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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
#WinterSolstice
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
#WinterSolstice
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
December 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
#WinterSolstice
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
#WinterSolstice
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
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Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.
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Did medieval people buy each other Christmas gifts? New Year's Day was the main gifting day, but little is known about everyday people's present giving. Our project on London's customs records has uncovered a wealth of affordable items imported around this time: gloves and hats to toys and rattles🧵
Medieval Londoners’ cheaply imported mass-produced Christmas gifts look surprisingly familiar
We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload ...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Did medieval people buy each other Christmas gifts? New Year's Day was the main gifting day, but little is known about everyday people's present giving. Our project on London's customs records has uncovered a wealth of affordable items imported around this time: gloves and hats to toys and rattles🧵
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I love Moore’s writing but like a lot of White leftists he underestimates the West’s need for scary others. Without Soviets white chauvinists turned first to Muslims & then to immigrants (read: Black people!) & trans folk to demonize. Some of this is a return to old scapegoats.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I love Moore’s writing but like a lot of White leftists he underestimates the West’s need for scary others. Without Soviets white chauvinists turned first to Muslims & then to immigrants (read: Black people!) & trans folk to demonize. Some of this is a return to old scapegoats.
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Samuel L Jackson is 77.
This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...
This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...
December 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Samuel L Jackson is 77.
This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...
This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...
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As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.
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Another McSweeney profile talking about rescuing Lambeth from Militant and Ted Knight
By the time McSweeney arrived in London, Militant had gone and Lambeth Council was led by Jim Dickson - a Blairite and now Labour MP for Dartford
It's mad mythology www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
By the time McSweeney arrived in London, Militant had gone and Lambeth Council was led by Jim Dickson - a Blairite and now Labour MP for Dartford
It's mad mythology www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
December 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Another McSweeney profile talking about rescuing Lambeth from Militant and Ted Knight
By the time McSweeney arrived in London, Militant had gone and Lambeth Council was led by Jim Dickson - a Blairite and now Labour MP for Dartford
It's mad mythology www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
By the time McSweeney arrived in London, Militant had gone and Lambeth Council was led by Jim Dickson - a Blairite and now Labour MP for Dartford
It's mad mythology www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
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Irish linguistic people! Y'know that thing where some people (generally Aul Fellas) pronounce certain words(squirrel and girl jump to mind) almost as if there's a D in the middle? Is there a name for that sound?
#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Irish linguistic people! Y'know that thing where some people (generally Aul Fellas) pronounce certain words(squirrel and girl jump to mind) almost as if there's a D in the middle? Is there a name for that sound?
#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
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Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it?
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December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it?
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“If you come to fiction because of an innate interest in human character, you might write fiction that answers the question, How did this character get this way? That was the plot of all my early stories. Much better to ask: Given that a character is this way, what do they do?” —Elizabeth McCracken
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“If you come to fiction because of an innate interest in human character, you might write fiction that answers the question, How did this character get this way? That was the plot of all my early stories. Much better to ask: Given that a character is this way, what do they do?” —Elizabeth McCracken
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My book builds this argument by explaining and interpreting how this logic extends all the way back to the actual first Mickey Mouse cartoon (not Steamboat Willie but Plane Crazy) and can be traced aesthetically right up into the MCU or the live action Lion King remake
The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World
How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World
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December 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My book builds this argument by explaining and interpreting how this logic extends all the way back to the actual first Mickey Mouse cartoon (not Steamboat Willie but Plane Crazy) and can be traced aesthetically right up into the MCU or the live action Lion King remake
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Copper plated
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language
Watch: TCD debuts world's first film in ancient Sumerian
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language.
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Copper plated
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So I distracted myself from the immediate task but
I wrote a novel, y'all. I'm still super burned out and it was *agonizingly hard* to do and I had a lot of "I shouldn't have agreed, I am a fraud, all those books were flukes and my time is done"
But I fucking wrote a novel, y'all
FUCK YEAH
I wrote a novel, y'all. I'm still super burned out and it was *agonizingly hard* to do and I had a lot of "I shouldn't have agreed, I am a fraud, all those books were flukes and my time is done"
But I fucking wrote a novel, y'all
FUCK YEAH
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
So I distracted myself from the immediate task but
I wrote a novel, y'all. I'm still super burned out and it was *agonizingly hard* to do and I had a lot of "I shouldn't have agreed, I am a fraud, all those books were flukes and my time is done"
But I fucking wrote a novel, y'all
FUCK YEAH
I wrote a novel, y'all. I'm still super burned out and it was *agonizingly hard* to do and I had a lot of "I shouldn't have agreed, I am a fraud, all those books were flukes and my time is done"
But I fucking wrote a novel, y'all
FUCK YEAH
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I increasingly get asked why then do parties still do it. I don't have a good response but it has imho a lot to do with internal decision making, power struggles and political advisors. I don't think politicians should just "follow the research" but it is striking how many arguments are just wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I increasingly get asked why then do parties still do it. I don't have a good response but it has imho a lot to do with internal decision making, power struggles and political advisors. I don't think politicians should just "follow the research" but it is striking how many arguments are just wrong.
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amazing q&a with paul krugman
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
amazing q&a with paul krugman
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A much more positive story, and which testifies to the extraordinary social value of adventure playgrounds:
"Two decades ago, [Portsmouth] council chose to prioritise playgrounds and youth clubs to help its poorer families – and the benefits are plain to see"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Two decades ago, [Portsmouth] council chose to prioritise playgrounds and youth clubs to help its poorer families – and the benefits are plain to see"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A much more positive story, and which testifies to the extraordinary social value of adventure playgrounds:
"Two decades ago, [Portsmouth] council chose to prioritise playgrounds and youth clubs to help its poorer families – and the benefits are plain to see"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Two decades ago, [Portsmouth] council chose to prioritise playgrounds and youth clubs to help its poorer families – and the benefits are plain to see"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime.
It's simply untrue.
Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
It's simply untrue.
Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime.
It's simply untrue.
Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
It's simply untrue.
Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
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Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
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Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
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If you would like to learn more about why these products are not the sort of entity that can have "opinions", and also why the production and marketing of them is so harmful, please see my book (w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social ): thecon.ai
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THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
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November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you would like to learn more about why these products are not the sort of entity that can have "opinions", and also why the production and marketing of them is so harmful, please see my book (w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social ): thecon.ai
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Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists to be made permanent in 2026 | DJ Mag share.google/wxPP4VbpuN97...
Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists to be made permanent in 2026
The scheme aims to support 2,000 artists and creative workers, paying each successful applicant €325 a week
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October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists to be made permanent in 2026 | DJ Mag share.google/wxPP4VbpuN97...
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I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵