These male & female memento mori figurines were used for spiritual contemplation in the 19th century. They reminded the owner of the transience of life and material luxury. They are now part of the Wellcome Collection in London.

Personally, I think they'd make great wedding cake toppers!

I made a thing!

I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev

It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃

Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.

Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.

Here are some free/open-source sites for the preparation of scientific illustrations, including icon libraries: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org, biogdp.com, reactome.org/icon-lib

The most fearless women of America (in no particular order) are:
Letitia James
Katie Porter
VP Harris
Fani Willis
AOC
Sarah Longwell
Michelle Obama
Jasmine Crockett
Nancy Pelosi
Liz Cheney
Judge Chutkan
Caitlin Clark
E. Jean Carroll
Hilary Clinton
Ketanji Brown-Jackson

Lol

Rule #1