The Age of Wool needs to begin. (If you prepare the fiber right it's soft, fully washable, extremely flexible weaving-wise, and it literally grows on livestock we already raise for dairy and meat. Stays warm when wet, doesn't trap odors. How is wool NOT a smart fabric??)

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩 The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse! This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2 🏺

I love this idea. My dad died when I was three and I had to figure out simple things like how to tie a tie and even shave on my own. Please retweet this because I know there are a lot of kids out there who could use some help with day to day life.

Like, if one is familiar with both Diana Wynne Jones and The Dad Who Lived from TikTok (youtu.be/lx-J-zApSLY?... ) it's just natural, right, to wonder what DWJ would have thought of him, right?

I feel like I might be thinking about a fantasy writers' version of Midnight Friends.

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.

Only 16% of Trump voters support Ukraine making territorial concessions to Russia and 72% are in favor of selling Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, according to a new poll by The Vandenberg Coalition. 72% of Trump voters also believe the US should help Ukraine and hold Russia accountable.

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.

Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon. Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”

That pirating is *not* what is keeping creator incomes down does not, in fact, justify piracy of creative works!

If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487 Visit girightshotline.org for more information

@nature.com What the heck is this?

as a Massachusetts native it is my duty to wish you all a happy Alice’s Restaurant day wherever you are remember: you can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant (excepting Alice)

SETTING: SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE: We were hurtling towards climate chaos which ended up really hurting the economy. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father. Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

Josefa Sanromán Castillo (1829-1889​) was a Mexican painter who made a name for herself at a time when women were not allowed in the Art Academy. This is her occupational self-portrait, Interior de Estudio de una artista, ca. 1849. #WomensArt

AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

If Carl von Clausewitz were to advise Secretary Rubio on peace in Ukraine, he might say something like this: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK

Having been mistakenly included on an electoral roll, Manchester shopkeeper Lily Maxwell voted in a by-election on this day 1867, more than 50 years before (some) women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act. Suffragists seized on it as a test case.

Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them

I think I want what we all want - peace, love, warmth, and an enchanted cottage that floats through the night, trading used books and black market rum with the wild folk of the wood.

Hilarious! and also super fascinating! www.science.org/content/arti...

today is the feast of St Catharine of Alexandria, patron of female scholars, so enjoy this painting of her shutting down a senior prof who treated her paper's question time as an opportunity to hold an impromptu paper of his own

Folks, if your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask them to buy a copy. Most have a convenient form and will let you know when it comes in. If your library offers ILL, they can even borrow books from other libraries.

Gender-affirming care saves lives

Dental calculus analysis (the identification of microparticles embedded in mineralized dental plaque!) has revealed clear evidence of ELS215's participation in cloth production. As she worked with wool, flax and, dye, fibres and plant material ended up in her mouth! Image callout 2 is dyer's madder!

This woman has the multitasking down! I definitely was not going to be feeding any chickens while holding on to my distaff! Image: Luttrell Psalter (BL Add. MS. 42130, f. 166v). The innocent-looking thing hanging from the distaff is a drop spindle. Things are about to get more complicated!

Emmanuel walked away from his mom’s fruit stand to find a bathroom. She looked for him all over Houston, and after several hours, she filed a missing person’s report with Houston PD. Houston firefighters found him within 24 hours. But police turned him over to ICE, who held him captive for 48 days.

Wtf

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

Tea. Most pies. Biscuits. Bagels. Homemade Applesauce. Cookies. Bread.

Cool holiday idea

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

In my article, I quoted something from Stuart Hall's "Culture, Community, Nation," an essay first published in a 1993 issue of Cultural Studies. He writes: "It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, ...

Funnily enough, Lewis touches on exactly the definition of "gentleman" in the preface to Mere Christianity.

This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

The news needs to be screaming this from the roof tops! WTF are they illegally giving this man? 🤬🤬🤬

The RHS Plant Collector Archive is a unique collection of papers associated with the 12 plant collectors and their journeys. For the first time they are now fully catalogued, digitised, and free for everyone to access #skystorians #gardenhistory #nineteenthcentury collections.rhs.org.uk/view/343871

OMG! In 1970 Hiler + Dorsky "collaborated on... an industrial film commissioned by NJ’s Sussex County Area Reference Library, whose local branch Dorsky and Hiler frequented first as patrons, then eventually as projectionists and programmers for the library’s 16mm screenings" - ft Tony Conrad :)

somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day

Now, if we can keep Congress from defending (*not* defending, autocorrect, sheesh!) IMLS, we'll be able to breathe easier.

“Now, I’ll pass things off to Jasper, who’s put together a PowerPoint for us. Jasper?” “Thanks Jim, morning everyone.“

Libraryfolk do the lord's work. I didn't even know this was going on, but it would have seriously affected my reading. I mess w a lot of fringe horror stuff and I rely on ILL to keep me in grim bleakness.

There is no reforming this.

I will never not adore this aquamanile in the shape of Alexander's girlfriend charming Aristotle into a horsie ride. (Collections of The Met Cloisters, on display in their current Exhibit, Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages)

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!