[ID: A tweet by Tim Dunn @/MrTimDunn reading: “I MUST tell you,” said a lady with breathless excitement, “I MUST tell you that you are wearing the same clothes as that building.” and skipped off. Attached is a photo of Tim wearing a yellow sweater and burgundy pants, standing with his arms crossed, in front of a building painted half burgundy and half yellow. End ID]
this is the dykiest way to sit, girl
Two pieces revealed tonight on the Critical Role sizzle reel! Captain Xandis and and Planerider Ryn. These were super fun to do!
This morning there was a huge group of turkey vultures hanging out in the creek looking cool with their hoods up
[Text ID:
What an age! Every one is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also, eaten up by the sun and the wind. I don’t know where I get the courage to keep on living in the midst of these ruins. Let us love each other to the end.
George Sand
Letter to Gustave Flaubert
27 Jun 1870
End ID.]
help i’m being entrapped by the devil
shirt that says “THIS WAS WETLAND ONCE AND IT WILL BE WETLAND AGAIN”
a prayer of gratitude
[ID: image of hebrew text detailing the bracha (jewish blessing) for seeing exceptionally strange-looking people or animals:
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יהֵוָהֵ, אֱלהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעולָם מְשַנֶּה הַבְּרִיּוֹת
Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, m’shaneh ha-briyot.
Blessed are You, HaShem* our G-d, Sovereign of the Universe, who makes creatures different.]this is the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen
Funguary, day two: pixie cup lichen
OK so apparently pixie cup lichen belongs to the same family as reindeer moss and that’s how this happened.
At that age, it was not made by Homo sapiens. This was crested by a Neanderthal (or possibly another premodern human, Homo heidelbergensis).
They lived for hundreds of thousands of years through much harsher climactic conditions than we have, through ice ages and interglacials; it is so strange that we exist on Earth for the first time in millions of years when there is just one human species.
In Hope of Better Things
Franklin Expedition spoon with the crest of Lieutenant James Walter Fairholme, with the initials C.H. (Cornelius Hickey) later added below it.
[Collection National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, former Greenwich Hospital Collection ID: AAA2386
I edited the first photo a bit to make the crest and initials more clearly visible.]
Fairholme’s crest as seen in the Illustrated London News of 28 October 1854 p.421, when the finding of this spoon & other relics was announced by John Rae. The motto ‘Spero Meliora’ means 'In hope of better things’.
Lingthusiasm 2022 Survey Results
In late 2022, we ran our first Lingthusiasm audience survey! We tried out some linguistic experiments, and now we have the results. To learn more, and stay in the loop for potential future surveys (we have ethics approval for 3 years!), join us on Patreon.
Happy 5/4!













