Notices by eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social), page 5

@BNONews So in 2025, dumpsters are out, and Cybertrucks are in?

Arguably the most important period in human history is from before humans were humans. 900,000 years ago, according to DNA research, our remote hominid ancestors lived on an incredibly hostile planet, and their numbers were reduced to 1280 breeding persons on the entire planet. This extreme bottleneck didn’t last a short while, but 117,000 years —a period unimaginably long to us modern humans. We don’t know where they lived. All we know is they must have been some tough motherfuckers.

@elaterite The big sign on the far right reads 佐久間盛政秀吉ヲ襲フ "Sakuma Morimasa attacks Hideyoshi." Sakuma Morimasa (1554-1583) was a samurai. Hideyoshi, full name Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1538-1598) was a samurai and daimyо̄, considered the Great Unifier of Japan. The red caption on the right reads 羽柴秀吉, Hashiba Hideyoshi, which was another name by which Hideyoshi was known. The caption above the horseman on the left reads 佐久間盛政, Sakuma Morimasa. I can't make out the writing at bottom left.

It's just my luck that after swearing off meat, I figure out how to make coq au vin properly (I renounced pescatarianism for the holidays, and for the company).

https://eribosot.blogspot.com/2025/01/coq-au-vin.html

#Art #AsianArt I really don't know anything about the sculpture you see, although I'm fairly sure it's Indonesian. The big wardrobe or cupboard in the background is entirely inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Welcoming you into 2025 is the Tan-edged Tree Frog (Sarcohyla cyclada) photographed by Sean Michael Rovito.

One of my first actions of the new year was to delete the Bluesky app from my phone. To quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail, “It is a silly place.”

#Art #Japanese Japanese woodblock print, unknown artist and title

#Frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Golden Guerrero Tree Frog (Sarcohyla chryses) photographed by Adán Bautista-del Moral

#Art #Japanese Japanese woodblock print, author and title unknown

Puebla Tree Frog (Sarcohyla charadricola) photographed by César Hernández Hernández

@midgard Advertising is propaganda, pure and simple.

#Art #Japanese Tsuchiya Koitsu, title unknown

#Frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Oaxaca Treefrog (Sarcohyla celata) photographed by Chris Grünwald

#Art #Japanese Tsukiyoka Yoshitoshi - "Looking cool: the appearance of a geisha in the fifth or sixth year of Meiji (1872-1873)"

#Frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Mexican fringe-limbed tree frog or Cope's streamside tree frog (Sarcohyla bistincta) photographed by E. Zarza et al.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Looking as if she is enjoying herself the appearance of a teacher during the Kaei period

@lxo I guess that's why people still refer to it as a "timeless classic" :(

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Lesser Bromeliad Treefrog (Sarcohyla arberoscandens) photographed by Adam G. Clause

Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) is listed as one of "1001 books you must read before you die," but calling this 10-page fairy tale from the 9th or 10th century CE a book is quite a stretch. What it is, however, is a fun and often hilarious story about Princess Kaguya, a beautiful girl found inside a bamboo shoot, who sends five knights on difficult mission to complete in order to win her heart.

#BookReview #ClassicalLiterature