TallHobbit
@tallhobbit.bsky.social
Joelle, she/her, AuDHD, cottage industry garment worker, sewing, knitting, spinning, plants, libraries, books, games. Not a fascist trad wife -- I just dress like a story book, and like baking bread and reading Tolkien.
"Holy Dipstick!" is now on my list of exclamations.
Salisbury was rebuilt for aesthetic reasons, but they decided to build the new one on top of a gravel waterbed for insane reasons and it immediately began sinking, so they engineered more water underneath and now they check the water level twice a day with a Holy Dipstick. I dunno
December 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Holy Dipstick!" is now on my list of exclamations.
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Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
Excuse me, but this is perfection.
Hello! I’m a librarian and illustrator who loves to draw cats and other cute critters!
Shop: www.inprnt.com/gallery/jmor...
Shop: www.inprnt.com/gallery/jmor...
December 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Excuse me, but this is perfection.
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Lawful immigration pathways are being weaponized by this administration.
Follow the rules and show up to your check-in? You risk arrest.
Miss a check-in? Your case is dismissed and you become deportable.
Secretary Noem knows this. I will continue monitoring 26 Fed until this abuse stops.
Follow the rules and show up to your check-in? You risk arrest.
Miss a check-in? Your case is dismissed and you become deportable.
Secretary Noem knows this. I will continue monitoring 26 Fed until this abuse stops.
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Lawful immigration pathways are being weaponized by this administration.
Follow the rules and show up to your check-in? You risk arrest.
Miss a check-in? Your case is dismissed and you become deportable.
Secretary Noem knows this. I will continue monitoring 26 Fed until this abuse stops.
Follow the rules and show up to your check-in? You risk arrest.
Miss a check-in? Your case is dismissed and you become deportable.
Secretary Noem knows this. I will continue monitoring 26 Fed until this abuse stops.
Favorite lines from KPop Demon Hunters songs:
1. Fit check for my napalm era. (Now intentionally misquoted as lip balm era.)
2. Between imposter and this monster I've been lost inside my head.
3. Bleeding isn't in my blood.
4. Jinu's "hee hee hee" while running, not a lyric but still a fav.
1. Fit check for my napalm era. (Now intentionally misquoted as lip balm era.)
2. Between imposter and this monster I've been lost inside my head.
3. Bleeding isn't in my blood.
4. Jinu's "hee hee hee" while running, not a lyric but still a fav.
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Favorite lines from KPop Demon Hunters songs:
1. Fit check for my napalm era. (Now intentionally misquoted as lip balm era.)
2. Between imposter and this monster I've been lost inside my head.
3. Bleeding isn't in my blood.
4. Jinu's "hee hee hee" while running, not a lyric but still a fav.
1. Fit check for my napalm era. (Now intentionally misquoted as lip balm era.)
2. Between imposter and this monster I've been lost inside my head.
3. Bleeding isn't in my blood.
4. Jinu's "hee hee hee" while running, not a lyric but still a fav.
Tomorrow is my birthday, and I ordered a bunch of vegan cheese to be delivered. (Thanks, Past Me!)
I got the shipping notification this morning.
Insert snow white packidge image.
I got the shipping notification this morning.
Insert snow white packidge image.
December 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Tomorrow is my birthday, and I ordered a bunch of vegan cheese to be delivered. (Thanks, Past Me!)
I got the shipping notification this morning.
Insert snow white packidge image.
I got the shipping notification this morning.
Insert snow white packidge image.
Special interest activated!
1. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer may turn you into an amateur bryophyte enthusiast. I now have a 10X hand lens.
2. Lichen and Loam on YouTube (by Katie Green) will give you lots of woods walks filled with lichen and moss, knitting, and wonderful illustration.
1. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer may turn you into an amateur bryophyte enthusiast. I now have a 10X hand lens.
2. Lichen and Loam on YouTube (by Katie Green) will give you lots of woods walks filled with lichen and moss, knitting, and wonderful illustration.
A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'.
1. They make public seating super comfy.
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1. They make public seating super comfy.
bsky.app/profile/dj-a...
There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Special interest activated!
1. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer may turn you into an amateur bryophyte enthusiast. I now have a 10X hand lens.
2. Lichen and Loam on YouTube (by Katie Green) will give you lots of woods walks filled with lichen and moss, knitting, and wonderful illustration.
1. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer may turn you into an amateur bryophyte enthusiast. I now have a 10X hand lens.
2. Lichen and Loam on YouTube (by Katie Green) will give you lots of woods walks filled with lichen and moss, knitting, and wonderful illustration.
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I feel, perhaps predictably, strongly about this. If you also do, this post shows a way to steer your borrowing with Libby to books with a real person doing the audiobook reading.
December 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I feel, perhaps predictably, strongly about this. If you also do, this post shows a way to steer your borrowing with Libby to books with a real person doing the audiobook reading.
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I've watched this live stream every year since it started and it's wonderful. #AnGhrianstad
The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
December 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I've watched this live stream every year since it started and it's wonderful. #AnGhrianstad
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In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”
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I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
My astronomical winter places the solstice in the middle of the season. Midwinter, not the beginning of winter.
I understand that many organizations use the solstices and equinoxes as the starting points of their seasons, but that doesn't make sense to me.
Winter= 1 Nov - 31 Jan. The dark days.
I understand that many organizations use the solstices and equinoxes as the starting points of their seasons, but that doesn't make sense to me.
Winter= 1 Nov - 31 Jan. The dark days.
Astronomical winter is defined as when the Earth's pole is tilted away from the Sun to its maximal value.
It begins on the MOMENT of the winter solstice, which is 10:03 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Dec 21 this year (2025).
So winter starts /simultaneously/ but at different times in each time zone.
It begins on the MOMENT of the winter solstice, which is 10:03 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Dec 21 this year (2025).
So winter starts /simultaneously/ but at different times in each time zone.
December Solstice Brings Winter, Summer Seasons - NASA
In meteorology, Earth’s winter season for the Northern Hemisphere and summer season for the Southern Hemisphere began on Dec. 1, 2021. However, the December solstice brings in the astronomical winter ...
www.nasa.gov
December 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My astronomical winter places the solstice in the middle of the season. Midwinter, not the beginning of winter.
I understand that many organizations use the solstices and equinoxes as the starting points of their seasons, but that doesn't make sense to me.
Winter= 1 Nov - 31 Jan. The dark days.
I understand that many organizations use the solstices and equinoxes as the starting points of their seasons, but that doesn't make sense to me.
Winter= 1 Nov - 31 Jan. The dark days.
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When illegal slave ships were intercepted by British, French, Portuguese and other antislavery patrols in the 1800s, African captives were not freed - they were sent into indentured servitude. More than 700,000 souls. It’s a huge story in the history of abolition.
From the current issue: “Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920”
by Henry B. Lovejoy (@colorado.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Henry B. Lovejoy (@colorado.edu)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920*
Abstract. A new survey of ‘Liberated Africans’ exposes how global calculations of involuntary African indentured labour after 1800 have been significantly
doi.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
When illegal slave ships were intercepted by British, French, Portuguese and other antislavery patrols in the 1800s, African captives were not freed - they were sent into indentured servitude. More than 700,000 souls. It’s a huge story in the history of abolition.
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Winter on a Pembrokeshire Farm.
Winter is a slow burn for me. I have to remember to light the candles;find the beauty in the bare branches against the grey skies, revel in the giant orange sun sinking early into dusk. It’s nature taking a rest. She needs to, as do we all.
Winter is a slow burn for me. I have to remember to light the candles;find the beauty in the bare branches against the grey skies, revel in the giant orange sun sinking early into dusk. It’s nature taking a rest. She needs to, as do we all.
December 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Winter on a Pembrokeshire Farm.
Winter is a slow burn for me. I have to remember to light the candles;find the beauty in the bare branches against the grey skies, revel in the giant orange sun sinking early into dusk. It’s nature taking a rest. She needs to, as do we all.
Winter is a slow burn for me. I have to remember to light the candles;find the beauty in the bare branches against the grey skies, revel in the giant orange sun sinking early into dusk. It’s nature taking a rest. She needs to, as do we all.
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🚨 JANE AUSTEN ANNIVERSARY🚨
Dr Helena Kelly joins @HistoryRage to bust the biggest myths about Jane Austen 💥 Forget the fluff — it’s time for facts!
🎧 pod.fo/e/36727b
#JaneAusten #BookTok #HistoryPodcast #AustenFans #janeausten250
Dr Helena Kelly joins @HistoryRage to bust the biggest myths about Jane Austen 💥 Forget the fluff — it’s time for facts!
🎧 pod.fo/e/36727b
#JaneAusten #BookTok #HistoryPodcast #AustenFans #janeausten250
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨 JANE AUSTEN ANNIVERSARY🚨
Dr Helena Kelly joins @HistoryRage to bust the biggest myths about Jane Austen 💥 Forget the fluff — it’s time for facts!
🎧 pod.fo/e/36727b
#JaneAusten #BookTok #HistoryPodcast #AustenFans #janeausten250
Dr Helena Kelly joins @HistoryRage to bust the biggest myths about Jane Austen 💥 Forget the fluff — it’s time for facts!
🎧 pod.fo/e/36727b
#JaneAusten #BookTok #HistoryPodcast #AustenFans #janeausten250
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Today on Gone Medieval I have an episode about the Jewish community in Medieval Norwich. I went up last week to interview my mate Oren Margolis and I am really proud of this one. I just wish it wasn't so timely. It feels weird. Anyway, check it out.
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Gone Medieval
From long-lost Viking ships to kings buried in unexpected places; from murders and power politics, to myths, religion, the lives of ordinary people: Gone Medieval is History Hit’s podcast dedicated to...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Today on Gone Medieval I have an episode about the Jewish community in Medieval Norwich. I went up last week to interview my mate Oren Margolis and I am really proud of this one. I just wish it wasn't so timely. It feels weird. Anyway, check it out.
share.google/PkLRhPHXoise...
share.google/PkLRhPHXoise...
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I commissioned @radicalemprints.bsky.social to make this letterpress print for me. I think that it turned out beautifully. You should check out their other work: www.radicalemprints.com - this is my twist on a @ladyofsardines.bsky.social comrade card. A few folks are receiving a print.
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I commissioned @radicalemprints.bsky.social to make this letterpress print for me. I think that it turned out beautifully. You should check out their other work: www.radicalemprints.com - this is my twist on a @ladyofsardines.bsky.social comrade card. A few folks are receiving a print.
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Two corollary things to remember when you genuinely want to help:
-You don't have to do this alone.
-You are probably not the hero of this story.
-You don't have to do this alone.
-You are probably not the hero of this story.
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Two corollary things to remember when you genuinely want to help:
-You don't have to do this alone.
-You are probably not the hero of this story.
-You don't have to do this alone.
-You are probably not the hero of this story.
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Obviously, there are times when someone needs to start things rolling. But even then, there are often already community orgs doing similar work that you can team up with. No matter what the problem, if it's too big for one person, look for the helpers, and see how you can combine forces.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Obviously, there are times when someone needs to start things rolling. But even then, there are often already community orgs doing similar work that you can team up with. No matter what the problem, if it's too big for one person, look for the helpers, and see how you can combine forces.
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I want to elaborate on this a little:
For both kids AND adults, sometimes one of the hardest things to do in a big crisis is figure out where and how to help.
And often, the best answer to that isn't "reinvent the wheel," it's "find existing efforts and join in."
For both kids AND adults, sometimes one of the hardest things to do in a big crisis is figure out where and how to help.
And often, the best answer to that isn't "reinvent the wheel," it's "find existing efforts and join in."
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I want to elaborate on this a little:
For both kids AND adults, sometimes one of the hardest things to do in a big crisis is figure out where and how to help.
And often, the best answer to that isn't "reinvent the wheel," it's "find existing efforts and join in."
For both kids AND adults, sometimes one of the hardest things to do in a big crisis is figure out where and how to help.
And often, the best answer to that isn't "reinvent the wheel," it's "find existing efforts and join in."
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An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."
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Let's be totally clear here: not only does Substack let Nazis host their shit; they actively encourage them, sometimes paying them six figure salaries to host their shit.
Substack actively courts Nazis to their platform.
Ghost and beehiiv will actively help you move off that platform.
Substack actively courts Nazis to their platform.
Ghost and beehiiv will actively help you move off that platform.
You know what's great about substack? Leaving it.
Some of you aren't getting the whole nazi thing. Let's simplify it. Nazis are always the villains. Substack lets nazis host their shit.
It's literally thinking some people deserve death for being born not white.
Some of you aren't getting the whole nazi thing. Let's simplify it. Nazis are always the villains. Substack lets nazis host their shit.
It's literally thinking some people deserve death for being born not white.
December 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Let's be totally clear here: not only does Substack let Nazis host their shit; they actively encourage them, sometimes paying them six figure salaries to host their shit.
Substack actively courts Nazis to their platform.
Ghost and beehiiv will actively help you move off that platform.
Substack actively courts Nazis to their platform.
Ghost and beehiiv will actively help you move off that platform.
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Rob Reiner was one of the few celebs whose involvement in politics and activism felt genuine and was rooted in good faith
December 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the few celebs whose involvement in politics and activism felt genuine and was rooted in good faith
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Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.