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for all my Catholic programmers who perked up hearing today's readings when Isaiah said that the Word of God never returns void...

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

do you ever wonder if you peaked creatively five years ago on the back of a napkin

Godwinson bests Hardrada. Surely the war is over.

A kindly necromancer resurrects Jim Henson, Fred Rogers, Bob Ross, Carl Sagan, and Steve Irwin to form The Afriendgers to save us all.

11th July is the feast of St Benedict. Here is the opening of his Rule in the 'oldest surviving copy of the Rule of St Benedict'. Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48; Rule of S Benedict; c.700 (?); Mercia (Worcester?)or (Canterbury?) SE England; f.1r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The Seine at Argenteuil - 1874 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8232

They’ve even got a secret handshake! 😍

Delightful little brown mouse nibbling at a walnut. From a #Roman ‘unswept floor’ mosaic by Heraclitus. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effects! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Isn’t that just Grave of the Fireflies? (Yes, I know: Takahata, but still!)

Swiss coach looks like the law-abiding middle child in a comedy with Mads Mikkelsen and Taika Waititi as bank-robbing brothers.

"Do you know what a handclap looks like?" Milo shook his head. "Try it," she commanded. He clapped his hands once and a single sheet of clean white paper fluttered to the floor. He tried it three more times and three more sheets of paper did the very same thing.

The fascinating world of ancient #glass comes to life in this striking #Roman pitcher. Its handle ends in an appliqué featuring the head of a Bacchant, a devoted follower of Bacchus, the god of wine, making it a fitting and evocative decoration for a vessel designed to pour wine. 🧵1/2

Our medieval manuscript suns are popping off their pages to wish you a happy summer. 🌞

Elizabeth I: The Drewe portrait. Very compelling sense of a real face amid all the sartorial glamour. By George Gower, whose day is today.

My mom is Catholic and raised me in the social justice tradition. My dad is Presbyterian and I also attended his church. People often seem surprised that I can be white, middle class, cis-het, deeply religious and also far to the left. But I never associated religion with conservative values.

Holy shit what an ad!

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,

I don't know why people struggle with this so much, but it's very much possible to be a fan of the most pretentious Modernist or classic literature and Tolkien at the same time. He was, believe it or not, a very talented and skilled writer.

Bittersweet to be at desk 1066 in BL manuscripts today

Went out this morning at 7:30 AM to do minor yard work. Came back in at 8:00 and stood in front of an air conditioner on full blast while downing 24 oz of diluted fruit juice and resolving not to leave the house again. #toodarnhot

Oh, for the love of God. Literally! (I suppose these interpreters conclude Luke 10 doesn’t mean what it says, either.)

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who consider The Princess Bride to be one of the most amazing films of all-time.

The weather here is WRONG. My e-reader fogged up the minute I stepped outside.

Orion and Hazy Sirius - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2k7FtY7

HM Saffer II • Water Reflections I • night Venticelli •

The only World Cup penalty shootout you need to see today.

The best is when you use a word you've only ever seen written and then have a sudden attack of "wait, is that how you pronounce it? Shit, reader's vocabulary strikes again!"

Friday 30th. At Bodln all day and, as I had finished all I wished to do at present relative to the Holkham Catalogue, I employed myself all day in transcribg. the text of King Horn from MS. Laud 108... #otd Full entry: www.madden1826.com/30-june

In case you’re into the receipt: www.vatican.va/roman_curia/...

2/2 A GOOD dad with his son. And his son's lovely mum. It's me, of course! In our garden, in 1635.

Someone posted a pic of this Tudor pottery lady on Tumblr – she's a salt dish, now in the collection of St Fagans National Museum of History in Wales – and I loved her, so I drew her. I'm delighted by the idea of Tudor folk having cute little guys and gals adorning their dinner tables!

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.

Place Pigalle, winter https://www.wikiart.org/en/edouard-cortes/place-pigalle-winter-1

Hamsters trying a delicious sunflower seed sushi from the new local restaurant.

You’ve steamrolled your last Mannheim.

Everything about this post is wonderful.

By 19th Century African-American artist Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), Floral Still Life, ca. 1880-1890, oil on canvas, 16 1/8 × 20 3/8 × 13/16 inches (41 × 51.8 × 2 cm), Detroit Institute of Arts. See a quote from the artist in ALT. #ArtHistory #blackart #blackartists #blackartist #BlackHistory

Ok, it is a legitimately fun and funny experience to have keyed up one of my favorite sci-fi youtube channels (Spacedock) and then two minutes into the video hear them citing me on the design of science fiction (and real) battleships. youtu.be/n341kcMilb4?...

TOC for a friend’s self-review for the past academic year. 10/10, no notes.

Here is Ms. Codex 1566, a 14th century book of hours from Metz, France: a brief look inside, at the calendar, and then a miniature of the Virgin and Child, nursing - typical of use of Metz - at the opening of Matins. #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4kJdOex

In a low voice, Ratthi commented to Overse, “Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don’t have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.”

TOC for a friend’s self-review for the past academic year. 10/10, no notes.

this is an AFFRONT to my people so let me tell you how you ACTUALLY do this. Five teabags. Boil a litre in kettle. Pour it over teabags in saucepan. Let steep for 15 minutes. Now I recommend adding some sugar and lemon juice at this point but not mandatory. Add three litres cool water. Fridge.

My perspective on this is informed by having worked as at a state psychiatric hospital for three or so years when I was young, and by having done my training at a couple more while studying toward board certification.