⭐Happy second Sunday of Advent! Mistletoe (Viscum album), a hemiparasitic plant, is often hung above doorways to kiss beneath during the holidays. We'd like to share this beautiful illustration from Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887). 🌿Find out more: kew.org/plants/mistletoe.
Kew Gardens Library and Archives
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Credits: Jimmy Westlake, ColoradoMountain College
#nature #space #astrophotography
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If you have a website, it's a really good idea to put a link to it in your profile! Many people click on website links in profiles to find out more about the account.
When you're adding your website's link to your profile, remember to include https:// at the beginning so that the link will be clickable.
If you want to get really fancy, you can verify your website link which makes it turn green on your profile, and proves you're the owner of the site:
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It should be possible on any platform that lets you add custom HTML.
Alternatively, if the platform allows you to add links to your social media accounts, if they add rel="me" to their link format that will make it work too.
By the way, this green thing is based on what was supposed to be a global standard for verifying links to other accounts, unfortunately Facebook, Twitter etc refused to play ball for some reason. But maybe Newgrounds might listen?
Credits: #NASA, GSFC, Arizona State U./Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
#nature #space #astrophotography
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Credits: Yuri Beletsky, Carnegie, Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN
#nature #space #astrophotography
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I'm an unpaid volunteer who runs five websites and five accounts helping people use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I pay all the bills for them every month.
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Thank you so much! 🙏 Very generous of you, thanks! This makes a big difference, the sites and accounts can keep going because of you and people like you.
The currency is shown in euros on the ko-fi website, but your bank will automatically convert it to your own currency when you donate. Your bank should have its own currency exchange rate calculator on its website, but if it doesn't you can get a rough estimate from third party sites like xe.com/currencyconverter
I really wish news sites, when writing about something about Austen, stopped giving her biography. ESPECIALLY British papers. Sure, some people don’t know the history of Jane, but for pete’s sake, that’s why Google exists! (At least the author didn’t start the article with, “It’s a truth universally acknowledged…” Small mercies.)
dailyecho.co.uk/news/24724201.…
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #JaneAusten @romancelandia
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🛜This Week In Global Museum:
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🏛️ Museum Minds Collaborative
📆 Wed., Dec. 11, 2024
⏰ 12 p.m. MT / 2 p.m. ET
Rebecca Shulman, we'll share actionable steps to foster a workplace that's both effective and energizing.
REGISTER HERE
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Around 4000 years ago, a dog left its pawprints in this Sumerian brick :
Sumerian Clay Brick with a Dog's paw prints (2112-2000 BC), from ziggurat at Ur; Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).
According to scholars, around 2100 BC, a dog walked across this brick as it lay drying in teh sun when it was being made. Brick is stamped with an cuneiform inscription which tells that "Ur-Nammu, king of Ur, has built his temple for Nanna, his Lord. Also built city wall of Ur for him."
British Museum
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Bill's in the shop for repairs
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