An eastern chipmunk peers over the edge of the novel The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera. Book and chipmunk are sitting on a jean clad knee in an outdoor chair in the woods.
I think this book is marvellous and strange. I loved the unique prose. The chipmunk is a harsher critic, however. She says it doesn't taste nearly as good as peanuts.
Networks of blackmail seem to be a not uncommon feature of upper class bro culture. I'm recalling David Cameron and the pig's head.
As recently as Tuesday, the ticket reservation site was letting people reserve two tickets without verifying the phone number or the email they entered. I have it on good authority that 416-967-1111 worked as a valid phone number. 👀
Reminder to self:
Hooray! I found my way back into this account. Hello again, Bluesky!
Somebody read Bisson’s “England Underway” and took it for nonfiction?
At least they got the grammar right?
IKR? But as the Wikipedia article tells us, Kenau‘s legend is probably grander than her actual efforts. It’s all about having an imaginative biographer.
The painting is up for auction, by the way. www.dorotheum.com/en/l/9086831/
“See here: a woman from Haarlem named Kennau, devout as a man, defeated many Spanish tyrants.”
“Age: 46, in the year 1573.”
I wish I knew more about this painting. What is the orb-shaped object on her belt?
There used to be a place like that near me, but it closed after the owner met a sticky end. www.yorkregion.com/news/crime/r...
Well there we go. I clearly have not been reading the National Post very thoroughly.
I didn’t know Frank Stronach was still alive.
The Master and Margarine
#MakeABookGreasy
SNL actually did a skit about hate-post dunks, with Tom Hanks ... back in 1990, before the internet was even a thing.
Saying "look at this stupidity" is just like passing a bottle of rotten milk saying "you try it, you try it."
I don't want to try it! It's rotten milk!
Congratulations, you can now feel smarter than a leader who works 70-hour weeks and has zero staff.
You won the battle to annihilate the OLP, remember? Congratulations.
The Ontario Liberal Party doesn’t have official party status. There is no comms bureau. It’s literally a handful of MPPs and junior staffers.
In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not ask Google for nutritional advice.
Agreed, except I would like the archivists to be highly paid.
Also, could the cops please admit that they are never going to solve their nineteenth-century cold cases, and send the records to the Archives already.
See also the town of Tatouine, Tunisia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tataouine
Raffaele Contigiani's Hotel du Lac (1973) in Tunis. It was George Lucas's inspiration for the Sandcrawler in Star Wars.
TIL some SF history I didn’t know before. Editor and author Donald Wollheim was into cross dressing and belonged to Casa Susanna, the earliest known US crossdressing/trans network. readfoyer.com/article/bets...
Screengrab of Bluesky web interface showing the reply-controls icon, which looks like two overlapping speech bubbles.
Screengrab of the "Who can reply" controls that open if you hit the reply controls icon shown in the previous image.
I think I'm not the only person who missed the arrival of reply-gating, so minor PSA, when you compose a post here, you can hit the little speech-bubbles icon next to the Post button to open settings for who can reply to your post. 💫
The image shows a collage of instances in which the word "adhuc" appears in a legal record (known as a plea roll) from the criminal court proceedings in Norfolk in 1250. Some have flourishes others have drawings such as a dragon breathing fire. Reference: The National Archives, London, JUST 1/565.
A collage of Adhucs from a court record in 1250 Norfolk
"Adhuc" means "Still" and appears at the top of some membranes. The heading tells readers the proceedings are a continuation from the same district listed on the previous membrane. For instance, a dragon breathes fire on "Still from Grimshoe"
I’m listening to WKCR as student journalists at Columbia are calmly describing the situation. They are amazing and also it is *such a balm* to simply hear neutral calm descriptions. www.radio.net/s/wkcr
It’s an eight century-old tradition, as these historians explain.
There are tropes about separated twins, like Marie de France’s lai of Le Fresne, and identical-looking friends impersonating each other, like Ami and Amile.
New research on conspiracy beliefs. Turns out the folks most likely to hold them are people with low education—and white guys with grad degrees. It’s not how about how smart you are, it’s how insecure you are about it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
