A while ago I put together a short movie for @archaeologymag.bsky.social about experiments with stone axes like this – remarkably effective, although clearing a forest would have been a lot of work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5U-...
Happy Bun Day to all who celebrate!
Please honour our traditions of spanking people while they are still in bed, yelling "BOLLA BOLLA BOLLA!" and then demanding they give you a creamy bun!
The @throwingmuses.bsky.social Moonlight Concessions US tour 2026
What a time to be alive!
Life is chaos, don't miss your chances to see the one @kristinhersh.bsky.social and this iconic band!
More dates coming!
Tickets links
kristinhersh.com/tour
Bonus #DarwinDay content:
Six of the best grumpy Darwin quotes.
Hello fellow linguists! I'm putting out this post to see if there are any JP to EN freelance translators who are interested on working on a relatively small Japanese game. Please leave a comment in this post or send me a message, and I can assist in getting you connected.
A overhead view of an ancient Greek cup, decorated in the centre with a workshop scene in orange.
A overhead view of an ancient Greek cup, decorated in the centre with a workshop scene in orange.
Adding the finishing touches 🖌️
The image in this ancient Greek cup depicts a helmet-maker concentrating on adding the final touches to a Corinthian helmet.
📷️ Attic red-figure pottery stemmed cup depicting a scene of daily life, The Antiphon Painter, 490–480 BCE. AN1896-1908.G.267
The Food of Love - did you know I wrote a whole 2-player romance game where you play actors in a Shakespeare play falling in love with each other and the words of the bard!
Available on itch
#rpg #ttrpg #duetgame #valentinesday
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!
Bees 🐝
What (else) does a gigantic unaccountable human-rights-violating slush fund buy you? Not as much secrecy as you'd think, luckily.
I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
I have a lot of thoughts about the "I can generate 200 books a year you can only do 2 at most if you actually write the things, I win" bullshit, and no time to yell about all of it. So I'll just say this:
This thread is completely essential. Though I was delighted to goggle and dance in my seat even in half-ignorance.
Wednesday night 2/11 from 7-7:30 EST I will be doing the first of a series of brief online gatherings with the good folks at the Ashland (MA) Public Library, where I will recommend some science fiction books you might like to read!
ashlandmass.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/vir...
ProPublica is doing the work.
Hate to sound like I'm begging, but pre-orders are incredibly important for visibility... so, if you're planning to get the latest in the Stella series, please consider ordering it now! Out very soon
I like how editing can mean "I will ply this poem with so many tightenings it will erupt like a watermelon girdled by a thousand rubberbands" but it can also mean "I will put this in Garamond and save it as a pdf"
Very good paper about a very strange thing #farright #radicalright
Colorful (blues, yellows and orange mainly) graphic image of 4 white men with punk-like hairstyles and a big yellow star - representing the band, The Clash
#Music loving friends! It is the annual #KEXP International Clash Day tomorrow! Streams globally 5 am- 7 pm PT. So fun. This art is from a fantastic exhibit of local Seattle artists doing cover style art. LOVE my print of work by Pat Moriarity, 2017. kexp.org/listen #TheClash
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.
Phengaris teleius (Scarce Large Blue) in a French meadow. One of the 17 species in the European Grassland Butterfly Index. Photo: Martin Warren)
The latest European Grassland Butterfly Indicator is out. It shows that grassland butterflies have declined by 47% since 1991, indicating a huge loss of grassland biodiversity. The data come from 16,150 transects & 15,000 volunteers. We are calling for urgent action. www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69...
Nooooooo!
Martinez ends her testimony with this:
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"
Ferbruary #oldknees
Massively honored @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for this award. Congrats to all the other '25 Wierdos. Shoutout to @ergot.bsky.social for taking my piece "Brief Interlude with the Night Hag" originally and for all their support. tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/1/...
We are all owed a few wishes at this point in karmic history. I'm spending one of mine. This is true.
The whole series is so terrifying/good.
wefail.art
Hey folks!
Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.
