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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 10h

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

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Jeremy Stanley @jeremydstanley.com · 4h

And are you married?
I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 20h

One of the craziest things about the current economy is the way it makes possible nostalgia for earlier eras that were also really bad

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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 20h

Who, moi?

Statuette of Harpokrates looking coquettish, with a judgmental bust of Sarapis in the background.

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 21h

Stopped by the National Museum in Copenhagen & visited one of my favourite artefacts from late medieval Denmark. This is the Næstved altarpiece one of the few surviving depictions of Saint Knud Rex, who was killed in Odense in 1086.

Sixteenth-century altarpiece with open doors (one door is missing), showing an enthroned king - Saint Knud - holidng a jar and a sceptre. On the inside of the one remaining door are two scenes from Knud's legend. On top we see insurrectionists trying to break into a church, here shown using cannons and arquebuses. The bottom scene shows the synod of bishops testing the exhumed bones of the king.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 21h

Show me St. Pauli Pope

🔱 Matt Ufford 🔱 @mattufford.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago Sports Pope rules so hard

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 1d

It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !

📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1

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CoMMA

comma.inria.fr

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Stephen DeCasien, Ph.D. @sdecasien.bsky.social · 1d

I was asked recently what the “big debates” are in ancient naval studies, the maritime equivalent of the hoplite debate. Three stand out clearly. Here is a short summary of some!

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 1d

Will never get over this rebrand

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 1d

This is a potential blueprint for how to build digital cultural heritage platforms to be interoperable and agile. So glad to see IIIF used throughout, with minimal compute principles. One to watch…!

Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)

Announcing a new release of the Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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