Tinkerer and accidental #IT professional with a degree in ancient #history. #Collector of #art, physical media, and ephemera. Almost constantly listening to #music. Owner of #cats. #Learning something new, and trying to be a tiny bit better, every day.
Profile picture: A brain (as if viewed from the top) made to look like a face, wearing glasses, with the hint of a nose and a mouth but no eyes.
Header picture: An abstract, geometric, grayscale cityscape.
A close-up. It rained last night and then dropped just below freezing, so the moss was frosted this morning. #Mosstodon #lichensubscribe
@elmiko They are popular tags. No credit should be given to me for creating them. Haha. If you like this image, I recommend following them (the tags). :)
possibly the greatest cat photo ever. happy halloween
The highest resolution photo ever taken of a piece of art:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/story/ultra-high-resolution-photo
"It is 717 gigapixels, or 717,000,000,000 pixels, in size.
The distance between two pixels is 5 micrometres (0.005 millimetre), which means that one pixel is smaller than a human red blood cell."
Does anyone in my timeline know MA or PhD candidates researching the academic labour market (anytime between the 18th century and today) from a historical perspective?
Retooting much appreciated! 😊
An advertisement postcard for a technical school in New Jersey. On the left side of the image, you can see the front of one of the television sets being worked with. It appears to be an RCA 621TS (https://www.earlytelevision.org/rca_621.html). The card was postmarked in 1949, more than two years before the first national live television broadcast.
I've been collecting postcards over the last year or so and wanted a dedicated space to share that interest... so, I created a second, topic-focused account here: @postedcards. Feel free to follow if you feel so inclined.
There is more depth to postcards than I ever expected. The stories they tell, the artwork, the history, the music (see the image below), etc. Plus they're (often) inexpensive and easy to store.
Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit…
—for #InternationalLighthouseDay – Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building and taking up the pen, instead
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #19thcentury #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson
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I come here to #mastodon in the hope that it holds all the best bits which Twitter once had long ago, I can bear that place no more so here I am. I ❤️ #Wildlife #Nature #Science and #Technology when it is used wisely.
TIL that the targets in that 10m air pistol event that we're all making memes about are... not large. Cyborg Murder Lady and Bored Hitman Dad are punching 4mm holes in a 2cm ring from 10m away.
@heidilifeldman @Pineywoozle @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews This might just be me... but severed tusks just makes me think of the ivory trade.
Ghost-Note dropped some signed test pressings of Mustard n' Onions on Bandcamp today (4 remaining, as of this post). Even if vinyl isn't your thing (I'm more of CD fan), the album is amazing and worth your time.