Meanwhile, back in the real world... the freezer is looking bare so I went to tetrazinni town

I have been accepted to law school.

Age verification? I remember when the family K-car was shiny and new.

I got the highest score my admissions advisor has seen in ten years on the job.

It was easy to dig up fossils in my school playground in Kansas. Maybe they came in on limestone gravel? Lots of ammonites, sometimes a trilobite. My FIL remembers the same in southern Illinois.

Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪 This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition. The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!

A (superb) great horned owl is hooting its head off across the street

Superb Owl Nr. 3 is from one of my favorite books @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! It's a handcolored volume from 1546 and is about potion-making, including owl-based recipes apparently good for curing headaches... And I think nr. 3 knows it... i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

I look forward to this day all year

A Few Months Ago. The Light In The Bushes Is Complex. 2025/07/14. At Sovereign Land of Frogs, A Young East Japanese Tree Frog.

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Kiddo made a Weezer keychain for me ❤️❤️❤️

I'm not a sportsball fan but watching football has been a special part of my relationship with hus-tree from the start, and tomorrow, our local team will be in the Superbowl. I usually call it Nacho Day, but tomorrow it's the Superbowl even in our house.

A look at the blue and white Year of the Horse memory jars I made 🐎💙✨ SOLD #art #pottery

It is not often that I make a 2 #FossilFriday posts but, I will make an exception. This is the skeleton of the fish Xiphactinus audax. It was found by a friend looking fossils in the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Smokey Hill Chalk in Kansas. You think you afraid of the ocean now? You've seen nothing!

Best bear. Will always repost.

... Y'all, I think I saved the sweater. Can you see any stains? They were to the right of the button band, and on this sleeve. I don't see any felting, even.

Welcome to February! Every month in 2026 we give you the gift of calendar pages from several of Penn's books of hours - illustrating the variety of books we have in our collection. Enjoy! #medievalsky

Loot that drops after defeating me: Fit-over sunglasses L. Erickson hair ties Goat milk yogurt Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour lip balm Merino twinset of Go Fuck Yourself (+8 psychic armor)

*utter collapse*

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in my Hand (Primitive Radio Gods)

Big lion, baby lion BnF Latin 12048; Sacramentarium gelasianum; 8th century; France (diocese of Meaux or Cambrai?); f.92v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

The last time I felt that an mp3 player was built in my best interests.

News I’m somewhat late to but apparently the Indian Navy built a ship based on a fifth century painting and sailed it to Oman to recreate the trading route of the Indian Ocean in late antiquity. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Two weekends ago I hauled my daughter's ass through a final essay she didn't want or need to write (she had an A already). Well guess what, the teacher graded the essay with AI and said it wasn't very good. My dear lady. My dear ma'am. My dear.

ok I will stop fiddling with this now

This elaborate, stave-built bucket was discovered in a peat bog in Derreen, Co Clare. Made from yew wood and ornamented with three bronze hoops, it dates from the 8th/9th century AD. irisharchaeology.ie/2013/03/the-...

From a tiny watermelon to 523 pounds of tapir, Ume the Malayan tapir is officially ONE! 🎉 What began as a 24-pound bundle of squeaks and spots has grown into a curious, confident tapir, stealing hearts every step of the way. 💗 Happy first birthday, Ume! We love you! ❤️

Pinturicchio was an “early adopter” of fantastical images called “grotesques”, found in recently rediscovered #Roman caves (“grotte” in Italian) containing Nero’s Domus Aurea. 🌕 Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/unlocking-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #renaissance 🏺

It's always a personal highlight to visit the University Library at the end of the semester, but this time we were shown a real treat: Cod. Pal. lat. 864, containing excerpts from Gregory of Tours' Histories and Fredegar's Chronicles - written in Lorsch around 800! #MedievalSky

I'm going to take a TEST this afternoon, and I'm worked up. I haven't taken a test for over twenty years. I remember walking out of my last one, and the comfortable--albeit alien--feeling that I'd never have to take one again. Oh well.

Choices Were Made* *Don Quixote came in two parts, 1605 and 1615... Someone REALLY needed their first edition bindings to match! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

For #MosaicMonday a #Roman mosaic showing the labyrinth of the Minotaur on Crete. The monster’s head is depicted in the centre. The simple depiction is alluding to the myth of Theseus, in which the Greek hero slays the Minotaur in the labyrinth with the help ... 🧵1/2 📷🏺 #Archaeology

I bought this Brooks Brothers silk & cashmere cardigan cheap because it has these stains, and now I'll try to get them out. They look like turmeric stains, the very worst kind. I'm starting with vinegar & Woolite bc it's the gentlest possibility, but let's be real, it won't work.

Welcome to my crib

Undercover crow. ✨

Wonderful group portrait of six syndics of the Amsterdam cloth-makers guild, 1599, by Pieter Pietersz. His day is today.

I did not take five interesting university courses but I was a CS major for 1.5 semesters, and this is correct.

I have a girl-crush on an Instagrammer who is everything I'm not. I try to watch but not comment, but yesterday she asked her followers a question I knew the answer to, so I answered. Many agreed with me, but my answer was so terminally unhip that she gave me a shout-out for it. sigh

I've missed the college course meme, but the three most interesting-sounding courses I can remember were Close Relationships, History of Sub-Saharan Africa (somehow 90% Caribbean history?), and The Bronte Sisters.

I went to a camel festival in the Gobi Desert this morning, a celebration of nomadic life, and it was absolutely amazing

Kay Nielsen, Danish (1886-1957), 'And then she lay on a little green patch in the midst of the gloomy thick wood', illustration for East of the Sun and West of the Moon, 1914, ink and watercolor on paper

Is the college course thing making you wish you'd taken more cool stuff? If you are older (~55 and up, though no hard cutoffs) and live in the DC area, may I recommend OLLI? Spring registration is open now. Only $330/semester for up to 3 courses. www.olli-dc.org/view_all_stu...

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

🧵Once a year, today, on the 31st January, beware of the headless horseman who haunts Sloane Track, which leads from Penselwood to Stourton. A black dog follows the horseman. According to the legend, a man made a wager he could get from Wincanton Market to Stourton in seven minutes flat. 👻🧵

No but seriously why isn't there a Tom Bombadil movie with Jack Black

I'll watch Home Alone at any opportunity because Catherine O'Hara is so amazing in it and I want to be her. I want her house, her clothes, her hair, her family, her career, and her giant leather handbag full of lipstick-with-a-brush and an address book. Crap.

FUCK

I love a tragic bug illustration (seen at the University of Sydney library)

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