Amy
@isabetta.bsky.social
Slightly workaholic, very nerdy, Egyptophile, distracted crafter, amateur baker, Austenite, wannabe crazy cat lady who likes the MCU maybe a bit too much.
Happy birthday Jane!
Revisiting Jane Austen's Cultural Impact for Her 250th Birthday
To capture the writer’s brief life and enormous impact, we assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Happy birthday Jane!
Things that are amazing about spending the night at your folks:
1) flannel sheets
2) SO very quiet
3) and SO very dark
4) full east window (in my old bedroom)
5) mom's scrambled eggs
1) flannel sheets
2) SO very quiet
3) and SO very dark
4) full east window (in my old bedroom)
5) mom's scrambled eggs
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Things that are amazing about spending the night at your folks:
1) flannel sheets
2) SO very quiet
3) and SO very dark
4) full east window (in my old bedroom)
5) mom's scrambled eggs
1) flannel sheets
2) SO very quiet
3) and SO very dark
4) full east window (in my old bedroom)
5) mom's scrambled eggs
Forgot to post my Day 1 yesterday. Brain isn't wrapped around December yet. This year I picked a bitty pop! Advent Calendar. Yesterday was iron Man. Tony's giving out gifts in his green sack. Today's a key ring thing.
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Forgot to post my Day 1 yesterday. Brain isn't wrapped around December yet. This year I picked a bitty pop! Advent Calendar. Yesterday was iron Man. Tony's giving out gifts in his green sack. Today's a key ring thing.
I'm laughing so hard
The Greatest Trick Marvel Ever Pulled
YouTube video by Cinema Stan
youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'm laughing so hard
If you ever need an argument for full nuclear disarmament, watch this.
I miss that brief moment in the early 90s when we (naively) thought global thermonuclear war was a thing of the past.
I miss that brief moment in the early 90s when we (naively) thought global thermonuclear war was a thing of the past.
How A Nuclear War Would Actually Go Down
YouTube video by Flashback History
youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If you ever need an argument for full nuclear disarmament, watch this.
I miss that brief moment in the early 90s when we (naively) thought global thermonuclear war was a thing of the past.
I miss that brief moment in the early 90s when we (naively) thought global thermonuclear war was a thing of the past.
Pinstripes
I'm gonna need a moment
I'm gonna need a moment
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Pinstripes
I'm gonna need a moment
I'm gonna need a moment
I'm mocking up a plan for an office project for over winter break. BF I get too deep into this, checking with ppl from/used to live in/just more aware of Queens, Manhattan & Brooklyn to make sure I don't have something really dumb going on (like the Empire State Bldg shorter than the Flatiron).
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm mocking up a plan for an office project for over winter break. BF I get too deep into this, checking with ppl from/used to live in/just more aware of Queens, Manhattan & Brooklyn to make sure I don't have something really dumb going on (like the Empire State Bldg shorter than the Flatiron).
There's one day a year I can wear my red poppy pin. And could I find it this morning?
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
There's one day a year I can wear my red poppy pin. And could I find it this morning?
Today's lineup has a bit of a theme...
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Today's lineup has a bit of a theme...
Watching "Black Widow" after seeing Yelena in "Thunderbolts" hurts about as much as seeing Bucky in Civil War. My poor brainwashed Soviet assassins.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Watching "Black Widow" after seeing Yelena in "Thunderbolts" hurts about as much as seeing Bucky in Civil War. My poor brainwashed Soviet assassins.
Got in the mood to re-watch the Multi-verse Saga and have watched WandaVision & am on the last episode of FatWS. Good Lawd, the Sam raining montage. Also, I don't care what "canon" is, I really think that boat repair scene belongs in a RomCom. SMOLDERING looks from both! BUCKYBUCKYBUCKY! 👽🤖🧙♂️
🦾❤️💪🏿
🦾❤️💪🏿
two men are standing next to each other in front of a house . one of the men is holding a stack of boxes .
ALT: two men are standing next to each other in front of a house . one of the men is holding a stack of boxes .
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Got in the mood to re-watch the Multi-verse Saga and have watched WandaVision & am on the last episode of FatWS. Good Lawd, the Sam raining montage. Also, I don't care what "canon" is, I really think that boat repair scene belongs in a RomCom. SMOLDERING looks from both! BUCKYBUCKYBUCKY! 👽🤖🧙♂️
🦾❤️💪🏿
🦾❤️💪🏿
And Jack Kirby wanted to literally punch a bunch of em... :D
How Comics Played a Role in World War II Propaganda
In the midst of global conflict, when nations mobilized all available resources to win the war, art and culture became vital instruments in rallying support and shaping public opinion. One medium that...
www.toonsmag.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
And Jack Kirby wanted to literally punch a bunch of em... :D
There is actually a line at my polling place. Whoa! Given how few people vote in local elections, I'm happy to wait!
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There is actually a line at my polling place. Whoa! Given how few people vote in local elections, I'm happy to wait!
Working on a MCU NY Skyline to create something for my office. I needed Avengers Tower in Manhattan. Plus this has Brooklyn & the Statue of Liberty. I am wondering if I should modify Lady Liberty or not. Opinions? I could probably handle a small circle with a star cutout...
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Working on a MCU NY Skyline to create something for my office. I needed Avengers Tower in Manhattan. Plus this has Brooklyn & the Statue of Liberty. I am wondering if I should modify Lady Liberty or not. Opinions? I could probably handle a small circle with a star cutout...
Happy Halloween!
🐈⬛🧹🧟♀️🍫🎃🍬⚰️🍭🧙🏻🪦🧛🏻♂️🕯🌜💀👻
🐈⬛🧹🧟♀️🍫🎃🍬⚰️🍭🧙🏻🪦🧛🏻♂️🕯🌜💀👻
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Happy Halloween!
🐈⬛🧹🧟♀️🍫🎃🍬⚰️🍭🧙🏻🪦🧛🏻♂️🕯🌜💀👻
🐈⬛🧹🧟♀️🍫🎃🍬⚰️🍭🧙🏻🪦🧛🏻♂️🕯🌜💀👻
As soon as they said "professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" I squealed and said "Dr. Whalen!!!!"
Yes, I'm a history 🤓
Yes, I'm a history 🤓
Early Medieval Papacy (Radio Edit)
pca.st
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
As soon as they said "professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" I squealed and said "Dr. Whalen!!!!"
Yes, I'm a history 🤓
Yes, I'm a history 🤓
Just some daguerreotypes of people with cats.
October 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Just some daguerreotypes of people with cats.
I have been saying since before the Paper Classes Scandal™️ that we need an Athletics major (concentrations like Sports Admin, Sports Comm, Sports Analytics or Sports Marketing). Looks like it's starting to gain traction. Those are all real careers b/c lets be honest, MOST won't be Michael Jordans.🐏
A Sports Major May Be Coming to a Campus Near You
Inside the movement to enshrine athletics as the newest liberal art.
www.chronicle.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I have been saying since before the Paper Classes Scandal™️ that we need an Athletics major (concentrations like Sports Admin, Sports Comm, Sports Analytics or Sports Marketing). Looks like it's starting to gain traction. Those are all real careers b/c lets be honest, MOST won't be Michael Jordans.🐏
For Spoopy Month 2025, I decided to do Vampire Movies. With help from my friends I put together a list from old (Vampyr, 1932) to new (Sinners, 2025), tragedy (Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013) to comedy (What We Do in the Shadows, 2014), heroic (Underworld, 2003) to villainous (Dracula, 1932). 🧛
a man in a suit is sitting next to a kermit the frog puppet on a book .
ALT: a man in a suit is sitting next to a kermit the frog puppet on a book .
media.tenor.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
For Spoopy Month 2025, I decided to do Vampire Movies. With help from my friends I put together a list from old (Vampyr, 1932) to new (Sinners, 2025), tragedy (Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013) to comedy (What We Do in the Shadows, 2014), heroic (Underworld, 2003) to villainous (Dracula, 1932). 🧛
I also wonder about property crime vs violent crime. One of those I'm much more willing to be lenient since a lot of times that's because persons are drawn to property crime by desperation.
Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows
Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the US. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I also wonder about property crime vs violent crime. One of those I'm much more willing to be lenient since a lot of times that's because persons are drawn to property crime by desperation.
Fidel Rivera, a husband and father who has been in the U.S. for 30 years, is one of thousands of undocumented migrants who have self-deported.
abc11.com/post/fidel-r...
via ABC11 App
abc11.com/post/fidel-r...
via ABC11 App
Raleigh father self-deports, leaves NC family of 19 years due to threat of arrest
Fidel Rivera, a husband and father who has been in the U.S. for 30 years, is one of thousands of undocumented migrants who have self-deported.
abc11.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Fidel Rivera, a husband and father who has been in the U.S. for 30 years, is one of thousands of undocumented migrants who have self-deported.
abc11.com/post/fidel-r...
via ABC11 App
abc11.com/post/fidel-r...
via ABC11 App
Ok ppl. In Thunderbolts*, the Void only covers Manhattan. Ergo it's safe to assume Kate, Stephen, Matt, Jessica, Frank, Danny & Luke got sucked in. Wilson Fisk too. You know what didn't get Voided: Brooklyn, Queens & Jersey. So Peter & Kamala were likely safe. (My sad map below).
October 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Ok ppl. In Thunderbolts*, the Void only covers Manhattan. Ergo it's safe to assume Kate, Stephen, Matt, Jessica, Frank, Danny & Luke got sucked in. Wilson Fisk too. You know what didn't get Voided: Brooklyn, Queens & Jersey. So Peter & Kamala were likely safe. (My sad map below).
959 years ago today... supposedly Harold took an Arrow to the Eye.
October 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
959 years ago today... supposedly Harold took an Arrow to the Eye.