'Autumn and water illustration'. Watanabe Seitei. 1851-1918.

I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable

oh shit i almost missed it!

Molasses Flood Day!

Thermal Tides Drive Venusian Winds

Venus is a world of extremes. A full rotation of the world takes 243 Earth days, but winds race around the planet at a speed that makes a Category 5 hurricane look sedate. Just what drives these winds has been an ongoing question for planetary scientists. A recent study suggests that tides are a major contributor to this superrotation. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; research credit: D. Lai et al.; via Eos)

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hold on let me google something

what the fuck

The Second Stain

Upon manuscripts and first drafts again… No doubt one of the most memorable lines in the canon is “Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department.” Yet the original manuscript gives us the more straightforward “what’s the meaning of that?” in its place. So what is the meaning of that? Did Watson change the line in a bout of poetic licence? Or did Holmes actually say the famous words?

The little that we know of Watson’s private life doesn’t lend itself to such wild claims, much like his early ‘three continents’ boast. It is true that Holmes is the eternal bachelor while Watson has been married, but the doctor's experience, with his shy courtship followed by an unremarkable domestic life, pales in comparison with his friend's consistent professional relations with women from relatively diverse backgrounds. If Holmes did indeed speak the line, he no doubt imbued it with a certain amount of sarcasm.

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Christmas preparations 🎄

George Lucas with all his Star Wars props, 1977

This is not a painting. It is made entirely of wood, its surface flat. A detail from the 15th-century “Studiolo Gubbio”, one of the finest examples of intarsia, the masterful art of fitting together pieces of wood to make images: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/exquisite-rot-spalted-wood-and-the-lost-art-of-intarsia

To reiterate: this is FLAT. This is a collection of different-coloured bits of wood, carefully cut and pieced together. It’s not “oh it’s a cupboard and they made the interior items out of wood”, the cupboard does not exist. The whole thing is a picture.

Here is a larger photo of part of the project - remember there are no benches, there are no cupboards - and a detail from another area, both images from the linked article:

It’s like a quilt but with woodworking.

My account is still blocked from searching/tags/etc on my business blog @foundfamilyadventurecrafts so I'm posting this here. There's something very bad happening with Small Business, Tech, and Amazon. What else is new?

Links: Bobo Design Studio for Updates & Submitting Information

Arrows Aim Greenhouse + Chroma Rex are putting together a complaint with WA State Attorney General's Office + Templates for complaints / opt out

Articles:

Amazon's Buy For Me Information Page

Reuters Article

Ars Technica Article

Business Insider Article

Hey, that's us and a bunch of our friends! This whole thing SUCKS so bad and we're pissed. We've intentionally not listed our products on Amazon for the 15 years we've been in business. We're ready to join a class action lawsuit and kick some ass.

Friday makes really good tea, both just by the flavors and as reflections of fandoms. I absolutely LOVE my Second Breakfast (hobbits) and General's Jasmine (Uncle Iroh).

Go check out the Friday Afternoon Tea website DIRECTLY if you want to support them - and if you, unlike me, are in Seattle, go visit the brick-and-mortar store!

And boycott Amazon.

Sherlock Sketch by Feyjane

Love the lines.

Wow. I feel honoured to be the first one to ever draw these guys cuddling on a train ride. 🙌

First carving of 2026.

Vesperis, hand carved slate with silver background, 43 cm in height.

Just added this to my new online store: https://fmstonecarving.myshopify.com

From the article:

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.