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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1h

I was thinking so!

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you!

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3h

Am now very curious whether this is etymologically related to "to remonstrate." That certainly seems to be the purpose of it here.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 5h

The priest on the right is holding a monstrance. It’s used to display a piece of communion bread — which Catholics believe becomes the literal body of Christ when it’s consecrated — for worship.

A monstrance is normally only used in *very* solemn ceremonies.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 6h

The nice Italian by the theatre had a deal on, so I am splurging on burrata, carbonara, and tiramisu with a peach/ginger/lime mocktail before heading to my evening show. Mmm.

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone in Toronto who enjoys horror, I cannot recommend The Veil at Crow's Theatre enough. It's an incredibly unsettling one-man show. Admittedly I am not a connoisseur of horror (I am easily-frightened) so I can't say if it's innovative on that front, but the whole thing was masterful.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

Art

A chrome door inside an elevator, upon which some optimistic soul has taped a handwritten sign reading "please stop hot-boxing in the elevator." Below this text, others have inscribed "nah," "fuck," and a scribbled cartoon of a hand with its middle finger raised.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

They are such stunning birds. Where I live they're a sign of spring, and I get excited every time.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

Umpteenth vote for turkey vulture, especially as there were a bunch of them. The paler feathers on the rear edge of the underside of the wing are a good field mark.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

... Reece might murder Ania.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

(What I would have done, had I been in the room, is started at 'over a million?' And then just halved the number of potentials over and over. Boring but effective.)

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

It says a lot about me that last week, I joyously exclaimed "oooh! A SUM!" and paused the episode so I could grab a pen and paper.

Worked it out in under two minutes, but would never have found the equation if I'd been in the room.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 1d

Attempting to deal with the 'digital dark age' 📜 - interesting project linked to the Hawking collection at Cambridge #histSTM

joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

#arthistory people - this lovely sculpture is utterly raw on the back. Is that because it was originally mounted on a wall? Was it maybe part of something bigger?

A front view of a carved wooden statue of a female saint, prettily painted and gilded. She has a badass semicircular headdress in the same colours as her very fancy dress and is reading a book.

The back view of the same statue. This side has no paint or decoration and is a flattish surface with big rough chisel marks on the top half.

A museum card identifying the statue as Saint Barbara, by one or more unidentified Flemish artists, and dating it to approximately 1530 to 1540

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

Quoting this so I can check out the game when I get home: Little Rocket Lab.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 1d

Aaaaaugh cheap motel had a plug-in air freshener whyyyyyy

(Otherwise perfectly fine, but my eyes are streaming even after putting the damn thing outside)

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

Super cute set at Telltale Harbour at the Royal Alex. Like my mum's Christmas village. (Enjoying the play, too! It's basically if they'd set La Grande Séduction in Newfoundland. Which the English version did for some reason iirc. Anyway, some excellent physical comedy happening.)

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I cross the border into Ontario, I get annoyed again at "Open For Business." Not that "Yours to Discover" was brilliant, but at least it wasn't such a naked For Sale sign.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3d

Amd misspelled. One word! Stressed like 'understand'! Second vowel is a schwa, and the d is silent!

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3d

I get that with plasma donation. It's so profoundly weird. (Like - extremely cool, what a neat machine, isn't it great that we can do these things! but! So weird!)

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 4d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3d

Friends! Acquaintances! Enemies! Strangers!

If you have not read Amal's short stories, what a great way to get all caught up.

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 4d

I am EXCITED

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 4d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 4d

I did say it had been a while! I haven't watched that era of Whedon since it aired and my memories are fuzzy, which is one reason I phrased it as a question. :)

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 4d

Like - Superman has that very emotional conversation with something going on in the background, but the characters being emotional aren't the ones making the joke, there's just something contextually funny happening.

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