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Researchers found an area where flax was prepared before workers turned the plant into linen. They also uncovered 82 pit houses, small sunken buildings linked with Viking workshops. Many held spindle whorls and loom weights, showing cloth production took place on a large scale.

Vintage Italian lighting by designer Gino Vistosi

we spent an hour and half going all over the grounds, I'd never felt so #urbex

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

Courtesy Alain Truong

This is actually some pretty wild engineering when you think about it. This style of windmill (masonry tower with a rotating cap) was developed in the late 1200s. Use of windmills to grind grain can be dated back to at least 900, and windmills to move water even earlier.

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this one, Walking in the Zen Garden at the Ryoanji Temple, feels almost like a comic, with the progression of feet at the bottom, and comics as a medium are something i've been thinking a lot about recently, specifically the ability to imply things that happen "between frames", or create an impression of something happening that would be totally invisible if any part were taken singularly. i wish more of the hundreds of these he made were available online

DANNY KAYE as HUBERT HAWKINS in THE COURT JESTER (1955)

if you aren't willing to look like a foolish beginner, you'll never become a graceful master.

Paul Bouchard is a storyboarder who decided to take up woodworking and then was dissatisfied with finding furniture designs that were reliable and beautiful so he decided to try to learn how to imitate Ancient Egyptian woodworking, starting with attempting replicas from photos and moving to detailed photometric studies of specific pieces. Here's a talk he gave to the Museo Egizio in Turin about it that I've been watching happily over the last couple of days. His blog has pics and build details of the specific replicas and frankly they completely rule

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY June 20, 2026 at 05:00PM What if you could see the entire sky -- all at once -- for an entire year? That, very nearly, is what is pictured here. Every 15 seconds during 2025, an all-sky camera took an image of the sky over the Netherlands. Central columns from these images were then aligned and combined to create the featured keogram, with January at the top, December at the bottom, and the middle of the night running vertically just left of center. What do we see? Most obviously, the daytime sky is mostly blue, while the nighttime sky is mostly black. The twelve light bands crossing the night sky are caused by the glow of the Moon. The thinnest part of the black hourglass shape occurs during the summer solstice, like today, when days are the longest, while the thickest part occurs at the winter solstice. Equinoxes can also be located in the keogram, for example the northern-spring equinox from one year ago is about three-quarters of the way up. Image: https://ift.tt/sYUbXpE via NASA https://ift.tt/v73qasO APOD --> https://ift.tt/eFgXVSY