@oewordhord.bsky.social on an once-chirruping media platform, you had a lovely word — eorþ-grāp, f.n: earth’s grip, grasp of the earth.
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Is it literal like a clod of earth? Or some force pulling to earth like Newton’s gravity?
Is it a kenning— e.g. for worldliness, sticky mud, or the grave, etc.?

fore-bēacen, n.n: foretoken, portent, sign. (FOR-uh-BAY-ah-kun / ˈfɔ-rə-ˌbeːa-kən)
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elpend-bān, n.n: ivory (elephant-bone). (EL-pend-BAHN / ˈɛl-pɛnd-ˌbaːn)
Image: Virgin and Child; Egypt (Byzantine), 7th-8th century; The Walters Art Museum.
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dēawig-feðere, adj: dewy-feathered. (DAY-ah-wih-FETH-eh-ruh / ˈdeːa-wɪj-ˌfɛ-θɛ-rə)
Image: Gull in the Alphonso Psalter; England (London), 1284; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 24686, f. 11r.
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If you'd like a Latin equivalent for 'when pigs fly' (an event that won't happen), Varro records the phrase "prius pariet locusta Lūcam bovem" – 'a locust would sooner birth an elephant'.

Hello Chipmunk, My Old Friend

@wayno.bsky.social
Drawn into the bowl of a pipe or…a treatise on the magical properties of the elephant,…a state of mind where [one’s] own objectivity is severely shaken
Journey Around My Pipe invites us to go beyond the illusion of the immediacy of things

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Polio cases in US states, before and after introduction of the polio vaccine
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Well, isn’t that convenient? Musk gets named to the fake department of DOGE, and suddenly NASA’s future is up for debate—just as SpaceX is poised to cash in. Funny how “efficiency” seems to mean redirecting public funds straight into private pockets.

I just got this book from Germany

Peter Gut, Tierische Unter Strom.

I mainly bought it because of the photo on the cover.

#CatArtDay #Caturday