) www.theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…

Never give up . 😍

This week's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is about Murals to celebrate Art UK's murals digitisation project Not strictly speaking a mural, but The Bookseller of Stromness by Calum Morrison (b.1956) at the Stromness Library is a large scale painting capturing a unique piece of social history

Today's #OnlineArtExchange celebrates the @artukdotorg.bsky.social murals digitisation project Fox Valley Mural by Pete Mckee @petemckee.bsky.social #Art #Mural #BlueskyArt

everything is on fire but today you can take 2 minutes to vote for the hedgehog 🦔 and the bumblebee 🐝 to be on English money! www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

2/2 Boy pushing baby in a wheelbarrow. As captured in water-color by Isaac van Ostade of Haarlem.

A happy horse in the Liber ordinationum of the medieval City of London, next to some regulations for riding. The London Archives, COL/CS/01/005.

really he's just going to coffee with friends. excel mistakes everything for a date

As requested, here are day old ducklings jumping off a ledge onto a lake set to "Ride of The Valkyries" 🐣 🪶

For #caturday, a thread of Chinese cat night-lights, porcelain figures made since the Ming period, often for the export market. A candle was placed inside with the light shining through the cat's eyes, reportedly intended for children afraid of the dark & perhaps also to scare off rats

Still life with a cat, Sebastiano Lazzari, 1760. #Caturday

Agreed; but in this case, George Godfrey Cunningham - "His retiring habits and fastidious taste made him shrink from publicity, and, except in the instance referred to, he withheld his name from his productions", per ref 2 on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

They were probably a woman and the society got anxious about its reputation. [I am *half* joking.]

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Pleased to report the availability of 16 of the 18 surviving editions of Harris’s List of #CoventGardenLadies in the #HarrissListDigitalArchive (IIIF/full-text), with over 2,200 entries, an interactive map, network analysis, and a visualizations page: harrisslist.prisms.digital #c18th #HarrissList

What could possibly go wrong

🪰 Today's #OnlineArtExchange is bees and insects for #WorldBeeDay (which was yesterday) 🐝 Discover some insects in art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/topics/insects#OnlineArtExchange#WorldBeeDay🧑‍🎨 Jan van Kessel the elder (1626–1679) 📷 Ashmolean Museum

Enjoying the fun people are having with the data from the Guardian's List of Big Books.

The recent removal of FiveThirtyEight's archive is a reminder of how fleeting digital content can be. Our research found 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later. www.pewresearch.org/...

The Guardian published a list of top 100 novels as voted on by various authors and critics. I turned it into a network to foreground literary tastes and tastemakers. chriswarren.info/novels-worth...

Would love to go to this www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhib…

What I'm thinking is that this is a ridiculous waste of everyone's time and energy. People don't need to be able to edit social media posts. If you see a mistakes and it really makes you sad, delete the post and do it again. Or just learn to live with your mistakes.

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

Gonna be some partying in the NHS tonight.

Yes, but it's not even the best answer to that. SEWER TESTING.

What is an anagram of SEE WET STRING?

We're going to have a leadership contest between Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting? 😵‍💫

As I was saying... MED is the kind of thing that's a major resource in its own field but virtually unknown anywhere else, and its future will be dependent on the health of one retired academic. A lot of early 21st-century digital resources are or soon will be in that bracket.

You had one job...

Pondering a Venn diagram of followers who get *both* of the last two RPs.

caught bowled leg before wicket run out

come back spring

And since it's #caturday, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever

Lois Mailou Jones, The Musician, c. 1940

Things that seem completely wrong or is it just me: David Jason is older than Paul McCartney.

This is great news.