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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

“The Commodus Passage, the name given to the corridor through which Roman emperors gained unseen access to the Imperial box in the Colosseum, has been opened to the public for the first time after a major restoration of its glistening marble walls.” ilglobo.com/en/news/comm...

Commodus Passage opens to public for first time

The Commodus Passage, the name given to the corridor through which Roman emperors gained unseen access to the Imperial box in the Colosseum, has been opened to the public for the first time after a ma...

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 1d

I use Canada Post to ship out my prints. Its crucial for my business. Canada Post staff are fantastic when I go in to ship stuff out. Corner store depots are a NIGHTMARE for small businesses. Try going in with 30 packages while people are buying lotto. UPS and Fed Ex triple my costs.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 2d

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 2d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Will visit the website when not on phone and look into it. Thank you!

Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, I very much want to use at least the triangular trade map or similar in teaching but not publishing - how can I pay you? I don’t want to just copy yr image…

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Oh shoot is redwall doomed

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

My word this treehouse gets pretty tall eh

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh we’ve been through dog man (and captain underpants). Brutal stuff. Their attitudes were so awful when they were in those. I’m trying to push the stuff I read as a kid - time warp trio, redwall - and they just aren’t interested. They just love Archie Andrews.

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Brodie - that looks really cool. A weekly magazine delivery. Dang, that takes me back.

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, but Archie comics are a disconnected series of 3-4 page type cast narratives packaged in 1000-page anthologies. I would like them to read longer narratives with plots and character development and even conflict. But sure, Archie Superhero Comics 1000-page Holiday Anthology is a real book.

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 2d

So if you had a 6 and 8 year old who are both big readers, but what they read is thousands of pages of Archie comics a week, how would you move them onto real books? I get the value of a tight four-page narrative but they gotta develop some attention spans. #kids #parents

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah but now you’re both screaming 🙂

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 3d

They’ve got one at the Fisher library here in Toronto - I saw it fourteen years ago. Pretty cool stuff!

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a really nice way to put it!

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 5d

Being generous, we could say that Troy’s wall was never broken?

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 7d

Out #OpenAccess on FirstView @lawandhistrev.bsky.social: 'Conspiracy, Crime, and Conflict in the Court of Star Chamber'. #StarChamber

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 6d

I am not a religious person, but I cannot imagine the gall, the sheer nerve, the utterly un-self-aware audacity, of writing the words ‘what you fail to see Mr Pope’ on social media.

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 6d

This is the stage of feeling old I’m coming into. This morning my students didn’t get a Springfield v Shelbyville joke.

Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 6d

Putting Foot in Mouth 101:

(Foolishly and unintentionally) inform a friend that their MA funding application (to SSHRC) is older than the people using it as a model for the 2025/26 round of applications.

a dog is laying on the floor in a cage with a bowl of food in the background .

ALT: a dog is laying on the floor in a cage with a bowl of food in the background .

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 8d

Classic!

Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · 8d

There appears to be a significant possibility that the books most useful for trying to develop GenAI as a reliable source of deep, detailed knowledge - academic publications, going beyond US-centric perspective - are least likely to be compensated for the theft of their contents.

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 9d

It's finally in my hands! @harvardpress.bsky.social did such a wonderful job with the jacket. It's available for preorder, and will ship (to anyone in the US or Canada) on October 28th. #EnvHist #Astronomy #Space

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 12d

Ah I see the ceiling nevermind! Great shelves!

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 12d

Home office or office office?

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 12d

-It's safe for pregnant people to take Tylenol
-It's safe to give your child Children's Tylenol
-It's fine to get a combined MMR
-It's fine to get an MMRV (MMR+ chicken pox)
-It's potentially dangerous to wait until 12 to get the Hep B shot
-It's safe to follow the vaccine schedule as is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Highly normal. Nothing to see here, folks.

Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT

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Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social · 13d

Nevermind, I showed the whole email to someone and they said ‘where’s the joke?’

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