Cassidy Percoco
@mimicofmodes.com
Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
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Cassidy Percoco
@mimicofmodes.com
· Nov 13
A thread for my threads!
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This is a delightful read about a really fun, not uniquely British phenomenon but definitely not a worldwide one, on Hollow Ways, which I personally consider to be deeply sacred spaces
There’s a lovely article here about them. Just if you’re interested. I bet goats have fallen on cars. Probably out of sheer belligerence.
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England's mysterious sunken roads
A new mapping project by Natural England will help unearth the deep history and mystery of this ancient network of subterranean tracks.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is a delightful read about a really fun, not uniquely British phenomenon but definitely not a worldwide one, on Hollow Ways, which I personally consider to be deeply sacred spaces
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In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trip to visit an enigmatically decorated stone in County Roscommon.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Roscommon #Archaeology 🏺
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Roscommon #Archaeology 🏺
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trip to visit an enigmatically decorated stone in County Roscommon.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Roscommon #Archaeology 🏺
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Roscommon #Archaeology 🏺
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November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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so you see, my problem is I want to write this current book, and then another book, and then maybe one more, and I guess another wouldn't hurt, well I suppose I probably have time for another (I don't), and we're here already so why not one mo—
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
so you see, my problem is I want to write this current book, and then another book, and then maybe one more, and I guess another wouldn't hurt, well I suppose I probably have time for another (I don't), and we're here already so why not one mo—
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PLAN FORT EDWARD - Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
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November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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Duke Riley.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Duke Riley.
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#Museum30 The Fenimore's collections page is down right now, so I've borrowed a mid #18thc powder horn from the Met. Many F&I War powder horns are carved with names, imagery, and other info; this one has a map of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. 🗃️ www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
#Museum30 The Fenimore's collections page is down right now, so I've borrowed a mid #18thc powder horn from the Met. Many F&I War powder horns are carved with names, imagery, and other info; this one has a map of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. 🗃️ www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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This research gets called "AI" now because that's the latest buzzword. 5 years ago it would've been called "machine learning" (the term the researchers themselves use, although the magazine writer calls it AI). In the oughts it would've been called "big data." Before that, "time-series forecasting."
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This research gets called "AI" now because that's the latest buzzword. 5 years ago it would've been called "machine learning" (the term the researchers themselves use, although the magazine writer calls it AI). In the oughts it would've been called "big data." Before that, "time-series forecasting."
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The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:
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As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators of all sorts. If you have the means, buy a book, sign up for someone's Patreon, commission an art piece. It's also a lovely day to leave a nice comment, post a short review, spread the word about someone's work. Everything helps.
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators of all sorts. If you have the means, buy a book, sign up for someone's Patreon, commission an art piece. It's also a lovely day to leave a nice comment, post a short review, spread the word about someone's work. Everything helps.
STOP IT, BONNIE! She thinks that 2:30 is dinnertime on the weekend and makes a huge pest of herself until I finally give her food (at 4:30, her actual dinnertime).
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
STOP IT, BONNIE! She thinks that 2:30 is dinnertime on the weekend and makes a huge pest of herself until I finally give her food (at 4:30, her actual dinnertime).
#Museum30 This ca. 1806 needlework picture imagines Palemon and Lavinia, the rural lovers of a 1720s poem by James Johnson based on the story of Ruth, as contemporaries of the artist, Sophia Burpee (1788-1814). 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/496/...
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#Museum30 This ca. 1806 needlework picture imagines Palemon and Lavinia, the rural lovers of a 1720s poem by James Johnson based on the story of Ruth, as contemporaries of the artist, Sophia Burpee (1788-1814). 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/496/...
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Annie Parker #stitch ed this sampler (now on show in our #CM150 exhibition) using her own hair as thread and gave it to the Rev John Horsley, chaplain to Clerkenwell Prison. In 1884 he gave it to our collection - Parker herself died the following year of TB aged only 35. #Museum30 #womensart
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Annie Parker #stitch ed this sampler (now on show in our #CM150 exhibition) using her own hair as thread and gave it to the Rev John Horsley, chaplain to Clerkenwell Prison. In 1884 he gave it to our collection - Parker herself died the following year of TB aged only 35. #Museum30 #womensart
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A lovely piece from our collection for today’s #Museum30 theme of Stitch – a ‘Friendship Cloth’, owned and used by the donor’s grandmother, Sylvia Ashbridge of Grove Park, Wanstead, who had friends visiting for tea sign and embroider (or embroidered herself) their names from around the year 1870. 🪡
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A lovely piece from our collection for today’s #Museum30 theme of Stitch – a ‘Friendship Cloth’, owned and used by the donor’s grandmother, Sylvia Ashbridge of Grove Park, Wanstead, who had friends visiting for tea sign and embroider (or embroidered herself) their names from around the year 1870. 🪡
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Lady's work-bag or reticule. Late 1700's or early 1800's, the embroidery is a fine chain stitch resembling tambour work - a popular form of needlework in the eighteenth century. Reticule 64.54.2
#museum30 #Stitch #novascotia
#museum30 #Stitch #novascotia
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Lady's work-bag or reticule. Late 1700's or early 1800's, the embroidery is a fine chain stitch resembling tambour work - a popular form of needlework in the eighteenth century. Reticule 64.54.2
#museum30 #Stitch #novascotia
#museum30 #Stitch #novascotia
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This beautiful seal bag, embroidered with the Royal Arms of England, was made in 1280 to protect the wax seal attached to a charter from the reign of Edward I. It's a fine example of 'opus anglicanum' - highly-prized English embroideries with gold and silver thread.
#Museum30 #Stitch
#Museum30 #Stitch
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.
The only people I'm truly parasocial about are comedians I know from Dropout. I'm watching Abbott Elementary and Kimia Behpoornia turns up? omg hiiiiiiiiiiii Kimia!
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The only people I'm truly parasocial about are comedians I know from Dropout. I'm watching Abbott Elementary and Kimia Behpoornia turns up? omg hiiiiiiiiiiii Kimia!
It takes longer to spin a three-ply, but the yarn looks so much nicer.
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It takes longer to spin a three-ply, but the yarn looks so much nicer.
#Museum30 This small box was painted by Ann Butler (1813-1887), a Greene County artist who decorated the tin items her father produced before her marriage. 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2119...
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
#Museum30 This small box was painted by Ann Butler (1813-1887), a Greene County artist who decorated the tin items her father produced before her marriage. 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2119...
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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
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Mistress Young's Edinburgh macaroons c. 1640, 'beat 4 or 5 eggis the wheits of them with a tuig till it be all turned to fome', full recipe in ALT text
![How to make mackaroundes
Take a pound of almondis blansche them in warme water beat them small putting in as yow beat them a little roase water q[ui]ch will beist them from oyling q[uhe]n they be all beatten small take ther weight in sugar and beit them together till it be lyke a past then take them out of the morter and put to them a spoonfull of roase water and 3. of fyne wheate floure mixe altogether then beat 4 or 5 eggis the wheits of them with a tuig till it be all turned to fome then put in the almondis and mixe it with and lay them out in ovells in a pleat q[uhe]n they be halfe baiked louse them of trenscheours then and baike them out](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p3stfxwzlmhwdtnk4pe63vov/bafkreign7g2ggam74tuqgd2p7y7gg6rjjnlz3wroure5a5bnkrysbgp6wi@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Mistress Young's Edinburgh macaroons c. 1640, 'beat 4 or 5 eggis the wheits of them with a tuig till it be all turned to fome', full recipe in ALT text
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Ep 245 - Duet (feat Dr Eleanor Chan) is available now
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Ep 245 - Duet (feat Dr Eleanor Chan) is available now
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Nahvalur (Narwhal) Fountain Pen - Nautilus - Terra Firma - Endless Exclusive (2024)
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November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
There's a Nahvalur Nautilus in a rather pleasing color for way cheap endlesspens.com/products/nah...