Just a reminder that James Watson said a lot of indefensibly sexist and racist things. Any obituary that doesn't mention that is doing a disservice
KatM
mastodon 4.7.3Drawings and crafts that explore plants, rocks, and random silliness. She/They. Dormant librarian/archivist working as a caretaker and artist. Located in Vermont, USA.
Drawing
Knitting
Gardening
Linguistics
Amateur geology
And books, lots of books
English, working on French, Ukrainian, Yiddish, and Japanese
I don't know if this is mean or what but I really don't care about a guy climbing a building right now
I said to myself "oui is how they say yay in France". Another great job, brain.
Imagine being a beetle that has been around virtually unchanged for 100 million years and a human sees you and names you telephone pole.
Im on letters 857 of Vincent van gogh's letters, out of 902. So reading the letters made me feel a real dislike of him or at least his behavior. He's an awful misogynist at a time when that wasn't guaranteed, horribly manipulative of his brother...
...but I find myself pulling for him with real sadness as he is in the asylum. Obviously they had no idea how to treat mental illness and he is really sincerely trying
I check Google news every once in a while to see what's going on in the broad world of "news." I'm in the US. IDK what kind of deal got made but recently the headlines feed contains a lot of weird garbage from .gov urls
If you think the "let them" mindset is great, you'll love my new book "let me"
Well now I guess I know what it is like to live in a death spiral. Sucks actually.
How many times in the middle ages did somebody catch a fish that had swallowed a ring? I feel like it must have really happened at least once
Vincent van gogh's letters give one the unique experience of watching somebody become an "incel" kinda guy
Reading Vincent van Gogh's letters i had the weird thought that who he really reminds me of mentally is Edie Sedgwick
My dad is ai generating genealogical history for his family and I have no idea what to say about it
A good biography of Gawhar Shad would be amazing. If you write it say hi to me in the intro
Surprised how many "best classic books for teens" include Go Ask Alice. How in the year 2025 do they not even mention that it's fake? Even the New York Public Library list