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The first person to invent tanning leather: so you peel the skin off then soak it in old urine and it's own brains. After that you rub it down a lot with oil. "Is everything ok at home?"

The book I'm currently reading is modern fantasy and the lack of realism has me losing my mind. She uses Google translate on an ancient Latin demon summoning ritual. THAT'S NOT HOW ONLINE TRANSLATORS WORK. IT SHOULD COME OUT LIKE A BOOK WENT THROUGH A WOODCHIPPER.

Ugh I have a book series hangover and don't know what to put on as I work on projects today

California AG Bonta has released guidance to all California hospitals telling them that they should return to providing gender affirming care after winning a lawsuit against Trump. He is the only AG to sue a hospital to force it to stop complying with Trump. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"I missed you" Progression steps

A late Roman ridge helmet, dating back to the mid-4th century AD. The nasal guard and cheekpieces are missing. Gilded helmets were typically worn by high-ranking officers. Found in Augsburg, on display at the Römerlager im Zeughaus in Augsburg. 📷 me 🏺

Bunny dentist attends to her giant werewolf girlfriend.

1. Major alert: Trump's anti-trans co-author Moti Gorin will be presenting with Kaltiala and Montante. These are conversion therapy advocates with intense anti-trans ties to hate groups around the world. Now they'll be teaching pediatricians THIS FRIDAY. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"May his name and memory be blotted out from under the heavens."

Fucking mania. I have plans starting at 10 and going all afternoon.

I HAVE EXCAVATED MY SEWING MACHINE, MUAHAHAHAHA!

"That creepy guy is here again," my boss hissed. I looked to the pinball machine in corner. A lanky man in overalls and a soft hat was playing. "You're making a fortune from the old coins he's using. But I'll have a word." Later, I told my boss the guy worked as a ferryman. Why'd he get so pale?

Cheyenne artist once known, "Parfleche," ca. 1875, rawhide, pigment, tanned hide ties, 161/2 × 111/4 in., collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of the Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, 2011.154.111. 1/2

I took a hard jab last night at fencing practice in a place that is awfully close to a known Chinese medicine meridian, and today I feel physically better than baseline with regards to a long ongoing complaint. I am now contemplating a theory of Extremely Violent Shiatsu.

This shit is absolutely fucked up. www.cnn.com/interactive/...

there is a privacy apocalypse coming, and the democrats are just as responsible as the republicans.

I know I have the ear of many people who fancy themselves sensible about AI, unlike the Luddites, etc. But understand this: until you get this kind of nonsense under control, you will continue to court ample outrage from people who are disproportionately Very Online. I don't make the rules.

Can anyone learn to draw? Join Getty producer Jessie as she explores techniques for learning how to draw, and learns *why* drawing is good for you. Watch the full video: youtu.be/aG48Zxh_J80

time anxiety ⏰

We waited 3 years for this moment. 🥹 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is OUT NOW on Steam! 🎉 Play now: 👉 s.team/a/3119540 Please repost & help us spread the word 🙏

One of the many gems from the 1492 edition of Steffen Arndes' Passionael. This monk - used for the legends of both Pirminus & Marinus - is casting out the snakes, & they seem genuinely terrified. [Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA M 15, f.241r]

Fuck that, give it back.

See a couple, post a couple ❤️

"Anyone who truly believes that return to office (RTO) is the universal future of work is either childfree or doubtless has someone somewhere absorbing the domestic fallout: a wife, an ex-wife, a nanny." This 👇 phworkforceok.substack.com/p/public-hea...

New Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games. The 18-mile rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket. 📝 @adamcrafton.bsky.social 🔗 nyti.ms/3QaZJwX

NEW COMIC: Ball-Pit 🔴🟡🔵🟢

Also, the rise of AI coinciding with the spread of COVID is a lot worse than people realize, I think. I have a friend whose 16 year old got COVID five times. You can't tell me that these kids aren't being cognitively affected and that they're using AI instead of their own brains because of it

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS C iii 1, the Annals of Connacht. This manuscript records episodes in the history of Gaelic Ireland from AD 1224-1544, with one later entry (in different ink) for the year 1562. There are short gaps in the text where it appears that a pair of leaves has been lost.

Hazel used to lean hard into magic, then leaned hard into science/medicine before finding a balance. Malcolm used to be an angry veteran recruited into fascism, but he realized he was one of the baddies and is dealing with the fallout of that.

On this day in 1908, Jane Bolin was born. Bolin, America’s first black woman judge, said this about women’s rights in 1958: “Those gains we have made were never graciously and generously granted. We have to fight every inch of the way — in the face of sometimes insufferable humiliations.” #WeTheMen

50 Viking Sayings That Still Hit Hard Today www.medievalists.net/2025/04/50-v... #vikings

The Trump administration fired two immigration judges who dismissed deportation cases against pro-Palestinian international students. The firings of Roopal Patel and Nina Froes are the latest move to reshape the country’s immigration courts.

Regular reminder not to compare your journey to someone else's destination I think you are doing just fine, just so you know

Normal kinky people: Motocross gear is sexy. Me: The early 14th century "transitional" armor stays on while we fuck.

"WHO'S A GOOD BOY IS IT YOU WHO'S A FLUFFY WUFFER ITS YOU YES IT IS FLUFFY PUPPEMS FLUFFER WUFFER YES YOURL ARE" - Me, seconds before dying in an exceptionally brutal werewolf mauling.

A comic about Kitten Fran! BONUS Panel below! 👇