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Ranulph Higden's comprehensive medieval manual on Commandments, Sins, and Sacraments. A crucial text for moral theology that also illuminates 14th-century life, myth, and folklore, offering insights into the concerns of medieval England:
www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.a...
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
🐕‍🦺🚶On tonight’s dog walk, I saw an honest to god "falling star" 🌠. The street was dark, the night air was crisp, and the best dog and I had moonlight guiding our path from midway up in the sky. The waxing crescent was tempered by a few cirform clouds and a streetlight off in the distance…
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Whatever the maximum human life span may be, people — in particular men — appear increasingly determined to find it, mixing solid science and serious quackery in the pursuit of longevity.
The Centuries-Old, Incredibly Male Quest to Live Forever
People, and men in particular, have long mixed solid science and serious quackery in the pursuit of longevity.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Men Are In Trouble. Maybe Monasticism And Isolation From Society Are A Solution.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Imagine paying for Netflix every month, and then paying when you watch the movie, and then getting another bill three months later because one of the actors isn’t signed with Netflix so you have to pay him directly.

That’d be STUPID right???

This is a post about health insurance.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
These people are taking Althusser and the idea of the Ideological State Apparatuses too far.
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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"Uh, yeah, hi Mr. President. Thank you for taking my call. You see, I am in class right now and a student has asked an astute question about race. Can you please let me know if I can answer? Thanks..."
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Not only is our peer review process now inflected from writing to review (to proofing/editing 🤢) with “speed it up with AI”, using AI summaries to “read” a paper eliminates researchers’ ability to *critically* assess a paper’s methods and practices. A summary cannot tell you if the claims are valid!
one thought I have halfway through is that the practice of sharing or citing without a full reading is *the exact thing* actively encouraged by AI “summaries” embedded in every PDF reader, Google Scholar, freaking Proquest, etc.
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“If the Pelican can, then so can you.”
🦤
August 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The prediction of the “Bell Riots of 2024”

Seems like DS9 missed it by +/-2 year
August 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
@bencollins.bsky.social Dear Mr. Onion, My first issue of the 🧅 arrived in the mail yesterday, and my 10-year-old was intrigued by the ads. Today, he asked if he could read all of it because he thought it looked funny. Thank you for making something that might help my kid fall in love with reading.
August 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
College dorm room life ~1910 @ the University of Illinois
With “A Perch of Birds” by Hector Giacomelli
July 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
They have one of the best and informative YouTube channels:

youtube.com/@uscsb?si=h-...
June 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“No one wins. One side just loses more slowly.”

– Prez

The Wire (S4E4) (2006, Oct. 1)
June 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
How often do you think about this 84 Lumber Super Bowl commercial?

youtube.com/watch?v=nPo2...
84 Lumber Super Bowl Commercial | The Entire Journey
YouTube video by 84 Lumber
youtube.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Remember when Mark Thatcher was arrested at his home in South Africa, in August 2004 and was charged with contravening 2 sections of South Africa's Foreign Military Assistance Act, which bans S.African residents from taking part in any foreign military activity. 🤔

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Th...
Mark Thatcher - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If the meager Film and TV Tax incentives offered State-by-State were to be made competitive with some of the international offers, then maybe more films would be produced domestically

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Film and TV Tax Incentives: A State-by-State Guide
Incentives won’t be the only factor for producers deciding where to base projects as anti-LGBT laws in the South are sure to be a hot topic at the Association of Film Commissioners International's Loc...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM