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@smashtie@mas.to
2026-01-17 21:04:09

My youngest got me the most amazing Christmas present! A session handling some items from the V&A East storehouse. Yes, actual touching allowed! (Gloves provided) So I touched two ancient mandolins, a watercolour by Beatrix Potter, an original sketch for a Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back costume design, and a four-track tape recorder and mixer desk owned by David Bowie. She knows me so well. ❤️❤️❤️ #art <…

A big open warehouse, bright and clean, filled with racks holding artifacts like furniture, clothes, instruments,... People mill around, but not too many.
An ancient mandolin, on a cushion. It is intricately inlaid with mother of pearl.
Detail of the headstock of one ancient mandolin, with a bizarre linear tuning system. There's mother of pearl inlay here too.
The back of a tiny mandolin from the 17th century. It's made it out all the things you can't use today - mahogany, ivory, turtle shell... But it's beautiful. And so light to hold.
@fortune@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-07 22:00:01

[May one] doubt whether, in cheese and timber, worms are generated,
or, if beetles and wasps, in cow-dung, or if butterflies, locusts,
shellfish, snails, eels, and such life be procreated of putrefied
matter, which is to receive the form of that creature to which it
is by formative power disposed[?] To question this is to question
reason, sense, and experience. If he doubts this, let him go to
Egypt, and there he…