Digital Cuttlefish
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Here's Ellen Harding Baker's "Solar System" quilt.🧪
This is the story.🔭
Back in 1876, an Iowa mom with 7 kids, E. H. Baker, decided that cooking & raising children wasn’t enough for her.
She started working on a wool quilt showing the solar system.
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Here's Ellen Harding Baker's "Solar System" quilt.🧪
This is the story.🔭
Back in 1876, an Iowa mom with 7 kids, E. H. Baker, decided that cooking & raising children wasn’t enough for her.
She started working on a wool quilt showing the solar system.
americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I’m biased, but I think poetry is one of the most useful and generalizable subjects/skills one can possibly learn. Especially *writing* poetry.
It is the most efficient way to get someone to truly *know* that there are better and worse words to choose for any given purpose. At every level.
It is the most efficient way to get someone to truly *know* that there are better and worse words to choose for any given purpose. At every level.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I’m biased, but I think poetry is one of the most useful and generalizable subjects/skills one can possibly learn. Especially *writing* poetry.
It is the most efficient way to get someone to truly *know* that there are better and worse words to choose for any given purpose. At every level.
It is the most efficient way to get someone to truly *know* that there are better and worse words to choose for any given purpose. At every level.
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#artcalendar Day 9:
Dazzling Beauty بهاء
Wall sculpture from 2015, in acrylic and 24ct gold on mount board and wood.
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Dazzling Beauty بهاء
Wall sculpture from 2015, in acrylic and 24ct gold on mount board and wood.
majnouna.com/portfolio/da...
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#artcalendar Day 9:
Dazzling Beauty بهاء
Wall sculpture from 2015, in acrylic and 24ct gold on mount board and wood.
majnouna.com/portfolio/da...
Dazzling Beauty بهاء
Wall sculpture from 2015, in acrylic and 24ct gold on mount board and wood.
majnouna.com/portfolio/da...
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I can hardly believe it, but there's just a little over 24 hours left to back Inks & Paints of the Middle East (2nd edition).Tomorrow I start putting together surveys and working on logistics! (Woke up this morning thinking "I need to order more lapis lazuli" 😆)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
Inks & Paints of the Middle East REVISED
A new, updated edition of my groundbreaking handbook of early Islamic art technology, incorporating five more years of research.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I can hardly believe it, but there's just a little over 24 hours left to back Inks & Paints of the Middle East (2nd edition).Tomorrow I start putting together surveys and working on logistics! (Woke up this morning thinking "I need to order more lapis lazuli" 😆)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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There are a few other good duck-rabbit cartoons.
I really like the old/young woman doing the duck/rabbit as shadow art.
I really like the old/young woman doing the duck/rabbit as shadow art.
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
There are a few other good duck-rabbit cartoons.
I really like the old/young woman doing the duck/rabbit as shadow art.
I really like the old/young woman doing the duck/rabbit as shadow art.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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the king www.youtube.com/watch?v=EznG...
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
the king www.youtube.com/watch?v=EznG...
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Idk wtf the BlueSky algorithm wants to see, so here's a photo I took of my friend's cat standing on a ceramic hippo on a fireplace mantel. I give up.
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Idk wtf the BlueSky algorithm wants to see, so here's a photo I took of my friend's cat standing on a ceramic hippo on a fireplace mantel. I give up.
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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I'm £10 away from the finish line 🥳 Who's going to be the one to tip me over?
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November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm £10 away from the finish line 🥳 Who's going to be the one to tip me over?
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
Thanks for the reminder—backed!
Good morning, my book is 90% funded and I'm already working on the material 😄 I posted the first update yesterday discussing these manuscript sources in detail.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Thanks for the reminder—backed!
I need to work this into a class. Sometimes the perfect example comes first, and I have to build the lesson around it.
This MS I'm transcribing has such quirky spelling it's a gigantic FU to LLMs:
حبر is spelled جبر
على is علي
علي is على
في and من are written the same
ي or و are used instead of ء
ماء is spelled مآ
ذ and ز are identical… and that's just the everyday words.
A masterclass in locking out the unbrained.
حبر is spelled جبر
على is علي
علي is على
في and من are written the same
ي or و are used instead of ء
ماء is spelled مآ
ذ and ز are identical… and that's just the everyday words.
A masterclass in locking out the unbrained.
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I need to work this into a class. Sometimes the perfect example comes first, and I have to build the lesson around it.
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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This entire thread is such a great read and a searing example of how the rush “back to normal” is leading to unmitigated COVID spread, disability and death.
Employees have the right to refuse work they believe it’s dangerous, but it does NOT apply to Covid in the workplace.
Employees have the right to refuse work they believe it’s dangerous, but it does NOT apply to Covid in the workplace.
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to apply for telework, mgmt required us to watch a series of video modules. i was struck by the rubric below. it reads: “The Right to Refuse means that you have the right to refuse work which you reasonably believe is dangerous.”
*this right does not apply to unmitigated COVID in the workplace.
to apply for telework, mgmt required us to watch a series of video modules. i was struck by the rubric below. it reads: “The Right to Refuse means that you have the right to refuse work which you reasonably believe is dangerous.”
*this right does not apply to unmitigated COVID in the workplace.
![screenshot of CBC telework module showing dropdown menus reading “the right to participate”, “the right to know” and “the right to refuse”. the last is open and circled in red [mine], and the text underneath reads: “ “The right to refuse means that you have the right to refuse work which you reasonably believe is dangerous.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:umlonvwdiqpxeq4nxfzmvrst/bafkreibdzd4hvopq47jy2xvs6mtnxneeysjdajcs7eo4ssjcbny2ayr7ry@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This entire thread is such a great read and a searing example of how the rush “back to normal” is leading to unmitigated COVID spread, disability and death.
Employees have the right to refuse work they believe it’s dangerous, but it does NOT apply to Covid in the workplace.
Employees have the right to refuse work they believe it’s dangerous, but it does NOT apply to Covid in the workplace.
This is a wonderful book! I have my copy of the first version, and will be signing up for the new one when I get on the proper device for doing so. Highly recommended!
(I have no legitimate reason, job or hobby-wise, to have bought it. As a cuttlefish, though, making one’s own ink seems a natural.)
(I have no legitimate reason, job or hobby-wise, to have bought it. As a cuttlefish, though, making one’s own ink seems a natural.)
Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is a wonderful book! I have my copy of the first version, and will be signing up for the new one when I get on the proper device for doing so. Highly recommended!
(I have no legitimate reason, job or hobby-wise, to have bought it. As a cuttlefish, though, making one’s own ink seems a natural.)
(I have no legitimate reason, job or hobby-wise, to have bought it. As a cuttlefish, though, making one’s own ink seems a natural.)
October 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I don’t even live in NC but everyone needs to see this
This is chilling. And it doesn't exist anymore except on the Internet.
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I don’t even live in NC but everyone needs to see this
I have known only one person in my entire life who had a Nazi tattoo. The Nazis gave it to him when he was just a boy; I knew him as the father of three of my friends. He always wore short sleeves, and refused to cover it up.
He would have made a pretty good senator, actually.
He would have made a pretty good senator, actually.
October 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I have known only one person in my entire life who had a Nazi tattoo. The Nazis gave it to him when he was just a boy; I knew him as the father of three of my friends. He always wore short sleeves, and refused to cover it up.
He would have made a pretty good senator, actually.
He would have made a pretty good senator, actually.
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You may be surprised by how hard the "Nazi tattoo" thing hits. For instance, people I knew growing up had them but they were just numbers.
October 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
You may be surprised by how hard the "Nazi tattoo" thing hits. For instance, people I knew growing up had them but they were just numbers.
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I cannot stress to y’all enough what a big turnout we had in small-town Maine for No Kings. Ellsworth (pop 8,500) had 2,000. Southwest Harbor (pop 1,750) had 775!
Yes, folks came from the surrounding rural areas and towns but even so, these are impressive numbers!
Yes, folks came from the surrounding rural areas and towns but even so, these are impressive numbers!
October 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I cannot stress to y’all enough what a big turnout we had in small-town Maine for No Kings. Ellsworth (pop 8,500) had 2,000. Southwest Harbor (pop 1,750) had 775!
Yes, folks came from the surrounding rural areas and towns but even so, these are impressive numbers!
Yes, folks came from the surrounding rural areas and towns but even so, these are impressive numbers!
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Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!
Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.
The world is cruel but squid are good.
Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.
The world is cruel but squid are good.
October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!
Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.
The world is cruel but squid are good.
Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.
The world is cruel but squid are good.
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🦑Giant Australian Cuttlefish🦑🐡
January 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🦑Giant Australian Cuttlefish🦑🐡
Got mine yesterday—my first! So happy to see it
October 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Got mine yesterday—my first! So happy to see it
GrandCuttle cannot yet pronounce “Grandpa”, so I am “Beepo” and I don’t know if my heart can take so much adorableness.
Which is totally a word that exists.
Which is totally a word that exists.
September 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
GrandCuttle cannot yet pronounce “Grandpa”, so I am “Beepo” and I don’t know if my heart can take so much adorableness.
Which is totally a word that exists.
Which is totally a word that exists.