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Detail of an early modern manuscript, written in German. The text reads: "[...] gulden rheinisch, und welcher goldschmid, oder gold schmidin [or should this be: goldschmiden?], mit ihren gesellen darlegte, auf gleiche [...]"

A female goldsmith?! 🏆 🚨
#Paleographers #SkyStorians
Are my eyes deceiving me or does this really say "Goldschmidin".....as in *female* goldsmith?! 😮
Or is it an 'e' looking like an 'i'....as in goldschmiden (plural)?
#Medievalsky #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #Craft 🗃️

Got my copy of Oathbreakers by @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com. Went to the lovely Prologue Bookshop in downtown Columbus.

Rejoice, rejoice!

Three characters stand around a gravestone, one is a cowboy style character with long green hair and a large scar across his face. The middle is a little clown cat doll with a knife abd the other a tall graceful grey roman esq styled character.

Ive been working on a visual novel about ghosts ✨

Trans is just when your gender is DLC or a mod.

Two characters kissing each other in their kitchen while it's raining outside.

The rain will stop. 🌈

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Immediately lost, only to turn up 5 years later as you reach into the bottom of your bag. Was the sheet there before you packed the bag awaiting rediscovery? Was it carried along by a book or notepad that had trapped it between pages? Did you open your bag and reach into a pocket dimension?

Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵

Just be prepared. We've all seen that headline going around today that Bluesky is the current #1 app, and X dropped out of the top 25.

That means the absolute worst people in the world are going to be coming here trying to turn THIS place into just as much of a shithole. Block them. Don't engage.

My page on Bluesky is a safe space and you will always be welcome and safe here 🏳️‍⚧️

Please, be careful everyone 🙏

Here's a little poem I've written to mark the occasion:

Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off.
Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off.
Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off.
Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off.
Fuck off, fuck off.
Fuck off,
Donald
You cunt.

until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this

I think many of us are going to need to focus on our basic needs to get by over the next few weeks. So don your shiny suit of metal armor and let your inner nerd shine!

But you can't add alt text to a picture you've already shared. You have to do it at the time of the post

When you upload the picture, before you post it, there is a little box in the top right corner of the image that says ALT. Click it and it'll prompt you to enter alt text.

Dune
#illustration #art

It’s great that you’re sharing your favorite images! On Bluesky there’s a big push to provide alt-text and for accessibility, so you might end up blocked by some people if you don’t. Looking forward to seeing what you share

this is huge for a number of marginalized groups (black people in particular obviously) but definitely for people with severe mental illness as well. I couldn't find rates for felonies specifically but "up to 75% of individuals with [psychosis] reported a history of [arrest/conviction etc]

A lit pumpkin with the bands & storms of Jupiter

And my final #sciart pumpkin (also my most viral post ever) Jupiter in IR

they told us what they want,
wrote down what they will do.
how will I live if I believe them?
what can I do but remember Willem Arondéus
and settle by the sea-wet rocks to sit and comb my hair

Not joking, everything is so calm-peace

Lion statue looks horrified

The deadline is when?

Cursed cats

I told my students that they weren't allowed to use Generative "AI" this semester in sociolinguistics, not because of plagiarism, but because it's racist. And if they did, I would take it as a personal offense and assume that they were ok with racism. And now I just sent them this article.

UNDERGROWTH

Old Rob will try his hand at fixing anything and always with a smile.

Nyt op ed page getting straight to the heart of the matter on that orange clown.

Illustration portrait of a young lady holding her head down, eyes closed. She has a blonde to orange afro. She is wearing a sweater and tank top. There are hanging 2d diamond shapes coming from the top. Drawn by gdbee art, 2019-ish.

Hanging stars