Emily Spinach

So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim!

Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

The Surprising (And Very Unscientific) Reason Why Penis Bones Are So Rare In Natural History Museums #NotAllMuseums (but a lot of them) seem have to banished the penis bone. Why?

When it comes to certain parts of anatomy, #museums have been deliberately teaching people the wrong thing.
Most #mammals have a bone in their penis but natural history museums usually remove them from display, as I told @iflscience.com (& wrote in #NaturesMemory):
www.iflscience.com/where-have-a...

if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean

Wonder why the wound doesn't have a label 🤔

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism

And I'm so hot,
'Cause I'm stabbin' from hell
Paranoia, paranoia
White whale's coming to get me...

mood

Personal inflection point: a friend from Scandinavia who I'd planned to host in May just cancelled his visit. It's not safe for him, and I can't play tourist in D.C. like nothing's wrong.

Holding an eastern mud turtle all scrunched up into its shell

Met a new friend at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge: an eastern mud turtle. We walked across the road together for safety.

Fisherman's friend cough drops saw me through the Moby Dick opera with zero coughs - they should have sponsored!

Incredible 2034 painting "Moby" by Shara Hughes in the lobby for the Moby Dick opera.

Me & fam outside the Met Opera ahead of seeing Moby Dick.

Moby Dick at #MetOpera yesterday - an incredible must for the #MobyDick nerd!

When we say that we hope this post is ‘awesome,’ we don’t mean we want it to be expressive of awe or terror.

We mean that we hope you like it.

This reduction of a word's intensity is called ‘semantic bleaching.’

a medieval manuscript with corner detail of a scribe at a desk

oh you know. scribin' and vibin'

A miniature from c.1325 that shows a man's head in three-quarter view. All of the different cells of the brain are labeled, attached to lines proceeding from the eyes.

A marginal figure of a man standing on a bar border and blowing a horn. He wears a kind of tunic-cape that covers him just to the navel as well as shoes, but no pants. His penis is erect and arches toward to the direction of the text.

Many medievalists will be familiar with this oft-reproduced representation of the structure of the brain.

But did you know that this far superior image precedes it in the manuscript? NOW YOU DO.

Source: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-0...

Note for Americans:

Magna Carta was the rich ruling elite getting pissy at the king for ignoring them. The king agreed to it, then went back to ignoring them.

So, weirdly, Chuck Schumer referring to it is correct. Just probably not in the way he thinks.

18th-century writing saying Tyrannicide

TIL that the first ship built for the Massachusetts Naval Militia (1776) was called TYRANNICIDE

@pptsapper.bsky.social

The Words of the Week - Mar. 14 Dictionary lookups from the federal government, the North Sea, and the New York Times

These are your words of the week

democracy
habeas corpus
allision
sovereignty
empathy
tovarich
crocus
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

French revolution too; not... ideal

“Violet and coltsfoot are among the first Spring flowers. Growing among the roots of the trees are violets and lesser celandine”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

🤩🦇😇

A small cat's head covered in layers and layers of wrappings. The eyes have been painted on the wrappings.

It's #Caturday! Here's an ancient Egyptian mummified cat head (665 B.C.E.), now housed at the Museum of Old and New in Tasmania, Australia. Photo: Peter Whyte.