Especially Since 4 Days Into The Paid Subscription I'm Getting "surprise Surgery"

is there anyone out there with a nyt cooking subscription

will they send me the chamomile tea cake with strawberry icing recipe

Can you imagine? The last quarter of the 1400s BCE! We are lucky to have cloth from the 1400s CE. This fabric is 3500 years old!

It doesn’t look that exciting, but this linen is from the New Kingdom (ca. 1492–1473 B.C.)

Thinking about it for too long makes me feel absolutely insane.

Yup

This is what I keep running into in research into bronze age Aegean cultures (specifically the textiles of those cultures.) And yes, Evans was a trasarcheologists, but some of the literature out of Greece is WILD.

academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

Do they? Or do they just know their value?

The mountains are painted in patchwork, but this is beautiful

Make the thing. Make it not as great as they make it, but Make it anyway. The only way to get better at literally anything is to do it over and over again.

It's fine if you suck. Do it anyway.

Other ppl seing amazing embroidery art: “wow thats so impressive i could never do that”

Me blessed/cursed by artistic hubris: “thats just some thread, i absolutely could pull that off. just give me ten years”

Mermaid: Do you want to play? [Throws a scepter]

Pirate: runs to grab the treasure.

Mermaid witnessing a werewolf transformation by the beach and believes all humans are like that. Pirate: ahoy Mermaid: awooo? Pirate: a what

I'm in my 40s. I remember putting the phone on the internet cradle and dialing the appropriate network.

I remember drawing a turtle 1 pixel at a time, and doing all that early internet nonsense.

Just load already!