Peggy Albright
@peggya.bsky.social
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
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‘The colour of the stone – the nakedness of the stone, the play between fleshiness and stoniness – was everything.’
T.J. Clark views a Kouros at the Met:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark views a Kouros at the Met:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Kouros at the Met
The kouros in the Met was almost certainly a soldier: he has stepped out of his armour into his skin. The idea of...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
‘The colour of the stone – the nakedness of the stone, the play between fleshiness and stoniness – was everything.’
T.J. Clark views a Kouros at the Met:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark views a Kouros at the Met:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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✨A woman makes an offering✨
This #FrescoFriday we travel to the Villa San Marco in Stabiae to enjoy this beautiful depiction of a woman carrying a tray that has food an implements associated with making a ritual offering.
Photo credit to @chapps.bsky.social ☺️
This #FrescoFriday we travel to the Villa San Marco in Stabiae to enjoy this beautiful depiction of a woman carrying a tray that has food an implements associated with making a ritual offering.
Photo credit to @chapps.bsky.social ☺️
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
✨A woman makes an offering✨
This #FrescoFriday we travel to the Villa San Marco in Stabiae to enjoy this beautiful depiction of a woman carrying a tray that has food an implements associated with making a ritual offering.
Photo credit to @chapps.bsky.social ☺️
This #FrescoFriday we travel to the Villa San Marco in Stabiae to enjoy this beautiful depiction of a woman carrying a tray that has food an implements associated with making a ritual offering.
Photo credit to @chapps.bsky.social ☺️
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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Mark mask of Phoenician woman found in Carthage – The History Blog
www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74637
www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74637
Mark mask of Phoenician woman found in Carthage – The History Blog
A mask of a woman wearing a Phoenician hairstyle that is unique on the archaeological record has been discovered at the Tophet cemetery and sanctuary in the suburbs of Carthage in Tunisia. The…
www.thehistoryblog.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Mark mask of Phoenician woman found in Carthage – The History Blog
www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74637
www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74637
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Achilles Shoe Repair. We specialize in heels.
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Achilles Shoe Repair. We specialize in heels.
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The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
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Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.
October 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.
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American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
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It a bumper Classics issue of the @thetls.bsky.social
this week. Long reviews by AE Stallings on Mendelsohn's Odyssey tinyurl.com/k7uzw9cy and by Peter Thonemann on 403 BCE
this week. Long reviews by AE Stallings on Mendelsohn's Odyssey tinyurl.com/k7uzw9cy and by Peter Thonemann on 403 BCE
A mentor’s odyssey
It was perhaps inevitable that the critic, editor, classicist and translator Daniel Mendelsohn would take on a translation of the Odyssey. After all, he
tinyurl.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It a bumper Classics issue of the @thetls.bsky.social
this week. Long reviews by AE Stallings on Mendelsohn's Odyssey tinyurl.com/k7uzw9cy and by Peter Thonemann on 403 BCE
this week. Long reviews by AE Stallings on Mendelsohn's Odyssey tinyurl.com/k7uzw9cy and by Peter Thonemann on 403 BCE
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Reposted by Peggy Albright
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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Indigenous radio stations use the airwaves to share and preserve culture.
Native languages need radio, which is at risk of being lost - High Country News
As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio also face threats to how they preserve and grow language.
buff.ly
August 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Indigenous radio stations use the airwaves to share and preserve culture.
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July 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A newly completed investigation by Wyoming’s largest county found no evidence of noncitizen voting in the 2024 elections, undercutting claims used to justify the state’s controversial proof of citizenship law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Wyoming’s Largest County Finds No Evidence of Noncitizen Voting, Undermining State’s Anti-Voting Law
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A newly completed investigation by Wyoming’s largest county found no evidence of noncitizen voting in the 2024 elections, undercutting claims used to justify the state’s controversial proof of citizenship law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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#FrescoFriday
#Roman fresco excavated dating back to the late 1st century BC. It depicts a human figure against a vibrant red background. This is one of the finest #paintings ever found in #ancient Gaul
(Arles Departmental Museum of Antiquities) #France
#Archaeology #art
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#Roman fresco excavated dating back to the late 1st century BC. It depicts a human figure against a vibrant red background. This is one of the finest #paintings ever found in #ancient Gaul
(Arles Departmental Museum of Antiquities) #France
#Archaeology #art
#AncientBlueSky🏺
May 9, 2025 at 6:22 AM
#FrescoFriday
#Roman fresco excavated dating back to the late 1st century BC. It depicts a human figure against a vibrant red background. This is one of the finest #paintings ever found in #ancient Gaul
(Arles Departmental Museum of Antiquities) #France
#Archaeology #art
#AncientBlueSky🏺
#Roman fresco excavated dating back to the late 1st century BC. It depicts a human figure against a vibrant red background. This is one of the finest #paintings ever found in #ancient Gaul
(Arles Departmental Museum of Antiquities) #France
#Archaeology #art
#AncientBlueSky🏺
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Robert Mapplethorpe
April 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Robert Mapplethorpe
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The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
April 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place.
@makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/palant...
@makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place.
@makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/palant...
@makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/palant...
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The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name, your bank account number, the student debt you hold and more. President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to connect these records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before.
How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
nyti.ms
April 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name, your bank account number, the student debt you hold and more. President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to connect these records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before.
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© Sam Toft (English artist, b. 1964)
March 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
© Sam Toft (English artist, b. 1964)