yesandMissHavisham
@steenyswank.bsky.social
First known tree hug. Know zero about film but have collected for ~38 yrs. Pre-Code love. Dead--but I'm not dead yet--language familiarity. Demi-horticulturalist. Car-free commuting since 1977. Forever masker. Will write Alt Text for food.
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Movie gripe: everybody writing that Wuthering Heights is "Victorian." The book ends around 1802, Vicki ascends in 1837. So it's Georgian, and Empire, like Bridgerton. Way cooler!
February 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Movie gripe: everybody writing that Wuthering Heights is "Victorian." The book ends around 1802, Vicki ascends in 1837. So it's Georgian, and Empire, like Bridgerton. Way cooler!
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It’s 1950 and the House of Representatives includes JFK, FDR Jr and Richard Nixon.
Their dining room serves reasonably priced diner food with lots of beer as well as Bromo/Alka Seltzer for when shady decisions give them upset stomachs
House of Representatives
DC, 1950
#VintageMenus
Their dining room serves reasonably priced diner food with lots of beer as well as Bromo/Alka Seltzer for when shady decisions give them upset stomachs
House of Representatives
DC, 1950
#VintageMenus
February 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
It’s 1950 and the House of Representatives includes JFK, FDR Jr and Richard Nixon.
Their dining room serves reasonably priced diner food with lots of beer as well as Bromo/Alka Seltzer for when shady decisions give them upset stomachs
House of Representatives
DC, 1950
#VintageMenus
Their dining room serves reasonably priced diner food with lots of beer as well as Bromo/Alka Seltzer for when shady decisions give them upset stomachs
House of Representatives
DC, 1950
#VintageMenus
Movie gripe: everybody writing that Wuthering Heights is "Victorian." The book ends around 1802, Vicki ascends in 1837. So it's Georgian, and Empire, like Bridgerton. Way cooler!
February 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Movie gripe: everybody writing that Wuthering Heights is "Victorian." The book ends around 1802, Vicki ascends in 1837. So it's Georgian, and Empire, like Bridgerton. Way cooler!
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The Beowulf fandom is fascinating because theres a lot of disagreement in the fandom but mostly we just reassure each other that Hwæt isn't supposed to be shouted them go right back to shouting it.
February 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
The Beowulf fandom is fascinating because theres a lot of disagreement in the fandom but mostly we just reassure each other that Hwæt isn't supposed to be shouted them go right back to shouting it.
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post a picture of a tree i photographed? what if you recognize that tree and go ask it where i live? trees are known gossips
February 11, 2026 at 5:35 AM
post a picture of a tree i photographed? what if you recognize that tree and go ask it where i live? trees are known gossips
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I thought this Tyrannosaurus would be the best Saint Paul curler I’d see today, but I was wrong.
February 10, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I thought this Tyrannosaurus would be the best Saint Paul curler I’d see today, but I was wrong.
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Once again I've read a food piece that normalizes the recent hegemony of "recipes" in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out.
That the last 20 years of internet has convinced people that cooking skill doesn't matter, that the recipe bears all the weight, and must be "foolproof"? Infuriating.
That the last 20 years of internet has convinced people that cooking skill doesn't matter, that the recipe bears all the weight, and must be "foolproof"? Infuriating.
February 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Once again I've read a food piece that normalizes the recent hegemony of "recipes" in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out.
That the last 20 years of internet has convinced people that cooking skill doesn't matter, that the recipe bears all the weight, and must be "foolproof"? Infuriating.
That the last 20 years of internet has convinced people that cooking skill doesn't matter, that the recipe bears all the weight, and must be "foolproof"? Infuriating.
"Now new research makes the case that the ancient life form is not a plant, animal or fungi and instead may be a completely unknown form of multicellular life." 🤔
www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/s...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/s...
New analysis suggests puzzling fossil may have been an unknown life-form | CNN
A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.
www.cnn.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
"Now new research makes the case that the ancient life form is not a plant, animal or fungi and instead may be a completely unknown form of multicellular life." 🤔
www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/s...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/s...
Bringing on the snooze, green.
February 8, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Bringing on the snooze, green.
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February 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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It is not often that I make a 2 #FossilFriday posts but, I will make an exception. This is the skeleton of the fish Xiphactinus audax. It was found by a friend looking fossils in the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Smokey Hill Chalk in Kansas. You think you afraid of the ocean now? You've seen nothing!
February 7, 2026 at 12:02 AM
It is not often that I make a 2 #FossilFriday posts but, I will make an exception. This is the skeleton of the fish Xiphactinus audax. It was found by a friend looking fossils in the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Smokey Hill Chalk in Kansas. You think you afraid of the ocean now? You've seen nothing!
Another way to deal with it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Week in wildlife: cuddling sloths, dazed iguanas and a very fat seal
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Another way to deal with it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Remember last summer when he made them shut down the colosseum so he could visit and he didn’t even show up? 💩
I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
February 6, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Remember last summer when he made them shut down the colosseum so he could visit and he didn’t even show up? 💩
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I have never simply seen enough evidence to believe in Richard Dawkins.
February 6, 2026 at 5:58 AM
I have never simply seen enough evidence to believe in Richard Dawkins.
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Annie, but it's me and Carol Burnett experimenting with psilocybin in an abandoned orphanage
February 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Annie, but it's me and Carol Burnett experimenting with psilocybin in an abandoned orphanage
Interesting and miserable read.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/30-t...
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/30-t...
37+ things The Washington Post did wrong and 22+ things they could do to fix it
"@mackenziescott you have the opportunity to do an extremely funny (and genuinely heroic) thing right now."
www.niemanlab.org
February 6, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Interesting and miserable read.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/30-t...
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/30-t...
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nebuchadnezzar went by chad, probably
February 5, 2026 at 1:09 AM
nebuchadnezzar went by chad, probably
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Anyway, congrats to Will Lewis bumping the UK tabloid scandal to the second sentence of his obit.
February 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Anyway, congrats to Will Lewis bumping the UK tabloid scandal to the second sentence of his obit.
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The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers
The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
I have my own personal woodchuck, thank you.
February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
I have my own personal woodchuck, thank you.
Anyone placing bets on how long February will wind up being?
February 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Anyone placing bets on how long February will wind up being?