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Teeny bijou cherry-blossom-biomette
October 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Teeny bijou cherry-blossom-biomette
I wonder what anatomical image was inscribed deeply enough into the roof lead of Carfax Tower to require a patch to be welded in …
September 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I wonder what anatomical image was inscribed deeply enough into the roof lead of Carfax Tower to require a patch to be welded in …
I am quite surprised that a professionally made tapestry from the 1660s has so many of its N embroidered as И but no other letters mirror imaged (Sheldon Map of Oxfordshire in the Ashmolean)
September 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I am quite surprised that a professionally made tapestry from the 1660s has so many of its N embroidered as И but no other letters mirror imaged (Sheldon Map of Oxfordshire in the Ashmolean)
I am deeply amused by my old college’s response to the prevalence of pink hair among undergraduates …
September 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I am deeply amused by my old college’s response to the prevalence of pink hair among undergraduates …
I found my old college’s copy of Lucretius (as a special treat, returning alumni were allowed into the Old Library). It does not appear to have manuscript annotations @adapalmer.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I found my old college’s copy of Lucretius (as a special treat, returning alumni were allowed into the Old Library). It does not appear to have manuscript annotations @adapalmer.bsky.social
“The world must be round because the shadow during an eclipse is round” illustrated in 1545 by Peter Apian
September 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“The world must be round because the shadow during an eclipse is round” illustrated in 1545 by Peter Apian
Amused to see how swift the reaction to ‘put my mug of ice water down next to the data logging thermometer on my desk’ was
July 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Amused to see how swift the reaction to ‘put my mug of ice water down next to the data logging thermometer on my desk’ was
Chart in a Japanese museum with the X axis labelled in regnal years, Meiji to Taisho to Showa! Something to do with silk production iirc
June 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Chart in a Japanese museum with the X axis labelled in regnal years, Meiji to Taisho to Showa! Something to do with silk production iirc
There is a certain inelegance when coupling two shinkansen units together …
June 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There is a certain inelegance when coupling two shinkansen units together …
Any idea what this leaf served on top of my donburi is? The margin reads strongly enough as ‘nettle’ to me that I was quite wary of eating it, the taste is mildly minty.
May 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Any idea what this leaf served on top of my donburi is? The margin reads strongly enough as ‘nettle’ to me that I was quite wary of eating it, the taste is mildly minty.
Pride of place in the gift shop at the UK pavilion at Expo 2025 is given to this Liberty print Brompton !
May 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Pride of place in the gift shop at the UK pavilion at Expo 2025 is given to this Liberty print Brompton !
The line-goes-up tree at Fushimi Inari shrine
May 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The line-goes-up tree at Fushimi Inari shrine
Surprised to find the Kaiyodo museum in a basement next to Osaka castle: some lovely paleo toys on display @tetzoo.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Surprised to find the Kaiyodo museum in a basement next to Osaka castle: some lovely paleo toys on display @tetzoo.bsky.social
Very comprehensive code shares for our flight, spanning nearly four continents: Asiana, Air Canada, Ethiopian, Etihad, ANA
May 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Very comprehensive code shares for our flight, spanning nearly four continents: Asiana, Air Canada, Ethiopian, Etihad, ANA
Where Find My Devices thinks the things that are in my rucksack next to me on this train are …
May 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Where Find My Devices thinks the things that are in my rucksack next to me on this train are …
Metamorphosis (not after Ovid)
May 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Metamorphosis (not after Ovid)
This does not look like happy frogspawn: any idea what might have damaged it on the edge?
April 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This does not look like happy frogspawn: any idea what might have damaged it on the edge?
The ‘now draw the rest of the owl’ of Lego instructions
March 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The ‘now draw the rest of the owl’ of Lego instructions
I’m inclined to blame the dog because of the toothmark, but shattering ABS this thoroughly is quite striking!
March 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’m inclined to blame the dog because of the toothmark, but shattering ABS this thoroughly is quite striking!
I’m inclined to blame the dog because of the toothmark, but shattering ABS this thoroughly is quite striking!
March 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I’m inclined to blame the dog because of the toothmark, but shattering ABS this thoroughly is quite striking!
I am always impressed at how much water an air conditioner contrives to produce; the adverts for portable room aircon never show that you have to mount it on a library stool and keep a big builder’s bucket which you empty twice a week under the spout.
February 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I am always impressed at how much water an air conditioner contrives to produce; the adverts for portable room aircon never show that you have to mount it on a library stool and keep a big builder’s bucket which you empty twice a week under the spout.
Is it a flowerpot, or is it the wheel for a 1:1 scale model of a small Mars rover?
February 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Is it a flowerpot, or is it the wheel for a 1:1 scale model of a small Mars rover?
This Lego sculpture starts by building an amazing four-ring fidget spinner, then locking it into place with sixteen bars to make this fabulous reactor-core object, and then covering it with grey triangles to make a flowerpot. This seems somehow the wrong direction of joy.
February 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This Lego sculpture starts by building an amazing four-ring fidget spinner, then locking it into place with sixteen bars to make this fabulous reactor-core object, and then covering it with grey triangles to make a flowerpot. This seems somehow the wrong direction of joy.
Sixteen solid bars of forte bottom Bb. Sometimes it is good to be bassoon. Why the next bars start as C-flat to B-flat and then move to B-natural to A-sharp is a small engraving mystery.
February 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Sixteen solid bars of forte bottom Bb. Sometimes it is good to be bassoon. Why the next bars start as C-flat to B-flat and then move to B-natural to A-sharp is a small engraving mystery.
I was sad because some of the knobs had fallen off my chest of drawers, then I discovered that for a trivial price Amazon would provide knobs shaped like tiny pumpkins.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DCVQ9SJX
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DCVQ9SJX
January 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I was sad because some of the knobs had fallen off my chest of drawers, then I discovered that for a trivial price Amazon would provide knobs shaped like tiny pumpkins.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DCVQ9SJX
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DCVQ9SJX