Notthedarkweb
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High Priest of high liberalism. Toronto sports fan. "Radical Socialist" (Very much a political liberal).
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Doing a book thread for all the books I'll read in 2026...starting with a book I started in 2025 and finished this year.
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Today I am thinking of Rev. Jonathan Myrick Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian who was shot and killed protecting a 17-year old Black girl from a shotgun blast in Alabama. I took this photo of an icon of him at an Episcopal retreat I went on last year. The deputy sheriff who murdered him was acquitted
January 25, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Today I am thinking of Rev. Jonathan Myrick Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian who was shot and killed protecting a 17-year old Black girl from a shotgun blast in Alabama. I took this photo of an icon of him at an Episcopal retreat I went on last year. The deputy sheriff who murdered him was acquitted
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thought this was an alternative medicine thing and was disappointed/relieved
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM
thought this was an alternative medicine thing and was disappointed/relieved
Are Penguin spines just bad? I'm reading a Scribe book and the spine has basically not cracked at all despite being over half way through it but the Penguin Thucydides copy I bought cracked almost immediately after purchase
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Are Penguin spines just bad? I'm reading a Scribe book and the spine has basically not cracked at all despite being over half way through it but the Penguin Thucydides copy I bought cracked almost immediately after purchase
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A mother checks in on her schoolboy son regarding his Homer-work
“I took care to send and inquire about your health and to learn what you were reading. He said it was the 6th book {of the Iliad}, and he testified at large to the conduct of your attendant.” (2nd-3rd C CE) papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...
“I took care to send and inquire about your health and to learn what you were reading. He said it was the 6th book {of the Iliad}, and he testified at large to the conduct of your attendant.” (2nd-3rd C CE) papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...
![HGV: P.Oxy. 6 930 [source] [xml]
Title Letter to Ptolemaeus from his Mother
Publications P.Oxy. 6 930 More in series P.Oxy.More in series P.Oxy., vol. 6
W.Chr. 138
Sel. Pap. I 130
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries BL-online; I 329; II 2 97; IV 60; XIII 150
Translations Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil (1912) 62 und (1923) 65; Metzger, Nachrichten aus dem Wüstensand (1974), Nr. 41.; Bagnall - Cribiore, Women's Letters (2006), S. 375; Bagnall - Cribiore, Women's Letters (2008), B9.2, Nr. 267; Joyal, Greek and Roman Education (2009), S. 182f. (b)
Origin Oxyrhynchos More from Oxyrhynchos
Material Papyrus
Date II - III More from the period between 101 CE and 300 CE
Commentary Tage: 17. (18.) - 25. (26.) Nov.
Print Illustrations Bagnall - Cribiore, Women's Letters (2006), S. 377; Bagnall - Cribiore, Women's Letters (2008), B9.2, Nr. 267
Subjects Brief (privat); N.N. (Mutter) an ihren Sohn Ptolemaios; der Sohn soll sich möglichst schnell nach einem neuen Lehrer umsehen; Lektüre (Homer); Erziehung
Images http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/papyrus/oxyrhynchus930.ht...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Trismegistos: 28341 [source]
Publications P. Oxy. 6 930 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S.; 1908) = Chrest. Wilck. 138 (Wilcken, Ulrich / ; 1912) = Sel. Pap. 1 130 (Hunt, Arthur S. / Edgar, Campbell Cowan; 1932) = Bagnall / Cribiore, Women's letters p. 375-377 (Bagnall, Roger S. / Cribiore, Raffaella; 2006)
Inv. no. Glasgow, University Gen 1026 /11
Date AD 100 - 299
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[found & written]
People mentioned people
DDbDP transcription: p.oxy.6.930 [xml]
II/III spc Oxyrhynchus
[Reprinted from: chr.wilck.138] WChr138
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[ὰ]ν χρείαν ἔχῃς ἐντεῦ-
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January 25, 2026 at 9:26 PM
A mother checks in on her schoolboy son regarding his Homer-work
“I took care to send and inquire about your health and to learn what you were reading. He said it was the 6th book {of the Iliad}, and he testified at large to the conduct of your attendant.” (2nd-3rd C CE) papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...
“I took care to send and inquire about your health and to learn what you were reading. He said it was the 6th book {of the Iliad}, and he testified at large to the conduct of your attendant.” (2nd-3rd C CE) papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...
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Once you think of the state as a tendency toward claiming monopolies on violence or monopolies on the licensing of violence etc. it is IMHO perfectly natural to say that a well-constructed government should possess only so much of that tendency, that stateness, as serves society's interests.
January 26, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Once you think of the state as a tendency toward claiming monopolies on violence or monopolies on the licensing of violence etc. it is IMHO perfectly natural to say that a well-constructed government should possess only so much of that tendency, that stateness, as serves society's interests.
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Weber, like Smith, like Marx, is so much more interesting to think on than his lay adherents tend to be
January 26, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Weber, like Smith, like Marx, is so much more interesting to think on than his lay adherents tend to be
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Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.
Fußball-WM 2026: Sollte der DFB über einen Boykott nachdenken?
Die Fußballwelt als Staffage: An Donald Trumps Politik wird auch die Weltmeisterschaft nichts ändern. Die Positionierung des DFB scheint klar.
www.faz.net
January 25, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.
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Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
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This is Halle Butler’s bread and butter: The New Me and Jillian. (And most recently Banal Nightmare, but not as good as the other two in my opinion.)
January 25, 2026 at 11:23 PM
This is Halle Butler’s bread and butter: The New Me and Jillian. (And most recently Banal Nightmare, but not as good as the other two in my opinion.)
Discovered Alan Clark, whose entire charm for the British journalistic class in the past seemed to be that he was a Nazi who could speak well.
January 25, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Discovered Alan Clark, whose entire charm for the British journalistic class in the past seemed to be that he was a Nazi who could speak well.
There is very little literature on the contemporary scene about the unhappy, miserable woman. I don't mean the anxious woman or the hysterical woman. But the quietly unhappy one who wastes away with a lack of meaning. The middle class male striver novel focuses on this, but where for women?
January 25, 2026 at 11:10 PM
There is very little literature on the contemporary scene about the unhappy, miserable woman. I don't mean the anxious woman or the hysterical woman. But the quietly unhappy one who wastes away with a lack of meaning. The middle class male striver novel focuses on this, but where for women?
Happy australia day friends. Don't cook to death tomorrow.
January 25, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Happy australia day friends. Don't cook to death tomorrow.
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PM's visiting Australia in March. Doubt we're going to see any early snap election
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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‘I agree with him’: Australian prime minister says PM Carney will visit Australia in March
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit Australia in March, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday, as he backed a speech by his Canadian counterpart decrying powerful nations using eco...
www.ctvnews.ca
January 25, 2026 at 12:47 PM
PM's visiting Australia in March. Doubt we're going to see any early snap election
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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You couldn't live with your own Failure, where did that bring you? Back to me...
March 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
You couldn't live with your own Failure, where did that bring you? Back to me...
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I don't really blame the Guardian for reporting this but it's very Current Year that the Know Your Meme page about this does a better job of explaining what the meme actually is.
Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star
Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star
The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos
In certain corners of the internet, on niche news feeds and algorithms, an AI-generated British schoolgirl has emerged as something of a phenomenon.
Her name is Amelia, a purple-haired “goth girl” who proudly carries a mini union flag and appears to have a penchant for racism. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:23 AM
I don't really blame the Guardian for reporting this but it's very Current Year that the Know Your Meme page about this does a better job of explaining what the meme actually is.
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i had a friend who wanted to go back in time to the middle ages, loosely translate the analects into Hebrew claiming it was a lost baraisa of the sages, and thereby fuse Judaism and Confucianism in a perfect marriage
January 25, 2026 at 10:24 AM
i had a friend who wanted to go back in time to the middle ages, loosely translate the analects into Hebrew claiming it was a lost baraisa of the sages, and thereby fuse Judaism and Confucianism in a perfect marriage
I'm unironically becoming a liberal Confucian it isnt even a joke I'm Tang Junyi maxxing I'm ensuring every man can become a Yao or a Shun.
January 25, 2026 at 10:20 AM
I'm unironically becoming a liberal Confucian it isnt even a joke I'm Tang Junyi maxxing I'm ensuring every man can become a Yao or a Shun.
Didn't realize the Neustadt went to a Palestinian author this year. Want to cop a Nasrallah book but they're all so expensive.
January 25, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Didn't realize the Neustadt went to a Palestinian author this year. Want to cop a Nasrallah book but they're all so expensive.
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The characters aren't saving the world, they're self important students at an expensive second choice college. They're attempting to copy the mystery and power of much greater artists and end up in mundane crime, then they all slink off to lead ordinary lives.
January 25, 2026 at 8:29 AM
The characters aren't saving the world, they're self important students at an expensive second choice college. They're attempting to copy the mystery and power of much greater artists and end up in mundane crime, then they all slink off to lead ordinary lives.
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Someone else here pointed out that The Secret History contains a pretty complete critique of her imitators.
January 25, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Someone else here pointed out that The Secret History contains a pretty complete critique of her imitators.
It always troubles me that Donna Tartt is a Pulitzer prize winning novelist and not like a romantasy slop peddler the way that "dark academia" people talk about her output
January 25, 2026 at 8:04 AM
It always troubles me that Donna Tartt is a Pulitzer prize winning novelist and not like a romantasy slop peddler the way that "dark academia" people talk about her output
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millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming
January 25, 2026 at 7:47 AM
millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming