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Emily Spinach

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Here for the medieval skeletons. Also Victorians, natural dyes, and fungi.

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Aaron Schmit @theaaronschmit.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!
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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
When it comes to certain parts of anatomy, #museums have been deliberately teaching people the wrong thing. Most #mammals have a bone in their penis but natural history museums usually remove them from display, as I told @iflscience.com (& wrote in #NaturesMemory): www.iflscience.com/where-have-a...
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The Surprising (And Very Unscientific) Reason Why Penis Bones Are So Rare In Natural History Museums
#NotAllMuseums (but a lot of them) seem have to banished the penis bone. Why?
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"
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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism
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Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
And I'm so hot, 'Cause I'm stabbin' from hell Paranoia, paranoia White whale's coming to get me...
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Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
mood
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Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Personal inflection point: a friend from Scandinavia who I'd planned to host in May just cancelled his visit. It's not safe for him, and I can't play tourist in D.C. like nothing's wrong.
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Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Met a new friend at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge: an eastern mud turtle. We walked across the road together for safety.
Holding an eastern mud turtle all scrunched up into its shell
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Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Moby Dick at #MetOpera yesterday - an incredible must for the #MobyDick nerd!
Fisherman's friend cough drops saw me through the Moby Dick opera with zero coughs - they should have sponsored!Incredible 2034 painting "Moby" by Shara Hughes in the lobby for the Moby Dick opera.Me & fam outside the Met Opera ahead of seeing Moby Dick.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/03/2025
When we say that we hope this post is ‘awesome,’ we don’t mean we want it to be expressive of awe or terror. We mean that we hope you like it. This reduction of a word's intensity is called ‘semantic bleaching.’
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 24/03/2025
oh you know. scribin' and vibin'
a medieval manuscript with corner detail of a scribe at a desk
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Many medievalists will be familiar with this oft-reproduced representation of the structure of the brain. But did you know that this far superior image precedes it in the manuscript? NOW YOU DO. Source: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-0...
A miniature from c.1325 that shows a man's head in three-quarter view. All of the different cells of the brain are labeled, attached to lines proceeding from the eyes.A marginal figure of a man standing on a bar border and blowing a horn. He wears a kind of tunic-cape that covers him just to the navel as well as shoes, but no pants. His penis is erect and arches toward to the direction of the text.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Note for Americans: Magna Carta was the rich ruling elite getting pissy at the king for ignoring them. The king agreed to it, then went back to ignoring them. So, weirdly, Chuck Schumer referring to it is correct. Just probably not in the way he thinks.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
TIL that the first ship built for the Massachusetts Naval Militia (1776) was called TYRANNICIDE @pptsapper.bsky.social
18th-century writing saying Tyrannicide
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14/03/2025
These are your words of the week democracy habeas corpus allision sovereignty empathy tovarich crocus www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
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The Words of the Week - Mar. 14
Dictionary lookups from the federal government, the North Sea, and the New York Times
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Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
French revolution too; not... ideal
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“Violet and coltsfoot are among the first Spring flowers. Growing among the roots of the trees are violets and lesser celandine” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
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Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🤩🦇😇
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It's #Caturday! Here's an ancient Egyptian mummified cat head (665 B.C.E.), now housed at the Museum of Old and New in Tasmania, Australia. Photo: Peter Whyte.
A small cat's head covered in layers and layers of wrappings. The eyes have been painted on the wrappings.
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Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Asking for a country...
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
How's 2025 going? "Oh, you know, it's going"
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/03/2025
These are your words of the week recession Mardi Gras Lent mandate censure transgenic hemidemisemiquaver www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
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The Words of the Week - Mar. 7
Dictionary lookups from New Orleans and Washington D.C.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Today is Ash Wednesday when we are reminded that we are made of dust and, in the end, return to dust. BL Add 37049; The Carthusian Miscellany; England, N.; 15th century; f.32v
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
stressed about the state of the world and need some space? me too! here you go 🌌
A spiral galaxy seen close up and almost face on. It is filled with puffy, patchy clouds of hot gas and dust. Red, orange and yellow colours indicate light emitted by different particles. The brightest colours are in the centre and along the two spiral arms, which wind out from the centre. Star clusters hide in the gas along the arms. A few large, bright white stars are prominent in the foreground, near to us.A Hubble image of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space.Several bright stars shine in yellow, orange, and white hues. The stars have diffraction spikes, and two are particularly large just above and below the image's center. The background is full of dark brown dust and gas that covers most of the diagonal right half of the view, with pale blue gas glowing in the upper left section.The Crab Nebula. An oval with complex structure extends from lower left to upper right against a black background. On the oval’s exterior lie curtains of glowing yellow and green fluffy material. Its interior shell shows large-scale loops of mottled filaments of yellow-white and green, studded with clumps and knots. Translucent thin ribbons of smoky blue lie within the remnant’s interior, brightest toward its center. The blue material follows different directions throughout, including sometimes sharply curving away from certain regions within the remnant. A faint, wispy ring of blue material encircles the very center of the nebula. Around and within the supernova remnant are many points of blue, green, purple, and white light.
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 04/03/2025
It wouldn't be #PancakeDay without a recipe from our 15thC cookery book. Nb: we do not recommend 'putting thine hand in the batter & letting thine batter run down by they fingers into the chager' in front of guests but otherwise this recipe is Bodleian approved! #ShroveTuesday #MedievalRecipes
A recipe for "Medieval Pancakes or 'Cryspes'", featuring a list of ingredients (4 egg whites
2/3 cups milk
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon dried yeast
3 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt) 

followed by detailed cooking instructions: Take white of eyroun [egg], milk, and flour, and a little berme [yeast], and beat it together, and draw it through a strainer, so that it be running, and not too stiff, and cast suger thereto, and salt, then take a chafer full of fresh grease boiling, and put thine hand in the batter, and let thine batter run down by they fingers into the chager; and when it is run together on the chafer, and is enough, take and nym a skimmer, and take it up, and let all the grease run out, and put it on a fair dish, and cast thereon sugar enough, and serve forth.

The background image is a zoom in of Bodleian MS Ashmole 1439, f.39r, a 15th Century parchment written in black and red ink, which shows the recipe itself. 
Image of a handwritten recipe for pancakes/cryspes from a fifteenth-century Middle English manuscript cookery book. The paper appears aged and the text is written in an elegant, historical script. 

Below the text the caption: This recipe is from a fifteenth-century Middle English cookery book we have at the Bodleian (MS. Ashmole 1439, f. 39r). The recipe is actually for Cryspes rather than pancakes; a medieval French crepe.The same image as the previous page, with a caption that reads: 'The same manuscript also includes a recipe for a Lenten Egg, a medieval Easter egg that's similar to a Cadbury's creme egg!' next to an image of a Cadbury's creme egg.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“‘Are you still willing to help me?’ ‘I am,’ said Mr. Butterbur. ‘More than ever. Though I don’t know what the likes of me can do against, against—’ he faltered. ‘Against the Shadow in the East,’ said Strider quietly. ‘Not much, Barliman, but every little helps.’” JRR Tolkien, LotR I.10.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A medieval dragon for St. David’s Day - decoration from the 15th century chancel screen at Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire. 📷 My own. #StDavidsDay #ScreenSaturday
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John Vigar FSA @johnevigar.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Today is St David’s Day. Here is the interior of St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
St David's Day Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Artist: H Woolley (1954)
Simple illustration of a bunch of daffodils set against a duck egg blue background
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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Excellent news! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
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Medieval Women manuscripts now online
It’s the final week of our major exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words and we have some fantastic news! Several important items from our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation project are...
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Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Apparently there's the skeleton of a giant in every flying buttress.
A 19c section illustration of part of a typical church building with flying buttress.  The drawing includes a human skeleton within, as a representation of how these buttresses function.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
wikimedia commons
media in category "heart shaped potatoes". 15 homemade photos from commons
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We're all trying to be careful with our language, so as not to offend, or not to lose federal funding for talking about paragraph transitions. To help you out, here's a worksheet to guide you in swapping out troublesome phrases for real, historical eel expressions. 🗃️🧪
Worksheet titled: "Evolving from Eel-less Language" and it includes a column titled "Instead of" with a red X, and a column titled "Say this" with a green checkmark. The "Instead of" column includes sayings like "You're doing it wrong" and "Look at those used condoms in the water!" The "Say this" column includes sayings like, "You're grabbing an eel by the tail" and "Hey! Manhattan eels!"

I don't have the space here to list all of them. But each expression in the "Say this" column is a bonafide (read that in a Wharvey Gal's accent) historical eel metaphor. We'd all be better off if we talked more about eels.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell
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Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Drift! Drift drift!
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