Couldn't learn Tif's, but I did learn from Itta, just need practice and time

Yeah, trying to learn enough naalbinding for a pair of socks too.

What is on deck after you make these? Any other historical socks?

Wow! What a shot

I've been inviting them too, let me know if it works

Katherine Clark, House Minority Whip, would like us to believe that she heard nothing about Swalwell until the accusations came out. Disingenuous at best, or outright lie?

This started out as a conversation about how you would translate Hwæt in Beowulf today.

Now I want to hear Beowulf as done by Luis!!

Call Michael Peña

He needs to read the whole thing!!

He should have stopped at one term like he said he was going to

Found this for you 💜

Orkney hood?

Linen smoother. Like an ironing board

Chessmen at NMS National Museums Scotland - National Museums Scotland

195 years ago, on the 11th of April 1831, the Lewis chessmen were first exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland shortly after being rediscovered. The pieces wee made between 1150 and 1200 and commonly believed to have been made in Norway. #otd #history 🗃️

Yes, thanks

Yay! Sung that too!

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

They're the same thing g!

This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught by an underwater robot during an expedition off the Phoenix Islands.

And thus Ich wake yn the daweninge
And Ich steppe out syde
And Ich take a depe breathe and koude ful wel flye
And Ich screame wyth al puissance of my lunges
What ys goinge on?
And Ich saye hey ey ey yey
hey ey yey
Ich saye hey:
WHAT YS GOINGE ON?

Yeah, and little cheese goes a long way.

My last rolled pork is didn't pound flat enough and the center was a little pink. We all lived though.

Cherries and pork ate a good combination. Post how it turns out!

Kathy Spillar: The Heritage Foundation wants to ‘use every lever of power’ against women Kathy Spillar, Ms. Magazine's executive editor, is sounding the alarm on a new policy blueprint released by The Heritage Foundation that she says aims to roll back advances for women. She warns of an authoritarian strategy aimed at shrinking women’s independence and political power. Despite that, she insists women across the country are organizing in the courts, in elections, and in the streets, refusing to go backward.

Kathy Spillar is sounding the alarm on a new policy blueprint released by The Heritage Foundation that she says aims to roll back advances for women. Despite that, she insists women across the country are organizing in the courts, in elections, and in the streets, refusing to go backward. #Velshi

That color is spectacular

🎶
Blue moone,
Thou sawest me stondinge
Al oon --
Wythout a dreame yn myne herte --
Wythout a love of myne owene.

Blue moone,
Thou knewest al Ich was ther for --
Thou heardest me sayinge a prayer for
Someone Ich trewelye koude care for.
🎶

Did he just ramble into building supplies when he should be speaking about soldiers in harms way? FFS!

Those are amazing!

No, but I'll find it. I have one as well, and do a bit of open fire/coal cooking of medieval and renaissance recipes

Loved the curfew too!

Ancient Mars was warm and wet, not cold and icy Kaolinite pebbles show evidence of alteration under high rainfall conditions.

arstechnica.com/science/2026...

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that life could have developed on the planet at this time.