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Former historian, current office drone. Californian loose in the Shire, obsessive about many things: books, food, cats & nature. She/her.
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funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 20 days ago • 254 comments

Seems like a nice day for running around screaming questions at each other that we know full well have no answers

submitted 33 days ago • 126 comments

The Bayeux Tapestry is cool as hell. A 230 foot-long textile account of the Norman Conquest from the 11th C., with lots of fun details, including 626 people, 190 horses, 35 dogs, 32 ships, & 93 penises. "Are there eels?" you ask. Of course there are eels! Let's take a look! 1/8 🗃️🧪

submitted 45 days ago • 13 comments

Looks fake doesn't it? This reconstruction of Medieval Bologna shows how Italian towns used to be a forest of towers, dense as Manhattan skyscrapers! Here's a stable blog-formatted version of my thread from yesterday about the lost towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline wars www.exurbe.com/the-lost-tow...

submitted 46 days ago • 32 comments

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 375 comments

This is fascinating. For a #history buff like me, this is the kind of story that is compelling and heartbreaking. www.npr.org/2024/10/28/n...

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Let's talk about peeing in space. Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/s...

submitted 101 days ago • 68 comments

I am 52!!! I’m sure I would like some of the ones I don’t know….but oof, this made me feel olddddd!

submitted 101 days ago • 5 comments

Earth did not survive a collision with another planet, hundreds of asteroid and comet impacts, hundreds of millions of years of deadly radiation from space, five mass extinctions, and literally freezing solid for you to give up on her now.

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submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Not new new, but I understand the tax I must pay.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

✨ From Jenny and the Cat Club, written and illustrated by Esther Averill. 1958.

submitted 112 days ago • 41 comments

Pretty much the same in the U.K….

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

I made this account ages ago, but I feel like now is the time to be much more present on Bluesky! So…here I am.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments