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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Mixed up my first batch of manuscript gesso, from the recipe in Patricia Lovett's book on medieval illumination. #calligraphy #humanArt #artistsOfMastodon

A collection of 9 limpet shells upturned on some wet paper towels. Six have a pink goo inside.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I have been asked to provide some samples of my calligraphy for my calligraphy guild's website. The requester knows me well enough to specify, 'nothing controversial, no swearing . . . ' Hah, nothing controversial. Kindness is controversial these days. I […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Two pages of foundational calligraphy, with the following text:

My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency

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Matthew Olzmann

People always tell me, “Don’t put the cart
before the horse,” which is curious
because I don’t have a horse.
Is this some new advancement in public shaming—
repeatedly drawing one’s attention
to that which one is currently not, and never
has been, in possession of?
If ever, I happen to obtain a Clydesdale,
then I’ll align, absolutely, it to its proper position
in relation to the cart, but I can’t
do that because all I have is the cart.
One solitary cart—a little grief wagon that goes
precisely nowhere—along with, apparently, one
invisible horse, which does not pull,
does not haul, does not in any fashion
budge, impel or tow my disaster buggy
up the hill or down the road.
I’m not asking for much. A more tender world
with less hatred strutting the streets.
Perhaps a downtick in state-sanctioned violence
against civilians. Wind through the trees.
Water under the bridge. Kindness.
LOL, says the world. These things take time, says
the Office of Disappointment. Change cannot
be rushed, says the roundtable of my smartest friends.
Then, together, they say, The cart!
They say, The horse!
They say, Haven’t we told you already?
So my invisible horse remains
standing where it previously stood:
between hotdog stands and hallelujahs,
between the Nasdaq and the moon’s adumbral visage,
between the status quo and The Great Filter,
and I can see that it’s not his fault—being
invisible and not existing—
how he’s the product of both my imagination
and society’s failure of imagination.
Watch how I press my hand against his translucent flank.
How I hold two sugar cubes to his hypothetical mouth.
How I say I want to believe in him,
speaking softly into his missing ear.

White copperplate calligraphy on red paper:

Hail, Pterry, full of rage, the muse is with thee. Blessed art thou among authors, and blessed is the fruit of thy brain, Discworld.

Hail Pterry, Father of Great A'Tuin, who channeled rage into compassion blessed are thy words.

Text by @ultragotha.bsky.social‬

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Behold, she is done! This is, without a doubt, the most complex project I've ever undertaken, and I'm very proud of myself for seeing it through to the end. #humanArt #noAI #artistsofMastodon #IslamicGeometricart

Panel composed of large tesselating stars, hexagons, and bow-tie shapes, each filled with symmetrically twining white biomorphic designs on a dark blue background. The outlines of the shapes are also in dark blue channels, and the border around the panel is dark blue with a little picket-fence type design running along it in white.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Pictures, for posterity. Original item on the left -- a bit stiff, doesn't work terribly well, but it's clear how it's *supposed* to work. Ebay item on the right. It's so ridiculously, risibly bad I can't even get mad at it. I'm grateful for the laugh.

Side-by-side comparison of two snail-shapped dotted-line ruling pens. On the left is an actual device, which is clearly engineered to work. On the right is the fake device, with a HILARIOUSLY not-a-ruling-pen tip connected to some various bars via bolts. There is absolutely no way this thing will draw any lines at all, let alone dotted ones. The pen tip is not a pen, and the gear at the back does not engage with the pen arm.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Progress! You have to understand that these take ages to paint. I spent two hours last night doing just one of those hexagons. #humanart #islamicgeometricart

Partially painted panel of blue and white Uzbek biomorphic decoration (white vinework on blue background), laid out in a geometric grid of stars and hexagons and bowtie shapes. The central star, four partial stars in the corners, and two complete hexagons along the long midline have been fully painted. Four half-hexagons at the edges and all the bowties and partial bowties have their designs outline, but remain unpainted.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Hey, @thisismyglasgow , do you have any photographs of that gorgeous white art-deco building right across from the Argyle St exit of St Enoch subway station? I've tried to photograph it many times from my phone, but I don't have the right lens or something […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Work in progress of my Uzbek ceramics-inspired panel. Designs taken from Dr Esra Almahal's excellent book on Islamic biomorphic patterns. Materials are gouache on hot-press watercolour paper. #humanart #islamicgeometricart

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Bought some books in London. See if you can guess which books Mr Absolutive selected, and which I selected.

28 books laid out on the floor. From left to right, top to bottom, we have

Lady Eve's Last Con (Rebecca Fraimow)
City of Saints & Madmen (Jeff Vandermeerr)
Gogmagog (Jeff Nono & Steve Beard)
Spread Me (Sarah Gailey)
A book of decorative papers entitled Art Forms in Nature (art by Ernst Haeckl, an unfortunate 19th century white supremecist, but my god the man could draw a jellyfish like no other)
The Windhover (Lorna Alecock)
Just the Plague (Ludmila Ulitskaya)
Aetherial Worlds (Tatyana Tolstaya)
Regiment of Women (Clemence Dane)
May We Feed The King (Rebecca Perry)
The Architects (Stefan Heym)
Black Bag (Luke Kennard)
Quick Service (PG Wodehouse)
Company for Henry (ibid)
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch (Melinda Taub)
The Odyssey (Homer, trans. Emily Wilson)
The Winged Histories (Sofia Samatar)
Slow Gods (Claire North -- although to be fair this was a book I already owned; it just came with us on the trip to London)
The Eye of the Leviathon (M. A. Carrick)
CD: Gamba Sonatas by Bach, Handel, and Scarlotti, played by Steven Isserlis & Richard Egarr)
The Pastor's Wife (Elizabeth von Arnim)
By the Pricking of her Thumb (Adam Roberts)
So in the Spruce Forest (Ali Smith)
Ordinary Saints (Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin)
When God was a Rabbit (Sarah Winman)
Soviet Milk (Nora Ikstena)
Illumination: Gold and Colour: Tools|Materials|Techniques|Projects for using gold and colour and creating mediaeval miniatures (Patricia Lovett)
Kieron Smith, boy (James Kelman)

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Yo, guess who found a tutorial on two-point perspective on the internet?

A rough pencil sketch of a couch and bookcases in FLAWLESS two-point perspective.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

No fear -- I also do broad edge #calligraphy too! I actually have rather a huge number of Gilbert & Blanzy-Poure nibs, which is a pity, because on testing it turns out I don't much care for them. The William Mitchell ones are ok, as are the John Mitchells […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Testing page of some broad edged nibs, including Gilbert & Blanzy-Poure No. 4, Gilbert & BLanzy-Poure No 2, the same with a Tape reservoir, John William Mitchell No3, John Mitchell B0131 with a Brause reservoir, and Leonardt 70 with a Tape Reservoir.

Quote from Stacie Michelle (I found this when she was on twitter under the handle @staciemichelle), reading 'Banana bread is actually the first step on one's journey to radicalization because it requires recognizing when something is rotting and needs to be turned into something else'. The script is a basic foundational, very nice and legible. (Written with John Mitchell B 0134 nib.)

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Behold, also, my testing of the various nibs. The longer texts are from 'Rats, Lice, & History', by Hans Zinsser, a fantastic, odd, quirky book from the 1930s by a doctor, ostensibly about typhus, but with surprisingly little actually relating to typhus in it […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Notebook page with some copperplate text of the names of various fountain pen nibs, along with handwritten notes about the nibs' features. Nibs in question include Gillotte Principality, Gillotte 303, Gillotte 404, John Heath Shoulder 506, Hunt School Pen 56, Brause 76 Rose, Baignol & Farjon Tantale, Sergent Major Superieure, Hunt 101, Esterbrook 357, Esterbrook 358, Gillotte 292, Gillotte 170, Perry 23, Hunt 22.

More nib testing pages from the same notebook. Nibs include Hunt 56 School pen, Gilbert & Blanzy Poure 902 Mitrailleuse, Perry 120 EF, Baignol & Farjon 803, Somerville 750 EF Plume Gauloise, Baignol & Farjon 2730 Henry Superieure, Hiro Leonardt 41, Brause 361, Leonardt 40, Nikko G, Departementale Cémentée 2552, Gillotte 404 (modern), Gillotte 404 (vintage)

Text written with 'B&F 803' (which means Baignol & Farjon 803). It's a full page of copperplate in walnut ink. It reads

The important point is that infectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is the direction of the least resistance. The plant does the work with its roots and its green leaves. The cow eats the plant. Man eats both of them; and bacteria (or investment bankers) eat the man. Complete elucidation would require elaborate technical discussions, but the principle is clear. Life on earth is an endless chain of parasitism which would soon lead to the complete annihilation of all living beings unless the incurruptible workers of the vegetable kingdom constantly renewed the supply of suitable nitrogen and carbon compounds which other living things can filch. It is a topic that might lend itself to endless trite moralizing. In the last analysis, man may be defined as a parasite on a vegetable.

More from Hans Zinsser's 'Rats, Lice, and History'. This time the text reads:

If warriors and politicians and patriots and all the other people responsible for wars had only left the world alone for another hundred years this discovery might, without further scientific advances, have sounded theknell of epidemic typhus in the west.

But then a Grand Duke was murdered at Serajevo and everybody lost their heads, ourselves and T. Roosevelt included--except Mr Wilson, who lost his two years later; and the bandfs played the "Wacht am Rhein" and the "Marseilleise" and "God Save the King" and "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" and "Boje tsaria Khrani" and "Ustaj, ustaj, Srbine" and, several years later, the "Star-Spangled Banner." and the arbed-wire kings and the T.T.T., corned beef, and ordnance people, and the ship jobberes and the shoe manufacturers and the khaki pants trade, and so forth, and so forth, laid the foundation for a new and Hollywoodian aristocracy that lasted until 1929. And God was on evefyone's side. And when we had all gone to war and the stage was set, typhus woke up again.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

LOOKIT MY NIBS!!! (not shown: two full-gross boxes of vintage nibs, which are perfectly fine as they are.)

Four boxes with little compartments, each one holding dip pen nibs, each one labeled neatly. In total there are 61 compartments.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Holy forking shirtballs, my friends, I just won an ebay auction of vintage pen nibs, and when they arrived in the mail they proved to contain not one, not two, not three, but FOUR (4!!) unused (UNUSED!!) Gillott Principalities. FOUR UNUSED GILLOTT PRINCIPALITIES! LOOK! PICS BECAUSE IT HAPPENED!

FOUR!! UNUSED!! GILLOTT PRINCIPALITY!!! dip pen nibs

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Over on tumblr, some beautiful words from estrogenesis eeveeangelion moved me ot break out my copperplate. #calligraphy #handlettering #copperplate

no animal was harmed during the making of this video. not one. for the few minutes that we were shooting film, the guns of each hunter fell silent. the industrial bolt throwers observed a moment's peace and the jaws of every predator hung softly open. no fish bit any hook and the bait worms held off on drowning only until the cameras stopped. the tails of ruminants ceased to flick just as their attendant flies, in unison, landed on their flanks to catch their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

A propos of sharing genuine, human art, here are some sketches and eventual painted copies I made of the beautiful stencils in the drawing room of Holmwood House. #artistsOfMastodon #traditionalArt #humanArt #noAI

Some beautiful wall stencil on a pinkish background, with shades of maroon and brown and cream with pops of blue. The dominant feature is an elaborate lower border with alternating designs featuring palmeate leaves.

A deeply ugly, messy, disproportionate sketch of the wall stencils in the previous picture. Penciled note in the bottom corner reads 'sketched at Holmwood house, in drawing room, sun 24 May 2026'

A second iteration of the sketch from the previous picture, this time with lengths noted to indicate the appropriate proportions. Below the sketch is a taped tracing of the design.

Two side by side renditions of the sketch from the previous picture, this time painted to match, approximately, the colours from the original stencils (in pic 1). Little brush patches next to the edges of the background on the right-hand design show the artist attempting to colour-match, pehaps because they didn't mix up enough gouache to do more than one design. The left-hand design's background is a bit cooler in tone, so evidently the colour-matching FAILED, DIDN'T IT hmph.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Pic 1: initial attempt. Fine, easy! Pic 2: Got ambitious, drew it smaller, doubled the pattern. Got confused. Gave up. Ripped page out of sketchbook. [not shown: Pic 1.5: put the initial line too low and ran out of room to double the pattern] Pic 3: The […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A nice, tidy geometric construction, with five-fold symmetry, showing three rosettes (two bottom, one top) embedded in a rectangle, with some star-shaped motifs surrounding them, and a central pentagon, some hexagons, and bow-tie shapes in between. Very demure, very cutesy. Nothing wrong here. Simple!

A half-drawn attempt at the same pattern as the previous picture, duplicated top and bottom. There are two rosettes in the middle, one on top, and a duplicate one on the bottom. The intervening shapes (hexagons, pentagons, etc) have not been drawn.

A completed version of the abandoned attempt from before, drawn directly into a spiral-bound sketchbook. Attribution on the top of the page says Sönmez vol. 3, Desen 102. A handwritten note is on on the left margin (see next pic for transcription).

NB: This is imperfect. Upper and lower decagons ended up different sizes, becaues centers were different distances fro midline. (Why? How did that happen?)

[alt-texters's note: this happened because the distances of the upper/lower decagons from the midline was determined by the intersection of the radial lines drawn for the two side-by-side circles that define the twin central rosettes. If those radial lines do not perfectly divide the circle, then they'll intersect at slightly separate locations. The solution, of course, is to find ONE intersection of the radial lines, say the top one, and then draw a proportioning circle, with the center where the twin central circles touch, and the radius defined by the intersection of the radial lines. Then make sure that the other pair of radial lines are drawn such that their intersection coincides with the intersection of the proportioning circle and the central vertical line. The geometry is simple. But do I really want to draw this a FOURTH time, now that I know how to fix it? Wouldn't it be easier to just keep track of top vs. bottom when I transfer it to a larger watercolour paper for coloring, and make sure I don't try to match up the mismatching upper/lower decagons when I tile the pattern?*

*This approach will almost certainly reveal wildly frustrating problems. I know. I know. i need to redraw it. goddammit.]

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

The completed pattern, now painted. THis is Pattern 99 from volume 3 of from Serap Ekizler Sönmez's 3-volume masterpiece, 'The Geometric Language of Anatolian Seljuk Art' (Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatının Geometrik Dili) I do not speak or read Turkish, but the […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A 5-pointed star formed from tiled shapes built around 5-fold symmetry, coloured in concentric pentagonal bands of turquoise, ochre, and maroon. To one side is a handsomely bound, large hardback book with a ribbon bookmark, entitled Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatının Geometrik Dili, by Serap Ekizler Sönmez.

A 5-pointed star formed from tiled shapes built around 5-fold symmetry, coloured in concentric pentagonal bands of turquoise, ochre, and maroon.

A close-up shot of the shapes tiling the large star from previous photographs. Pointy 10-pointed stars are coloured in turquoise, fat 10-pointed stars are coloured in ochre, and bow-tie shapes in maroon separate the bands of ochre and turquoise shapes.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

[ukpol, uspol] OMG, Scotland has its own Four Seasons Total Landscaping event!

Reform UK had originally planned to do a press call this morning at the Kelpies - the gigantic horse sculptures outside Falkirk.

However this turned out to be news to the people running the site on behalf of the local authority, which has to remain strictly politically neutral.

So Malcolm Offord ended up speaking to the media at a nearby farm, owned by a Reform candidate.

The party had already planned a secondary event here - but in the end the pictures of the day have ended up featuring cows rather than steel statues of shape-shifting water spirits.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Mise-en-place in progress. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023660… I hasten to clarify that the contributions of the garlic clove interns in the bottom row are not included in the billable hours of this recipe.

An artificially tidy kitchen worktop with a cutting board, on which sit 27ish peeled cloves of garlic in three rows (the bottom row containing those irritatingly teeny nubbins of garlic that still need to be individually peeled), an unpeeled bulb of garlic, a little bowl of wine, a tin of tomatoes, a measuring cup, a jar of pepper flakes, a dutch oven lid, a box of salt, lid invitingly open, a pepper grinder, and two bottles of olive oil.

I cannot emphasize enough how *~*aesthetically*~* arranged everything is. The countertop is clear. The tiles of the backsplash are fucking gorgeous. There is not a fragment of garlic skin to be seen.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

Math word problems in real life. Which kilogram of pecans is cheaper?

Two listings for pecans for sale from a grocery website. On the left: Morrissons Pecans, 175 gram packet for £2.75, helpfully labeled at £15.71 per kilo. On the right: Morrisons Pecan Nuts, 250 gram packet for £4.35, helpfully labeled at £1.74 per 100 g. The second packet is also on offer: Buy 4 for the Price of 3.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

I have finished my sketchbook! Last few doodles of the year are designs copied from Owen Jones's Grammar of Ornament (Greek section), and a tezhip motif taken from IG user @taherehmousavi.official.

Sketchbook page with some floral motifs in pencil, and a red-and-green arabesque motif with gold outline and accents of black and blue.

Double-spread of a sketchbook page showing a variety of ochre, red, and black decorative motifs in the Greek style, with lots of palmate leaves growing out of undulating bands.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

It is not Flat Fuck Friday yet, but given how the loaf of bread I just baked turned out, I feel justified in indulging in a little time-hop.

A photograph of a very large alligator which is substantially wider than it is tall. In fact, it quite resembles the loaf of bread I just baked. Both, you see, are exceptionally flat. However, the resemblance ends there, because while this property is a disappointment in my bread, it only adds charm and elegance to the alligator's presentation.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

Demonstrator fountain pens that have solid caps just look like they forgot to put on pants. #fountainPens

A fountain pen with a clear barrel, displaying the piston filling mechanism, and a solid cap with a gold clip.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

Words -- and pictures, too -- are not capable of capturing the ridiculous vividness of this rainbow that greeted us outside the back door of our holiday rental in the Scottish highlands.

A view of a small, sloping backyard, separated by a brown plank fence from a sheepfield, beyond which are some trees, and beyond that are distant mountains. The sky is cloudy, but the landscape is in sunlight, and over this absurdly idyllic view stretches a magnificent rainbow which, however vivid it may appear in this picture, is not half as bright as it was in real life.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025

I have completed an Art! This is an early 16th century Iznik design modeled from a tile in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, featured as Pattern Study 3 in Isra Almahal's superb book on Islamic Biomorphic patterns. Holbein gouache (CMY pallette ftw!) on Arches […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A hexagonal biomorphic design with swirling stems, leaves, and flours in ultramarine blue, with details picked out in purple. Everything follows six-fold radial symmetry.

Detail of a swirling biomorphic pattern of stems and leaves and flowers in ultramarine, with details picked out in purple. The purple bits have a darker purple outline defining them.

The same pattern from picture 1, beneath a book called 'Islamic Biomorphic Patterns: Creating Motifs Inspired by the Natural World', by Esra Almahal.

The same pattern from picture 1, above a book opened to show the instruction pages from the book in picture 3 for creating that pattern. On the right-hand page are four versions of the pattern, one in ultramarine and cyan, and then three monocolored versions, in black, ochre, and ultramarine.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025

I saw this on tumblr, and I'm pleased to report that I did this, roughly by age 30! (Well, more like 32). I put otters on all my lecture slides. Over the years I have accumulated a rather charming eclectic array of gifts from my students that tend toward otter-themed. #academicChatter

Screenshot from Dr Anna Hughes on twitter (@AnnaGHughes):

these "by age 30" memes are very funny but the truth is that by age 30 you should have an animal people associate with you so when they don't know what to get you for your birthday they can default to something with the animal.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

Please take a moment to praise Inverness Castle for following the time-honored path of super-crappy photoshop 'artists impressions' in advertising its upcoming re-opening. Once upon a time, this would have been sarcasm. But in today's world of AI crap, I am […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

An 'artist's impression' of Inverness castle's grounds. The castle floats in the background, not quite connected to the foreground gardens. People have been copy-pasted in, with varying degrees of motion-blur.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

Hey, for anyone still sleeping on @adapalmer.bsky.social new book on Inventing the Renaissance, the conversation between the Ambrosian Republic, Machiavelli, Francesco Sforza, Bianca Maria Visconti, Milan, the Milanese Ghibellines, and 19th-century historians […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

GIF of Wash from Fireflay playing with dinosaurs. Toy T-Rex attacks toy Stegosaurus. Caption reads, 'Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!'

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025

Clifton Fadiman knows what's what. (Description: white foundational calligraphy on green background: "A cheese may disappoint. it may be dull, it may be naive, it may be over-sophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality." -Clifton […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Behold! I have committed an art. This is an iznik hexagonal tile, based on the design instructions from from Ezra Almahal's excellent book on Islamic biomorphic patterns. #islamicArt #traditionalArt #ArtistsOfMastodon

A hexagonal biomorphic tile with floral designs and motifs in dark blue, light blue and turquoise.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2025

Spent my Sunday working on my Cancelleresca #calligraphy. Walnut ink on cartridge paper, Gilbert & Blanzy Poure 2552.

A variety of sheets of Italianate pointed pen calligraphy, with a jar of ink and an oblique pointed pen nearby.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2025

Ground-breaking new research has revealed that, although birbs are all avians below a certain size threshold, borbs are not merely the round subsection of that category. In fact, the roundest borbs can actually be slightly larger than the birb-category […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A coordinate grid with two axes: pointy to round (horizontal), and lorge to smol (vertical). Everything in the lower two quadrants (pointy + smol and round + smol) is coloured purple, and labeled 'birb'. Everything in the bottom right quadrant (round + smol), plus a bit in the lowest portion of the top right quadrant (lorge + round), is coloured blue and labeled 'borb'. THe remainder is labeled 'bird' in black.

I cannot emphasize strongly enough the Microsoft-Paintiness of this graphic.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025

Bought a new vase (artist = Rose Schmits, over on bsky)

A green vase on tentacle legs, posed on a kitchen floor in front of a pantry door, the same sea green, decorated with decals of an octopus, jellyfish, squid, and sea turtle.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

Happy Friday! Let's play a game. Which product is packaged with this label/description?

El Vergel Anaerobic Pink

Parma Violets/White Vermouth/Papaya

Fresno, Tolima Region
Elias and Shady Bayter
Pink Bourbon Varietal
Anaerobic Natural Process

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

I'm not really on IG anymore, because meta, etc., so here's my most recent art! I learned the galaxy-painting technique from a session taught by Lieve Oudejans, and the geometric pattern is #7 from Ameet Hindocha's book '12 Twelves'. (Please don't judge the […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Hexagonal geometric pattern with a central 12-pointed rosette and 1/3 rosettes at each of the points of the hexagon. The background colour is a swirling galaxy type of thing, with orangey red in the centre, shading to purple and indigo at the edges. The geometric pattern is drawn in shimmery silver.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2025

My adorable pie-crust braid rim is sliding off the crust, and since it served a structural purpose, that means pie filling is also leaking in the oven. And I burned both hands putting it in. How's YOUR birthday going?

Image of a pie with a BEAUTIFUL braided crust rim, which has slipped off the edge of the pie pan, leaving the filling to drip down the side.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2025

Ok, I'm reading That Article in the New Yorker, and I'm quite struck by the final paragraph: Girl: It DID happen to somebody else. That was the whole Addison Cain Omegaverse debacle! You're ripping off Zoey Ellis! Except not, because these two things […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

But the preponderance of commonalities and the sum of how they unfold is harder to discount. Wolff said that she’d been “completely blindsided” and “devastated” by Freeman’s accusations, and that she “hurt for everybody involved in this case.” “I didn’t do what I’m accused of,” she said. Freeman, who has sold her home in Alaska to pay her legal costs, told me that she was fighting in part because she no longer saw herself as unique. “If this can happen to me,” she said, “it could happen to somebody else.” ♦

Published in the print edition of the January 13, 2025, issue, with the headline “Love and Theft.”

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2025

Still thinking about this New York Review of Books personal ad.

30-something, female environmental lawyer in Nashville seeks lifelong partner with a love of movies at the Belcourt, an ever-expanding personal library, thrift-shopping, and a desire to explore the world. Must enjoy reading NYR personal ads and vegetarian cooking. Steven, send your answer to this proposal to Caroline.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2024

Grading final #psycholinguistics projects. To be honest, I've not yet not had to tap the sign. #academicChatter #linguistics

Simpsons 'don't make me tap the sign meme', with the sign reading 'Priming effects are about the DIFFERENCE in RT between related/unrelated conditions, NOT the raw RT itself.

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