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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 3d

I imagine the request to the craftsman was something like this

Pic of a manuscript E with the following imagined dialogue:

customer: I’d like to buy a letter E

Artist: A normal E or a naked bird-headed woman with a severed foot standing beside her pet fish

Customer: Is she carrying any fruit?

Artist: A giant blueberry. A snake tried to get it, but she caught it in her enormous beak.

Customer: Ill take the bird waitress and her aquatic guardian

Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 3d

Silly me, I assumed it would just be an eye 👁️

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 3d

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 3d

The aristocrats!

Kilkea castle entrance with a view of the evil eye stone

A description of the evil eye stone at Kilkea castle

Within the gatehouse of the castle is a really interesting stone called the The Evil Eye Stone.

The carving is built into a stone in the guard-room above the bawn entrance to Kilkea Castle. It depicts a man engaged in a sexual act with a semi-human creature with the head of dog or wolf while another beast appears to be having sexual intercourse and eating the man at the same time while a bird pecks at this chest.

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing fancy. I picked it up at the supermarket.

Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 3d

*curious raccoon noises*

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 3d

This is a real thing, and I put a lot of thought into it.

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 3d

You: so you don’t have a costume?

Me: wrong. Murder raccoon.

Me in a raccoon hat holding a large kitchen knife.

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 4d

Not a job, sadly; I just like creatures

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 4d

This was a surprisingly gentle hawk named Maude

A Harris’s Hawk landing on my gloved hand

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 4d

It was part of a falconry experience!

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 4d

He is an Asian owl, and his name is a nod to a South Asian term for owl (goobe), also used to call someone a fool. I guess owls have better PR in the West.

Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 4d

I met an owl named Goober. He still has some of his baby feathers. 🪶

An 18 week old brown wood owl sitting on a perch

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 6d

It’s cat day!?!

A ragdoll cat sitting in a blue and white rug with a surprised look on its face

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 27d

You have my vote

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 27d

I wish that were the only issue

Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 27d

YES

Beth @bethh.bsky.social · 27d

I wish we could block people on Teams

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · Sep 13

Amazing

Beth @bethh.bsky.social · Sep 12

Magpies are known sneaks

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Sneaky Magpies Outwit Scientists by Removing Tracking Devices

The trackers were supposed to track movement behaviors but instead uncovered an unusual problem-solving behavior

www.smithsonianmag.com

Reposted by Beth

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · Sep 12

you have to admit it’s funny that they cared about the Cracker Barrel logo as long if not longer than this

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · Sep 12

I would also like to know!

Beth @bethh.bsky.social · Sep 12

They think you’re cute and fun!

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · Sep 12

They were otherwise quite synchronized

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Beth @bethh.bsky.social · Sep 12

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