Lemurmancer
@mitzik-i.bsky.social
Early Modern/late Medieval art historian, progressive, citizen of the world, trying to find balance in our emerging late Capitalist dystopia.
While we're talking about fonts and readability (caveat: not a graphic designer), praise for Aptos. It has the lovely tittles (a real word) for i and j, and the good g, but ALSO the excellent differentiation of the low case l and panache to upper case Q.
December 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
While we're talking about fonts and readability (caveat: not a graphic designer), praise for Aptos. It has the lovely tittles (a real word) for i and j, and the good g, but ALSO the excellent differentiation of the low case l and panache to upper case Q.
Good sunset this evening.
December 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Good sunset this evening.
Silly cat in a catio.
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Silly cat in a catio.
I think the pattern of stupid videos that stop my scrolling in its tracks and send me into a fugue state indicate some longing for order or resolution (twee Japanese wood joinery, cake frosting, power-washing Persian carpets, logs being milled).
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I think the pattern of stupid videos that stop my scrolling in its tracks and send me into a fugue state indicate some longing for order or resolution (twee Japanese wood joinery, cake frosting, power-washing Persian carpets, logs being milled).
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
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Don’t know who made this but thank you
August 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don’t know who made this but thank you
Once again, Ubisoft has failed to call me to put me on retainer, and yet another Assassins Creed franchise offering with painful architectural anachronisms (set in 9th-century Baghdad but with *so much* Ilkhanid- and Timurid-era styling--the horror!). Will they never learn?
August 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Once again, Ubisoft has failed to call me to put me on retainer, and yet another Assassins Creed franchise offering with painful architectural anachronisms (set in 9th-century Baghdad but with *so much* Ilkhanid- and Timurid-era styling--the horror!). Will they never learn?
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Hans Memling, famed for his angelic beauties, could also do an A+ devil when appropriate. Just so you know. It’s his day.
August 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hans Memling, famed for his angelic beauties, could also do an A+ devil when appropriate. Just so you know. It’s his day.
Gender war detente: I'm going to accept and embrace Rush, but not Steely Dan. Deal? I've made my choice.
August 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Gender war detente: I'm going to accept and embrace Rush, but not Steely Dan. Deal? I've made my choice.
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Leonardo da Vinci's cats (and dragon) for #InternationalCatDay
August 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Leonardo da Vinci's cats (and dragon) for #InternationalCatDay
Art and Design Department Head: Lawful-neutral tactics for a chaotic-good ethos.
August 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Art and Design Department Head: Lawful-neutral tactics for a chaotic-good ethos.
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Evening four of going fucking ham on decent lychee that I found at Costco in the midwest. On the short list of things I miss about living on the islands.
July 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Evening four of going fucking ham on decent lychee that I found at Costco in the midwest. On the short list of things I miss about living on the islands.
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Me addressing Larry, the traffic engineer:
"Is this your bike lane, Larry?"
"Is this your bike lane, Larry?"
July 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Me addressing Larry, the traffic engineer:
"Is this your bike lane, Larry?"
"Is this your bike lane, Larry?"
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As has been often remarked “the Cold War was fought in the Midwest.” Bloomington used to teach 3 years of Romanian and 2 of Hungarian. One of three universities in the country to offer Serbo-Croatian. The biggest library collection of Tibetan materials, etc. Etc.
Closing the Central Eurasian program at Indiana is a disaster for generations to come. It was a haven for developing expertise in regions virtually no other university would have. If the State Department, for example, has an expert on Mongolia or Tibet, they are likely IU grads.
July 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
As has been often remarked “the Cold War was fought in the Midwest.” Bloomington used to teach 3 years of Romanian and 2 of Hungarian. One of three universities in the country to offer Serbo-Croatian. The biggest library collection of Tibetan materials, etc. Etc.
Fes, outside our riad-- passage is about 2/3 my shoulder-span.
June 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Fes, outside our riad-- passage is about 2/3 my shoulder-span.
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If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.
June 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.
Springfield, Missouri combined Pride and No Kings is pretty huge.
June 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Springfield, Missouri combined Pride and No Kings is pretty huge.
So we've entered the political assassinations phase. Cool, cool.
June 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
So we've entered the political assassinations phase. Cool, cool.
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Voice of America’s Farsi-language broadcast, dismantled under Trump and DOGE, was abruptly reactivated today, recalling dozens of staff from paid leave as tensions between Israel and Iran escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Voice of America’s Farsi-language broadcast, dismantled under Trump and DOGE, was abruptly reactivated today, recalling dozens of staff from paid leave as tensions between Israel and Iran escalated.