Was at my grandma’s going through some things and looking for photos to use in granddads funeral. In her bedside table, I found her weekly diary planner from 1957 😂 not only does she still have it, but the bedside table of all places?

I will face God and walk backwards into hell

PSA that lilies are deadly to cats. So even if you don’t have cats, something to think about if you are gifting flowers to someone who does (We currently have some beautiful lilies in lockdown in a bathroom to keep our little chomper out of them - one bunch came from someone who has cats herself!)

There aren’t many unique experiences in the world, but marking while sitting on the floor by the bath because your cat wants to play in the drips and demands you be there has got to be close to one

PSA that lilies are deadly to cats. So even if you don’t have cats, something to think about if you are gifting flowers to someone who does (We currently have some beautiful lilies in lockdown in a bathroom to keep our little chomper out of them - one bunch came from someone who has cats herself!)

If you're sick of water companies being allowed to pump s**t into our rivers with no accountability: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Scientists triple the time we can preserve human hearts. Donated hearts usually can survive outside the body for a maximum of four hours. A team at Vanderbilt University developed a preservative fluid that could triple the time the heart can survive outside the body buff.ly/fnwUtnZ #ShareGoodNewsToo

My granddad died overnight and there’s fragments of unwritten poetry swirling through my mind. I got in the car and immediately put on Taylor Swift’s ‘Marjorie’. And the way I grasped immediately onto art. It’s art, it’s art, it’s art. Astronauts visit the moon, and we’re made of stardust and art

And the fact that the American and Israeli governments are completely unreliable sources in their accounts of what is happening also does not mean we should take the accounts of the Iranian government at face value. None of these are good faith actors; all are engaged in propaganda.

No matter what some people on here seem to think, it is in fact entirely possible to oppose all US and Israeli military actions in Iran, without pretending that this somehow makes the Iranian government into the good guys. They did in fact murder tens of thousands of innocent civilian protesters.

Not slop. Not war. Adapted for personal use from free sampler “Old Times” from DMC. Still needs pressing, mounting, etc.

Oh? Was that also an option? I don’t recall Albanese offering that one.

The Holy Roman Empire was Holy Roman and an Empire

This is SO LOW…. 😔

If any of you, like me, are the kind of ADHD thinkers who need to keep your hands moving on something irrelevant while your brain clicks into gear, I find jigzone.com to be super helpful. Hundreds of changeable free online jigsaw puzzles.

These are so pretty hello

As a timeline cleanse, my #tinyjoy of the day is taking the cat for a walk while I drink my coffee (she’s going to be sad to go back to Melbourne tomorrow)

The house no longer smells like smoke and I got around to pulling photos off my camera

Pro tip if you’re doing a bonfire/burn off: make sure you’ve closed all the windows so your house doesn’t smell like smoke still the next day 😅

The ASRC have had to launch a two week emergency food appeal as the fuel crisis is having a devastating impact on our two food banks, that feed 4.000 refugees a month. Donate here. donate.asrc.org.au/urgent-food-...

This cat is ridiculous, I love her

Everyone is burnt out on Marvel and no objections here, but I will admit that “until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on” has been kind of a load-bearing piece of my personality lately.

A crowned king, hanging from the gallows (from the 14th-century Roman de la Rose).

An emeritus professor at my uni has asked me to work on an article with him and I’m 🥺 me??

And on the other side, new life growing on a stump that has been under water for years

Hello moon

As a volunteer for TSA, I wholeheartedly approve this move.

Drove through the area the bushfires hit in Jan for the first time since then. Even knowing the extent of them, how long I drove along burnt trees really hit that home There is, however, something beautiful in seeing the shoots of green growing through the burns

Noticing this semester that not only am I feeling more confident in my teaching, I’m feeling more confident to a point where I feel like I do have useful things to suggest at times to people who have been teaching a lot longer than me *at times being the key word!

Apparently my little brother follows (? Knows of? Stalks?) my bluesky so posting this ruined his birthday present surprise 😅 (Hello, little brother, tell me who you are)

Could someone help me with this English word, please? #PalaeographyChallenge

The only way you don’t have autistic people is if we are dead or never born. I hate to tell you this, but without autistic people you don’t have a lot of the things that make your life comfortable. The arts would be decimated. Science would be practically nonexistent.

Hello, it’s Autism Acceptance Month (awareness is so 1998. There are too many people who are aware yet uninformed). A reminder that the fucking puzzle pieces are a symbol of Autism Speaks, more accurately represented as Autism (Mommy Martyr) Speaks (Over Autistic People).

Hey. Are you living in Australia and suffering #LongCOVID? A team at RMIT is studying the experience of LongCOVID and they are looking for participants. Your contribution could help understand the condition and generate advice for govt and health authorities. Details in flyer and alt text 👇

Inside you is two wolves, one cries at the cost of petrol, the other goes ‘at least that’s the concern you’re having and not being bombed’

Good morning to everyone except our indoor cat who got out at 5pm, didn’t come home, waited on the porch to be let in this am despite windows left open, eats, escapes out a window by jumping onto the neighbours roof, and gets herself stuck for half an hour, and is now crying at the door to go out

Hi, Historian here. Just a heads up that the shape of the future is actually not inevitable or fixed. *You help make it happen. So try to make it the one you want*

Prior to the semester starting, I did a workshop where the organisers put fidget toys on all the tables. So I decided to go and buy a bunch. Did an anonymised feedback activity with my students today: the fidgets got a lot of praise! Really easy way to improve inclusivity in the classroom

Showing this to my students tomorrow when we talk about the crusades

So back to the focus topic: European naming of West Asia relative to themselves is seen far earlier than the 19th century. Ptolemy in the 2nd century CE wrote that Asia begins on the East Coast of Anatolia. Anatolia = the region now Türkiye east of the Bosporus Straight (i.e. ‘Asian Türkiye’) 6/

Ironically Australia comes from the Latin ‘Australis’ meaning southern. We are southern, western, and northern in name all at the same time. 12/

Come along to our book launch! If you’re sadly on the wrong side of the globe for this one, part of our (hybrid!) conference will be dedicated to launching this volume in Melbourne premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1701

If you're in Cambridge and free this afternoon, I'm doing a talk in the English Faculty at 4.15: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/weari...

In case it’s not clear enough—while I am having a generally positive experience in library school, I genuinely believe the masters is a barrier, and that good education can come from a variety of sources. None of those sources is public opinion, AI, or threats to your job, however.

I did some of my best collaboration with Humboldt archaeology, our Transformations of Antiquity project. Please sign the petition to save an invaluable program.

How soon before women unable to have children are no longer classified as 'true' women, or those who take HRT, or those who've had lifesaving operations to remove ovaries, uterus, breasts? This may sound ridiculous but it's a slow creep of policing women's bodies.

I would like people who are having to confront this for the first time in their lives to take this as a call for solidarity and not an I told you so. It would have been preferable decades ago, but now is good too. You cannot discriminate against one group and expect to be free.

WTAF 🤬

"The assumption was that the technology made all of that unnecessary, which suited Google; a user who can’t navigate information independently is a user who keeps coming back to be guided." (3/3) From Hana Lee Goldin

I spent some time digging into names