Ralph Snyder
@ralphsnyder.bsky.social
Mais moi, malheureusement, je ne sais pas voir les moutons à travers les caisses. Je suis peut-être un peu comme les grandes personnes. J'ai dû vieillir.
Remarkable that organic materials lasted so long and so well.
February 15, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Remarkable that organic materials lasted so long and so well.
Le grand pédant se lève:
Her bones may have been found in what is now Britain, but she was not British. British did not exist before the Act of Union of 1707.
Why does it matter? Because the projection of modern national identity into the far past distorts our understaning.
Her bones may have been found in what is now Britain, but she was not British. British did not exist before the Act of Union of 1707.
Why does it matter? Because the projection of modern national identity into the far past distorts our understaning.
February 15, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Le grand pédant se lève:
Her bones may have been found in what is now Britain, but she was not British. British did not exist before the Act of Union of 1707.
Why does it matter? Because the projection of modern national identity into the far past distorts our understaning.
Her bones may have been found in what is now Britain, but she was not British. British did not exist before the Act of Union of 1707.
Why does it matter? Because the projection of modern national identity into the far past distorts our understaning.
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published in 1876. Tom was 13 or so at the time.
Illustration by True Williams, 1876.
Further information at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Saw...
Illustration by True Williams, 1876.
Further information at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Saw...
February 14, 2026 at 8:11 PM
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published in 1876. Tom was 13 or so at the time.
Illustration by True Williams, 1876.
Further information at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Saw...
Illustration by True Williams, 1876.
Further information at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Saw...
1980 or so, I took a trip to the UK. Sometimes I'd be asked where I was from. When I said, "Chicago," often the response was a pantomime of machine guns and sounds of "rat atat atat."
It got really old, really fast.
It got really old, really fast.
February 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
1980 or so, I took a trip to the UK. Sometimes I'd be asked where I was from. When I said, "Chicago," often the response was a pantomime of machine guns and sounds of "rat atat atat."
It got really old, really fast.
It got really old, really fast.
Désolé. Somehow the picture was not attached.
February 14, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Désolé. Somehow the picture was not attached.
I had to absent myself. On the plus side I found some really great old photos.
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I had to absent myself. On the plus side I found some really great old photos.
The picture above is of French aristocrats. Tom was the scion of a middle class family. It seems unlikely he would have white washed a fence dressed in such frippery.
But if not overalls, what would he have worn?
But if not overalls, what would he have worn?
February 14, 2026 at 6:58 PM
The picture above is of French aristocrats. Tom was the scion of a middle class family. It seems unlikely he would have white washed a fence dressed in such frippery.
But if not overalls, what would he have worn?
But if not overalls, what would he have worn?
but the show is more interested in the potential for horror, subgenre gore.
DNF
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DNF
2/2
February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
but the show is more interested in the potential for horror, subgenre gore.
DNF
2/2
DNF
2/2
With virulent antisemitism on the rise, I wonder if that meme should be retired?
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
With virulent antisemitism on the rise, I wonder if that meme should be retired?