a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.
The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
A clam with a spring attached to the shell. The spring has a magnet placed above a sensor.
Hardly new info, but BSky should know:
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
Looking for archival materials for teaching and research? 🔎 You might want to check out the many features of NDL's Japan Search database! Our CDDP video guide showcases how you can use this tool to find the digitized Japan-related materials that you need! guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/video-s...
This could be about the Australian leader of the opposition
Where’s the lie? 😂
This section is a thing of beauty #archaeology
Book cover of The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization by Jennifer Bates. Image shows a woman in a blue sari decorated with red flowers, with shell bangles on her arm. She stands in a harvested field looking away across to people carrying the harvest in the distance.
🚨Just in time for New Year: my book is being released! "The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization" explores the origins & uses of #plants in the #IndusCivilization. Published with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, it synthesizes #genetics, #archaeobotany, & #archaeology.
• Honoring the Winter Solstice •
shortest day. longest night.
celebrating the caesura.
the pivot point.
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Hail the ReBirth of Light
JMW Turner . Angel Standing in the Sun
Ynterviewere: Kan you explayne this gap in your resume?
Gandalf: Then Darknesse took me, and I strayede out of thoughte and tyme, and I wanderid far on roades that I will not telle.
Tinariwen
Silver City Super Band
Neon Gods
Yojimbo
Hey there, my name is Andrew Browne; I’m an artist based in Sapporo, Japan.
I’m open for commissions! My work ranges from fine art to comics, incorporating both my American roots and my love for film (from Akira Kurosawa to kung fu films to John Carpenter).
(Shares appreciated!✌🏼)
back to back tweets — the first is from known dipshit Matt Walsh, who said, “Remember when they spent years telling us to panic over the hole in the ozone layer and then suddenly just stopped talking about it and nobody ever mentioned the ozone layer.” the second is from @DKThomp, who said, “What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.”
move to make “ozowned“ a verb, all in favor
We are asking — no, we are begging — for financial support.
Please take a moment to visit the appeal page set up for our benefit by Irish artist @liznangel3.bsky.social and read the most recent updates.
If you can, please, please consider a donation.
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Picture of the inside of a tithe barn containing military equipment.
R.E.M.E. Workshop Of A Field Regiment R.A. Working In A Tythe Barn, by Raymond Teague Cowern (1913-86), 1942.
IWM (Art.IWM ART 16933)
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Libraries matter more than ever now! They embody a beautiful & brilliant idea that we must never stop defending. The idea that knowledge is free & belongs to EVERYONE. We all need to support our libraries & librarians - especially when people seek to ban books & free thinking. #libraries #books
Perhaps a good time to reintroduce my thesis work! I'm looking at the long history of reuse and recycling practices in Cyprus. My research uses a new methodology and cataloguing mechanisms to record the quantity or reuse per object in order to better articulate pre-industrial circular economies
Black and white drawing of a hand playing a bass.
Black and white drawing of a hand on a guitar neck. The headstock has a piece of screentone over it.
Throwback (2018) to when I was still drawing on paper. Hopefully someday again…
Hey everyone, I have an ask. Earlier this year, I left an extremely toxic work environment due to the effects it was having on my health. Since then, I’ve been slowly building up freelance creative work in the Tokyo area. It’s a bit too slow, though, and I need help rounding up more work, ASAP.
I really enjoyed working with the Crater Locators team a while ago with a live dial-in on an actual V-2 excavation during an @avculturesconf.bsky.social meet. They're doing great stuff, give them a follow!
Picture postcard of Ueno Station and Ginza Line entrance in 1927.
Ueno Station has changed a lot since 1927. This postcard is from the Kitagawa Chikashi Collection at the Edo-Tokyo Museum. From Ueno you could take the Ginza Line, the oldest subway line in Asia, to Asakusa, Tokyo's top entertainment district at the time, and maybe run into Yasunari Kawabata.
‘Commandos and the SOE’, In the fight: Australians and the war in Burma 1942–1945, Military History and Heritage Victoria, Caulfield RSL, Vic., 16 November 2024
academia.edu/125698188/_Com… via @academia @AWMemorial @MHHVic @SOEhistory
And again, full now but a selection of women working in/waffling about history for you to choose from go.bsky.app/KNeAnRj
Cover of forthcoming book Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese (by Zev Handel, University of Washington Press, 2025)
If I can finish proofreading and make the index in time, my new book will come out in January. 📖
I've been working on it for five years so I'm pretty excited that it will soon be a reality. I'd like to tell you a bit about it.
1/16
Thought for the day in Trumpworld.
If you don't already follow the Bluesky page for the "Never Mind The Dambusters" pod that I co-host with @lydiajane13.bsky.social the page is here 👇
bsky.app/profile/nmtd...
Hey Australian history folks, here is the main account you need! Now finally added !!!! @austhistassoc.bsky.social
Welcome AHA! All should join:)
theaha.org.au
