AspiringLuddite @AspiringLuddite@medievalist.masto.host

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Spouse is making hats! And I'm helping. Here is a wool tweed pillbox style hat she sewed out of some scrap wool from another project. It is lined with linen. The wool was pretty easy to work with. This a style is called a pilleus Pannonicus, or a Pannonian cap and was common in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

i was listening to some teenagers talk in staccato in public, mimicking the way people talk in youtube videos when the ums, ahs and dead air is edited out, and i realized i was hearing an accent. like people from different towns and countries have accents, people from different parts of the Internet have accents.

Because I am getting too many strange signups in the last 24 hours and most people don't read the Terms of Service, I added a Temporary Notice to Masto.host Pricing page: https://masto.host/pricing/

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I hope that's clear enough :)

Just remember that sea shanties are a gateway to FInntroll.

I would highly recommend the Medievalists of Color website for anybody interested in medieval history, and particularly the intersection of race and medieval studies (CW for eye contact on the website): https://medievalistsofcolor.com/

Looking for medieval history podcasts? These ones are all good:
- Medieval Death Trip https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/
- Byzantium and Friends https://byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/
- The Medieval Podcast https://www.medievalists.net/category/podcast/

There are so many prisoners and victims I'm gonna fight for before I worry about these assholes, but I'm also not going to celebrate the bad actions of the state.

hit 15% of the chicken startup costs recouped! good work, ladies!!

Nobody was answering my question of what happens if the chambers split on certifying a state's electoral votes, so I went to the statute.

Which is how I learned that the Electoral Count Act was written by a pack of drunken lemurs.

Please boost if your account is safe for non-binary people.

This link is an interesting story about a recently rediscovered book that belonged to Thomas becket.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-55370722

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Got GPT-3 to generate new Christmas carols.

Here is "Mild is Rudolph". Are you not cheered and comforted?

https://aiweirdness.com/post/638130829107806208/alternate-rudolphs