Ariella Elema 🍁

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

a post showing a bowl of candy with a single potato in the center with the text: Tonight kids chose potato more than 25 times, each time triumphantly proclaiming to friends and family, "I GOT A POTATO!" One kid shouted, "A potato, just like last year!" and another group said, "Oh, youre the potato house? You're legends!" This has become an unexpected and joyful tradition. Kids are given the free choice and over and over again they choose Potato. My friends, every day you are given a choice. I encourage you: choose potato

thinking about potato house this halloween

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Something I love about archival films is that when someone had a couple feet of film left on a roll they'd often use it to film their cat. So many films finish with a few seconds of cats

So, here's some cats from the 1950s and 60s. They were loved

Scanned from 8mm films

#Film #History #Cats

A copy of the source, which appears in the book Law, Sex and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James A. Brundage, a historian of canon law.

Brundage’s flowchart of medieval sexual decision making as a computer program.

I found the book How Markets Fail, about the 2008 recession, instructive for questions like this. Basically there are a lot of finance bros whose jobs depend on making big money up to the last nanosecond before the market crashes. They all know very well the crash is coming.

When you use AI that way, it’s like you’re asking the question by addressing it through your dog. “Hey Sparky, let’s ask this lady about where to find…” It. Is. Rude!

New etiquette rule: if you email someone a question, please actually state the question. Please do not make them read a 5 pages of copy-and-pasted transcript of your convo with a slop bot to find out what you want. It’s rude, and it wastes everyone’s time.

Getting people to understand how LLMs work is a safety and health emergency

Much #charterrific fun to be had on the new Fiscus website, dedicated to fiscal lands in the regnum Italiae! #medievalsky

fiscus.unibo.it/en/

One of my favorite medieval dudes is a guy named Sir Hugh Eland, a knight who started his career by pillaging his neighbors and ended it as a noble advocate for prison reform (from behind the bars of Nottingham jail).

Medieval story time!

That’s terrific! Congratulations!

If they invade Toronto, do we go with inflatable trash pandas, or Mel Lastman-style artsy moose?

The white feathers and yellow beak on the headdress are the weirdest part. Why did they turn a Bundesadler costume into an American bald eagle?

Closeup of half a dozen red maple leaves, suspended mid-air by (near-invisible) spider web threads in a vertical line such that it looks almost like a composite image of a leaf tumbling down from the tree, twirling as it falls. Dark greenery blurry in the background.

Photos from today's walk at the Seattle Japanese Garden (thread). I was quite taken with these red leaves, dangling by a bit of spiderweb in a way that made them look like they were falling.

#photography #PNW #autumn #FallColors #nature #red #31DaysOfHalloween #SeattleJapaneseGarden

This is awesome. Translating rhyming verse is hard.

The internet is NOT forever.

I did not know this about Warren Hollister. I’ll be reading his work differently from now on. 😂

Aww, look at that little cutie!

In addition to the report below, a new report shows that a vehicle belonging to a Ford government cabinet minister was caught driving 50km/h over the limit *twelve times* over the past three years.

New skyscrapers cast a thousand faceted mirrors on rows of booksellers’ tents in David Pecaut Square.

The Bakka-Phoenix table, featuring many fine SFF titles.

A woman in a lab coat stands on a box, holding a colourful model of a brain. A sign in front of her reads, “ Alex Riemenschneider: Fusing a gap in children’s brain cancer.” She is part of a program called Soapbox Science.

A smiling man stands behind a booth hung with a banner that reads, “Tiger Blues: Two transmen in alt-history Tibet race against time to steal a mystical Buddhist amulet before it falls into the hands of the communists.” The longline amused me so much, I had to buy the book.

The word on the street is that the WOTS is good this year, but don’t just take my word for it.

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Ontario Land Records Index is now digitized and freely available to the public: archive.org/details/onta....
Thanks to the collaboration with the Archives of Ontario, @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social, OurDigitalWorld and CRKN.
internetarchivecanada.org/2025/09/24/n...

Saint Gall was a powerful monastery. It looks to me like the king wanted to make a donation, but had to do it in a way that demonstrated which way the power relationship ran. The child almost caused a diplomatic incident, but the king smoothed it over with a joke.

The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian "The term 'feudal society' is a caricature. It was invented by nineteenth-century historians to capture a particular period in French history, that of the retreat of monarchy (and thus of state author...

It reminds me of French ceremonies for the making of a serf. Putting coin on/in bodies seems to have been a ritual that demonstrated a power relationship? There’s a reference here: books.google.ca/books?id=QgQ...

Blurry stock photo of two lemon halves, captioned “lemn”.

Am I doing this right?

Trump's ambassador to Netherlands finally admits 'no-go zone' claims - BBC News Pete Hoekstra was "shocked" by his own remarks about Muslims in the Netherlands, despite his denials.

I can’t believe that guy got a second chance at ambassadorship. That’s not just incompetence on the part of the Trump administration: it’s outright malice. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

The Dutch relatives warned us about this guy. Welcome to the no-go zone, buddy!