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Ships Quilt (c. 1937) Made by Marie Alsop American, active c. 1933 United States, West Virginia Cotton, plain weaves; pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain and satin weaves; embroidered with cotton in back, single back, buttonhole, cross, eyelet, running, satin, single satin and stem stitches; French knots; quilted with cotton thread                         

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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so i wore a pride flag pin to work the other day and the kids were all interested (obviously) (find me a classroom of preschoolers who are not obsessed with rainbows) (i'll wait) so they crowded around to see.

"aww!" they said, "it's a flag!!"

but the thing is: they're little. a lot of them don't really have a handle on all their mouth sounds yet.

such as, notably, that tricky tricky "L" sound.

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There’s one guy in Columbus Ohio that has a completely unique strain of Covid that we only know about because of how much he is shitting and it is baffling researchers.

His identity is a mystery but they know where commutes to because his shits turn up there too.

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Did a brand new kind of bowling shot today

we called it the "trust the Force Luke" shot or the "through God all things are possible" shot

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just found out in medieval france, having a lion on your coat of arms was so prevalent that there was literally a colloquial proverb to clown on knights for being basic and not having a real coat of arms. the hate game was so strong back then. imagine medieval hate anons

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A wonderful little mood brightener created by indiarosecrawford

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Guy who has wandered through the halls and corridors of your body not with any special kind of love but with the untold intimacy of a contractor assessing the damages and potentials voice: right, so the main issue here is that the body is currently a temple, okay, and what we want is for it to be a home, cause temples are pretty and all and occasionally nice to be in if you're into that sort of thing but very few people would actually want to live in one. So what we're gonna do first is you're gonna take a look at what's here, the carrying walls and windows and all that, and you're going to come up with something you'd actually like to be alive inside of, and it's going to be a lot of work and it's going to feel strange and stupid and embarrassing but you're still gonna do it, because otherwise this construction site is fucked. And maybe what you want to live in is a skatepark or an anime-themed cat cafe or an esoteric library that has a dildo section for some reason, so it might feel like it's a downgrade from a temple, but it's actually the opposite cause the main customer for a body is you and the main customer for a temple are templegoers and maybe higher powers of some kind, - i wouldn't know about those, they never hired me, - not the temple itself, which is what you are, right, cause the body/mind/soul separation doesn't actually do anything, so what you're gonna do is look at the current layout and dig out whatever hope and ability to want you have and come up with a blueprint, and then my boys can actually get to work. Oh, and you have got to change the windows, it's drafty as fuck in here.

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Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad

She was the largest ship of the line of the 18th century, even though she was initially launched in Havana in 1769 as a three-decker with 112-120 guns. Her design was the work of an Irishman named Matthew or Mateo Mullan, who built her very strongly, surpassing even the English three-decker, surpassed only in length by some of the French, but not in strength of armament.

Schiff auf dem Meer- Santisimia Trinidad by Michael Zeno Diemer 1938 (x)

For the first few years she saw no action, but when war broke out between Spain and England in 1779, she became part of the Spanish fleet under Admiral Luis de Cordoba y Cordoba in July of that year. She plied the English Channel with allied French ships, which led to the capture of 55 English merchant ships in 1780. In 1782, she took part in the second siege of Gibraltar as flagship of a combined fleet of 48 Spanish and French ships, but failed to intercept a British supply convoy.

Santisima Trinidad, by Geoff Hunt (x)

This led to her being refitted in 1795. She was given a connection from the forecastle to the quarterdeck and thus a fourth deck. Her armament was also increased to 140, but as this was apparently too heavy, it was quickly reduced to 136. But her size and four decks, together with her armament, made her the largest ship of the time. However, she was difficult to sail and her sailing characteristics were, according to contemporary reports, atrocious, which is why she was nicknamed El Ponderoso (All Mighty).

Infante don Pelayo going to rescue Santisima Trinidad at Battle of Cape St Vincent on 14 February 1797, by Antonio Brugada (1804 – 1863)

Unfortunately, her crew was poorly trained and her guns of poor quality, which led to her being badly damaged at the Battle of St. Vincent in 1797 (where she first met Commodore Nelson) under the command of Teniente General José de Córdoba y Ramos. She was almost completely dismasted and more than half of her crew died. Just as she was about to surrender to HMS Orion, the Orion was ordered back and only with luck was Santisima Trinidad saved by Infante don Pelayo 74- guns and Príncipe de Asturias 112- guns. She crawled back to Cadiz and on the way back she was almost captured by HMS Terpsichore 32-guns, but again she was lucky to escape.

Captain Richard Bowen’s 38-gun frigate Terpsichore engaging the mighty 136-gun Spanish 4-decker Santissima Trinidad on 1st, two weeks after the battle of Cape St. Vincent March,1797, by John Christian Schetkey (x)                           

This was not the case in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar. Captained by Francisco Javier Uriarte and with the pendant of Rear Admiral Baltasar de Cisneros, she was the flagship of the Spanish squadron. This made her an interesting target for HMS Victory with Admiral Nelson on board. Lying directly in front of French Admiral Villeneuve’s Bucentaure 80-guns, she found herself in the centre of the battle. After a while she was separated and fired upon by HMS’s Neptune 98-guns, Leviathan 74-guns, and Conqueror 74-guns.

Battle of Trafalgar, Spanish Ship Santisima Trinidad and HMS Victory by Patrick O’Brien (x)

 After four hours, around 2 p.m., all three masts were gone; an eyewitness wrote: “This tremendous fabric gave a deep roll, with a swell to leeward, then back to windward, and on her return each mast went through the side of the ship, making it an uncontrollable hulk on the water.” The ship was forced to surrender, presumably to the Neptune.

The aftermath of Trafalgar: The Spanish flagship Santísima Trinidad wallowing in the swell under prize colours, by Thomas Buttersworth (1748-1842) (x)

After the battle she was taken in tow by HMS Prince 98- guns, but in the ensuing storm the tow could not be held, and the Santísima Trinidad sunk on 22 October, with 155 wounded men onbard.

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This may be the worst use of LLMs anyone has attempted, ever. Up there with recognizing mushrooms.

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i hurt myself with Big Jack by Pet Foolery (can find on instagram) again and no one seems to have posted the whole comic so. here. someone reminded me of it and i tracked it down. gonna go cry in a corner now.

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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Most hoard images from Wikipedia.

Found with the rest of the hoard, the handaxe pictured above was probably found either while digging his own hole for the treasure or maybe earlier in a precious bout of hoarding by some Romano-Briton who thought it was cool enough to bury along with all of his coins and Juliane's bracelet, because cool rock. This was absolutely the correct move.

Article here from Smithsonian Magazine.

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first day as a 20th century polar explorer i’m selected to go on the super special sledging trip with my polycule but succumb to scurvy and my preexisting heart condition i will never tell anybody about and they have to carry me back to the ship. second day as a 20th century polar explorer the dominant member of my polycule convinces my favorite boyfriend to vote me out survivor-style and send me home on the invalid ship so i am now a bitter 27 year-old divorceé. third day as a 20th century polar explorer i’m begging wealthy widows for money but my evil gay kleptomaniac brother aids in the theft of the crown jewels of ireland and shames the family so nobody will give me a ship. fourth day as a 20th century polar explorer one of my benefactors makes me bring a huge fuckoff car to antarctica and i run out of space for food so all of my men almost starve and the car doesn’t even work. fifth day as a 20th century polar explorer my evil ex dies and i finally get to go back to the pole but my ship gets fucked and i have to spend 2 years dragging my men home and when i get back the royal geographical society are still publicly cucking me and nobody cares because of wwi. sixth day as a 20th century polar explorer i round up the boys for one last hurrah but die of that same preexisting condition before we can even get anywhere like a #boss. which is also what they call me.

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Girl when I tell you my life flashed before my eyes