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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 1h

Report: it is WIMDY. It tried to, but did not succeed in, Wimding me head-first off the bike path.

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...

www.openculture.com

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 7h

Toad woke up. “Drat!” he said. “This house is a mess. I have so much work to do.”

Frog looked through the window. “Toad, you are right,” said Frog. “It is a mess.”

Toad pulled the covers over his head.

Toad hides in bed from the mess of his house, while Frog looks on.

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 5h

*sings*

Do you recognise the monstrance?
Look, look it’s on display!
You rarely see them out of doors,
Behold the Lord,
In a vessel filligré!

The circumstances are quite dire,
So now it’s here.
We shouldn’t have to tell you why.
Only priests carry the monstrance,
Quite specifically, a monstrance.

Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 5h

Also related to “monster”.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 17h

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43...

Habemus Papam

A game of intrigue, and hidden agendas in the race to elect the next Pope.

boardgamegeek.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16h

The biggest source of "this isn't fun anymore" on social media is actually not "dedicated harasser decides to make your life miserable"! It's "constantly running into people from a social/behavioral cluster that has radically different norms than you want to deal with".

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 8h

Useful advice on how to get rid of default AI searches on Google Chrome
opus.ing/posts/how-to...

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 10h

This whole thing is yet another example of how women's sports aren't reflective of what women are capable of, because all of sports treated it as totally normal for women to eat so little relative to their exercise level that their bodies start conserving resources by shutting down functions.

In women’s sports, athletes losing their periods was long considered normal. Not anymore

A byproduct of wider issues, periods continue to be missed, ignored or misunderstood in elite sports

www.nytimes.com

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 19h

Always make sure to read the Letters to the Editor in @lrb.co.uk

Dirty Books:
Barbara Newman, writing about Boccaccio, notes that ‘in modern Italian, the adjective boccaccesco mean “lascivious”’ (LRB, 14 August). She might have added that in the UK, ‘Chaucerian’ means about the same, though with a scatological edge. Meanwhile here in Japan the Decameron has a special following because slang for ‘big’ is deca and for ‘penis’ is Mara, while ron means ‘a treatise’.

Timon Screech, Kyoto

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 16h

You, an idiot: goon bag.

The Chinese, a nation of intellectuals:

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 17h

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 19h

Dedication in PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, 1957

To Who
J. Alastair Frisby
Who
Told Me I Would Never Have A Book Published
And
Advised me
To
Get a job selling jellied eels
SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 18h

Achievement: a successful Right Wonga

(The Right Wonga: a delicate manoeuvre consisting of turning right off Canterbury road at Wonga Street without being swiped by a rail replacement bus, stuck for multiple traffic light cycles, or caught with one’s vehicle stuck in the intersection)

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 21h

My baking today turned out very poorly.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 1d

The reclaiming/reframing of frogs as Antifascist after enduring years of the execrable Pepe is glorious and I am here for every scrap of new heroic frog art

Christopher Doll @blackbirdcd.bsky.social · 1d

This is Space Frog

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 22h

… well that looks suspiciously similar to an ANZAC biscuit (lacks the golden syrup)

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

"Australian Shortbread" shows up in British newspapers during the First World War. The recipe is recognizable as the flapjack known in the UK today. I can't find any oat bars called flapjacks in the papers before 1928, but the Australian Shortbread seems to be the same thing.

from the Forest Hill & Sydenham Examiner, 31 August 1917, a recipe calling for 1/2 pound rolled oats, 3 oz margarine, 1 1/2 oz granulated sugar, 1 tsp salt

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

Now I'm looking up historical flapjack recipes. Pure chaos.

from the South Durham Herald, 5 July 1890

screenshot of a recipe from an old newspaper
Flap-Jacks
Mince the breast of a chicken with some lean ham, half an anchovy, a little parsley, three or four shallots, and lemon-peel. Season with pepper, salt, cayenne, and beaten mace.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget.

Macron puts Lecornu back as France's prime minister just days after he quit

French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget.

n.pr

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 1d

The perfect genderqueer shirt doesn't exi--

An oversized cotton button-down shirt. The upper portion features a classic shirting panel in pale blue, while the lower half shifts into a playful polka dot print for visual contrast. Diagonally placed floral sequin embellishments sweep across the front forming the border between the two fabrics

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Alex West @alexwest.bsky.social · 2d

Moon’s superpower is looking like she’s never done anything wrong when in fact she has done many things wrong.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Az @highly-reckons.bsky.social · 1d

This is worth a read. It’s more than fluff - an interesting interview with two friends (not partners) in their 70s about their respective gay experience.

www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

'It's glorious.' At 72, Louisville man finds courage to come out as gay

Lou Tingle knew he was attracted to men, but never said it out loud. Then, at 72, after his second wife died, he finally had the courage to come out.

www.courier-journal.com

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