TIL about the Botafumeiro, an 80 kg incense censer that can reach speeds of 80 mph when swung from a rope attached to the roof of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. In 1499 during a visit from Catherine of Aragon it came off the rope and flew through the stained-glass window.

Oh hell I forgot that Heloise and Peter named their kid Astrolabe. Imagine bringing a human into the world and naming them Computer.

someone should make a Yiddish Policemen’s Union book or movie

serving as an extra in the butlerian performance of gender

naming my novel about the sexual awakening of a western geologist

what is this if not a detachable saucer section en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymout...

tasting dirt in each corner of the county

Consistent theme in the Trump era that his supporters see invoking his name as a form of racial antagonism

there is an apartment building in richmond with the Misty View name Todd Lofts

Gary is short for Garold

pronouncing barnacle like tabernacle

as a man with a phd I have #opinions about this whole dr thing. so buckle up, chucklefucks 1/69

Paleontology....

Botany....

Every field has its Hittite Dictionary....

serving as an extra in the butlerian performance of gender

meta serving me the top notch ads

it helps the sight impaired and lets me stay in my tranquil posting lotus. is there anything alt text can’t do?!

pronouncing tabernacle like barnacle

how do I mute an image

El bisonte americano vuelve a asomarse en Sonora con la llegada de una nueva cría, convertida ya en símbolo de una larga batalla por la conservación de su especie 🔗 elpais.com/mexico/202…

pronouncing barnacle like tabernacle

Tour of the herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. The second photo is the oldest specimen in the collection, Anemone Vernalis from 1692. The third is a specimen collected and signed by one C. Darwin. Kinda of like going to church really

Jimmy is short for Jimmothy

Gary is short for Garold

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there is an apartment building in richmond with the Misty View name Todd Lofts

you never hear pileated outside of a woodpecker context

the little free library implies the existence of the big tyrannical discotheque

the little free library implies the existence of the big tyrannical discotheque

no one is as into fourth wave ska jokes as me, and that’s ok. one must maintain one’s Poster’s Bits

foug dord

ubi will bring the fourth wave of ska

you never hear pileated outside of a woodpecker context

you may not like it, but this is what peak efficiency in the music business looks like

ska and swing seems like bad business models, what with all the horn players eating into your budget

PARES is always down for maintenance, but also never gets any better

Creatures thought to be disease demons of the Bosnian Romani people, source unknown (Wellcome Collection)

I've found another example of 110% justified data center NIMBYism: the affluent Bergen County suburb of Montvale is trying to ram through a data center to use up land that could (and under state law, *should*) be affordable housing www.fairsharehousing.org/press-releas...

Princeton, NJ

short fiction premise: does the eruv around manhattan mean that vampires can’t come “in” without being invited

no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

you: I think about rome all the time me, an intellectual: I’m never not thinking about Sanxingdui

this is how I learn there is a western Staphylea species?

Mingo County, West Virginia is named after the now-extinct population of flamingos that lived there. most of their habitat was lost to coal mining, and the final scrap was turned into a Tudor’s Biscuit World just before the passage of the Endangered Species Act.

PARES is always down for maintenance, but also never gets any better

🚨 📣 Goth flamingo alert 📣 🚨

ska and swing seems like bad business models, what with all the horn players eating into your budget