Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜

To recap: Sweary Frankenstein: www.buzzsprout.com/2602280/epis... Not Sweary Frankenstein: youtu.be/K00sC26kpf8?...

At convenient care once more, having provided a sample to confirm what I already know. Waiting for results and a prescription. :sigh:

Want to read more about the Tremulous Hand, his essential tremor, and impaired artists working in the 15th century? OA? SURE YA DO!

This removes from view the subjects most UK undergraduates and taught postgraduates study, subjects that by the government's own data outperform STEM subjects internationally (www.gov.uk/government/p... ) and that top many QS rankings. Our infrastructure is under attack, if only we could see it.

Who has two thumbs and is now showing initial symptoms of a UTI? THIS GAL. Convenient care appointment first thing in the morning. :sighs dramatically: BODIES ARE DUMB.

Wow, this is beautifully done. Encourage library & archive folks to take 20 minutes to explore this story and learn more about Indigenous cultural heritage—there's a lot here that's new to me! 📚

Lynne health update: have had my GI follow up, and I am cleared to return to my normal life/diet. The current thinking is that it was infectious colitis, which is good because that generally points to "one-off" as opposed to "new chronic thing to manage." I'll take it.

Hoo boy, this hits

Me and @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about this a bit ago. Also recently I was talking with curators at the Met and they said that visits to the Cloisters (the medieval collection) have skyrocketed since their SPECTRUMS OF DESIRE exhibition slate.com/news-and-pol...

The children yearn for the medieval (laudatory) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

The recording of the lecture by Dr. Warren C. Brown (Caltech), held on April 17, 2026, is now available to view on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/d2rQoqcCPzo?.... Check it out!

It was wonderful to spend a weekend visiting dear friends, and now it is wonderful be home with Hugo the cat.

"Sexy Bearded Man Who Doesn’t Mansplain His Politics." buff.ly/8NvA9jD

Through my writing life, nothing improved my writing more than participation in peer-based workshops: where a group of writers at about the same stage in their artistic development gather to read one another's work and offer feedback specifically aimed at improving each other's stories.

The process of reading and re-reading someone else's imperfect work and devoting mental energy to figuring out what's not working in it and how to fix it is how you develop the creative instincts that allow you to automatically, unconsciously avoid pitfalls and make breakthroughs in your own work.

You don't need to understand someone. You just need to understand that they deserve respect.

As Ratthi put it, “You’d think they could at least pretend to give a damn.”

Happy birthday @katy-katy.bsky.social !

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1232647: Your voice is unique. Use it with pride. Using anyone else's voice (including AI slurry, language outside your natural range, or anything you don't feel comfortable using) will only weaken your writing and make it sound inauthentic.

The Callot Soeurs remain one of my favourite designers of the late c19th & early c20th. Always innovative, they played with colour & embellishment beautifully. Here a late #1920s contrast of teal & green silk charmeuse with feathery pearlescent beadwork @chicagomuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

"Metabolism has entered Museum Mode and is now preserving every carbohydrate for future generations." buff.ly/guRUchT

🖤 Ready to wear Yves Saint-Laurent belted jacket of black and cream checked wool, retailed ca 1986 🖤 Via The V&A here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O46284/...

The only reason I was able to get my info sci degree was because I had the option to take classes as part of my work bennies. This is going to cause a lot of people that would become innovators and leaders in this field to not ever be able to enter it.

Spent most of the day on the road,grateful to be visiting dear friends this weekend. 🩷

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Considering that I hadn't been in the air for 2 weeks and was sick for one of them, I will take a decent Airplane and a near-Allegra as a win. #aerials #Lyra #aerialhoop

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇

The more I love a movie, the harder the review is to write. And my love for WICKER leaves me thinking this review does not sell its perfection enough. But it is a perfect movie and I love it so much. thefilmmaven.com/wicker-revie...

This event will highlight the collaborative project involving Emblematica (U of Illinois) and Compositor (U of Birmingham). Dr. Wilkinson will explore her hypothesis that “emblem-literacy” caused readers to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted-for in scholarship.

Join us on Thursday, November 12 from 3-5 pm for a talk by Dr. Hazel Wilkinson (University of Birmingham), titled "Decoding the Page: Emblems, Ornaments, and Early Modern Reading." This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served.

Shoes, perhaps more than any other adornment, retain the imprint of the original wearer, testament to wear, to the outline of the foot. What stories might this pair of late #1890s beaded silk shoes tell? Maxen-Gantiez, Paris #FashionMuseumBath #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Happy new comic book day to all who celebrate.

Okay, I've set this up specifically for helping us take care of a surprise!dozen kittens and mama Chex Mix. 🧡 Shares muchly appreciated! (There will be SO many kitten photo updates, I promise.) www.gofundme.com/f/helping-ch...

Reflecting today on how my core advice to other artists is always: read and engage and explore so, so widely outside the neighborhood of your specific practice/genre/personal community Breadth and depth of experience, feeling, life, and praxis... that's where the good shit is!!

It looks like some kind of frilled sea creature rippling beneath the waves, hiding bright fish in its soft fronds. The pleats are all Mme Grès of course, her tightly gathered mid #1950s jade silk jersey contouring the torso and flowing to the floor #tessiersarrou #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I located a beacon of hope among the vast and awful (gestures broadly). Scientists have discovered dead reefs can be revived in just 7 weeks by placing healthy coral into the dying bed. This is a game changer for the health of our oceans and the marine life that rely upon these reefs for survival.

I love that moment when I'm hanging out in person with other humans and they ask me what I've enjoyed reading lately and my brain is like 'books? what are books? I have never read any books?' despite having enjoyed and positively reviewed two titles in the past few weeks.😆

$2590 TO GO BY TOMORROW URGENT! Disabled w/ back injury so has to have professional moving help. Has to leave current place Thurs. Packing tomorrow. Any combo ppl x $ = $2590 is good. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

Here's the link to guidelines. We can't wait to read your work! theraybradburycenter.org/ray-bradbury...

1) I'm on the board of the Ray Bradbury Center 2) I am co-editing a new anthology (with Carrie Cooper, Assistant Director of the Ray Bradbury Center and public humanities scholar).

Black Doves is really good, y'all.

French fashion house Carven’s A/W 1953-54 collection featured a whole galaxy of starbursts that radiated out across their evening wear, including this celestial, silvery gown. Sold via Bonhams #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Stupidly grateful that my brain looked at the “soft GI” food list and realized that if ground meat, cooked down vegetables/fruits, and pasta are all fine, I could make spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Which I did. Not-quite-Sunday-gravy simmering away. Soon I get a bowl of comfort for dinner.