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Niels Grotum
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Screencap from PUSHER II, showing Mads Mikkelsen's back-of-the-head RESPECT tattoo.
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band (narrow-casting edition).
De Skrigende Halse, the best fictional Danish punk band of the early 90s.
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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That's a burn.
Cover of Italo Calvino's novel Le città invisibili.
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Who, moi?
Statuette of Harpokrates looking coquettish, with a judgmental bust of Sarapis in the background.
October 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"yeah, it's pretty restrictive"

(www.theguardian.com/technology/2...)
"The latest version of ChatGPT has produced more harmful answers to some prompts than an earlier iteration of the AI chatbot, in particular when asked about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, digital campaigners have said."
October 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The Naomi Wolf "no! No!!" tweet.
October 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Only one or the other though, except in circumstances of dire need.
A bag of Super Piratos from HARIBO, a hard salty liquorice. A bottle of Laphroaig Quarter Cask, an Islay single malt whisky.
October 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It's time for them to Rethink. Reskill. Reboot.
The UK government's "Fatima's next job could be in cyber" ad from five years ago.
October 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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People out here discovering a whole new kink within themselves. Good video.
Question hound forcibly dressed in an anime princess outfit, doing that V-fingers thing that seem to be part of the genre, while grimacing uncomfortably.
September 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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This do?
September 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The entry headed "Knob (fart)" on Danish wikipedia.
September 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I got JCM in a late round before the B-Rob trade so I hope not, but you could be right.

I just need *someone* to put up enough points in the flex to dodge the chop, then try to poach a more stable option next week.
Screen-grab of a guillotine fantasy league line-up.
September 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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veteranus, veteranior, veteranissimus
"The Cleveland Browns have released veteran wide receiver Diontae Johnson, making him one of Tuesday's notable roster cuts. Johnson, a 2021 Pro Bowler with the Steelers, was battling for a reserve role behind Cedric Tillman and Jerry Jeudy but fell short. The six-year veteran has bounced around recently, spending time with the Panthers, Ravens, and Titans last season, struggling to regain his early-career form. Still, Johnson's polished route running and proven production give him a chance to latch on elsewhere. As teams finalize their rosters before Week 1, the 289-year-old could emerge as a depth option for a contender."
August 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Excerpt from the linked column, second paragraph: "How do academics view the root causes of their own precarious situation? Consider a recent gathering of professors across multiple disciplines for the annual meeting of Heterodox Academy in Brooklyn last month. HxA, as it is known, is a group devoted to fostering the necessary environment and tools for airing of conflicting and unpopular (“heterodox”) views—provided they are expressed civilly. And yet, even among this group, whose members are not prone to marching in lockstep, there was remarkable consensus that the public’s distrust and the government’s ire are directed primarily at faculty in the humanities, because of their often single-minded insistence on identity politics, equity of results over merit, and abandonment of the Western canon." Tweet by lauren (@NotABigJerk): "i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion"
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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My bowl and I spotted you across the bar and we really dig your vibe.
A poster featuring the archaeologist Ivan Simeonov Ivanov posing with a copper age bowl and being rather intense about it.
July 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Which reminds me, I bumped into this handsome devil the other day. 1 c. CE, found in a tumulus in Plovdiv in 1905, stolen in 1995, retrieved 20 years later, and now on display in the archaeological museum there.
Iron and silver helmet and mask in the shape of a human head and face, seen en face. The same iron and silver helmet and mask in the shape of a human head and face, seen in profile. The face-mask has large ears attached which fit into gaps in the head-piece when the mask is closed. The same iron and silver helmet and mask in the shape of a human head and face, seen from the back. He is wearing a fillet, which can be seen tied in a highly detailed knot at the back of the head.
July 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Front cover of "Once Again: Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis" (ed. T.H. Nielsen, CPC Papers 7, Historia Einzelschriften 180)
July 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Alyosha of Burgas is on the apps claiming he's *basically* the same height as the one in Plovdiv.
Alyosha of Burgas, maybe 4-5 m. statue on a 10 m. pillar? Alyosha of Plovdiv, 11 m. statue on a 6 m. piedestal.
July 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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I'm going to tell kids this is the Phaistos disk. See how they like it.
Gold phiale (libation dish) from the Panagyurishte hoard, early 3rd c. BCE. A massive gold dish is decorated with four circular bands, the innermost depicting acorns and the others depicting faces with exaggerated African features.
July 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Remember when the NYT tightened procedures so any story based primarily on anonymous sources must be approved by the top brass?
archive.nytimes.com/publiceditor...

Remember when they abolished the public editor in order to listen to critics on social media instead?
www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/the-...
From a 2016 memo tightening procedures on anonymous sources in the wake of several bad cases. "Without a named source, readers may see The Times as vouching for the information unequivocally — or, worse, as carrying water for someone else’s agenda. As far as possible, we should explain the source’s motivation and how he or she knows the information." From the 2017 memo abolishing the position of public editor at the NYT. "The public editor position, created in the aftermath of a grave journalistic scandal, played a crucial part in rebuilding our readers’ trusts by acting as our in-house watchdog. We welcomed that criticism, even when it stung. But today, our followers on social media and our readers across the internet have come together to collectively serve as a modern watchdog, more vigilant and forceful than one person could ever be. Our responsibility is to empower all of those watchdogs, and to listen to them, rather than to channel their voice through a single office."
July 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Mods are asleep, time to post Long Gandhi.
Cover of Danish children's book LANGE PETER MADSEN by Halfdan Rasmussen with drawings by Ernst Clausen. There's a boy on the cover, but wait, it's not just any boy! It's Peter Madsen, and he's been stretched out to be way tall. This seems like a mixed blessing.
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Makes Kirk Cameron's sandwich party look positively jubilant.
Kirk Cameron is blowing out a birthday cake on a large, nearly empty table. On one end a handful of plain Subway sandwiches stand forlorn. A subdued woman looks on from a corner of the room, another stands in the hallway just outside.
June 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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What the heck
Old magazine ad for Honeywell Office Automation Systems. The image is captioned "What the heck is Electronic Mail?" A Business Dude is seated at a desk, blown back and staring in wonder and alarm as a letter magically zooms in and lands on the desk in front of him. He does not yet know that this is the last time he will ever reach Inbox Zero.
June 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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That's the house he proudly helped build. He should be celebrating.
Cover of Jonah Goldberg's "LIBERAL FASCISM. THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE LEFT FROM MUSSOLINI TO THE POLITICS OF MEANING"
June 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Aw man, they want to pave the old place and put up a parking lot? Quick gang, we've gotta put on a show to save it!
Headline: "Chicago Suburb Plans to Acquire Pope Leo XIV’s Childhood Home"
May 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM