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FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.
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Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Gift link: A new and far more comprehensive archaeological effort to map the Roman Empire's road networks! I would've killed for this while I was doing my doctoral dissertation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Gift link: A new and far more comprehensive archaeological effort to map the Roman Empire's road networks! I would've killed for this while I was doing my doctoral dissertation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
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Pets are expensive and reservoirs for diseases. So why do we care so much? Where do I begin? asks Charles Foster.
What pets can teach us about life
www.bigissue.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Pets are expensive and reservoirs for diseases. So why do we care so much? Where do I begin? asks Charles Foster.
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A camera is lowered to the 11,000-meter depth of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on earth.
Awesome 😲💙😎
[📹 oceanexploregov]
Awesome 😲💙😎
[📹 oceanexploregov]
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
A camera is lowered to the 11,000-meter depth of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on earth.
Awesome 😲💙😎
[📹 oceanexploregov]
Awesome 😲💙😎
[📹 oceanexploregov]
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Seems like a good time for people who look like me to get louder about the people who don't.
FUCK. WHITE. NATIONALISM.
FUCK. WHITE. NATIONALISM.
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Seems like a good time for people who look like me to get louder about the people who don't.
FUCK. WHITE. NATIONALISM.
FUCK. WHITE. NATIONALISM.
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🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
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Our @empirepoduk.bsky.social Writers on Empire series reaches its climax:
THE CONUNDRUM OF RUDYARD KIPLING
With Andrew Lycett
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
THE CONUNDRUM OF RUDYARD KIPLING
With Andrew Lycett
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
December 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Our @empirepoduk.bsky.social Writers on Empire series reaches its climax:
THE CONUNDRUM OF RUDYARD KIPLING
With Andrew Lycett
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
THE CONUNDRUM OF RUDYARD KIPLING
With Andrew Lycett
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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let’s all take a moment to appreciate blank VHS packaging design trends
September 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
let’s all take a moment to appreciate blank VHS packaging design trends
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Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
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🎥: On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, Cory Doctorow joins us to discuss how tech bros ensh*ttified the internet—and how AI could make it much, much worse.
Cory Doctorow: How the internet went to sh*t
On this week’s Prospect Podcast, we discuss ‘ensh*ttification’
prospectmagazine.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🎥: On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, Cory Doctorow joins us to discuss how tech bros ensh*ttified the internet—and how AI could make it much, much worse.
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Ladies and gentlemen: the weekend
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Ladies and gentlemen: the weekend
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It wasn't all wretched though. These documents record a religious festival (possibly the oldest written evidence for a midsummer celebration in England) at the fort, where beer, wine, pork, fish sauce and more was consumed!
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It wasn't all wretched though. These documents record a religious festival (possibly the oldest written evidence for a midsummer celebration in England) at the fort, where beer, wine, pork, fish sauce and more was consumed!
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile 🐾 🐕 😍
About 2,000 years-ago, a dog made its mark for ‘pawsterity’ when it wandered across the wet tile laid out to dry before firing.
From Richborough Roman fort
📷 by me
#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
About 2,000 years-ago, a dog made its mark for ‘pawsterity’ when it wandered across the wet tile laid out to dry before firing.
From Richborough Roman fort
📷 by me
#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile 🐾 🐕 😍
About 2,000 years-ago, a dog made its mark for ‘pawsterity’ when it wandered across the wet tile laid out to dry before firing.
From Richborough Roman fort
📷 by me
#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
About 2,000 years-ago, a dog made its mark for ‘pawsterity’ when it wandered across the wet tile laid out to dry before firing.
From Richborough Roman fort
📷 by me
#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
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This is absolutely magnificent!
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This is absolutely magnificent!
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM