I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

These reliably turn color in the fall in Southern California, no matter the weather, and they are everywhere.

Perfect little period piece.

Marking so I don’t forget to read this

The House of Worth was renowned for its fancy dress commissions, catering to those spectacular costumed c19th costumed parties. This is the 1770s for a turn of the century audience, a c1900 gown imitating an c18th lady @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Today is gloriously sunny with an expected high of 75°F (24C), and I am so happy to have all my windows open. So are the cats, because it means they have unrestricted access to the back porch.

I feel like this painting should have a Wikidata item already, but I couldn’t find it, so I made one here: www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1359...

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First time we’ve ever seen a woodpecker on the hummingbird feeder.

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PLEASE REPOST! When the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter reaches 1075 Backers, we will add the wonderful Wil Wheaton to our list of Year 12 Solicited Essayists! LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/EkZtcee

This is such good news. laist.com/news/housing...

I’m not big on movie merch, but I do have a gen-u-wine Blue Blaze Irregulars patch somewhere in my stash.

"Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders." (Words by Mary Schmich)

Hours of fun spent realigning my foolishly London-centric assumptions about medieval European trading networks. Shetland, for example, was far from peripheral: a non-Mercator map-projection helps. I've rebuilt the journey-timed, square-rigged sailing algorithm for docuracy.github.io/Historical_S...

A home with a proper number of bookshelves!

Have you heard about the new #murderbot short story coming from Reactor this week? Today, we're thrilled to share two stunning full illustrations by Jaime Jones related to the upcoming novelette "Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com 💫

Some books, you need to write because you crave them. They grew wild in the forest of your heart, many-limbed and crooked--and the worst thing that you can do to them is mill them for lumber. Some books are meant to grow wild. The seeds of all of your other stories come from them.

Attention Science Fiction book collectors: a unique opportunity in Westport & Elizabethtown, NY. #booksky www.facebook.com/kathryn.cram...

anyone who got on social media after 2014 or so is under the mistaken impression that the primary goal of social media is for it to Accomplish Something while those of us who have been on since the start know the true purpose of social media is to give us a place to Post so we don't go (more) insane

@maggiestiefvater.bsky.social 's The Listeners is *so* good.

@pingucat.bsky.social Uranium glass, glows in the dark, thought it was your sort of thing.

Can you help my dear friend Coco? Every little bit helps!

I have some degree of confidence that this #lavender is going to make it. 🪴

Pasadena Playhouse buys back its historic theatre lost to bankruptcy in 1970. www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/centennial/

If you see this, post something monchromatic.

The Drums of Óbidos I had entered a time machine, not to medieval Portugal, but to my own youth in 20th century California. When the drums played in Óbidos, I could close my eyes and picture the parade at my Renaissance Faire

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When I was young, fights were always “behind Retail” meaning the Retail Clerks International hall next to our junior high school, none of this Home Depot stuff. Both Retail and the school are now gone, along with the concept of junior high schools, around here anyway.

Long but lovely video of @bkhistorical.bsky.social 1461 total immersion event at the Weald and Downland Museum. #medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...

Okay. How about some actual #planetaryscience since it's Friday and the office had our weekly discussion of science news? I led the discussion this week, so it'll be easy to throw my notes on here. Take a deep breadth, ignore the political chaos, and let's talk planetary exploration. 🧪🧵1/ 11

Some days you just need a bit of Deadwood. youtu.be/rPo6CFTLkqs?...

My newsfeed right now is alternating between the SAG awards red carpet and the usual political dynamic. It’s somewhat disconcerting.

Calling yourself king doesn’t make you a king. Being dad's favorite and outliving your three older brothers makes you king.

My people!

The dead need your questions! Does anyone have queries for the Necromancer? @thedeadlands.com

I am amused that NBC News abbreviates “Los Angeles District Attorney” as “L.A. DA” I should look that up in some style manuals. #stylebook #punctuation

Back in the Olden Times, I used to record movies off the TV onto VHS tape, two films to a cartridge. My favorite tape was labeled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Again.

"some people prefer differently abled" The disabled people right in front of you don't prefer differently abled, what about respecting the people in the room, not using people outside of the room to justify being offensive to the people in the room

Black bandstrings for mourning!

I can't recommend Durham's Early Modern English Palaeography course enough! It caters to everyone, whether you have a lot of experience or not. If you want to improve your palaeography skills, then you should take this course.

Time to share my current historical obsession: Clarice Orsini de Medici’s EXTREMELY ILLEGAL HAT! A cool reflection on performing social class, and part of my release countdown to “Inventing the Renaissance” 1/?

I love this movie! #TheOutfit #tailoring

Waiting for the pizza, and the rain.

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