Keeper of the Really Smart Words

Gotta keep the chain of custody of your gross mummified historical evidence rodents!

Gotta admit - never heard of it, which does fit the theme!

Name a TV show you feel like no one remembers but you:

I love that touch!

Three things you should know:
1) Measles erases previous immunity to other diseases
2) Mumps, in addition to being painful, can sterilize adult men
3) You can get the MMR at any age in most places that provide vaccines, including grocery stores

Message to men: you can date/marry way, way above your league if you will just fucking learn to cook and do some laundry, please stop hitting yourself in the face with hammers or "optimising" things and try vacuumcleanermaxxing instead...

On the right: part of William Longspere’s tomb, showing his effigy from the arms up. On the left; a red box with a glass front showing a gnarly mummified rat and a blue information sign explaining the rumors of William’s death and the finding of the rat.

I’ll let people decide if they want to expand this photo or not…

Fun fact, the guy died suspiciously after a feast and a while later when they opened the coffin, there was a poisoned rat in there with him… which is *also* in Salisbury cathedral by his tomb.

Headstone that reads PEAK CROWLEY in two different fonts.

My main hope for the Good Omens finale.

Grimly, I must point out that history consistently confirms this. As the administration has attacked two sovereign nations and threatened at least 3 more with being conquered, there’s a great deal of incentive.

Positive action you can take.

What A Week Of Freedom Can Do For A Lab Mouse | Defector Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the mou...

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If Dolly were to give a press conference and announce she has a surprise, and then tear off her human skin to reveal herself as Trogdora the Burninator, about half of Bluesky (Yr Hmbl Crrspd't included) would immediately swear fealty to her and join whatever crusade she was leading.

I am once again urging all quilters to follow this account.

Carving of a double-headed eagle with 32 in an inverted triangle on its chest and a banner with the motto Spes Mea in Deo Est (My hope is in God) 32nd Degree Mason

Carving of a crescent moon hanging from a curved sword in the middle of a laurel wreath. Shriners are a branch of the Masons.

A flexed arm holding a hammer inside a compass. NOT A MASON! This is the symbol of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, a civic-minded service fraternal organization founded in Germantown Pennsylvania.

Brass plaque of a cross inserted in a crown, pierced by two swords and the motto In Hoc Signo Vinces (In this sign you shall conquer) Masonic Knight Templar

🎶One of these things in not like the other / One of these things is not the same🎶

I challenge y’all to a game of “Who’s Not A Mason?” (Answer in alt.)

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

Not incompatible statements

Good morning! Yes, this is he

I’m sorry for your loss.

Murderbot remains so terribly relatable

A data point for any US credit card holders who are thinking about using Amazon's currency converter for purchases in foreign currencies.

On the left is a purchase through the Amazon Currency Converter ($64.51)

On the right is the purchase through the AMEX Currency Converter ($62.93)

Shelves of novels by Stephen King

Someone just asked for the Stephen King book about the scary clown but they couldn't remember the name of It.

*raises a glass*

Dead and Breakfast: The Screenplay A pair of tourists from the US fly into to London for business and pleasure... and abruptly find themselves drawn into a battle for the freedom of human souls threatened by a new and terrible kind of ...

Now that billionaires are using AI to force undead likenesses of dead people to "teach" the living... if they've got the tech, why stop there? Make their *souls* slaves to the computer too! ...Now available at #Ebooks Direct: DEAD AND BREAKFAST. ebooks.direct/products/dea...

It Happened To Me: I accidentally left my phone at home when I went for a walk and I knew 15 minutes of peace

Oh, Miller and Vought have been running things since last January.

As do we all, honestly

16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time Who could use this today?

May I present the Renaissance book wheel? mymodernmet.com/bookwheel-hi...

Waking up and checking AO3 like a fisherman’s wife looking out to sea for ships returning after a storm.