Rebecca

where do people find really really specific jewelry findings these days? fire mountain gems doesn’t seem to have exactly what I want (and I can’t find the original seller to ask her, either)

looking for little gold bead style earring backs for threader earrings

BIG BOAT STUCK

This is some excellent aviation (check thread for recording playback)

memo to self

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

also how impossible it is to replicate this across different systems. getting three entirely different results depending on browser.

I hate how so many search systems are getting shittier and also think they’re smarter

searched for Halley brooch like I have any number of times and got exclusively Harley Davidson merch

I scrolled for like two minutes and I think I’m out for the day. There is Too Much.

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

no love for the duodecimo???

A captial letter Z made of four elongated tear-drop shapes. If you didn't know it was from 1499 you might think it was from the 1970s.

Woodcut illustration of two birds on a rock above some text in Latin starting with the funky Z.

Look at this incredibly funky Z (for 'Zelentides', birds that eat plagues of locusts) from the Hortus Sanitatis of 1499. #rarebooks #GLAM 📚

airplane game discord did not appreciate this enough

I am disappointed in them

badass looking little biplane with heavily stylized eagle paint job

model of same airplane, only with very similar paint job that looks like a hedgehog instead

so thanks to the airplane game that ate my brain, I learned about the aviat eagle, an aerobatic biplane

and now i desperately need an aviat Igel

because puns

(one day many many years ago I was sad about something so my partner sent me this emoji: 💩)
(I said no that was far too happy, and he went and spent actual real money on a BBM sticker set with the sad poop in rain sticker)
(that set will be my favorite forever)
(just maybe not at work)

a sad poop emoji under a rain cloud

a happy poop emoji with a party hat and confetti

my most favorite stickers feel just a tiny bit too far beyond the line of professionally appropriate and I was so looking forward to using the sad shark

today at work I discovered that we don’t have the legal sharks in our teams stickers options and I am genuinely heartbroken about it

otoh I am now cursing one specific model of propeller plane and also regretting my choice of decline and fall over the life of Marlborough

an exciting weekend

the world might be a disaster but i just spent 20 minutes online with a group of people staring at an airplane on our screens waiting for it to land in antarctica

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

a frog holds itself upright while poking its upper body out of a manhole cover set in a pavement or road

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

tfw you realize that the institution most like yours has like three times as many staff people

The bees have discovered Brutalism

I am the gar
I long and thin
I have a jaw
things fit within

Yet sometimes shapes
are wrong for head
so do my best
& lik the bread

After rescuing the hobbits from Old Man Willow, Tom dances away upstream ahead of them. Hurrying along behind, they reach his house and hear Goldberry welcoming them with song.

‘Now let the song begin! Let us sing together
Of sun, stars, moon and mist, rain and cloudy weather.’

Illustration from an 18th-century herbarium book depicting a pineapple plant with a large crown of long, pointed, green leaves and a small, round, golden-yellow pineapple fruit. To the right, a detailed cross-section of the fruit shows its fibrous interior with multiple dark seeds. The image includes handwritten scientific labels in Latin and German beneath the plant and fruit, displayed on an aged book page with page number 361 visible at the top right.

🍍 Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est, Elisabethae Blackwell collectio stirpium.
Norimbergae: Typis Io. Iosephi Fleischmanni, 1750-1773..

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A fat brown bear standing in front of a river with its front paws on a rock. There are snow covered mountains in the distance.

It's #FatBearWeek! To celebrate, here's a nice #FatBear from BHL's image collection. For more historic #SciArt of bears (of all sizes) see our BHL Flickr collection: www.flickr.com/photos/biodi.... For this year's fattest bears, see www.explore.org/fat-bear-week 🐻

And so often, the republicans are so entrenched that attempts by the cities to improve things bring about retribution! (not that I’m thinking of specific retaliations against the UM system or anything here)

This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.

A printed image that shows a print shop around 1800: a printing press, a drying line for the prints, and a big stone to press paper sheets. Source: Historische Darstellung aller Künste und Handwerke : ein Weihnachtsgeschenk zur Belehrung und Unterhaltung für die Jugend http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00031C6F00000000

Working in an #earlymodern print shop? Have a large boulder the size of a small boulder ready to press the paper into its form, and also have a washing line handy to dry the printed sheets. #bookhistory