Ludibriumventis

Yikes!

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries.

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

Imma live vicariously for a minute, here, because we've still got temperatures in the 80s F in the 10-day forecast...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

ooOOOOoooo

“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.”

Truth.

GURL.

In my job, I occasionally get calls from people who are walking their dog, begging a flight attendant for just one more minute, or driving (ack - plz don't do that).

But, THIS caller was in the airport, and just kept me on the phone while he went through security, so I got to go through a scanner!

TFW you wake up from a sound sleep a mere two hours after you went to bed, and can't get back to sleep, so you go downstairs and start playing around on social media for 90 minutes, but the overnight news cycle is stressing you out, so now you're awake AND agitated and you have to work in six hours.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

All my ghosts have anxiety.
They can't properly haunt
someone who is already
haunting herself.

Science, like every month for about a year now: These chatbots are melting your brains u motherfuckers can't even read or think anymore

genAI guys: Why use lots brain cell when one do trick 🤓 ☝🏻 🧠 and I am very iphyshent

Have been working on a near-future short story so long I just had to change the date that its set.

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

"Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also faculty directo…"
And is 63.
I've read some really awful stuff on the Internet but this is ickier than anything.

A rather round cluster of aster plants forming what looks like a single shrub comprised almost entirely of tiny white flowers that look like eensy-weensy daisies. There are about a dozen bees buzzing around it.

Vertically oriented closer-up photo of the asters - just hundreds of teeny little daisy-looking flowers! There are a couple of bees visible on some of the blooms right up in the front. The bees are actually longer than the blossoms are wide, so the bees are doing a bit of creative gripping.

Vertically oriented closeup of a branch of one of the aster plants. It's hanging down the center of the photo, laden with at least two dozen tiny white daisy-like flowers with yellow centers. There HAD been a bee front and center, but it flew away just as I was taking this picture. So now, you're stuck with all these beautiful flowers. Ugh.

A side view of the clump of asters from the first picture, that looked like a round shrub from the front. From the side, it kind of looks like the shape of... a guinea pig? A tiny long-haired dog? Anyway, you can see that there are a LOT of these plants full of hundreds of little flowers! If you stand still, you can hear the humming of the bees.

Can you hear the hum of all these bees enjoying the heck out of my asters?

#Bloomscrolling
#Florespondence
#Bees
#Pollinators
#Asters

If you see this, share a pic from your device with no explanation.

I wish the US would just catch up with the rest of the world with regard to public toilets design, and just do individual stalls with full walls and doors.

Maybe it would stop the standoffs when poo-shy individuals try to wait it out to be alone, which then leaves just one stall for everyone else.

❤️

A photo of a slightly yellowed Polaroid photo (square, with a white border), of three men (One in his mid to late 50s, one in his mid 20s, and one in his 80s) and a baby (me, about 8 or 9 weeks old) on a 1960s sofa with blue and grey floral pattern and blue accent pillows. The carpet is kind of coppery-brown with a low pile. There is an Asian style inspired mahogany coffee table with spindle legs, a carved decoration on the front-facing side, and left/right edges carved to look like scrolls) in front of them, with a white and gold Family Bible and (I think?) a box of tissues set atop it. On the cream colored wallpapered wall behind the couch is a large landscape painting of a river/wetlands, with a bunch of trees - classic mid-century "starving artist" style - in a green and gold carved wooden frame. On either side of the painting are matching decorative sconces. In blue ball-point pen on the bottom border of the Polaroid is written in cursive, "Father's day - 4 generations"

Like... that room literally never changed from 1963 (when they built the house) until my uncle died in 2011.

Anyway, from left to right, my grandfather (mom's side), my dad, me, and my great-grandfather (mom's mom's side), in June of 1976. (;

Safe travels!

I guess it's a good thing that this is (technically) a smoke-free campus, because between the drought and the falling leaves, one one tossed cigarette butt would set the whole place on fire.

116 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in October Clear your shelf for books from Joe Hill, Ken Liu, Thomas Pynchon, R.A. Salvatore, Martha Wells, and more—including that wild Nicholas Sparks-M. Night Shyamalan collaboration.

This regular column by io9 has put more great books in front of me than I care to name. And the comments section is usually five angry white guys yelling about how it's all sequels or romantasy and it never, ever is.

116 new books. Go take a look.

gizmodo.com/116-new-sci-...

Aw, thanks!

It's definitely reflecting where I would rather be right now, instead of being stuck in October with 90° temperatures. I just want to wear sweaters and slurp soup!!!

A selfie mode picture of the top of my head, with the beholder crown sitting upon it. The black seed beads on the band itself aren't really showing because my hair does what it wants, but the row of 15 eyeball beads are arranged little spikes of wire, with the one in the center being the tallest and getting smaller as they go out to the sides. Behind me and above my head is an awesome painting of a river or a wetland with a bunch of trees. It's in a very ornate looking frame, but the frame is actually made out of balsa wood, so it doesn't really weigh that much. This painting hung over the couch at my late grandparents' house for decades, and almost every single picture of me ever taken there was under this painting. I was very adamant, when it came time to parcel out things from the estate, that I wanted this so that I could hang it over my couch for decades!

A close up of my beholder crown, made up of a metal headband around which I have wrapped seed beads on wire, and then stuck 15 eyeball beads on little spikes of wire with the tallest in the center and working their way around to the sides getting shorter.

I love how my Beholder crown looks, but I really want to figure out how to get some horizontal support without wrecking the aesthetic. And of course, at some point, I will need to get all of the eyes looking in the same direction. They're currently reflecting my own squirrel brain.

##SomethingIMade

POV: you're walking down a sidewalk with a strip of grass and then a building to the right and a mulched area to the left with a tree. On the sidewalk in front of you are two Canada geese. One has its next stretched up and is looking suspiciously at you. On the grass to the right are four or five other Canada geese grazing happily away.

I had to run an errand at lunch, but wasn't expecting to have to run the dinosaur gauntlet...

I've been trying to bring back gloves and parasols for years!

I mean, I'm allergic to THE SUN, so I'm technically always in my vampire era... but also, the sight of blood freaks me out, and I am of the There's No Such Thing As Too Much Garlic school of savory cooking.

Everyone in elevator: *Looks at the repurposed water bottle in my hand, now filled with cherry juice with some chia seeds in it*

Me: Oh... nothing...

Random 60something-looking white guy: 😨

/fin.