Erin Webb
@birbween.bsky.social
Maynard MA | conservationist & gardener | one polite goblin
I have a joke about Paige Guthrie, but the thought of telling it makes me feel like I'm coming out of my skin.
is this anything
is this anything
I had a joke about Cyclops, but it was just looking through rose colored glasses.
I had a joke about Reed Richards, but it was a stretch.
April 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I have a joke about Paige Guthrie, but the thought of telling it makes me feel like I'm coming out of my skin.
is this anything
is this anything
I haven't read this yet, but based solely on the blurb, a conclusion that makes just as much sense is that children with high SOCIAL aptitude flourish in the traditional school environment.
Researchers asked middle-schoolers to play games that require coordination between players to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome. Kids who get good grades did better, suggesting that academic success may reflect broader cognitive abilities. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I haven't read this yet, but based solely on the blurb, a conclusion that makes just as much sense is that children with high SOCIAL aptitude flourish in the traditional school environment.
Ahead of its time
April 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Ahead of its time
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It’s the 57th anniversary today of French researcher Michel Gauquelin offering the people of Paris free personal horoscopes — and then sending all 150 respondents the horoscope of Marcel Petiot, France’s most notorious mass murderer
Odd this day
Well, it’s 55 years to the day since French researcher Michel Gauquelin put this advert in Ici-Paris offering free personal horoscopes…
mulberryhall.medium.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It’s the 57th anniversary today of French researcher Michel Gauquelin offering the people of Paris free personal horoscopes — and then sending all 150 respondents the horoscope of Marcel Petiot, France’s most notorious mass murderer
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i have written a roughly equal number of poems about love and poems about buses
April 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
i have written a roughly equal number of poems about love and poems about buses
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Dream on, Sluggo
April 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Dream on, Sluggo
Not to downplay the beauty of nature on its merits, but I do think the wood in the foreground looks like an anthropomorphized rabbit playing a guitar #MaynardMA
April 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Not to downplay the beauty of nature on its merits, but I do think the wood in the foreground looks like an anthropomorphized rabbit playing a guitar #MaynardMA
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It really says something about the repression present in american society that I am not constantly being stopped on the street by people who want to tell me how beautiful I am????
April 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
It really says something about the repression present in american society that I am not constantly being stopped on the street by people who want to tell me how beautiful I am????
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We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.
April 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.
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Photographer Lee Miller (left) and Tanja Ramm, breakfast in bed at Lee’s Paris studio, 1931
#womensart #SundayMorning
#womensart #SundayMorning
April 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Photographer Lee Miller (left) and Tanja Ramm, breakfast in bed at Lee’s Paris studio, 1931
#womensart #SundayMorning
#womensart #SundayMorning
this is objectively hot, right? it's not just me
The Healing of Justinian by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian https://www.wikiart.org/en/fra-angelico/the-healing-of-justinian-by-saint-cosmas-and-saint-damian-1440
April 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
this is objectively hot, right? it's not just me
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That’s the distinction between Star Wars and Star Trek. In Star Wars the ultimate evil is a tempter figure, it’s Satan, it’s someone whispering look what you can have if you learn to hate. In Star Trek the ultimate evil is a voice impassively telling you to stop caring, it doesn’t matter if you care
April 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
That’s the distinction between Star Wars and Star Trek. In Star Wars the ultimate evil is a tempter figure, it’s Satan, it’s someone whispering look what you can have if you learn to hate. In Star Trek the ultimate evil is a voice impassively telling you to stop caring, it doesn’t matter if you care
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✨Plant Spotlight🔎✨: Aristolochia arborea is a tree native to El Salvador, Guatemala & Mexico, w/ flowers that mimic the appearance & scent of mushrooms 🍄🟫 This attracts fungal gnats that carry pollen from plant to plant, aiding in the pollination of this species 🪰🌸 #plantappreciationday #NYBGscience
April 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
✨Plant Spotlight🔎✨: Aristolochia arborea is a tree native to El Salvador, Guatemala & Mexico, w/ flowers that mimic the appearance & scent of mushrooms 🍄🟫 This attracts fungal gnats that carry pollen from plant to plant, aiding in the pollination of this species 🪰🌸 #plantappreciationday #NYBGscience
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It is simply a real mistake to let the evil heartless people in the world cause you to become more evil and heartless
April 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
It is simply a real mistake to let the evil heartless people in the world cause you to become more evil and heartless
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UK artist Jane Perkins creates artworks by #recycling found and waste materials such as plastic toys, beads, buttons and shells #WomensArt
April 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
UK artist Jane Perkins creates artworks by #recycling found and waste materials such as plastic toys, beads, buttons and shells #WomensArt
Toby, the Learned Pig
Today is the 240th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Rowlandson’s The Wonderful Pig — marking the arrival in London of a prodigious porker who could apparently read, write, tell the time, and do maths
Odd this day
So, happy 238th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Rowlandson’s The Wonderful Pig — marking the arrival in London of a prodigious…
mulberryhall.medium.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Toby, the Learned Pig
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Ruth Miller, artist who creates hand-embroidered portraits from her studio on the Mississippi Gulf Coast #womensart
April 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Ruth Miller, artist who creates hand-embroidered portraits from her studio on the Mississippi Gulf Coast #womensart
Look at that face. St. Lawrence was an early treasurer of the Church, and when the Roman emperor Valerian demanded he hand over the riches, he gathered a bunch of poor people, disabled people, widows etc, and said, "this is our true wealth," and now he's the patron saint of COMEDIANS
St Lawrence https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/st-lawrence
April 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Look at that face. St. Lawrence was an early treasurer of the Church, and when the Roman emperor Valerian demanded he hand over the riches, he gathered a bunch of poor people, disabled people, widows etc, and said, "this is our true wealth," and now he's the patron saint of COMEDIANS
This whole thread is A+.
Had a conversation with my sister and discovered a new unit of measurement
April 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This whole thread is A+.
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you're gonna wanna see this
April 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
you're gonna wanna see this
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Remember that guy whose wife got picked up by ICE and he was like “this is a nightmare, this is awful, still support Trump though!”, I don’t think people learn from suffering in a rational way, certainly not in a way you can predict, goading on suffering might do the exact opposite of what you hope
April 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Remember that guy whose wife got picked up by ICE and he was like “this is a nightmare, this is awful, still support Trump though!”, I don’t think people learn from suffering in a rational way, certainly not in a way you can predict, goading on suffering might do the exact opposite of what you hope
Without saying your age who was your animated crush
April 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Without saying your age who was your animated crush
wondering if it's worth doing a psychological deep-dive on a character who has reached higher echelons of a secret society and also reads his young daughter's diary and then gloats to her about it
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 11,1945
April 11,1945
April 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
wondering if it's worth doing a psychological deep-dive on a character who has reached higher echelons of a secret society and also reads his young daughter's diary and then gloats to her about it
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Signs of spring, ranked.
April 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Signs of spring, ranked.