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Not actually a cat (that’s Zoe, she says hi). She/her. #OnePlaceStudies ~ #OhNoIBoughtAnotherBook ~ #StarTrek
Leopold de Rothschild has donated to various London charities for the poor, and Lord Overstone has donated to a fund for the benefit of Mrs Wainwright (wife of the murderer of Harriet Lane). #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Leopold de Rothschild has donated to various London charities for the poor, and Lord Overstone has donated to a fund for the benefit of Mrs Wainwright (wife of the murderer of Harriet Lane). #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
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So in order to encourage creativity, I told my genetics students they needed to have more than a standard PowerPoint for their final project
Which is how we ended up with a presentation on tardigrade genetics delivered entirely in rhyming couplets
Which is how we ended up with a presentation on tardigrade genetics delivered entirely in rhyming couplets
December 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So in order to encourage creativity, I told my genetics students they needed to have more than a standard PowerPoint for their final project
Which is how we ended up with a presentation on tardigrade genetics delivered entirely in rhyming couplets
Which is how we ended up with a presentation on tardigrade genetics delivered entirely in rhyming couplets
The first of a new series of concerts by the Wing Church Choir, accompanied by the Leighton String Band, has taken place. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The first of a new series of concerts by the Wing Church Choir, accompanied by the Leighton String Band, has taken place. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
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✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
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Tired: police procedurals
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Tired: police procedurals
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
(also, if you wanna buy pebbles just ask at the Union Workhouse in Leighton Buzzard, 7 1/2d per bushel) #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
(also, if you wanna buy pebbles just ask at the Union Workhouse in Leighton Buzzard, 7 1/2d per bushel) #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
The late Stephen Capp’s freehold properties (that we have long awaited the particulars of) have now been disposed of by private treaty. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The late Stephen Capp’s freehold properties (that we have long awaited the particulars of) have now been disposed of by private treaty. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
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It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition!
The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
🗃️🧪
The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
🗃️🧪
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition!
The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
🗃️🧪
The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
🗃️🧪
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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This is haunting and beautiful
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is haunting and beautiful
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Behold the "Dawn Chorus", a citizen-science project where people record birdsong in their local neighborhood and upload it
you can listen to birds from around the world by drilling down on the map
item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
you can listen to birds from around the world by drilling down on the map
item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Behold the "Dawn Chorus", a citizen-science project where people record birdsong in their local neighborhood and upload it
you can listen to birds from around the world by drilling down on the map
item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
you can listen to birds from around the world by drilling down on the map
item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
apps.apple.com/app/apple-st... Pestle recipe manager is super handy - currently using it to wrangle #Christmas #baking (making candied orange peel so that I can use it in choc-orange cookies)
Pestle: Recipe Manager App - App Store
Download Pestle: Recipe Manager by Will Bishop on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Pestle: Recipe Manager.
apps.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
apps.apple.com/app/apple-st... Pestle recipe manager is super handy - currently using it to wrangle #Christmas #baking (making candied orange peel so that I can use it in choc-orange cookies)
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'Gavin and Stacey' is my traditional lead-up to Xmas binge watch, but TVNZ is taking it off air in 20 days which is far too soon, which means Xmas is already RUINED.
a boy is looking at a woman with a santa hat on .
ALT: a boy is looking at a woman with a santa hat on .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
'Gavin and Stacey' is my traditional lead-up to Xmas binge watch, but TVNZ is taking it off air in 20 days which is far too soon, which means Xmas is already RUINED.
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On Black & White & Read All Over, we have a resources page for academics to find publications to pitch their work to, an announcements page to celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues, and a page that's literally just pictures of our cat Biscuits because we understand this community's needs.
Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over
blackwhiteandread.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
On Black & White & Read All Over, we have a resources page for academics to find publications to pitch their work to, an announcements page to celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues, and a page that's literally just pictures of our cat Biscuits because we understand this community's needs.
Mr Cross has presented a paper on the Amazon district of South America to the quarterly meeting of the Bicester and Claydon Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses Association. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Mr Cross has presented a paper on the Amazon district of South America to the quarterly meeting of the Bicester and Claydon Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses Association. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies
UK, nominate your history teacher for the Inspiring History Teaching Awards www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
Inspiring History Teaching Awards
Created by Historic Royal Palaces, these awards celebrate teachers who make history exciting, inclusive and meaningful. We want to recognise the impact that great teachers can make by bringing the pas...
www.hrp.org.uk
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
UK, nominate your history teacher for the Inspiring History Teaching Awards www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
An ad for "The Bottled Curse, or Sally The Dunstable Witch, A Legend of the Priory Church" by Alfred P. Wire in this issue of the Leighton Buzzard Observer (26 Oct 1875) has led me to this 2008 news article with the fascinating story of how this came to be published www.bbc.com/threecountie...
October 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
An ad for "The Bottled Curse, or Sally The Dunstable Witch, A Legend of the Priory Church" by Alfred P. Wire in this issue of the Leighton Buzzard Observer (26 Oct 1875) has led me to this 2008 news article with the fascinating story of how this came to be published www.bbc.com/threecountie...
#OhNoIBoughtAnotherBook and another one.
October 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#OhNoIBoughtAnotherBook and another one.