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hunchback from sardinia
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free range, cage free, organic intellectual
people truly have the memory of a goldfish
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"you don't know anything about latin culture, you're spanish" is blowing my mind right now
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
this is pretty cool! sounds like a reference to early type of music and dance that would later turn into flamenco:
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
*me putting on my monocle*: "i think i shall sit down and read some herodotus, the father of history"

*reaches page 4*: "wait, what is this smut?"
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
ladies and gentlemen, here is the cause of the breakdown in the relationship between one of history's top classical composers and one of history's most important philosophers:
November 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
there is always debate around these issues, of course, but my understanding is that it is sufficiently different to constitute a label of "independent" script. same goes with the relationship between cuneiform and egyptian hieroglyphs. did one inspire the other? maybe?
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
like, how is this still a 7 point game!
October 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
dude, what the fuck happened to The athletic?
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
5) the first known instance of a burial in iberia is of a mixed neanderthal / anatomically modern human child, who was lavishly buried (the lapedo child). from approximately 27,780 and 28,550 years ago
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
3) the debate over whether human language emerged over millions of years or whether there was a "big bang". here's a great paper by a "big bang" proponent: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
i'm leading an informal course with some friends that's devoted to the entirety of human history in iberia.

here's a list of the coolest shit i've learned:

1) the "ivory lady" burial of the valencina de la concepción (outside of seville). dated to ~3,000–2,800 BCE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
all these "literary bros" in spain are openly and proudly neo-colonialists
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
what the fuck did i just read
October 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
lol "vivá"??

does wesley morris not have a single spanish-speaker on his staff?
October 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
it's almost like blueskyism is all in the eye of the beholder...
September 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
i am old enough to remember when doing something like this would get you labelled a communist
September 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
open to hearing alternatives that wouldn't have gotten us into this shit
August 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
here's a pic of someone who says they wouldn't cut off friends/family over their political views
August 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
pretty solid free library find
August 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
August 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
NBA billionaire owner: "oh all these so-called experts think they are so smart. well if they're so smart, why didn't they point out what a dumbass i am to me sooner?"
August 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
everything is so fucking stupid all the time
August 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
love when this issue comes up, because it gives me an opportunity to share this nugget
August 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
the case for smoking cigarettes
August 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
politico reporters watching bluesky meltdown over another insider piece about centrist dem strategizing
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM