Wool-Encased Tea Addict

Northern Europe and Scandinavia manage to cope despite being Way Farther North.

I think my car is within a couple minutes of. consensus accuracy, for the moment. The main thing is that the stove and the microwave agree.

I'll follow the sun.

I change all the clocks that need changing, and then I sit surrounded by liars.

It really is a lot.

you are... bsky.app/profile/berg...

❤️

Please stay with us.

Never miss a chance to tell my favourite science joke:

Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?

A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.

I wish they would just let us stay on standard time. I like being a part of axial tilt, not trying to impose myself on it.

Goodnight from The Old Ferry pub, where Paul Hardy is having another pint rather than risking rain and rumours of Empress Eel swimming the flooded lanes. Goodnight from Ellen Wulford, stitching shadows into her coat with a needle made from fox-bone. Goodnight from Hookland.

The region's largest industrial users, which collectively consume the majority of the region's water, remain exempt from emergency curtailment. These multi-billion-dollar refineries, petrochemical plants and liquified natural gas facilities are built to run at a steady rate and can't simply throttle down production in accordance with water availability. They consume large volumes of water primarily in cooling towers to prevent excessive heating and explosions.

Industrial users remain exempt from emergency water restrictions.

I hope it's all you could wish!

Now let's do ours.

I am pretty sure you won't be sorry.

A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske

A _really_ horrible family.

A black and white photograph of a woman wearing an ornate light coloured dress with ruffles. She's seated on an ornately carved wooden chair, with her right hand resting on the head of a large black and white dog of the border collie persuasion.

When you're posting inspirational women's day stuff today, remember alt text. Tvm.

Eunice Foote, who theorised and demonstrated the greenhouse gas effect in the 1850s, but was largely overlooked.

More on her and others:

ideas.ted.com/history-over...

So very.

Not it it but also a good one. Thank you!

It is! And no wonder neither Victorian nor Regency was right; I forgot about Edwardian.

Yes! This is the one! Thank you!

A parody of the famous evolution of man depiction. On top is the original as an ape evolved into man. In the bottom the man is one of the generals at Dover Air Force base and moving backwards through another officer, Hegseth, JD Vance and, finally, the most primitive, cerebrally underdeveloped cretin of all, a hunched orange felon at the back

the docent survive without metal or pottery.
The museum was a nifty (to me) mix of fossils, giant saws, stuffed birds,and a Barbie exhibit, a section about NYC/911 we didn't have time to look at. No entry fee, recommended donation of $5 and EXCELLENT value. A lot of apparently interested kids.

The beautifully articulated front feet of the Cohoes Mastodon, a nearly complete skeleton of an extinct kinda elephant from the last Ice age. In the background, a mural painting of him as he might have appeared in life, brown and shaggy with small ears because of the cold.

Late 19th c horse on an early 2oth c merry-go-round or carousel. This horse is brown with a flowing black mane and nicely painted harness bits to 'hold' the moulded saddle. There carousel horses were also black and dapple grey, with shiny white teeth, real horsehair tails, and eyes made out of bif catseye marbles. And they let you ride on this! Even if you are grown up! It was good.

tents out of skins and mammoth/mastodon bones. I said "You can't call them cavemen." She said it was just a figure of speech. I barely refrained from tearing out her liver with my teeth; Lisa hauled me off to find the snack bar.
It seems I am kinda sensitive about slurs. I'd like to see

a photo of the Paleo-Indians diorama, correctly showing a group of people knapping a point and butchering a caribou. They are in carefully sewn leather jackets and trousers with painted decoration; we have the stone tools for making very small holes in hide, and they wouldn't have survived the Younger Dryas climate without well-made gear.

Yesterday at the excellent New York State Museum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor..., I became irrationally furious when the docent, putting forward an uncertain argument that PaleoIndians had caused the extinction of mastodons, referred to them as 'cavemen'--_after_ she had explained they made

Definitely should have delved into who the "they" referred to because I'm pretty sure that says the parents weren't ready to have conversations, not that the kids weren't ready to ask. Because if the kid is asking, the kid is ready. And then the avoidant parent is just being immature.

No, shorter and no footnotes. Thanks, though.

Does anyone remember an M/M fantasy set in probably Victorian-or-regency England where a bookish gentleman with absolutely the most horrible family proves he is more than barely a magician at all when he bonds with another family's magical estate? There is a hedge maze involved.

I'm so glad! I like the characters, particularly Miss Frost. I wish the authors would write another ane!