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I don't know why, but Jamaican crime classic The Harder They Come (1972) being advertised with line “Infinitely more intelligent than Last Tango in Paris” is hilarious to me.
October 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I don't know why, but Jamaican crime classic The Harder They Come (1972) being advertised with line “Infinitely more intelligent than Last Tango in Paris” is hilarious to me.
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Happy Birthday to the late, great Don Siegel, born 113 years ago today
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Happy Birthday to the late, great Don Siegel, born 113 years ago today
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Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.
October 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.
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Do these idiots even realize that shooting Charlie Kirk makes you a worse person than Charlie Kirk?
September 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Do these idiots even realize that shooting Charlie Kirk makes you a worse person than Charlie Kirk?
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Just gonna put out there for the record that assassinating people is bad no matter how much you disagree with them
September 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Just gonna put out there for the record that assassinating people is bad no matter how much you disagree with them
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Late to the party, but I finally saw Eddington (2025), and to my surprise I liked it very much! Then again, the reason why I am late to party in the first place is everyone telling me how lame it is.
September 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Late to the party, but I finally saw Eddington (2025), and to my surprise I liked it very much! Then again, the reason why I am late to party in the first place is everyone telling me how lame it is.
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For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products
August 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products
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"castles such as Watch Hill and Rougemont have become fortifications once more, sheltering not armoured knights but plants and animals. Birds and badgers have taken up residence in the structures built as homes for aristocrats." - me on castles and wildlife nehnetwork.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/j...
Jon Roberts – ‘Wild Castles: Medieval Fortifications as Ecological Refuges’
In this blog, Jonathan David Roberts shares his reflections on the changing role of medieval fortifications on natural landscapes following a series of walks in his local area. Leaving the footpath…
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August 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"castles such as Watch Hill and Rougemont have become fortifications once more, sheltering not armoured knights but plants and animals. Birds and badgers have taken up residence in the structures built as homes for aristocrats." - me on castles and wildlife nehnetwork.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/j...
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An exceptional Byzantine mosaic made of marble & glass tesserae showing Ktisis who personifies the act of generous donation, c. 500.
👁️ Read/watch Byzantium: Beyond The Cliché, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/byzantium-...
#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺 #archaeology
👁️ Read/watch Byzantium: Beyond The Cliché, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/byzantium-...
#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺 #archaeology
August 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
An exceptional Byzantine mosaic made of marble & glass tesserae showing Ktisis who personifies the act of generous donation, c. 500.
👁️ Read/watch Byzantium: Beyond The Cliché, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/byzantium-...
#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺 #archaeology
👁️ Read/watch Byzantium: Beyond The Cliché, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/byzantium-...
#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺 #archaeology
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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
One of the greats with very underrated solo career.
August 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
One of the greats with very underrated solo career.
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Let’s celebrate with a number from the 1st Clash album I bought (yes, I know🤷🏻♂️)
youtu.be/qkj0wUcbUeE?...
Let’s celebrate with a number from the 1st Clash album I bought (yes, I know🤷🏻♂️)
youtu.be/qkj0wUcbUeE?...
August 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Let’s celebrate with a number from the 1st Clash album I bought (yes, I know🤷🏻♂️)
youtu.be/qkj0wUcbUeE?...
Let’s celebrate with a number from the 1st Clash album I bought (yes, I know🤷🏻♂️)
youtu.be/qkj0wUcbUeE?...
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John Cazale was born 90 years ago today.
a man in a yellow suit and tie is standing in a room with sunglasses in his pocket .
ALT: a man in a yellow suit and tie is standing in a room with sunglasses in his pocket .
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August 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
John Cazale was born 90 years ago today.
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This is not a joke. Consider this.
Its 150 gigs for images and all.
That's literally less than one AAA game.
Its 150 gigs for images and all.
That's literally less than one AAA game.
UK folks - reiterating that it's super important that you download Wikipedia for offline use like now-ish if you want to guarantee you can keep having that incredible resource!!
www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...
www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...
August 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This is not a joke. Consider this.
Its 150 gigs for images and all.
That's literally less than one AAA game.
Its 150 gigs for images and all.
That's literally less than one AAA game.
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For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to Leptis Magna on the coast of Libya. It's one of the best preserved #Roman cities. The city was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians. In Roman times it became one of the most important...🧵 1/2
🏺 #archaeology
🏺 #archaeology
August 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to Leptis Magna on the coast of Libya. It's one of the best preserved #Roman cities. The city was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians. In Roman times it became one of the most important...🧵 1/2
🏺 #archaeology
🏺 #archaeology
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This explains the MAGA crowd.
August 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This explains the MAGA crowd.
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August 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Bought tickets to see Sunn o))) this fall.
Hope they play that long, droney one.
Hope they play that long, droney one.
August 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bought tickets to see Sunn o))) this fall.
Hope they play that long, droney one.
Hope they play that long, droney one.
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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About - www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d... "exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster" great takedown by @mmasnick.bsky.social #osa #privacy
Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…
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August 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About - www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d... "exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster" great takedown by @mmasnick.bsky.social #osa #privacy
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Newest addition to the #JustinianicPlague bibliography: Adapa et al., "Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic," www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/16.... This is a milestone achievement b/c it is the first Y. pestis aDNA to be recovered from the Islamic Mediterranean, in this case, Jerash.
August 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Newest addition to the #JustinianicPlague bibliography: Adapa et al., "Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic," www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/16.... This is a milestone achievement b/c it is the first Y. pestis aDNA to be recovered from the Islamic Mediterranean, in this case, Jerash.
This one gets it.
About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?”
No. Fuck you.
I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.
No. Fuck you.
I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.
August 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This one gets it.
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For this week's #MosaicMonday, here is a mosaic from Trier depicting the philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610–c. 546 BC), who is credited with inventing the sundial. The mosaic dates to the 3rd century AD.
Photo: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
#Archaeology 🏺
Photo: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
#Archaeology 🏺
July 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
For this week's #MosaicMonday, here is a mosaic from Trier depicting the philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610–c. 546 BC), who is credited with inventing the sundial. The mosaic dates to the 3rd century AD.
Photo: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
#Archaeology 🏺
Photo: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
#Archaeology 🏺
Tried watching Reagan (2024).
Really makes your average medieval hagiography seem like a hard-boiled critical scholarship in comparison.
Really makes your average medieval hagiography seem like a hard-boiled critical scholarship in comparison.
July 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Tried watching Reagan (2024).
Really makes your average medieval hagiography seem like a hard-boiled critical scholarship in comparison.
Really makes your average medieval hagiography seem like a hard-boiled critical scholarship in comparison.