Reposted by Emily SpinachAaron Schmit @theaaronschmit.bsky.social · 07/05/2025So 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! 272154134389
Reposted by Emily SpinachJack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 05/05/2025When 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...iflscience.comThe 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? 38827
Reposted by Emily SpinachTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 27/04/2025if 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 14291371598
Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Wonder why the wound doesn't have a label 🤔 000
Reposted by Emily SpinachKat 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" 93152243347
Reposted by Emily SpinachJamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism 20550147
Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 12/04/2025And I'm so hot, 'Cause I'm stabbin' from hell Paranoia, paranoia White whale's coming to get me... 000
Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Personal 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. 000
Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Met a new friend at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge: an eastern mud turtle. We walked across the road together for safety. 030
Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Moby Dick at #MetOpera yesterday - an incredible must for the #MobyDick nerd! 050
Reposted by Emily SpinachMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/03/2025When 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.’ 681805228
Reposted by Emily Spinachdawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 24/03/2025oh you know. scribin' and vibin' 2352
Reposted by Emily SpinachSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Many 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... 815827
Reposted by Emily SpinachJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Note 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. 1850885
Reposted by Emily SpinachCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025TIL that the first ship built for the Massachusetts Naval Militia (1776) was called TYRANNICIDE @pptsapper.bsky.social 241427327
Reposted by Emily SpinachMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14/03/2025These are your words of the week democracy habeas corpus allision sovereignty empathy tovarich crocus www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...merriam-webster.comThe Words of the Week - Mar. 14Dictionary lookups from the federal government, the North Sea, and the New York Times 1049071
Reposted by Emily SpinachHelen 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 327645
Reposted by Emily SpinachDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025It'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. 224528
Reposted by Emily SpinachStephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025How's 2025 going? "Oh, you know, it's going" 692975398
Reposted by Emily SpinachMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/03/2025These are your words of the week recession Mardi Gras Lent mandate censure transgenic hemidemisemiquaver www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...merriam-webster.comThe Words of the Week - Mar. 7Dictionary lookups from New Orleans and Washington D.C. 1434838
Reposted by Emily SpinachEnnius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Today 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 18418
Reposted by Emily SpinachJasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025stressed about the state of the world and need some space? me too! here you go 🌌 321624250
Reposted by Emily SpinachBodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 04/03/2025It 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 412931
Reposted by Emily SpinachDr 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. 639292
Emily Spinach @emilysquelette.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Right?? "Nobody of importance" = both of the women who ran against him. But what did they know? 🙄 140
Reposted by Emily SpinachSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart. 20083192463
Reposted by Emily SpinachKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 01/03/2025A medieval dragon for St. David’s Day - decoration from the 15th century chancel screen at Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire. 📷 My own. #StDavidsDay #ScreenSaturday 122747
Reposted by Emily SpinachJohn Vigar FSA @johnevigar.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Today is St David’s Day. Here is the interior of St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. 117911
Reposted by Emily SpinachHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/03/2025St David's Day Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Artist: H Woolley (1954) 238785
Reposted by Emily SpinachProfessor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Excellent news! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...blogs.bl.ukMedieval Women manuscripts now onlineIt’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... 07522
Reposted by Emily SpinachDarren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Apparently there's the skeleton of a giant in every flying buttress. 1422943
Reposted by Emily Spinachdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 26/02/2025wikimedia commons 321527227
Reposted by Emily SpinachSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025We'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. 🗃️🧪 721065
Reposted by Emily SpinachSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles. 458168145319
Reposted by Emily Spinachweird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 25/02/2025im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell 1034473920