It houses Ukraine’s oldest historical records. Nestor the Chronicler, famous Lavra monk, wrote Primary Chronicle here in the early 12th century, which is the foundational historical text for history of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia

NOOOOOO! Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.

This pit of fire has been burning for 55 years. And there’s something ALIVE at the bottom of it! 1/7 ⚛️🧪

A gaggle of young dudes on the street celebrating a message I can get behind: "My mayor's still Muslim. My bagel's still Jewish. The Pope's on our side. ... ... ... Knicks. In. FIVE!" ❤️🤩

This paper is hilarious, and also excellent science. I won't spoil it for you too much, but it's about how to pivot when your participant recruiting plans fail because the people you're reaching only want to have sex with you and you're only in the field for a week :) scispace.com/pdf/taking-t...

TIL that Scotland, more specifically Caithness, is the successor state to the Kingdom of Cat (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom...), and I feel we should do more to encourage Cat People to visit their ancestral home.

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Well, that was exciting.

"Erased, in both cases, is that these technologies cannot function without staggering amounts of human administrative labor."

Once in a while I feel the urge to look up certain people on social media to see where they're at now in life, for the very specific reason that when I did HS winter colorguard, all three of the cis boys in our group were straight, which is statistically impossible

"...but why does she have a heron?" Uhh... I think the real question is why do you NOT have a heron.

she still didn't eat or drink but she was way more energetic today, now naptimr under flower blankie

I am in awe at ILT's ready quickness with this comment on the moment. That's centuries of bardic tradition for you. It's like "there's a word for that" with German, except with Ireland it's "we already have shit composed for that, sit tight"

Man, what keeps you up late on a Friday night really changes as you get older

what if they’re just building an elaborate set for a community production of rent

My entire timeline is live-posting Trump’s name being taken off the Kennedy Center like it’s a Basketball game and it’s the most Bluesky thing I’ve ever fucking seen I love you all so much.

'Anywhere between now and, like, 5am,' she says off camera, with a note of despair in her tone

I've officially muted my other livestream so I can focus on this lol. 12:04.

Y'all, it is so important to have physicians that have a lived experience of disability. I hear so many horror stories of folks going to a doctor, and being told "you can't have ADHD if you [x]." Folks who were good in school, because they were able to hyperfocus. Folks who got missed.

My partner works at a camp for trans kids every summer, and today the campers staged a mini pride parade, which opened with the teenagers marching around the playground chanting "what do we want? TRANS! when do we want it? TRANS!"

Now that we can do ten images, here’s my comic I made about being an art model and body issues! (CW: nude art and a brief mention of disordered eating)

So I guess the lesson is, if you know about the Flash because you have actually WRITTEN the comic with his name on it, go ahead and speak up because that opportunity is probably never happening again AND don’t order the enchiladas because man, they were bad. #ImpirtantLifeAdvice

"in many ways, the hippopotomus is the quintessential explorer in the outer realms of experience" Sublime

Where fiber history meets Pride. This is a large piece (10x28') of one of the two original 30x60' pride flags, the only known surviving section of either. They were designed, hand dyed and sewn by a community of queer artists. The colors are slightly different from most rainbow flags today.

Good morning! 🪶

That’s waht I wahntae dae find cheers

Hey, I need y'all to hit mute on the TV for 30 seconds and watch a clip of the most Scottish people I've ever seen coming into Boston.

Here is my Jane Yolen story, which I suspect is a pretty common one, or at least a variation thereon. I grew up on her books. One of my earliest memories is my dad reading Commander Toad books to me at the South Bend public library. Then I grew up and got a job in comics publishing. (1/)

Famous authors asking you out

once upon a time I was standing in a nursing station of a unit I'd not been to before & a patient beelines up to the desk and demands to know - Am I a man or a woman? I said, "Neither." She said, "HA! Now who's crazy?!" I said, "Neither." The counselor I was with did a spit take w/ his coffee.

Someone being challenged on their authority and slapping down a big ol' credentials dick (aftermarket inclusive) on the table remains my favorite type of skeet. The "I wrote it" variant remains the rarest high, the uncut top-shelf finest

Following up on this as promised, @karachrome.bsky.social but pulling it out of @nome.bsky.social’s thread so he can opt out of my further excited yammering on if he wishes, heh In HS French, I learned tu/Vous, formal and informal, all nicely packaged up in the second person, cool. This fit 1/6

I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

*timeline cleanser* Frank being the goofiest aka himself. #frankthecat #snowshoecat #catsofbsky

Unexpected find in a used bookstore, a Landstad prayer book from 1883

going through my old dungeons and dragons files and I can't remember exactly what rules minutiae we were trying to litigate that caused me to start making diagrams but I do remember it took about 3 hours and had to do with the terminal velocity of a bard

a delightfully weird little creature. business in the front (toes on ledge), party in the back (turkey shape on bed with tail out)

its SO good i love it sm. from this comic, which kills me

Tolkien's fox is still one of the finer moments of 20th century literature!

If we say the only true New Yorkers are people who born here we take the core heart out of this city. Immigrants who come here and have kids here and together they infuse this city with their cultures. And yeah even the girl who grew up around the corner in Jersey (🙋🏻‍♀️) I brought you my culture too.

The DEFINING trait of New York City is people here are from literally everywhere. “Transplants” are the cab driver from Bangladesh and the DR lady selling sidewalk empanadas and the Yemeni guy making bodega BEC and the Russian dude running a dinner theater. Without these people NYC is NOT NYC

sorry the only "real" new yorkers are the rats who work in the kitchen in Muppets Take Manhattan

Alt-texted in the comments

Motherf- I think I've finally figured out why I've been tripping on the same problem of keeping track of German personal pronouns, over and over and over /

So, question: Are you familiar with the idiom “to go to the woodshed” / “back to the woodshed”, and if so, what meaning do you know? Specifically, as a separate and distinct meaning from that of taking someone /else/ to or behind the woodshed? Fellow music folks, I’m extra curious about you, here

Past me left me a date-specific reminder for today that literally just said “dead duck day”, and I had to look it up to even remember what the fuck it was. Thanks for the shrieklaugh, past me

There has been more than one occasion during this nascent journey of learning German that has been some variation of “oh, well, now that I have learned x thing about the grammar/structure of the language, it suddenly makes so much more sense why #$THING in classical music is Like That”. /

"How you heard how dumb people brag about how they use AI?" www.youtube.com/shorts/0z7Q0...

Today is shaping up to be a big day in the Ukraine war, and not a lot of people seem to be talking about it. Let's dive in for a very quick moment. You might be forgiven for thinking that the war is at a stalemate, as neither side has been gaining significant ground for a while. BUT: 1/7