Steven Van Impe

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

The Simon And Garfunkel 'Sounds Of Silence ' album cover except they're being chased by a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica.

Simon And Garfunkel next. #totp

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Locutus safety tip: To prevent identity theft, avoid having your own identity.

Remind me to show you our books bound in eelskin.

Quarter bindings, obviously.

Hawkeye (and the writers room) knew.

That's funny, I would think TikTok is more something for Steve Reich.

Is there a lace or fabric historian in my network? I have a box of antique Belgian lace plus original patterns and fabric material to create ribbon lace. I want to sell it to someone who will care for it, maybe use it, study it. Let me know if you are or know someone!

a cat is driving a car with the word saf below it ALT: a cat is driving a car with the word saf below it

NL: Vervoer gezocht voor maandag 9 maart! Van Oirschot naar Utrecht en terug, voor een toeslagenouder die naar een hoorzitting gaat. Wij hebben helaas nog niemand kunnen vinden. Misschien kan iemand helpen? Hoe lang het duurt is nog niet geweten. 🙏

Words of five Syllables. A-bo-mi-na-ble ad-mi-ra-ti-on Be-ne-dic-ti-on be-ne-fi-ci-al Ce-le-bra-ti-on con-fo-la-ti-on De-cla-ra-ti-on de-di-ca-ti-on E-du-ca-ti-on ex-hor-ta-ti-on For-ni-ca-ti-on fer-men-ta-ti-on Ge-ne-ra-ti-on ge-ne-ro-fi-ty Words of fix Syllables. A-bo-mi-na-ti-on Gra-ti-fi-ca-ti-on Be-ne-fi-ci-al-ly Hu-mi-li-a-ti-on Con-ti-nu-a-ti-on I-ma-gi-na-ti-on De-ter-mi-na-ti-on Mor-ti-fi-ca-ti-on E-di-fi-ca-ti-on Pu-ri-fi-ca-ti-on Fa-mi-li-a-ri-ty Qua-li-fi-ca-ti-on

Parents! How many of these words do your little Puritans know? (from the New England Primer, 1777 ed.)

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.

Excuse me, the proper term is 'unalived'.

Top notch replies on here, I feel proud to be a Blueskyer today 🫡

I am always amazed by how many people around me are reading (and teaching!) Caliban and the Witch and can now confirm this is a useful piece to share with those whose enthusiasm for marxist-feminist analysis (good!) outstrips their resources for critiquing Federici's historiography (which is bad)

move slow and repair things

A large raven in an enclosure. Instead of the usual black, it is white with blue eyes

Today I got to meet a white raven at a wildlife rescue center! This is Opal 💗

Autocorrect twisting your words.

Messaging apps (incl BSky) not being able to manage multi-language users without manually switching the language.

"We value your privacy" in the cookie pop-ups.

Pop-ups.

Cookies.

Too many steps to turn on your out-of-office when going on holiday (but then, it's American software and they don't have holidays).

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Imagine if worms in hats did drive apple-cars about though.

Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🫩 🔭

The Second Skeleton Museums construct knowledge by constructing objects—literally.

"I saw a specimen of science and the natural world, of course, but I also saw a beautiful object constructed, created, by people—by paleontologists, museum curators, engineers, and welders."

- No cherry picking! I often see inexperienced genealogists struggle with abbreviations in parish records, when a few lines above the priest writes out the word in its full, perfectly legible glory.

Detail of untrimmed pages with very uneven appearance

Stil life of untrimmed pages with proof corrections of the Polyglot bible

#rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 📚📜💙

Protip: tijdens vergaderingen kan je een bakje potgrond meenemen om in te wroeten.

- Don't get stuck on what you can't read, but read through the entire text anyway. Put it away for a night, the next day you will be able to read a lot more.

- When you're really truly stuck, post it on BlueSky as a palaeography challenge and watch the specialist try to beat each other.

Printed recipe. Text reads ‘For melancholy. Rub the body all over with nettles’

Questionable 1700s treatment for melancholy... rubbing yourself all over with nettles

well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services