Handwriting knowers what does this note to Herman from Ed say?

Hey what's up slow pokes it's already 2026 here

Been following this thread for days and it's achieved a great thing

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Great piece on the work by the passionate scientist @darrenreidy.bsky.social to save the seed from Ireland’s endangered plants. “Noah’s Ark for plants: The man in charge of logging every native seed in Ireland” #botany #conservation #biodiversity #SpeirGorm jrnl.ie/6910184

A high chance of No Rain turned out to be wrong, thankfully as we got walloped by an evening storm. Dog not impressed, garden very happy.

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

This was posted in reaction to the Vanity Fair photographer quote (most appropriate), but I want this opportunity to say this is my favourite gif on the whole Internet and my whole life I just want to achieve whatever it is that young lad has achieved

What we’ll remember about this year.

#FrogFriday 🐸: J. Martin Pollock “I AM AT THE ZOO BRING ME A FLY.” 1923 Lithograph in colours, backed on linen, 40 x 25 in. (102 x 64 cm) London Underground / London Zoo www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...

Canberra Bus Shelter r/brutalism

Everyone please sign the Trades Hall petition too! www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...

Since we launched our drive to go all the way last week, hundreds of eager beavers have donated more than £5,000. With the help of a charitable trust, these donations are doubled. Please donate and share to support the Vagina Museum in the toughest times ever www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Bat Friday

Rare West Australian seaweed scrapbooks provide glimpse into history www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

“Dangit I hate gift shopping for my family, they’re so hard to buy f—“

These guys are great! I donate every year and may I suggest that some of the crafts they sell on behalf of the elders make great Christmas presents?

Legends whomever

They put Kate Beaton on a stamp. THEY PUT HER ON A STAMP! www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/blogs/person...

Studying art history realising I did not like art curation, talking to an American conservator friend on LiveJournal (via the Tall Ships fandom) who informed me you could study conservation without having a full bachelor of science degree. I am still goodest friends with her though we've never met.

At #COP30, we asked people from indigenous communities how the climate crisis is affecting their lives and health ⬇️

Allez, bonne journée, ce matin est porteur d'une toute petite bonne nouvelle ! www.faunesauvage.fr/sinformer/si...

This story has EVERYTHING

Thank you @davidpocock.bsky.social Please Sign the petition: Save Our CSIRO www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csi... #auspol

Interestingly, one of my last museums had a number of cultural artefacts collected by 'a police officer in the NT', with literally no information that could be used to identify or repatriate. A loss for everyone.

Uh oh

Barnbow Factory at Crossgates, Leeds. Many more were seriously injured. Between 1915-18, workers at Barnbow filled 24,750,000 shells. #remembrance #women

🦇Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10... New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.

Yep 👑

"The university sector’s rolling scandals and ongoing governance crisis are causing it to lose the trust of the general public. OVER HALF OF AUSTRALIANS THINK THAT MAKING A PROFIT IS A PRIMARY PURPOSE FOR UNIVERSITIES." [my emphasis] 😱

According to our guide "it's normal for the steam engine to scream when it's working" You and me both, steam engine.

Aaaaah...no. This is not what asbestos management during construction looks like. This is not what following preservation protections for built heritage looks like. This is a health and heritage disaster all in one. Both irreversible.

A big moth, or something from Day of the Dead? One man’s search for an otherworldly Australian insect

Great news🥂

The National Museum of Ireland is part of a community network that links locals to their heritage. Here’s a natural history project showing what goes on behind the scenes and how it emerges into an exhibition @nmireland.bsky.social

Wednesday 27 October you can hear @paoloviscardi.bsky.social in Dublin on the value of the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History in addressing #biodiversity issues

We have skull from the Dead Zoo for this week's Friday mystery object. Any idea what might be?

The superpower of books like Sapiens is that they require expertise in like 12 academic fields to debunk. So you get these super detailed takedowns of small sections that look to laypeople like nitpicking.

The variety of size and orientation of these Goniatite fossils makes them look like celestial bodies suspended in the darkness of space. County Clare, Ireland.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the sloths, for today is their special day! This woodcut of a sloth* was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg. * may it not haunt your nightmares 📷Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio #InternationalSlothDay

It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks. #DigitalHistory #DH #HigherEdJobs jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

I interviewed the very brave MSF coordinator Dr Mohammed Abu Mughassib who recently left Gaza after spending the last two years helping prop up its collapsing health system www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The best short ghost story ever.

14 degrees at night to 39 in the day is completely bizarre. A pleasant spring time for all.

Perpetually delighted by the Aves do Brasil account @avesbrasil.bsky.social who just post a photo, map, and sound clip of a Brazilian bird (once a day? Possibly more?). Look at this thing. Just look at that little tuft.

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

With the Powerful Owl now out, I'm going for the Southern Emu-wren. It needs protection from habitat destruction (I'm looking at you rocket launch site). It'd be great if it could survive the next couple of days of voting and finish in the top 5. Vote here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...