Books of All Time
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A new podcast that's tackling classic literature in chronological order. New episodes every other Sunday. Hosted by @rosejudson.bsky.social.
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Omnibus
History Podcast · Updated weekly · Every week, Ken Jennings and John Roderick add a new entry to the OMNIBUS, an encyclopedic reference work of strange-but-true stories that they are compiling as a ti...
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Plot twist! @rosejudson.bsky.social’s guest appearance on the Omnibus Podcast is out today! Please give it a listen (and follow that show if you already don’t—it has a great back catalogue). BoAT 43 will now air Sunday. #podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
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Change of plans! Listen to me discuss the Egyptologist and prolific British Museum “collector” E.A. Wallis Budge with John Roderick on the Omnibus Project today!
Plot twist! @rosejudson.bsky.social’s guest appearance on the Omnibus Podcast is out today! Please give it a listen (and follow that show if you already don’t—it has a great back catalogue). BoAT 43 will now air Sunday. #podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
Omnibus
History Podcast · Updated weekly · Every week, Ken Jennings and John Roderick add a new entry to the OMNIBUS, an encyclopedic reference work of strange-but-true stories that they are compiling as a ti...
podcasts.apple.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Change of plans! Listen to me discuss the Egyptologist and prolific British Museum “collector” E.A. Wallis Budge with John Roderick on the Omnibus Project today!
Plot twist! @rosejudson.bsky.social’s guest appearance on the Omnibus Podcast is out today! Please give it a listen (and follow that show if you already don’t—it has a great back catalogue). BoAT 43 will now air Sunday. #podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
Omnibus
History Podcast · Updated weekly · Every week, Ken Jennings and John Roderick add a new entry to the OMNIBUS, an encyclopedic reference work of strange-but-true stories that they are compiling as a ti...
podcasts.apple.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Plot twist! @rosejudson.bsky.social’s guest appearance on the Omnibus Podcast is out today! Please give it a listen (and follow that show if you already don’t—it has a great back catalogue). BoAT 43 will now air Sunday. #podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
Hi there! We’ll be back in your feed on Boxing Day (26 December) with a new episode to carry you through Betwixtmas! We hope you’re enjoying the holidays! #podcasts #booksky
Have a lot of cooking, cleaning, and wrapping to do over the festive period? Our podcast can keep you company. Join an ordinary reader on her journey through ancient literature, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh and moving forward through time. #booksky
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Books of All Time
History Podcast · Twice monthly · Books of All Time tackles classic literature in chronological order. Each month, host Rose Judson summarizes a classic work of literature in one episode and then dive...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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But I can see you
Your bronze helm shining in the sun
And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby
And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong
After the boys of Sumer have gone
Your bronze helm shining in the sun
And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby
And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong
After the boys of Sumer have gone
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
But I can see you
Your bronze helm shining in the sun
And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby
And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong
After the boys of Sumer have gone
Your bronze helm shining in the sun
And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby
And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong
After the boys of Sumer have gone
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Re-upping for the people who quite sensibly stay off social media during the weekend: Watch as multiple "AI" fail a simple factual query!
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
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“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
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December 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Re-upping for the people who quite sensibly stay off social media during the weekend: Watch as multiple "AI" fail a simple factual query!
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Have a lot of cooking, cleaning, and wrapping to do over the festive period? Our podcast can keep you company. Join an ordinary reader on her journey through ancient literature, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh and moving forward through time. #booksky
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Books of All Time
History Podcast · Twice monthly · Books of All Time tackles classic literature in chronological order. Each month, host Rose Judson summarizes a classic work of literature in one episode and then dive...
podcasts.apple.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Have a lot of cooking, cleaning, and wrapping to do over the festive period? Our podcast can keep you company. Join an ordinary reader on her journey through ancient literature, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh and moving forward through time. #booksky
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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Still find it amusing that one of the hardest hitting parts of the Illiad is Achilles getting lectured by a talking horse.
December 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Still find it amusing that one of the hardest hitting parts of the Illiad is Achilles getting lectured by a talking horse.
Have a lot of cooking, cleaning, and wrapping to do over the festive period? Our podcast can keep you company. Join an ordinary reader on her journey through ancient literature, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh and moving forward through time. #booksky
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Books of All Time
History Podcast · Twice monthly · Books of All Time tackles classic literature in chronological order. Each month, host Rose Judson summarizes a classic work of literature in one episode and then dive...
podcasts.apple.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Have a lot of cooking, cleaning, and wrapping to do over the festive period? Our podcast can keep you company. Join an ordinary reader on her journey through ancient literature, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh and moving forward through time. #booksky
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
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A rattle from ancient Mesopotamia, shaped like a pie crust or shell from the late third or early second millennium BCE. X-ray images show three pellets inside.
Quite a number of rattles have been unearthed in the region, some even shaped like animals.
📷 Dr K Wagensonner
Quite a number of rattles have been unearthed in the region, some even shaped like animals.
📷 Dr K Wagensonner
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A rattle from ancient Mesopotamia, shaped like a pie crust or shell from the late third or early second millennium BCE. X-ray images show three pellets inside.
Quite a number of rattles have been unearthed in the region, some even shaped like animals.
📷 Dr K Wagensonner
Quite a number of rattles have been unearthed in the region, some even shaped like animals.
📷 Dr K Wagensonner
us after the episode mix is locked
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
us after the episode mix is locked
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New episode! The Ramayana is one of two great Sanskrit-language epics that were written down around 350 BCE (but likely composed much earlier for oral performance). Get stuck into a great big sprawling story featuring battles, magic, court intrigue, love, and one amazing monkey... #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New episode! The Ramayana is one of two great Sanskrit-language epics that were written down around 350 BCE (but likely composed much earlier for oral performance). Get stuck into a great big sprawling story featuring battles, magic, court intrigue, love, and one amazing monkey... #booksky
Management tips from Queen Kaikeyi: "a person who feels appreciated will do more than is expected of them".
Doing my morning lower back stretches and thinking about how, in The Ramayana, the scheming queen rewards her scheming, hunchbacked lady servant by offering to adorn her hump with liquid gold.
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Management tips from Queen Kaikeyi: "a person who feels appreciated will do more than is expected of them".
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Doing my morning lower back stretches and thinking about how, in The Ramayana, the scheming queen rewards her scheming, hunchbacked lady servant by offering to adorn her hump with liquid gold.
December 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Doing my morning lower back stretches and thinking about how, in The Ramayana, the scheming queen rewards her scheming, hunchbacked lady servant by offering to adorn her hump with liquid gold.
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Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
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New episode! I absolutely adore Hanuman the monkey god, whose overthinking and heroics embody "feel the fear and do it anyway". #podcasts #booksky #classics
New episode! The Ramayana is one of two great Sanskrit-language epics that were written down around 350 BCE (but likely composed much earlier for oral performance). Get stuck into a great big sprawling story featuring battles, magic, court intrigue, love, and one amazing monkey... #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New episode! The Ramayana is one of two great Sanskrit-language epics that were written down around 350 BCE (but likely composed much earlier for oral performance). Get stuck into a great big sprawling story featuring battles, magic, court intrigue, love, and one amazing monkey... #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New episode! The Ramayana is one of two great Sanskrit-language epics that were written down around 350 BCE (but likely composed much earlier for oral performance). Get stuck into a great big sprawling story featuring battles, magic, court intrigue, love, and one amazing monkey... #booksky
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When @kenjennings.bsky.social closes a door, our host @rosejudson.bsky.social squirms in through a window. Rose recorded an episode of the Omnibus Project with John Roderick tonight. The topic? E.A. Wallis Budge, who haunted the first several episodes of our show. It was a delight to talk to John...
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When @kenjennings.bsky.social closes a door, our host @rosejudson.bsky.social squirms in through a window. Rose recorded an episode of the Omnibus Project with John Roderick tonight. The topic? E.A. Wallis Budge, who haunted the first several episodes of our show. It was a delight to talk to John...
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my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
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don't think it's the quantity of alpha that's unreal, here, Marc
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
don't think it's the quantity of alpha that's unreal, here, Marc
This, FTR, is our favourite Socrates meme. #classicsky #booksky
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This, FTR, is our favourite Socrates meme. #classicsky #booksky