Pewter seder plate. German, Berlin, dated 5542 (Common Era 1764). Made by Leib bar Yitzak for Mordecai ben Salman of Friedberg (in Hessen) and his wife Bella of Marburg, daughter of Abraham (?). Ref M.151-1935, V & A Museum.

Goody Two Shoes Spelling Game, Reading Made Easy. Manufactured by McLoughlin Bros, 1870s, USA. Ref MISC.79-1963, V & A Museum.

Designer Sportswear Photo by John Heywood, 1983 Ref B.59-2013, V & A Museum.

Flight Woodcut by E. Mervyn Taylor. Ref 1959/3/1, Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery.

a female Hairy-footed Flower Bee visiting Oxfordshire’s county flower - the Snake’s Head Fritillary 🐍

Dreamt I was explaining theology to Gd via a TSI test. I think I read Monsignor Quixote at an impressionable age.

Passover plate. Bernhardt van Zeets, late 17th-early 18th century? Ref 2010-50, The Jewish Museum, New York.

Let all who are hungry come and eat! I’ve just donated $18 to the World Food Programme- would anyone like to join me? donate.wfp.org/1243/donatio...

I have three separate nearly complete hats on the needles because I don’t want to bind off, too scary. What if I started another one instead

Mike Pence got totally owned here: Jewish plaintiffs won a ruling against Indiana's abortion ban, using the law he signed 11 years ago as governor to help evangelicals refuse to cater gay weddings and such. Now similar challenges could win in other red states. We tell the story at @forward.com.

This is my sixth year posting this

It’s funny to me that Christians have chosen Passover of all Jewish holidays as the holiday to hyperfixate on appropriating like I know JEWS who don’t even want to celebrate Passover

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1946 Haggadah by holocaust survivors in Munich, designed and illustrated by yosef dov sheinson, woodcuts by miklos adler. check the alt text.

My flatmate’s date threw up in her handbag, I do not think he is second date material

Wikipedia being a little too defensive about whether the Big Pineapple in Mew South Wales counts as a Big Thing.

"Come Out Of Your Shell!" Let the Underground crack your egg. Sticker by Charles Paine, 1927. Ref 1983/4/8511, London Transport Museum.

These new skaven miniatures are weird man

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devastated to learn this is about ice skating, because mechsploitation skateboarding sounds incredible. You wanna win? You gotta be gnarlier. You gotta have a darkslide.

homesick

Batman and…Robert, the Boy Wonder?! Hmm... #comics

I thought nautiluses had been extinct for millions of years (mixed them up with ammonites) but! They’re alive AND thriving across the Pacific, peace and love everyone

Ok so: 11y/o girl presents w/ dysuria, ^freq, suprapubic discomfort, blood in urine. Responds to trimethoprim. What tests am I supposed to order from the lab?? Does MCS cover it?

Please cyberbully me into doing my Paeds assessment because it’s really booooring

from Fraser Nelson:

Photograph by Al Vandenberg, 'High Street Kensington' from the series On a Good Day. London, 1976, printed 2010. Ref E.432-2010, V & A Museum.

"Football in the land of Uncle Sam is a serious business, as one can readily imagine after glancing at the above picture, which shows an actual American football player in all his armour." New Zealand Graphic, December 23rd 1905.

I’m suing my tattoo artist, I asked for a dolphin not a prophecy

Advertisement for Spiritine. Lithograph by John Hassall, ca. 1895-1918. Ref E.816-1919, V & A Museum.

La Queue Pour La Viande De Rats/The Queue For Rat Meat Amedee Charles Henri de Noé, France, 1870. During the Siege of Paris, rat-hunting was common. After the Seine ran out of fish, the Paris Journal offered hints on how to 'fish for sewer rats with a hook & line.’ Ref E.583-1962, V & A Museum.

Well, you see, in 1930s Ukraine…

Dawg

Narrator - it was not great news

Guarding

mystic rune spotted today

Taanit 9b.9

Left: a joint mouse, a very painful loose piece of cartilage common in osteoarthritis. Right: JointMouse, a robot with a blunt designed by @understatesmen.bsky.social

touch tank

Saw a spoonbill AND a white-faced heron today!

Ancient wisdom of the Talmud: don’t hold it

114 year old article from the Nelson Evening Mail, confident about the potential of water, wind, and tide power vs. coal and oil. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/N...

I have a new masochistic YouTube hobby and it’s watching men react to things targeted at women. This guy is SO CONFUSED about why a woman would smile at a guy who has something she needs and have sex with him and later look disgusted and rinse her mouth out.

Therese O'Connell Poster Collection, Victoria University

i've done the math and based on overwhelming tendencies in demographics who name themselves after US states it's highly likely indiana jones is a trans woman

While researching the history of bringing bikes on buses, I just discovered something: in the mid 20th century, buses in Australia and New Zealand had hooks on the front or back for mothers to hang prams off! Bus pram hooks were apparently a unique NZ+Aus phenomenon, found nowhere else in the world.

Advert for A Frog He Would a Wooing Go, or, Harlequin Sleeping Beauty and the Wicked Demons of the Mystic Pool at Marylebone Theatre, London, 1875. Ref S.598-1996, V & A Museum.

Toy scissor-sharpening man. Made in West Germany. Ref F528.2002, Museum of Transport and Technology.

Tram 230. Raymond Hogan, August 1938. Ref ART-2018-118.2, MOTAT.

Invaders Fountain Video Games, 1980. Fountain was the AUSNZ name. The Fountain game console was sold in other countries as the Videomaster, Voltmace, Acetronic, Rowtron, Radofin, Hanimex, or Grandstand. Ref 2015.49.3, MOTAT.