An opening from a medieval manuscript of Peraldus' Theological miscellany, showing illustrations of dragons and serpents.
How to Train Your Dragon 🐉🐉
Peraldus' Theological Miscellany, 1236-c.1250 (Harley MS 3244, f. 59r)
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A boar and its harp shall never be parted.
BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320 CE-c.1330 CE; England, S. E. (London); f.41v @blmedieval.bsky.social
TAKE MY MONEY. Also, we have some great elephant woodcuts at my institution and I wrote about a few of them myself.
Argenteuil, Seen from the Small Arm of the Seine - 1872
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7762
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
Most frequently used movie quote?
Lastly, they are for the soul of your nation and your cause. Limits on war preserve humanity. Mercy transcends violence. After the fighting, there has to be something more. Rules of engagement and the laws of armed conflict protect you; abandoning them is dire.
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green is hanging up laundry, while singing Cherubino's aria from the opera The Wedding of Figaro. Blue peeks from behind a bedsheet, startling Green badly enough to prompt Green to shoot straight up through the ceiling. Blue: You sing when you do laundry by yourself? Green: Iaaah! Taken aback, Blue looks apologetically up to the ceiling. Blue: I didn't mean to startle you. Green: It's okay.
Every time people start attributing consciousness to AI I recall the AIs in @glynnstewart.com’s Marsverse, most of which don’t want to engage with humans and all of which are deeply alien/weird.
Saint Francis, our brother, you who eight hundred years ago went to meet Sister Death as a man at peace, intercede for us before the Lord. You recognized true peace in the Crucifix of San Damiano, teach us to seek in him the source of all reconciliation that breaks down every wall. You who, unarmed, crossed the lines of war and misunderstanding, give us the courage to build bridges where the world raises up boundaries. In this time afflicted by conflict and division, intercede for us so that we may become peacemakers: unarmed and disarming witnesses of the peace that comes from Christ. Amen.
Pope Leo XIV’s prayer for peace to St. Francis of Assisi (composed for the 800th anniversary of his death; text in alt text)
A giant pomelo over a country estate. The image is part of a book about famous citrus fruits of Nuremberg (VD18 14760916).
What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
From the title leaf of a collection of Dali prints: LES BIBLIOPHILES DE L’AUTOMOBILE CLUB DE FRANCE
I have questions.
Chotiner: And when you engraved "One Ring to rule them all" on the—
Sauron: I don't understand why everyone keeps taking that out of context.
Chotiner: Well, do you mean to rule us all?
Sauron: I'm here to talk about Gondor's illegal encroachment in Ithilien, Isaac.
I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere
Maternal grandfather was a doughboy in WWI, literally: the son of a baker, he was assigned to a field kitchen in France. After the war he worked for the USPS. Paternal grandfather was a draughtsman who lost his shirt in the Depression but became a successful civil engineer afterward.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
“There is no such thing as a just war: they do not exist.” - Pope Francis
The saddest thing I ever did see/ was a woodpecker pecking at a plastic tree
giant beaver mech: gotcha covered, little buddy
This image from 1588 shows a tree with big bound books grewing instead of fruits. This tree starts in a house organ that is played from a well-dressed woman and a man. The image of part of. abook praising the art of making books, you may find it here if you fancy: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/uh-20/start.htm
Back in 1588, everyone still knew that book trees grow better when there's music around, and when you speak to them. Attention and house organ music were the key.
Absolutely Adorable 🥰 Little River Otter 🦦 #CutenessOverload
A blue and white jay perches in a bare poplar tree in the muted light of a somewhat cloudy day.
A backyard blue jay to bring a little peace to your feed. #birds
My first and last D20 cake. I almost had a stroke trying to figure out the angles
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Weekend!
#medievalsky
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social B.11.22, f. 108r
OUR QUEEEEEEEEEN
Not normally a dropper of Anglo-Saxon vulgarities but this had me chortling.
The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
And you don’t have to like everything you read. Especially stuff in the canon. I love Austen and Cather but not Lawrence and Joyce and am so-so on Dickens and Morrison. And that’s okay! Find your joy!
Everything is monsters.
What do we do with monsters?
That's right. Domesticate them and breed their descendants until they look ridiculous.
Thread!
Organ #cat. prayer book, Bruges or Ghent c. 1480-1490. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.438, fol. 161v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Medieval Illumination (@medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)
https://bsky.app/profile/medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mfixy5nvcow2
> Organ #cat. prayer book, Bruges or Ghent c. 1480-1490. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.438, fol. 161v. #medieval #MedievalArt
