Kitty
@kittyfisher.bsky.social
liking stuff since 1741. arctic expeditions, medical history, marine life, flouncy mantuas, the sea, perfume. Edward Forbes fan account.
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A new kid on the block for anyone interested in marine biology 🦑 or who just loves the sea - one for your Christmas List 💙📚
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/coastal-s...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/coastal-s...
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A new kid on the block for anyone interested in marine biology 🦑 or who just loves the sea - one for your Christmas List 💙📚
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/coastal-s...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/coastal-s...
If one more person sends me a draft of a story where they start with the date, I will destroy everything within a fifty-mile radius
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If one more person sends me a draft of a story where they start with the date, I will destroy everything within a fifty-mile radius
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It was lovely to see homage to the Hunterian Museum’s Evelyn Tables in @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein. These four tables were made in Padua, taking arteries, veins and nerves dissected in Padua’s famous anatomical theatre, pasting them to boards and varnishing them to protect and preserve
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It was lovely to see homage to the Hunterian Museum’s Evelyn Tables in @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein. These four tables were made in Padua, taking arteries, veins and nerves dissected in Padua’s famous anatomical theatre, pasting them to boards and varnishing them to protect and preserve
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This morning, there was a public hearing at Bessemer City Hall in Alabama to discuss the zoning of a new data center, which would likely cause the extinction of a newly-discovered small endemic fish, the Birmingham Darter. Best of luck to the fish people. abc3340.com/news/abc-334...
'We have to act fast': Petition filed to protect rare fish from proposed data center
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to secure Endangered Species Act protection for the Birmingham
abc3340.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This morning, there was a public hearing at Bessemer City Hall in Alabama to discuss the zoning of a new data center, which would likely cause the extinction of a newly-discovered small endemic fish, the Birmingham Darter. Best of luck to the fish people. abc3340.com/news/abc-334...
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'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
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Researching UK schoolchildren's' strikes in 1889, and came across this excellent description of the problems with "home lessons" which were one of the students' main complaints.
We'll be adding stories to our Stories app and Map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
We'll be adding stories to our Stories app and Map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Researching UK schoolchildren's' strikes in 1889, and came across this excellent description of the problems with "home lessons" which were one of the students' main complaints.
We'll be adding stories to our Stories app and Map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
We'll be adding stories to our Stories app and Map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
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He has a very nice mountain named after him here in Canada:
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
He has a very nice mountain named after him here in Canada:
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The new remake of The Thing looks rubbish.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The new remake of The Thing looks rubbish.
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an insult to scientific illustrators who put time and work into accurately communicating results of research in a visual form
an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here
an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world
an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here
an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
an insult to scientific illustrators who put time and work into accurately communicating results of research in a visual form
an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here
an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world
an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here
an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world
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The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
Edward Forbes died #OTD in 1854, after a short illness/infection. He’d only recently returned to his beloved Edinburgh to take up a post as the university’s Professor of Natural History, a job he’d long wanted. I’ll be downing a glass or two of wine in his memory later.
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Edward Forbes died #OTD in 1854, after a short illness/infection. He’d only recently returned to his beloved Edinburgh to take up a post as the university’s Professor of Natural History, a job he’d long wanted. I’ll be downing a glass or two of wine in his memory later.
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
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This microscope was made by the Beck brothers in London, with the lenses designed according to formulas done by Joseph Lister’s father, Joseph Jackson Lister. These new lenses significantly improved image quality and significantly enhanced the microscope as a scientific tool.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This microscope was made by the Beck brothers in London, with the lenses designed according to formulas done by Joseph Lister’s father, Joseph Jackson Lister. These new lenses significantly improved image quality and significantly enhanced the microscope as a scientific tool.
Today I am mostly annoyed by that stupid trope about lobsters mating for life
November 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today I am mostly annoyed by that stupid trope about lobsters mating for life
I would LOVE to see the return of forums
the 'clubs' they mentioned are a thing that just does NOT exist anymore. I honestly think that's the biggest hole
like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad
like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I would LOVE to see the return of forums
Well, this guy sounds like a terrible human being.
Becky looked after her mum 24 hours a day by the end. After she had died, Becky put the house on the market for £300,000.
So why did Andrew Milne - who had bought the freehold for £400 - try to take it for nothing?
So why did Andrew Milne - who had bought the freehold for £400 - try to take it for nothing?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Well, this guy sounds like a terrible human being.
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What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
- Films from 1932 in which three chorus girl gold diggers who share a flat try to survive the Depression
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
🎶caught in a crab romaaaaance🎶
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🎶caught in a crab romaaaaance🎶
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🎉 Incredible ocean win from our friends at @sussexwildlife.bsky.social in a battle to stop dredging taking place in a conservation zone. Plans involved one million tonnes of sediment being dumped over 10 years on "important, internationally rare habitat"
https://bbc.in/4p4bOQG
https://bbc.in/4p4bOQG
Sussex Wildlife Trust claims victory in Brighton dredging battle
The Trust challenged the plan to dredge a million tonnes and dump it on a marine conservation area.
bbc.in
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🎉 Incredible ocean win from our friends at @sussexwildlife.bsky.social in a battle to stop dredging taking place in a conservation zone. Plans involved one million tonnes of sediment being dumped over 10 years on "important, internationally rare habitat"
https://bbc.in/4p4bOQG
https://bbc.in/4p4bOQG
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They may not stand up to moorland treks or autumnal downpours but I hope the former owner of these boots by Pinet was able to flash her ankles and show off the embroidered panels whilst she walked. Late 1870s @lacma.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
They may not stand up to moorland treks or autumnal downpours but I hope the former owner of these boots by Pinet was able to flash her ankles and show off the embroidered panels whilst she walked. Late 1870s @lacma.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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The earth, the moon, and the sun
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 396; Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; 9th century (end); Brittany or Wales (?); f.16r
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 396; Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; 9th century (end); Brittany or Wales (?); f.16r
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The earth, the moon, and the sun
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 396; Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; 9th century (end); Brittany or Wales (?); f.16r
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 396; Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; 9th century (end); Brittany or Wales (?); f.16r
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November 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trying to remember a computer game from the mid-80s set in a pond, where you started as a tadpole and had to develop into a frog while avoiding hazards like mosquito larvae. Mine was on the Acorn Electron. Anyone?
November 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Trying to remember a computer game from the mid-80s set in a pond, where you started as a tadpole and had to develop into a frog while avoiding hazards like mosquito larvae. Mine was on the Acorn Electron. Anyone?
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This got me thinking about the Chrysler "as big as a whale" in the B52s song and a short-finned pilot whale is actually smaller than a 1960s Chrysler 300 convertible. Thanks, Wikipedia.
Here's a mind-blower:
A 1986 Taurus rode on a 106" wheelbase and weighed ~3k pounds.
A 2019 Focus sedan rode on a 104.3" wheelbase and weighed about the same.
A 1986 Taurus rode on a 106" wheelbase and weighed ~3k pounds.
A 2019 Focus sedan rode on a 104.3" wheelbase and weighed about the same.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This got me thinking about the Chrysler "as big as a whale" in the B52s song and a short-finned pilot whale is actually smaller than a 1960s Chrysler 300 convertible. Thanks, Wikipedia.