Rob Cruickshank

Agreed

Supplement recalled for actually doing something

nearly a year of working on this wonderful project of archiving and digitizing my found photo collection of 20th century black life.

to be a caretaker of something, someone is an extreme honor and privilege. grateful as the work stretches on another year.

Awwww

#Throwback Just like #PunchTheMonkey Little Pumpkin😻🌈

a kitty cat who is ANGRY waters plants among skulls and shocked flowers with the words "Please plant native plants or go to HELL"

Bringing a real Philly energy into Native Plant messaging with @the666cat.bsky.social 😈

Dead sexy Bobcat staring deeply into your eyes as it drinks from a reflective pool.

What’s that? You’re having trouble filling out your #2026MMM Bracket? Too hard to make the decisions? What is an Arabian Oryx and can it beat a Eurasian Lynx? (Answers: Antelope and it better not)

DON’T PANIC

Grab your towel and follow along with Professor Bobcat’s March Mammal Madness Manifesto.

Milkshake halibut :(

Nice to see Toronto exporting some of its cycling best practises south of the border.

I love his stuff.

Hammond GEODE by @chriscombs.net at the AU Museum #art #sciart

Crabe en bronze

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A photo-realistic illustration of a traditional skipping rope lying on a tiled floor. The handles of the skipping rope are made of wood and painted red and yellow.

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
Skipping rope

(4th Picture Book, 1971)
Artist: Harry Wingfield

A large, old-fashioned television with protruding buttons and four 1950s style legs

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
The television set
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1970)

Interesting! Never heard it in north America until recently.

Awesome!

This season we launched Kit, the industry’s first Nordic skate for kids. Kit is a 37cm Nordic skate optimized for smaller adventurers on Jr. NNN bindings. Kit was a big party of our goal this season to bring new and exciting products to market.

Yes, definitely piggybacking on the "supermoon" craze which was started by an astrologer.

Holy cow

youtu.be/V1cbOYC5T4w?...

Ampex AVR-3!
Pretty much the pinnacle of 2" video tape

(alt text: an operator in a short dress loads a 2-inch reel of tape onto one of 3 large video tape recorders)

OED entry for blood moon with meaning and use shown. The first quotation is from 1871, with subsequent examples from 1908, 1975, and 2014. The definition is "a full moon appearing with a noticeable red tinge, esp. In a lunar eclipse."

Here's a screenshot of the full entry

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Moat of Peat 2. Shrouded Walruses 3. Chamber of Regolith

IMINT #519 from GPS III-SV05 (UNCLASSIFIED)

1. Moat of Peat
2. Shrouded Walruses
3. Chamber of Regolith

You too, can recreate the 80s magic of the Burger solarium dining room in HO scale, thanks to Vollmer.

Japanese mythology and culture refers to the blood moon as early as the 12th century. Ancient Chinese and Mesopotamian cultures also have references to the blood moon.

This is great, exactly the sort of thing I've been looking for. So the term was only *popularized* by the evangelical types, but was previously existing in limited ways.

Did they actually use the term "blood moon", or a phrase like the "moon turning the colour of blood"?

The OED has its first example from 1871:

1871 Blood-moons, and such a wealth of stars in the heavens, and such feather-fringed azure clouds as made the heart beat to think of them.
B. L. Farjeon, Joshua Marvel vol. I. v. 92

Yes, I have added quote to my own post that I should have said "popularized by", which I stand by.