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Kathleen E. Kennedy
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
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manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology

Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 8h
My mother, btw, in her 80s, is still doing this. sigh.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 8h
It was a genuine bucket-list moment, therefore, when we found a broken ditcher for sale that we could afford, repaired it, and finally (at last!) sunk a water line to the barn below the frost-line. Carrying buckets from barn to paddocks was easy in comparison!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 8h
When it was too cold for the bucket heaters to work you took a truck crowbar and levered out the block of ice (minus the divot where their noses kept the buckets ice-free) and then refilled with water lugged all the way from the house.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 8h
I have vivid reminders of slogging through knee-deep snow carrying water from the house's external tap (insulated) to the paddocks. Any splashes froze to your jeans instantly.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 8h
Useful stats in here that I'd wondered about. Growing up, plenty of weeks below freezing (as the stats below show) but I wonder bc there's a big difference between weeks in the 20s, w/dips lower (our old norm?), and weeks in the 10s w/stiff winds like we've had. (Or I could be misremembering!)
wttw.bsky.social WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 8h
Chicagoans will still have to endure several more days of bitter cold before temperatures begin trending upward. Expect a gradual warm-up — relatively speaking — by the weekend.

https://to.wttw.com/4bTEbh1
There’s Light at End of Chicago’s Frigid Tunnel, National Weather Service Says
Expect a gradual warm-up — relatively speaking — by the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
to.wttw.com

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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 8h
Chicagoans will still have to endure several more days of bitter cold before temperatures begin trending upward. Expect a gradual warm-up — relatively speaking — by the weekend.

https://to.wttw.com/4bTEbh1
There’s Light at End of Chicago’s Frigid Tunnel, National Weather Service Says
Expect a gradual warm-up — relatively speaking — by the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
to.wttw.com

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9h
THIS

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9h
yeah I mean, I'd vote for her

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9h
Exciting manuscript news! But it's not really my exciting news so I can't share it! ARGH!!

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 9h
The Internet Archive (@archive.org) has digitized 42 volumes of the Medioevo Latino annotated bibliography, an important reference and research tool for medieval studies. #medievalsky archive.org/details/pub_...

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 11h
that's one where there are things I liked about the movie that aren't in the book (and I still wish for a sequel--I know it won't happen but etc)

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 11h
NW CHICAGO BURBS COME GET YER MERCH
youngatheartpets.bsky.social Young at Heart Senior Pet Adoptions @youngatheartpets.bsky.social · 11h
Introducing our newest rescue, Jakey Fizzgig: part dog, part bat, part Disney sidekick, 100% baby. 🥹 This sweet senior boy is obsessed with belly rubs and attention. We are completely smitten. #lovehasnoagelimit #adoptaseniorpet

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Young at Heart Senior Pet Adoptions @youngatheartpets.bsky.social · 11h
Introducing our newest rescue, Jakey Fizzgig: part dog, part bat, part Disney sidekick, 100% baby. 🥹 This sweet senior boy is obsessed with belly rubs and attention. We are completely smitten. #lovehasnoagelimit #adoptaseniorpet

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 11h
(lol true. my family did a lot of construction so I had legit AND nonlegit reasons to be up there! rofl)

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SQLGrrl of the Woods @sqlgrrl.bsky.social · 11h
Duck foot print in sleet
Two 3-toed webbed foot prints are visible on a thin layer of sleet which is white on one side of the picture but progressively more tan toward the left of the picture due to mud seeping through the layer of sleet.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 12h
weirdly I grew up w/plenty of roof-walking opportunities but it was a very different life!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 12h
I still don't know the difference between mandatory and essential trainings but I figure they'll keep dunning me if I haven't done something they think I ought

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 12h
!! wow

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 12h
I know, I am too 😭 (affiliate status apparently requires me to test whether I know to sit in a chair and apparently none of my previous carried over to the new status so I must redo the lot etc)

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 12h
oh you mean like every. single. mandatory training module they're currently subscribed to?? sigh...

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MrTom 👾 @mrtom.uk · 13h
Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!
The "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" meme. The Facebook post is from 27th January 2020

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Robert C. Richards, Margot C. Finn , and 3 more

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 14h
Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE

I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The cover of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas--out TODAY with Mariner!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17h
What did you say? I am reading ...
A young boy is looking towards you, in his hand is an open book, and on the right is a small tree. This is part of an exlibris from Gertrud Kleinhempel from around 1900 Germany. Source: https://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/71812284

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 1d
who could have possibly done this
A yellow fire hydrant that soooooomebody put googly eyes on, bestowing sentience and neighborhood whimsy

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d
They said they were going to restart selling dvds but apparently not yet..

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d
I can do that one!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d
Like anyone, I got no control over wild animals, or of fragile men lacking situational awareness, is what

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 1d
Edith Clarke, the first female electrical engineer in the US, invented a calculator (the Clarke calculator) to solve electric power transmission problems, a precursor to modern smart grid technology. It was patented in 1925. #WomenInSTEM

It's International Day of #CleanEnergy!
Sepia-toned vintage portrait photograph of Edith Clarke (1883–1959), the pioneering American electrical engineer, inventor of the Clarke Calculator (a graphical tool for solving power transmission problems), and the first woman to earn a master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT. She is shown in a close-up head-and-shoulders view against a dark, neutral background, gazing directly at the camera with a composed, intelligent expression. Clarke has distinctive curly hair neatly styled, and she wears thin, round pince-nez glasses perched on her nose with a thin bridge and side arms. She is dressed in a formal dark blouse or jacket. The classic early-to-mid-20th-century studio portrait style conveys her trailblazing role in electrical engineering and power systems innovation. #EdithClarke #WomenInEngineering #ElectricalEngineering #ClarkeCalculator #InventorsHallOfFame #MIT #MITAlum #PowerSystems

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d
Wait had anyone taken the fuck that cat meme and cartoonized it with you know, names on each marker…?

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 1d
idk I mean, there are a lot of hazards in NC, right? snakes, spiders, feral hogs. Anything could happen.