Speaking as type get-there-early, you WHAT

I mean yes I see the logic but

I mean there’s de-alcoholized wines now, can the 15yo tell the difference?

if we actually get a senior political figure excommunication then just a heads up that every single medievalist on here, we’re gonna lose our entire shit

Let me know if you have good donation ideas in the area? I have bins in the basement of all my old blue and synthetic clothes (allergies). Some I really should put up for sale but others …yeah.

So jealous! I love how they’re an overlap of medievalism, early programming, and women’s work!

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I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

A college-age group made lists of who they’d want on their team in the apocalypse and almost all added me and my spouse for our various handy skills.

And it was like, sweethearts, a single year with no modern medicine and he’s fully blind and I’m probably dead.

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

See if there’s something more regular in your area? At the very least a mutual aid group, but there’s pretty frequent protests near me.

For what it’s worth, there are increasing protests like what you describe. Outside the ICE facility nearest me for a year now, initially on Wednesdays and now pretty much daily, though the Wednesday crowds are the ~1k ones.

My weather app wants to claim it’s rain. Awful white and fluffy for rain.

Is it noticeably worse on this site though? I feel like the strain of burgeoning authoritarianism/late-stage capitalism/constant polycrisis is just rising and rising for everyone.

As someone who just got her own formal diagnosis of MCAS, I hope you get useful answers!

*weel

A long, skinny map titled: "Life and Travels of the European Eel" with a subtitle reading: "From the Eel's Perspective." A label at the bottom of the map reads: "Begin Here." The map top half of the map is an mirror copy of the bottom half. I will put the full text of the column in the alt text in an image in the next post in the thread. The map goes from the bottom of the page up, starting in the Sargasso Sea. An set of arrows show the eels paths to shore, then up a river and into a marshland. The arrows continue up the page to show the eel leaving the marshland and heading back downstream, and out to sea. The land is green and verdant at the bottom of the map, because the eels migrate upstream in the spring. The land is brown and dry at the top of the map, because eels migrate downstream in the autumn. A column of text on the side tells about the eels' journeys and changes. It is more text than I can relate in the space allowed here. Each paragraph has an arrow pointing up to the next one, and they are designed to be read from the bottom of the page going upwards.

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel.

I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this.

This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

I am trying to convince my father that even if the royalties on his academic book are $1.50 on a good year and he’s not fussed, it is still worth joining this for spite and justice.

And also for all Millennial torrenters.

Heck, how many traditional foods *need* processing of some sort to not be poisonous? Cassava, kidney beans, poke sallet, cashews…

Meme. Painting of a pastoral scene with two people standing next to a horse and an ox. The ox, black with a white splot on its head, harnessed to a wagon full of hay, & cream-colored horse has a collar on, but is not attached to anything. Both animals are turned to face the two people. One of them is a young man in a coat a wide-brimmed hat. He is sitting. Standing next to him is a young woman in a green skirt & salmon-colored jacket. Her hair is golden, she's staring at the young man. They are at the base of a rocky outcropping. The man is likely eating, because next to him is a small black & white dog who is *clearly* groaking. In all, it looks like the man is telling a story to a rapt (if mixed) audience. All are listening while he spins a yarn about the time he slid a flounder under his headmaster's door, or about how he was the inspiration for the song "All About That Bass." Will he impress the girl? Or, at least, the ox? No. Meme text reads: "part horse part ox ALL AWESOME"

It's the Equinox...time again for me to remind you about the EquineOx: that mythopoetic, all-knowing horse/ox hybrid. Mysterious bringer of socks & other sundry goodies. A godling of the changing seasons.

Friends: may the EquineOx bring you many blessing this day!

I regret not having photos of the ceiling my dad painted me and my sister, a deep blue turret with gold foil stars. The largest was carefully placed where the North Star would sit.

Humans: wanting star stickers in their bedroom since at least the 15th c.

Apropos of nothing: in 1998, when she ran in the Democratic primary for IL-9, a much younger Jan Schakowsky trounced a certain J.B. Pritzker.

It turned out not to be the end of his political career.

Hi, I just want to say a word in support of @meganwachspress.bsky.social. I heard from her this morning before she went public. I had not had a chance to respond yet because my father in law is in the hospital.

This is my home district and this is an issue I’ve spent a lot of time on. Please, friends still in the area: this ought to absolutely disqualify Biss from being elected as a progressive to a position of power.

Oh. Oh I hadn't put that together. Oh boy.

Answer: any of the dozens digitized and online in October 2023 that are not yet available again in March, 2026.

Anger aimed at: 1) the lack of legislation of crypto that directly enabled the attack and 2) the shoddy funding of a national library that directly resulted in insecure digital footprint

I noticed in emails with duplicates (or later replies?) that it would pop up in some but not others

A pair of caramel brown leather ballet flats

Because I am so very proud of them: first real completed pair of shoes. Box calf, linen and silk threads, handmade, own pattern, and so so much help from my teacher.

They were in theory 10’x10’ floor plan but more like 12’x12’. 6-8 male shoemakers crammed in, doing the making, with uppers made at home or elsewhere by women.