Katherine Firth

Pino Gay makes erasers, and other desktop items, out of ceramic. www.instagram.com/pinogay
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This is GORGEOUS! 🍱

What a beautiful bento box, right @katherinefirth.bsky.social?

It looks to me like a joint—as if the mallet connected to another cross piece (for example to make it easier to beat something repetitively like hammer milling hemp for rope)

B.C. is finally adopting permanent Daylight Saving Time | The Narwhal On Mar. 8, British Columbians will spring forward one hour for the last time — seven years after B.C. introduced legislation for permanent adoption of Daylight Saving Time

BREAKING: B.C. is finally ending twice-yearly time changes, announcing that as of this Sunday, the province will be on permanent Daylight Saving Time. Originally created to save energy, changing the clocks doesn't benefit the environment, writes @michellecyca.com: thenarwhal.ca/daylight-tim...

i always get emotional about recovered lost films but you guys

spoiler alert lol (it’s 45 sec if you wanna click thru & see) but seemingly the first robot in film is a clown, who then gets smashed into nonexistence with a sledgehammer

this literally may have to be on page one of my dissertation

What matters isn’t your writing software, it’s your file structures (sorry!) Thanks to Anuja Cabraal who asked this question! It’s about 2,500 words of answer, so this is absolutely a Definitive Guide. A few of the technical details here I also discuss in my earlier b…

My rec is extremely boring, but mostly just a very good cloud file structure. Descriptive file names, relevant folders. It’s fully searchable, portable, customisable, and doesn’t tie you to an app or software.
Something like:

researchinsiders.blog/2020/07/16/w...

“The world of research is rapidly changing. For the first time in history, there are more active researchers outside the richer countries in the planet.”

Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news, and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.

I'm told that some leftist bro on another site claimed that Millennials and Gen Z hardly use public libraries anymore. Based on what data? NO DATA.

In actuality, a survey from 2022 found that 54% of Gen Z & Millennials had visited a physical public library in the past year.

Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island after nearly 200 years The native species was driven to extinction by sailors in the 1800s. Now, 158 juvenile giant tortoises have been reintroduced to the island.

Hey @tkingfisher.com , have some good animal news:

www.bbc.com/news/article...

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party.

I made the group and invited six people.

SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.

... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

My general feeling is that every summary tool shortcuts the library shelf. In grad school there were few things I adored more than finding a book on the shelf bc I inevitably found six or seven other books on proximate shelves that I didn’t even know I needed! Process is the point!

Boom time for Artemisia It’s been a big month for the artist, with a new auction record and the National Gallery of Art acquiring an ecstatic Mary Magdalene. And her stock is set to rise even higher, writes Jesse Locker

It has been a big month for Artemisia Gentileschi, with a new record set at auction and the National Gallery of Art acquiring an ecstatic Mary Magdalene. And her stock seems set to rise even higher, writes @jessemlocker.bsky.social

Google Scholar Is Doomed Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

A valentine's card with a duck holding a chain of hearts and text reading "Are you 300 rolls of microfilm? Because I would look at you until my eyes go blurry."

From the account of @HistoryAssociates on Instagram.

A Brief History of Children Today Are Growing Up Too Fast

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gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Hey, so, things that we still think are good, right?
Human rights,
the World Health Organisation,
the International Criminal Court,
science (generally),
peace,
sociology (broadly),
safe children,
art,
human endeavour,
fair play,
that time we won against the Nazis,
people being alive,
vaccines

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR

*parents but yes 😉

YouTube video by Talking Heads - Topic I Zimbra (2005 Remaster)

In 1979, Talking Heads released "I Zimbra" as the second single from their album Fear of Music.

The lyrics - a type of non-semantic sound poem - are based on the poem "Gadji beri bimba" by German Dadaist Hugo Ball.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKFn...

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue” 'The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this ...

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

Gregor left behind strict instructions his family should follow to appease his ghost.
He didn’t require vengeance, sacrifice, or ceremony. His spirit could only be calmed by acts of self care.
For the rest of their lives, his kids would swear they heard low moaning if they didn’t drink enough water.

Thanks for the catch up! I feel like I missed a few vital episodes focusing on my own soap opera (Australian politics! The current season is riveting!)

“ I see Americans putting together a protest that is massive, even by French standards”.
A properly historiographical view from Paris