This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

In the Dutch tulip fields, Monet was astonished by the colors. “I could never have believed that such colours existed,” he said in admiration.

They’re playing “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters at pro bowling tournaments now.

Okay, who else is old enough to remember the hullabaloo over Pope St. John Paul II wearing Doc Martens? My friends thought the company missed a marketing coup: “Doc Martens: Lest you dash your foot against a stone.”

Fruit Displayed on a Stand https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-caillebotte/fruit-displayed-on-a-stand

This may be the funniest thing I've seen about the impending Odyssey so far.

"Take 93 south" the Sirens sing. "At this time of day, the traffic won't be so bad!" Luckily for our hero, Odysseus is wearing noise-canceling headphones

Americans' tendency to view themselves as sovereign individuals with no history or community, able to reshape their world at will, with no debt to other people, past present or future, is related to a lot of problems we're dealing with in this country.

wonderful a 1937 book on printing type turned into a website www.c82.net/printing-typ...

Someone that watches the stars was called "Sternseher" in #earlymodern German. So in this print of 1551, the man was an astronomer, and the instrument he is holding is an armillary sphere. #astronomy

The funniest part of this is the Aussie player shouting, “YOUR MEASURING SYSTEM DOESN’T MAKE SENSE!” #inchesfeetyards #hesnotwrong

The only version of The Traitors I’m interested in is part four of The Daleks’ Master Plan.

The Church is not identified in any way with the political community nor bound to any political system. She is at once a sign and a safeguard of the transcendent character of the human person. —Gaudium et Spes §76

Open Press Project is a fully 3d-printed hand powered printing press that you can use for cards and art and such openpressproject.com

@tkingfisher.com it’s Bob!

A limerick. Based on a true story.

College doesn't teach people how to do jobs. Education as a whole doesn't and was never meant to. It gives people valuable things they could not otherwise do without education--some things at work many things outside work.

How can you catch eels? One way is to use your feet! By stomping through the water you can either force the eels out of the mud, or drive them towards nets. The English did this a lot. It even shows up in the writings of Chaucer, and John Donne! 1/4 🗃️🧪

Love the notes on the picture of the young archaelogist. 😁

“God, Collings, I hate to start a Monday with a case like this.”

Happy #Murderbot Day! My copy of "Platform Decay" by @marthawells.com arrived last night and I read the first half on my commute this morning. (Like Murderbot, I appreciate a good public transit system.) A great read thus far. Nanna is AWESOME. Sorry to see <spoiler> go ...

"I understand people want to do STEM. But if you don't know where you've come from, that's history,... and you can't communicate, you're really not going to be a very good engineer or scientist" bit.ly/4w6hONa

Ostrich egg cup (A+, v. 17th century), silver basket of peaches, & pitcher, subtly placed on a round table. Painted by my namesake Rubens Peale, whose day is today.

Seen at Heathrow Airport, this date in 2018…

Eén boek is niet genoeg. 😉

It is my duty to inform you that there are baby capybaras at the Sacramento Zoo

Seeing as it’s bank holiday and people are talking about cruises, it’s time for my anecdote: Bloke in work said he was going on a cruise and I said, “Where to?” and he said, “Santander,” and I said, “So, it’s a bank holiday then?” and he didn’t laugh. I’ll nurse that grudge to my grave.

My dad was a theater professor and his mantra was always that college is for learning how to learn. I have an MA in medieval lit and work as a software developer.

Thank you, WRTI 90.1 FM for introducing me to Ronn MacFarlane, lutenist, with this piece. (Also Carolyn Surrick and her viola da gamba!) #FermisParadox

Just another 👇 👉 MANICULE Monday (Case f Y 6306 .614) @newberrylibrary.bsky.social i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Today's 17th-century signature statement (before they got bored and started using the Roman alphabet): '[o]'-3'[o]'⁴ 3):o:(⁴ 4):o:(² )o(-2)o(⁴ Sometimes you wonder why they didn't just borrow a cup of paragraph marks from the shop down the street. #bookhistory

Slightly diminish a book Poise and Prepossession

Slightly diminish a book: "Some Theology" by Thomas Aquinas

It ys a moost terrible tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum unpredicted moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth every bit of myne hearte.

Slightly diminish a book Appropriate Expectations

Slightly diminish a book Foundation and Nation-State

Slightly diminish a book Their Eyes Were Watching TBN

FROM LAST PLACE TO KENTUCKY DERBY GLORY, WHAT A RACE FOR GOLDEN TEMPO! 🐎 📺 The 152nd Kentucky Derby on NBC and Peacock

[disco sounde] Make a litel tea Reade a litel Woolf Staye yn tonighte! Staye yn tonighte!

Reading @tkingfisher.com's Harriet the Invincible with my almost six year old. His takeaway so far: "Can we invite an evil rat fairy to my next birthday party so she doesn't feel bad?" Of course we can.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: an absolutely stunning #Roman flask made of colourless glass with a 'snake-thread' decoration in several colours. From Nijmegen. Dating 2nd/3rd century AD. 📷 me, taken in 2022 in Museum Het Valkhof

I want a culture that regards a certain amount of reading and learning as a part of performing citizenship and - if we're honest - performing social class. I want it to be gauche to sneer at the working class but OK to sneer at the 'trousered ape' who holds reading and literature in contempt.

Interesting case report from the Gondor Journal of Medicine #tolkien #gondor #medicine

What I want to know is, who or what is 75309 and why did Tommy Tutone want to get rid of them/it so badly? #86

Become a Benedictine nun, obviously. I’d be an asset in the choir and the scriptorium.

So here's an annoying thing: I ordered a DVD collection from Amazon (I KNOW) and, as often happens, a disc came loose in transit and got scratched up. No problem; I'll just send it back for replacement. To my surprise, however, that's no longer an option. 1/

Tomato Headache.

And her nemesis, the French thief known only as Bâtarde. (Sounds a bit more YA, that.)

Look, if you have to rewrite an iconic 20th-century satire as hopepunk because the 21st century is too damn depressing, maybe this isn’t the right moment for you to take on “Animal Farm”?