Anna Fore Waymack
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Anna Fore Waymack
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Feminist, nerd, sailor, gardener, embroiderer, beekeeper. Should be writing. She/her.
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If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):
Ditto--my dad’s cousin (and said cousin’s wife) were my cousins, but my grandfather’s friend across the way was my Uncle Bill.

Which actually also confused me because Uncle Bill was older than Methuselah, I was told, and felt more like a second grandfather, but whatever.
Does he not understand the term “obligate carnivore”?
Just posted one!
So it turns out that in addition to cured meats (duh), fish (duh), and seaweed (huh?), MewMew is a fiend for apricots.

Meanwhile Natasha still favors potato chips and popcorn.
So it turns out that in addition to cured meats (duh), fish (duh), and seaweed (huh?), MewMew is a fiend for apricots.

Meanwhile Natasha still favors potato chips and popcorn.
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If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
"and then I realized I have become That Guy, and am seeking help immediately."
Thermasilk socks and gloves with the fingertips cut off are my go-tos. Plus a hot water bottle for my toes.

Have already managed a shade of purple this season, ugh.
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In the special collections exhibition at the KU Leuven Library, two 18th-century silk prints: one a graduation thesis and the other a congratulatory poem, both common subjects for silk printing at the time. @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Amateurs. My spouse is *very* into making cocktails and will begrudgingly provide me with the Sir Laurence:

-fill the glass with olives
-then and only then add the dirty martini around them

So-called because it's "olivier" than he considers reasonable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/d...
How Much Dirtier Can the Dirty Martini Get?
www.nytimes.com
I don’t know why but I really am stuck on the hearth. Also the part where it looks like a circular firing (skewering?) squad.
Which medievalist wished we were more relevant, c’mon, fess up, I know it was all of us but only one had the monkey’s paw
Realizing @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com have surely already seen this, but I guess everything’s medieval now.

Except I’m not sure my house actually has a hearth? and it’s a century-old house, not a modern apartment. Am I defending my heat pump? My microwave?
oh boy, that there sure is an AI medievalism
Like aside from how fast this is happening, during a shutdown, the mind also boggles at the current and future security implications.
Not just that, but it’s in constant use and the needs have changed. I’m not mad we’re building a ballroom, even—we do use the White House for diplomacy and large events. Probably should’ve prioritized more office space first. DEFINITELY should‘ve gone through some kind of permitting and planning.
Academically I can see why people are bothered by the demolition of the east wing of the White House but ultimately it's a Presidential Palace built by slave labor that has ossified - it *should* be a living building, we should be Ship of Theseusing that shit.
Oh, I think I can guess.

My sister gets to inherit great-grandma’s secretary desk. Why? Well, she has a very nice signature. She practiced it a lot, as a little kid, while on the phone. And when she’d run out of legal pad…
Would Great-great Aunt Arbeth have imagined her fancy marble tabletop being used to skive and tool leather? Probably not. But seeing as how she lived through the Depression, and the tables themselves are lost, I doubt she’d have minded the repurposing.