spandrels in your lap

Haven’t been able to source origin of this image, but title’s a whole new word to me, and likely to you too. Happy Clock Back, all!

"Can I consecrate this for communion?" Bingo. Involving structure purists versus ingredient purists.

I don't think this requires further comment from me.

Late 1800s French ad with the Michelin Man exactly as described

Just discovered that the Michelin Man used to ride a bike while wearing slutty little red boots and smoking a huge stogie. I don't know where else to put this information except in the Cool Files

обнимон

Battle of Lake Baikal - Wikipedia

TIL в чешской истории было одно эээ морское сражение. Озерное: победили Красную армию в битве 2 на 2 на Байкале
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обнимаю

Если ты не смог найти/извлечь список, значит тебе еще рано с ним работать

Tardigrade in neon rainbow colors inside a circle with the caption “Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to”

Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to.

Graphic: @standplaatskrk.pl

yes

THE MEME IS REAL

It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway.
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂

можно я не буду обновляться НИКОГДА?

бббббляд

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says: RECOMMENDATIONS: Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible... View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

Inside you are two wolves

I know a fae trap when I see one

‘Oldest organ in Christendom’ makes music in Jerusalem after centuries of silence A team of researchers studied and restored dozens of organ pipes crafted some 1,000 years ago for Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, which are now on display at the Terra Sancta Museum

‘Oldest organ in Christendom’ makes music in Jerusalem after centuries of silence https://www.timesofisrael.com/oldest-organ-in-christendom-makes-music-in-jerusalem-after-centuries-of-silence/

Drop something GREEN

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

Small brass butterfly.

The underside of the butterfly, which has little pockets to store sewing needle packets. The underside of the wings are decorated with two plates. One carries an inscription of the drapers company: "Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. - London." The other has a gilded head of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, art, trade, and war.

The butterfly can be folded up, like how a butterfly flaps its wings.

A close-up of the butterfly's wings.

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.

IG tatterbluelibrary

Increasingly I look back on the time when everyone was on Old Twitter like the undivided Church of the first few centuries - now social media feels as though it’s fragmented into denominations: the Xians, the Blueskytes, the Threadsians, the Substackites, the Instagramarians &c

старенький minaal, если надо прям большой
недавно взял peak design outdoor 25l, дико зашел и для хайков, и вот я с ним каталась полтора месяца — летние шмотки небольшие и было достаточно
если решу обзавестись чем-нибудь новым побольше — буду брать их же travel на 30 или 45, я на него пять лет смотрю

Lion in relief, from the procession street in Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II period, 604-562 BC. Istanbul Archaeology Museum.

Mosaic depicting a lion, from Italica, 176-275 AD. Archaeological Museum, Seville.

Lioness-head rhyton of translucent limestone with a hole in the muzzle for pouring out the liquid offering. From Knossos, 1600-1500 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

Sculpted relief depicting a wounded lion vomiting blood, from the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal palace reliefs. North Palace of Nineveh (Irak), Assyrian, c. 645-635 BC. British Museum, London.

Happy #WorldLionDay! 🦁 Here are some images of lions from the ancient world.

The Newport Arch - the remains of the north gateway to Roman Lincoln (Lindum Colonia). Built in around 200 AD, the arch is the only Roman gateway in the UK still used by traffic. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Lincoln

For the terminally online, the offline world is like the internet as experienced by technophobes - somewhere you periodically yet reluctantly have to log in for accessing essential services, along with the annoyance of having to remember the codes required to interface with it

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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Book opened to highly illustrative title page

Close up of highly-illustrative page of text

Close up image of the word "Christ" woven from silk

Close up image of silk fibers forming the letter C

Have you ever seen a book made entirely of silk? One item getting a lot of reading room attention recently is this "Livre de Prières." This book was manufactured with the Jacquard process, which relied on perforated punch cards to operate a loom, and is considered a precursor to early programming.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.