3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

Oooh!

This makes them look like wizards casting spells and I love it 🥹

I wrote a poem today. Titling it “Spring.”

That pink Volkswagen
Parked under the apple tree
Used to be yellow.

#haiku

Comic. I’m at my desk, leaning over to the doorway, saying “Hey! Foghorn! Foghorn Leghorn! Get in here!” Foghorn Leghorn is walking past the doorway, “Boy, I tell ya, I tell ya, not so loud, boy. What, I say, I say, what d’ya want?” Next panel, I’m gesturing to my computer. “How do I find that really good manga you recommended? It’s an anime now? I keep getting Halloween costumes.” Foghorn leans over my chair, “well, boy, I say, I say, you ain’t typin the entire title.” Last panel, I turn around- “you said ‘witch hat.’ Foghorn gets in my face- “open your ears, boy!! ‘Witch Hat Atelier, I tell ya! I tell ya ‘Atelier,’ I tell ya’”

How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)

Every time I look up, someone on the Sixers is missing a shot.

That was great. Reminded me of what a privilege it is to preside at the Eucharist and to lead people in worship. And a small child high-fived me at the altar rail, which was a blessing in itself.

(Do we still say “skeet” or am I hopelessly behind the times again?)

One of my favorite V2 documents, now skeeting!

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

"They took up the cry that I was interfering in politics! God help me, all the politics I cared for was to feed the hungry. ... It seems to me, however, it was not a question of politics; it was a question of humanity."

Margaret Anna Cusack (Mother Clare)

Seems relevant for this moment

Books, and a lute, and really what more could you possibly need in the 1620s or ever? By Jan Davidsz. de Heem, born on this day in 1606. #BookSky

@diane.dianeduane.com can visit my vents any time.

Brilliant colors of flowers displayed in a cold stone niche. By Jan Davidsz. de Heem, born on this day 1606.

Three tall, slender cobalt-blue glass bottles with flared rims and pointed bases, one decorated with white spiral lines and the others showing patches of weathered surface against a plain light background.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass!

Delicate #Roman unguentaria, vessels used to hold perfume or oil.

Dating 1st century AD.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

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Michaelina Wautier Finally Known by Her Name For centuries, her masterpieces were misattributed to male painters. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy corrects the record.

Michaelina Wautier Finally Known by Her Name
For centuries, her masterpieces were misattributed to male painters. A new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy corrects the record.
by Olivia McEwan for @Hyperallergic
hyperallergic.com/michaelina-w...

Elaborate title to a plan of Glasgow Green and nearby coal workings (1828). At least it doesn't contain any Comic Sans.

I know lithographers who use consistent typefaces, and they're all cowards.

Excuse me while I fall off my chair giggling.

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics. (The two on the ends.)

I'd like to sponsor the Non-Catholics stop suggesting excommunication all the time challenge.

Among the reasons I decided against teaching was the likelihood of trying things like this.

Random TV scene that I think about a lot: Morden asks Vir what he wants in Babylon 5.

I’m still looking for a parish that caters to middle-aged, weary, first-against-the-wall-when-the-revolution-comes-intellectual-class Catholics.

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.

This is a serious escalation.

A jester laughing in a woodcut from 1503. The woodcut features a text: ha ha ha ha.

* ha ha ha ha *

The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!

someone remembered (& subsequently organized 🙀) the community printshop fancy-initials drawer

(it me, actual Virginua Book Arts Type Librarian / fancier Moby-Dick-version printer 🐳)

Late medieval illustration of astronomers viewing the Earth as a globe-sized sphere floating in space, the Sun illuminating one side while the other faces the starry night sky. The whole planet is covered with tiny houses, complete with shadows creating the illusion of three-dimensional form.

Searching for images to illustrate an upcoming Secret Project, I came across this amazing semi-allegorical depiction of the Earth from the late 15th century. I love how modern it seems — a globe floating in space, complete with 3D-rendered buildings. [from BNF, MS Fr. 134]

Tale as olde as tyme
Song as olde as rhyme
Wastinge tyme onlyne

Loving the "You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend" energy of this sketch. #dontmesswithmaidens

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