Lyrics to "Pity the Downtrodden Landlord". From the People's Song Book, 1948, by Waldemar Hille.

'Now your child can be vaccinated against MEASLES' Poster by Eileen Evans for the Health Department of the United Kingdom, 1968. Ref E.461-1995, V & A Museum.

On performing Shakespeare for working-class Jews in the 1860s (from Joel Berkowitz’s ‘Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage’):

Hey so my apostrophe/speech mark key has completely stopped working on my Acer laptop. Any advice?

"Waiting for Relief Cheques, Calipatria, California, February 1937" Photo by Dorothea Lange. Ref PH.3-1977, V & A Museum.

"Gas Station" Photo by Dorothea Lange. Kern County, California. January 1938. Ref CIRC.121-1973, V & A Museum.

"Drought refugee families from Oklahoma on road to Roswell, New Mexico, to chop cotton." Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1937. Ref CIRC.77-1973, V & A Museum.

Jacob is having a bad day

Look I can take a lot in a terrible Kindle dystopian romance novel but I can't take the heroine having to choose between Colin, Gregory, and Hal. Those are accountant names. Uncle names. I-forgot-it-was-your-birthday-here's-ten-bucks names.

"The country of the Iguanodon". Watercolour by John Martin, 1837. This also appears as the frontispiece to Gideon Mantell’s 'The Wonders of Geology', published 1838. Ref 1992-0035-1784, Te Papa.

A five-cent stamp depicting soft coral, and a three-cent stamp showing horny coral. Tokelau, 1973. Designed by Eileen Mayo. The New Zealand Post Museum Collection, Te Papa.

Shalom, friends! #TuBishvat, the birthday of the trees in Judaism, is here! Judaism is deeply obsessed with trees…Almost as obsessed as JRR #Tolkien. You know what this means! Meet me under the branches of Bilbo’s Party Tree - time for A Tolkien Tu Bishvat Tree Deep Dive! 🌳 youtu.be/W6YcYEtrxEc

Bluhhh my 8am lectures are in the hospital, that’s a 20 minute walk from my house. Has anyone ever suffered as I suffer.

"Hurriedly disguised himself as a dental nurse." January 1937 illustration from "The Thirteenth Clue- Or The Story Of The Signal Cabin Mystery", a detective serial appearing in the New Zealand Railways Magazine.

Fell down a youtube rabbit hole and found ‘sigma male affirmation asmr’, which is where a woman whispers for five hours that you’re an out-of-the-box thinker she is desperately attracted to. However, there are other schools of thought.

'Still life study of a pickled fish and snake with a human skull.' Watercolour by by Bertram Potter (brother of Beatrix Potter), April 1889. Both Potters dissected & sometimes killed animals to study their anatomy. Possibly Bertram pickled the snake & fish himself. Ref AR.4:406-2006, V & A Museum.

'An Idea by the Cubic Metre Skeleton Range' Minale Tattersfield, 1980s. Ref E.178-2011, V & A Museum.

'The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner' 1869 engraving by Frederick Hollyer, based on a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer. Ref E.165-1970, V & A Museum.

Portrait of 'Mere', circa 1900. Photographed by William Henry Thomas Partington, probably at Whanganui. Ref 1/1-003085-G, National Library of New Zealand.

Te Mahia Wi Parata (centre, with feathers in her hair) and female relatives, including Mrs Eve Parata (with scarf), sitting on the porch of Whakarongotai Marae. Photo taken circa 1908 by Harold Stevens Hislop. Ref PA1-o-229-36-4, National Library of New Zealand.

Report: Roast Capon, Flagon of Sack Still Popular Among Rotund Drunks Spain Probably Up to Some Papist Bullshit Again Area Boy Enjoying Playing Women on Stage A Bit Too Much Priest Hole Now Mostly Used for Hiding Pornographic Italian Woodcuts

Edward Carpenter's description of 'the extreme type' of lesbian. I've definitely dated this woman. From "The Intermediate Sex", 1912.

Memento mori pendant. Germany, ca. 1660. The coffin opens to disclose an enamelled skeleton, the initials I.C.S. above its head and the inscription 'HIE. LIEG. ICH. VND. WARTH. AVF. DIH' (Here I lie and wait for you). Ref M.74-1975, V & A Museum.

Ivory chaplet, probably French, ca. 1530. The beads are carved with figures of the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist, the joined heads of a man, woman and Death, and images of the Pope, kings and figures in aristocratic dress. Ref 281-1867, V & A Museum.

Badge, probably British, ca. 1960-1980. Ref E.608-2002, V & A Museum.

"Edward Lear Aged 73 and a Half and His Cat Foss, Aged 16" Drawing by Edward Lear, 1885. No photographs survive of Foss, as he jumped out of Lear's arms on the only occasion when one was to be taken.

"Is it too fanciful to suppose that the centrosome [...] is the analogue of the radiating force in human courtship which so strangely sifts out and remoulds the elements of the lover's personality?" The Drama of Love and Death Edward Carpenter, 1912

Let's remember Judith Collins for that time Danyl performed the Voight-Kampff test on her to prove it was actually her running her Twitter account.

Praying Judith was one of the all time greats on the list of "pathetically desperate moves in NZ politics", and for this I thank her I suppose

What I love about this deleted tweet is how unforced the error is, how opposing FGM is such a universal slam dunk and Crusher completely fucked it into the sun.

replying “my husband is samoan, so talofa” over and over. all time classic line

But as the Minister of Finance told us, we shouldn't take unemployment personally. So is it working for the Crown accounts? Er no - the OBEGAL deficit forecast for 25/26 has increased at every update. Turns out that totally unfunded tax cuts can be quite expensive!

the lion devouring the sun [ #art #alchemy #creatureart ]

wish booktube was around in the 19th century. BookWaxCylinder or whatever, i would be so hyped for the latest installment of Walt Whitman drama

I read that "Why Gen Z doesn't like Harry Potter" article and trying to imagine someone writing 70 years ago a "Reasons Gen X are ignoring Biggles" article for the Times

obsolete

Actually, this is famously a thing you can do with eggs

Portrait of Ruta Raniera. Foy Brothers, Thames, 1872. Ref PA3-0073, National Library of New Zealand.

Josiah Wedgwood's trial tray for jasperware, 1773. Each trial is carefully numbered to correspond with an entry in Josiah’s experiment books, which were written in code because of the risk of industrial espionage. Ref WE.4241-2014, V & A Museum.

"SHE WON'T TALK! Will you?" American poster circa 1943, urging its audience not to accidentally give Nazis information. Ref E.1409-2004, V & A Museum.

"Closed for the Duration - Loose Talk Can Cost Lives" Howard Scott for the British and American Ambulance Corps, 1942. Ref E.597-2004, V & A Museum.

RNZ: we are now regularly amplifying Peters using terms like “globalists” while refusing to critique him and promoting him as a strongman figure RNZ: NZF is the choice for disenfranchised voters We all see whats happening here, right?

Darned my sock very cutely but on the wrong side, truly nobody has ever suffered as I suffer

earthside assistance

I got given some of my aunt’s yarn stash to use up and I would like everyone to appreciate what this colour is called

me: wrapped, snug as a bug in a rug, effortlessly sliding down the upper tube you: unwrapped, mutant, dead in the lower tube

A 1942 poster issued by the British and American Ambulance Corps, designed by Otto Soglow. It reminds the viewer not to give Nazis useful information. Ref E.600-2004, V & A Museum.

Portrait of young Māori girl taken ca 1870s, American Photographic Company of Auckland. Ref PA2-0040, National Library of New Zealand.

Group of Māori children in front of a pātaka, Korohe Marae. Photo by Leo White, 1938. Ref PAColl-10010-034 National Library of New Zealand.

giraffe mohel, apprehensive at his first bris for a human baby