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german keys from the 15th century
Someone in the notes was asking about the locks, and whether they matched the intricacy of the key. I went and looked at the Met's collection, and found this one, which shows both the key and the lock. You can see the matching stars on the lock side!
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/191476
they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids
The closer to the modern era you get the more fascinating "lost at sea" becomes as a backstory element. Being lost at sea in 1612 is a downright normal kind of lost to be. Being lost at sea in 2012 is like, okay, back up – I need to hear this one.
Like, come on, man.
Please do, @gallusrostromegalus.
My neighbor clinically died in December of 2019, remained in a coma for 3 1/2 months, and then woke up in March 2020, which. What a wild awakening.
Renaissance is out
My weird little book is published!
Here is an art I commissioned! It's a scene from chapter 1, drawn by the great LIS Photoart.
Book cover:
Links to all the books are here: http://winnowingfanpress.com
Perfect for:
once and future academics
librarians
reformed classics students
mythologists
"I really want a romcom but by com I mean communists."
people who took the manic pixie dream girl to nonbinary or agender goblin career track
@tryxyhijinks
probably @traegorn too
people who went to school in Madison, WI
people who like urban fantasy but wish it was more queer
people who like m/m romance but wish it had more plot
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
@tryxyhijinks told me I should post a reminder that Renaissance comes out next week. So here we go.
What can I say about it?
A card game I once made up for a completely different novel appears in it. Rules on request for those who spot it.
A very funny joke in Latin
Completion of the big plot arc
Shouting about community theater
Okay, maybe just A joke in Latin. Probably no Latin jokes are funny.
Almost no one stays dead.
Dancing! Maenads!
The library explained! Kind of!
The trials of dealing with elderly relatives who are also very powerful witches
You can preorder on Amazon or Kobo, or find it everywhere next week!
HECK YEAH. I'm so excited for this to be out. It's so good, y'all!!!!
If this is the first time you are hearing about these books, this is actually the fifth in a series!
Dionysus in Wisconsin: Fight a god Old Time Religion: Do a PhD thesis on the god Troth: Play fuck, marry, kill with a god Lazarus, Home from the War: DYBBUKS ON MAIN The Alignments (novella): French murder mystery
Find links to everything here: http://winnowingfanpress.com
GO GET ITTTTTTT!
Untitled (rain drops), 2017 - Paul Manes (b. 1948) oil on canvas | source:
@tryxyhijinks told me I should post a reminder that Renaissance comes out next week. So here we go.
What can I say about it?
A card game I once made up for a completely different novel appears in it. Rules on request for those who spot it.
A very funny joke in Latin
Completion of the big plot arc
Shouting about community theater
Okay, maybe just A joke in Latin. Probably no Latin jokes are funny.
Almost no one stays dead.
Dancing! Maenads!
The library explained! Kind of!
The trials of dealing with elderly relatives who are also very powerful witches
You can preorder on Amazon or Kobo, or find it everywhere next week!
HECK YEAH. I'm so excited for this to be out. It's so good, y'all!!!!
The thing about being on this site right now after having been in the MCU (Steve/Bucky) fandom and then also in the Stranger Things (Steve/Eddie) fandom, is that those firefighters will cross my dash and confuse the hell out of me. Eddie/Buck? What???
The BS-Free Witchcraft Podcast: 91. “Ancient” Practices
There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?
So I thought about calling this “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Part 2” or “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Redux” since this is some of the same territory we covered back in episode 17, but I think I’ve gotten more surly on the topic over the last six years, and wanted to talk about it again. Also, I kind of forgot I’d recorded an episode on this when I was prepping the episode, but I like this version better.
Read Trae’s new Novel Buried Memories! ISBN: 9798349560958 eBook: Kindle / Kobo / ePub Paperback: Amazon / Bookshop / Direct Order
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Music: “The Man With One Eye,” “So I Said It, “Putz and Pulse,” “Untitled Nonsense” (Trae Dorn) / Random Loops (Apple Music Library)
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A good time
Today's number is: 5,040
(this number and fact were submitted by @hardal201)
This number is equal to 7!, so it's the number of distinct permutations of 7 objects.
It is the second number to be divisible by every positive single-digit number (so the numbers 1 through 9). The only number below 5,040 to share this property is 2,520.
It is also a highly composite number, which essentially means it has lots of divisors. Specifically, it means that it has more divisors than any smaller number.
Furthermore, it is a superior highly composite number, which means that it is highly composite relative to its size (since bigger numbers will have more divisors just by the nature of construction, we look at how many divisors it has relative to its size). In other words, it maximizes the number of divisors after penalizing larger numbers by a fixed power of their size.
5,040 has 60 divisors, which is a lot for a number that size. It's also the last factorial to be a superior highly composite number.
It is also a colossally abundant number, which again means it is unusually divisor-rich, but in a much stronger sense. Specifically, it is defined by a ratio between the sum of an integer's divisors and that integer raised to a power higher than one. For a given exponent ε, whichever integer has the highest ratio is called colossally abundant (for that ε). In the case of 5,040, we know that:
In other words, if σ(n) is defined as the sum of the divisors of n, then whichever number n maximizes:
σ(n)/n^ε
for some ε is called a colossally abundant number. Numerically, 5,040 maximizes this equation when ε is roughly around 0.23 to 0.26.
Note that this connects really closely with the famous Riemann Hypothesis. Specifically, we know that for all integers n > 5,040, Robin proved that the Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to
σ(n) < e^γ n log log n
where γ is approximately 0.57721, the Euler-Mascheroni constant.
This inequality fails for some small n, and 5,040 is the largest exception. If the inequality holds for every n > 5,040, then the Riemann Hypothesis is true. If it fails even once above 5,040, then the Riemann Hypothesis is false.
This means that 5,040 is essentially the last safe harbor.
As a final fun fact, it was Plato's favorite number. He mentions in his dialogue Laws that 5,040 is a convenient number to use for dividing many things (including both the citizens and the land of a city-state) into lesser parts, making it an ideal number for the number of citizens (heads of families). He remarked that this number can be divided by all natural numbers from 1 to 12 with the single exception of 11. In addition, 5,038, which is two less, can be divided into 11. He also noticed that 5,040 could be divided by 12 twice over.
Plato mentioned this number so much that Benjamin Jowett, in the introduction to his translation of Laws, wrote:
"Plato, writing under Pythagorean influences, seems really to have supported that the well-being of the city depended almost as much on the number 5,040 as on justice and moderation."
Hi my erstwhile tumblr people. I have been doing needle felting for a minute and a half now, so of course I have amassed some Things which I need to find a home for. To that end, I've opened a shop.
Redtree Oddments
I have mainly needle felted earrings up there for now, but fluffy sheep and charming crows may also make an appearance occasionally.
So! If you're looking for VERY LIGHT earrings, or cute little animal pals (like these book dragons), check it out!
pourquoi du pain est masculin mais la baguette est féminine....... la baguette est transgenre ?
je vais laisser la communauté parler:
la baguette, icône trans?
oui
non
eh bah
10k notes pour un post francophone sur tumblr macron où est mon poste de ministre de la culture
Are we gonna pass on the fire bit at the bottom?
My brain socialist
My heart anarchist
My eyes pacifist
My blood revolutionary
My tits: OUT
I am forcibly removed from the cemetery
I don't need to know anything else about this man to know we would have been great friends. An absolute legend. I wonder if I can find the actual story about that conviction, cause you know there is a story there.
I can and did. He attended a protest against a poll tax, and when he saw a cop choking a protestor and objected, two other cops pinned him to a wall and choked him into unconsciousness. He woke up in jail charged with assault, and one of the cops claimed he'd bitten him on the hand.
The bite mark was proven not to match his teeth, and it's presumed that the cop bit himself to frame Mitchell. But they convicted him anyway despite proof it wasn't his teeth that bit the cop. Ergo, he was convicted of biting a cop with someone else's teeth. The experience led him to a lifetime of activism work and getting a law degree so he could fight injustices like the one he faced.
Private Eye once described Alistair Mitchell as “the only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman — with someone
[ID: A post by Kit Whitfield showing a picture of a gravestone with the caption "A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photgraphed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription."
The gravestone reads:
"Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell
13-6-1957
10-2-2019
Barrister of the Middle Temple
My brain socialist
My heart anarchist
My eyes pacifist
My blood revolutionary"
Around the edge of the stone reads: "The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman - with someone else's teeth."
There are two smaller words after this inscription that are obscured by flowers on the grave.
/ end ID]
He hung out in a shirt that had a cartoon of his own arrest on it!
Henryk Waniek — Levels (oil on canvas, 1987)
Wisconsin Gothic and Felted Earrings at Madison's Scorpio Market
@pretensesoup and I will be at the Scorpio Market in Madison on Sunday, November 23 from 1 to 6. Come by and say hi!
Today today today!
Wisconsin Gothic and Felted Earrings at Madison's Scorpio Market
@pretensesoup and I will be at the Scorpio Market in Madison on Sunday, November 23 from 1 to 6. Come by and say hi!
getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes
one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."
My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.
For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish
as the old saying goes, people on the east coast are kind, but not nice, and people on the west coast are nice but not kind
I was trying to figure out what the midwesterners do. I think midwesterners are both kind and nice, but the venn diagram is two circles that don't overlap.
