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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 11h

Thriller. I saw its MTV premier in 1983! I was 3. My babysitter had to call my parents back from dinner early.

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Bugs & Beasties Banquet - 15th century, Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 411

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think I am done. I am going to wait 24 hours to check my answers again, then submit it. I really hate citation.

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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 02/10/2026

‘Well met, fellow! Do you know the way to Manchester? @great_northern_events are expecting me’

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These are LL Bean trousers I've bought secondhand on eBay. They are COTTON and they go through the washer and dryer! Don't ask me how something can be so wonderfully amazing, I simply don't know.

Five pairs of trousers in various tweedy patterns, and shades of gray and brown.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spooky Season reminder that it's Interview with THE Vampire, not Interview with A Vampire

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today, there are the Anne Shirley people and there are the Charles Darwin people.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a known fact oak trees can take selfies

Oak with branches positioned so it looks like it is taking a selfie

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 01/10/2026

The graveslab known as 'The Brethren', in Jerpoint Abbey Kilkenny, is particularly interesting as it is one of very few incised graveslabs to depict knights in Ireland. #Ireland #Medieval #SpéirGhorm

A grey stone graveslab that has incised portraits of a knight in a helmet holding a sword (on the left), his head reclines on a pillow. A second knight in mail but no helmet holds a sword to the right

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think, after I'm done with chores and homework, I'll curl up with a Mary Berry book and make notes about more freezer casseroles to put up. Her beef casserole with mustard & horseradish is a banger, esp if you up the mustard and horseradish. I'll get to it.

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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beautiful picture of an older woman, 1654. Exactly the eyes of gentle old age. By Michael Sweerts, whose day has been today.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Treading grapes is thirsty work in October. #MedievalCalendar Bodleian Library MS. Add. A. 46; Calendar from a Psalter; 13th century, third quarter: f.5v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Don't Let Them Theory: Hey Knock That Off You Little Shit

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow. This week we are reading Jacob & Youngs v. Kent for the THIRD time. Hadley v. Baxendale might be the "fixed star in the legal firmament," but Jacob & Youngs is the case that keeps on giving.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tuesday. Brain wants to feel bad, but actually everything is fine. Lots of chores to do though, and it's Contracts Reading Day! Yaaaaay!!!

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

29th September is the feast of St Michael and All Angels München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 23630; Oudalricus-Gospel Lectionary; 12th century; p.68

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

29th September is the feast of St Michael and All Angels. BL Yates Thompson 2; 'The Ottobeuren Collectar'; 12th century; Germany, S. (Ottobeuren); f.37r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After the storm.

Leaves from different trees and some pale yellow rose petals strewn on a wet grey wooden deck.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wisdom from Gen Y to the Millennials and Zoomers re. the 90s look: in the 90s, pants didn't have Spandex in them. That's why the "look" is so baggy. They didn't stretch, but you had to move. The first jeans with Spandex debuted right around 2000, and at first it was one particular brand only.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday morning and my brain is trying to find something to feel icky about! It's having a harder time than usual, though.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've been feeling overwhelmed lately, like there's just constantly a ton of intimidating stuff to do and I never get past it. Couldn't be because my teen is in "driver's ed" except parents have to do all the work these days. Couldn't be.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Smile, it’s Friday! 😃 Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years! Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a human figure roughly carved from dark brown oak wood during the Mesolithic period about 5,400-5,300 BC. It is 12.5 cm tall with a long body with two finger-shaped indents on the right hand side (left in my photo), suggesting it was made to be held in the hand. The stylized head has deeply carved eyes, nose, and open mouth. The triangular shape of the mouth makes it look as if the figure is smiling, leading to its description as ‘The oldest smile in the world’. It is displayed against a black display case background at Landesmuseum Halle in Germany where the figure is currently on loan for the ‘Shamaness’ exhibition. It is part of the permanent collections of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Netherlands. It was found in a layer of peat in 1966 during the construction of a dock at Willemstad, North Brabant, Netherlands.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Table Still lifes by Italian Carlo Magini are so different from Dutch ones! Better vegetables (as today). But the knife at the table's edge is universal!

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's the "literate people stop retyping it as 'olde' English" challenge

A shelf of books that all clearly refer to it as Old English without any extra e.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It isn't autumn if I'm not making mega-batches of freezer casseroles. Today: chicken tetrazzini quadruple batch. Vegetables and chicken done; pasta and sauce after lunch.

Golden cooked mushrooms, onions, and garlic in a pot, safely waiting for me.

Six poached chicken breasts cooling on a tray.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm sad that I don't remember the name of this tomato plant. They're funky AND they get ripe.

My hand holding two midsized tomatoes. They're heart shaped and yellow/red.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MosaicMonday #Roman villa of the 4th century: the Largest Floor Mosaic in Cappadocia and Central Anatolia Region Uncovered - 600 square meters (📸: AA; Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality) #Archaeology #History

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last morning watering the borders this year. 🌱

A view down 80 feet of perennial borders. White lavender, white roses, and pink sedum feature heavily from this end. An orange canna is also distinguishable.

Perennials borders from the other side. Now we have pink roses and purple perovskia.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 21/09/2026

No thoughts, only this bat from the opening credits of My Neighbor Totoro (1988).

A very cheerful bat from the opening credits of My Neighbor Totoro (1988).

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sea witch @peaseblossom101.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today I went to the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester for their Avery, Gottleib & Rothko: By the Sea exhibit, which was fantastic! It was a really thoughtful collection of works by the three friends who spent summers together in Gloucester and Rockport.