animals and bombs // How to Weaponize your Pets

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & MS Library, Ms. Codex 0109, f. 137

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/isis-booby-trapped-toys-mosul

Thomas Hariot, 1560-1621, John White, fl. 1585-1593, illustrated by, and Richard Hakluyt, 1552?-1616, translated by

A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: of the Commodities and of the Nature and Manners of the Naturall Inhabitants : Discouered bÿ the English Colonÿ There Seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight In the ÿeere 1585 : Which Remained Vnder the Gouerenment of Twelue Monethes, At the Speciall Charge and Direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight Lord Warden of the Stanneries Who therein Hath Beene Fauoured and Authorised bÿ Her Maiestie and Her Letters Patents / This Fore Booke Is Made in English by Thomas Hariot seruant to the Aboue-Named Sir Walter, a Member of the Colonÿ, and There Imploÿed in Discouering.

extraterritorial / peculiars, mints, liberties

But there are some few spots of ground in London, just in the face of the Government, unconquer’d yet, that hold in Rebellion still. Methinks ’tis strange, that places so near the Kings Palace should be no parts of his Dominions

Thomas Shadwell, The Squire of Alsatia, 1688.

ink lashes

glaciers of chamonix / crystal world

non stop nyan cat / Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!

Gentlemen, the human cell can only divide and reproduce itself fifty thousand times. This is known as the Hayflick Limit. But a virus can do it any number of times. The virus is immune to the deadly factor of repetition. Your virus is never bored.

burroughs / the place of dead roads / 123

stoat / Mustela erminea

stoat tooth burnisher
as recommended by Hilliard for the burnishing of silver when painting false jewels.





Ermines is a black field with white spots. A gold background with black ermine spots is styled erminois, and pean is a black ground with gold ermine spots. Erminites is supposed to be white with black ermine spots and a red hair on each side of the spots.














a white stoat would die before allowing its pure white coat to be besmirched