@adoria298.bsky.social
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this is a broader point but something the extract below touches on is that smartphones have made "not being online" an active choice you have to make every minute of every day, and as it states it *is* a mental tax you have to pay, and I'm not sure we've reckoned with that at all
September 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
this is a broader point but something the extract below touches on is that smartphones have made "not being online" an active choice you have to make every minute of every day, and as it states it *is* a mental tax you have to pay, and I'm not sure we've reckoned with that at all
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These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.'
Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.
Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.
September 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.'
Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.
Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.
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Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them.
I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October.
But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.
I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October.
But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.
It's pretty clear that they got their Reichstag Fire with the Kirk assassination. Democracy is dead.
We now have a fascist dictator.
We now have a fascist dictator.
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them.
I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October.
But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.
I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October.
But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.
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can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about
good video hands-on with meta's smart glasses. i've been skeptical on smart glasses for a while, but it looks like the hardware side of this is finally becoming feasible? plus, in a world where kids list "creator" as their dream job, POV video recording is v attractive youtu.be/5cVGKvl7Oek?...
Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: best smart glasses I’ve ever tried
YouTube video by The Verge
youtu.be
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about
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I think I'd put "crazy thing Herotodus wrote being true" at maybe closer to 50/50, but that's still turned out to be *much* higher than we would have credited him pre-archaeology.
The value of archaeology (and sources in languages not Latin/Greek) to confirm/disconfirm our sources is significant!
The value of archaeology (and sources in languages not Latin/Greek) to confirm/disconfirm our sources is significant!
Herodotus rules because the history of the historiography of his work is like “oh that can’t possibly be true” and then we figure out that what he wrote was mostly in fact true.
It's reasonable to think every European/near Eastern source was repeating the same rumor. But there are also Chinese sources, and it's unlikely they got it from Herodotus.
The Medes and Sassanians, meanwhile, took the trouble to clarify inheritance laws for increasingly bizarre family trees.
The Medes and Sassanians, meanwhile, took the trouble to clarify inheritance laws for increasingly bizarre family trees.
September 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I think I'd put "crazy thing Herotodus wrote being true" at maybe closer to 50/50, but that's still turned out to be *much* higher than we would have credited him pre-archaeology.
The value of archaeology (and sources in languages not Latin/Greek) to confirm/disconfirm our sources is significant!
The value of archaeology (and sources in languages not Latin/Greek) to confirm/disconfirm our sources is significant!
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okay so also, a Life Lesson TM!
We dug up our entire garden, including every single plant except a solitary rose bush, scraped the soil down five inches, regraded with 27 tonnes of top soil, weed membrane along the fence and shingle behind it
do not plant mint in the ground
We dug up our entire garden, including every single plant except a solitary rose bush, scraped the soil down five inches, regraded with 27 tonnes of top soil, weed membrane along the fence and shingle behind it
do not plant mint in the ground
September 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
okay so also, a Life Lesson TM!
We dug up our entire garden, including every single plant except a solitary rose bush, scraped the soil down five inches, regraded with 27 tonnes of top soil, weed membrane along the fence and shingle behind it
do not plant mint in the ground
We dug up our entire garden, including every single plant except a solitary rose bush, scraped the soil down five inches, regraded with 27 tonnes of top soil, weed membrane along the fence and shingle behind it
do not plant mint in the ground
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Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.
September 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Rowling: an obviouss misscarriage of jussstice
Rowling: the time hass come
Rowling: for too long, we have osstracized graham for being an unhinged embarrassssement for the terf causse
Rowling: but now
Rowling: i think he's exactly the right amount of unhinged embarrasssment for the terf caussse!
Rowling: the time hass come
Rowling: for too long, we have osstracized graham for being an unhinged embarrassssement for the terf causse
Rowling: but now
Rowling: i think he's exactly the right amount of unhinged embarrasssment for the terf caussse!
September 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Rowling: an obviouss misscarriage of jussstice
Rowling: the time hass come
Rowling: for too long, we have osstracized graham for being an unhinged embarrassssement for the terf causse
Rowling: but now
Rowling: i think he's exactly the right amount of unhinged embarrasssment for the terf caussse!
Rowling: the time hass come
Rowling: for too long, we have osstracized graham for being an unhinged embarrassssement for the terf causse
Rowling: but now
Rowling: i think he's exactly the right amount of unhinged embarrasssment for the terf caussse!
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Linehan: mommy mommy i've been arrested please come pick me up i need an adult
Rowling: you've been arresssted?
Linehan: yes!
Linehan: by the notoriously pro-trans british police!
Rowling: oh yeah the biasss is obviousss
Rowling: you've been arresssted?
Linehan: yes!
Linehan: by the notoriously pro-trans british police!
Rowling: oh yeah the biasss is obviousss
September 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Linehan: mommy mommy i've been arrested please come pick me up i need an adult
Rowling: you've been arresssted?
Linehan: yes!
Linehan: by the notoriously pro-trans british police!
Rowling: oh yeah the biasss is obviousss
Rowling: you've been arresssted?
Linehan: yes!
Linehan: by the notoriously pro-trans british police!
Rowling: oh yeah the biasss is obviousss
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Allison Bailey: mr linehan i'd like to represent you
Bailey: i am a serious lawyer or, as we call them in england, a banister who has argued many cases in court
Linehan: wow! did you win them?
Bailey: i have
Bailey: i have argued many cases in court
Bailey: i am a serious lawyer or, as we call them in england, a banister who has argued many cases in court
Linehan: wow! did you win them?
Bailey: i have
Bailey: i have argued many cases in court
September 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Allison Bailey: mr linehan i'd like to represent you
Bailey: i am a serious lawyer or, as we call them in england, a banister who has argued many cases in court
Linehan: wow! did you win them?
Bailey: i have
Bailey: i have argued many cases in court
Bailey: i am a serious lawyer or, as we call them in england, a banister who has argued many cases in court
Linehan: wow! did you win them?
Bailey: i have
Bailey: i have argued many cases in court
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![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg)
September 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The priest: *walks into the church 45 minutes before one of our biggest services of the year*
Me, immediately: "I need you to make me some Holy Water."
The priest: "...Why do you nee... Actually. No. I know better than to ask. Where's the water?"
Me, immediately: "I need you to make me some Holy Water."
The priest: "...Why do you nee... Actually. No. I know better than to ask. Where's the water?"
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The priest: *walks into the church 45 minutes before one of our biggest services of the year*
Me, immediately: "I need you to make me some Holy Water."
The priest: "...Why do you nee... Actually. No. I know better than to ask. Where's the water?"
Me, immediately: "I need you to make me some Holy Water."
The priest: "...Why do you nee... Actually. No. I know better than to ask. Where's the water?"
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38. The Ancient Greeks had no word for the bicycle, contrary to what the boffins in Cambridge might think.
July 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
38. The Ancient Greeks had no word for the bicycle, contrary to what the boffins in Cambridge might think.
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On 27th August 2015, The Shepherd's Crown, the last book Sir Terry Pratchett completed before he died, was published.
To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:
To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:
August 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
On 27th August 2015, The Shepherd's Crown, the last book Sir Terry Pratchett completed before he died, was published.
To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:
To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:
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New release! My Woodland Friends Shawl. This was so much fun to make. 🧶 #knitting #bskyknits #knitsky #showmeyourknits
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
August 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New release! My Woodland Friends Shawl. This was so much fun to make. 🧶 #knitting #bskyknits #knitsky #showmeyourknits
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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IDK how many ways she can keep saying the same thing. She's hoisting the red flag about as far as it's possible to hoist. A SCOTUS member is out there telling you the court is no longer a court of law.
Jackson: “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
@courthousenews.bsky.social
@courthousenews.bsky.social
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Trump emergency appeal to freeze $783 million in NIH grants for health research
5-4 ruling, Roberts joins the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
5-4 ruling, Roberts joins the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
IDK how many ways she can keep saying the same thing. She's hoisting the red flag about as far as it's possible to hoist. A SCOTUS member is out there telling you the court is no longer a court of law.
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![Comic. [airplane connected to airport terminal by jet bridge] VOICE FROM PLANE: This is your captain speaking. As you’ve probably noticed, we’re still grounded due to weather. But the first officer and I have been looking at bridge clearance maps and our top taxiing speed, and we have an idea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid3ylnjltbkgiwjwfod36vafod3nlat3bjbjqiwtt4z3zkuerxxqq@jpeg)
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these are rookie numbers, Oxford has a seven hundred year old feud going on with itself
English devolution is a great idea in principle, until you remember that every town has a 500 year long grudge with the next town over.
July 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
these are rookie numbers, Oxford has a seven hundred year old feud going on with itself
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Today is the 8th birthday of @openbenches.org !
Thank you to everyone who has uploaded a bench or contributed code.
If you'd like to support us, visit openbenches.org/support
Thank you to everyone who has uploaded a bench or contributed code.
If you'd like to support us, visit openbenches.org/support
July 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Today is the 8th birthday of @openbenches.org !
Thank you to everyone who has uploaded a bench or contributed code.
If you'd like to support us, visit openbenches.org/support
Thank you to everyone who has uploaded a bench or contributed code.
If you'd like to support us, visit openbenches.org/support
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This may not strictly be a mosaic, but the opus sectile floor from the house of Paquius Proculis in Pompeii is just *chefs kiss*.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
July 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This may not strictly be a mosaic, but the opus sectile floor from the house of Paquius Proculis in Pompeii is just *chefs kiss*.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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new quilt pattern just dropped
This may not strictly be a mosaic, but the opus sectile floor from the house of Paquius Proculis in Pompeii is just *chefs kiss*.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
July 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
new quilt pattern just dropped
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This but entirely unironically because: I drove through le Camp du Drap d'Or, down a motorway now lined on both sides with wind turbines, and they are beautiful? Functional, yes, and probably scuffed and dirty up close- like an old stone aqueduct- but beautiful. Truly.
2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?
July 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This but entirely unironically because: I drove through le Camp du Drap d'Or, down a motorway now lined on both sides with wind turbines, and they are beautiful? Functional, yes, and probably scuffed and dirty up close- like an old stone aqueduct- but beautiful. Truly.