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Sam Thomas
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I’ve wondered - I listen to this podcast called Fall of Civilizations, and they just released a podcast today - I guess it feels a bit value judgmental. Have you heard it? Do you have thoughts on it?

Loved the crusade podcast btw! Got this book from the reading list
Byzantium and the Crusades, by John Harris
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Atget, born just 40 years after Napoleon died, strolling around photographing Paris, dressed like this (in 1890).
Eugène Atget in 1890
September 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Does this read like he ended something like the armistice at the end of 1918 or the end of the Korean war?

"Recent reports suggest Biden is following a similar playbook for direct action (airstrikes and special operations raids) as his predecessors." 2022

www.justsecurity.org/83749/ending...
Contemporary warfare is no longer bound by such distinctions. Successive U.S. administrations have failed to end the "Forever War," the global armed conflict the United States has waged against terrorist groups continuously since 9/11. Though generally eschewing the phrase "war on terror," the Obama administration maintained the war footing in the form of indefinite detention at Guantánamo Bay and status-based targeting under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), as did the Trump administration with even fewer safeguards in place. The Biden presidency has yet to turn the corner. Recent reports suggest Biden is following a similar playbook for direct action (airstrikes and special operations raids) as his predecessors. While the administration has slowed the pace of drone strikes in nearly every theater - with the exception of Somalia, where strikes are ratcheting up again - these trends may be easily reversed in secret at any time and by anyone who occupies the Oval Office. The war on terror has ebbed, not ended. It is in this context that we must now assess the new presidential policy framework for counterterrorism operations.
August 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Does this strike you as so few strikes? Remember, the claim I objected to was that Biden functionally ended the drone war

trump-yemen.airwars.org
Excerpt of article from Airwars: “The Biden administration conducted hundreds of strikes in its final year. Stated targets involved Houthi infrastructure, strikes to destroy anti- ship ballistic missiles and missile launchers, and interception of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) fired at U.S. military or commercial ships. With strikes often focused on less populated areas near the coast, these efforts seemingly intended to destabilise and limit Houthi capacities, rather than target the group's leadership.”
August 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I recall Biden ending the war in Afghanistan (which was good, and I think he did get a lot of credit from leftists for that).

He kept the strikes going where he wanted them to continue (like in the strikes in Somalia, charts from airwars.org), and he never worked to end the AUMF that enabled them.
Militant deaths in Somalia by President. Biden has a signifigant increase from Trump. Civilian deaths in Somalia by year. Deaths under Biden have a signifigant drop from Trump, especially in 2021 and 2022. However, the number are still signifigant, and don't point to anything being functionally ended.
August 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Still think about this one
Adrian Chiles column headline - Video games are good for your mental health? Not if you play them like me
July 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The pub where Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto is now a Be At One
The Be At One where Marc and Engels wrote the Communist manifesto
July 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Can’t tell what this is arguing for - it’s not calling for rallying around the new party, and the old party is dead.

Is there no way forward for the left-liberal? If all parties are polling at 15% and the right-liberals won’t compromise, what’s the solution? Is voting for Corbyn or Green wrong?
July 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The ai role play / video call stuff is pretty good for how I use it - it’s nice to have an on demand conversation partner that gets me doing the hard work of in-your-feet synthesis
Conversation between me and an AI in italian
June 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Buddy I’m thinking it’s chicken of the woods time #foraging #mushrooms
Big chicken of the woods Close up of Big chicken of the woods Big chicken of the woods On a cutting board Big chicken of the woods On toast
June 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The helldude superimposed into a malfalda comic strip, with some slightly altered text. In spanish, the text is: Helldude: Discuple, Sr. Pero me parece que yo a ud. lo conozco... pero... de donde? Hombre: Bueno.... nnnossssse, yo trabajo en las oficinas de una compania de seguros Helldude: Ah, No! Entonces es evidente que lo confundi con alguien mas vinculado a mi profesion, es que asi en posts somos todos igulaes no? ja ja.... Hombre: Si, claro. Perdon, el sr es? Helldude, encima de un pedestal ridiculo: Abogado Helldude: Excuse me, sir. But I think I know you... but... from where? Man: Well... ummm, I work at an insurance company. Helldude: Oh, no! So it's obvious I mistook you for someone more closely related to my profession. Is that how we're all the same in posts, right? Ha ha.... Man: Yeah, sure. Excuse me, is that the sir? Helldude, on a ridiculous pedestal: Lawyer
May 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Somebody is killing liberals... hrmm
Rorschach from the first issue of Watchmen
May 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Great to see Pablo getting on! Small note: Nou Castàlia is the stadium but the town is Castelló (or Castelló de la Plana)
Hernandez was appointed manager of Castellon B in June, having returned to his hometown of Castalia from Leeds in 2021 before taking up a number of roles with his boyhood club. At 40-years-old, the much-loved former Elland Road favourite is still in the early part of his coaching career but an incredibly successful debut campaign in the dugout has followed. Pablo Hernández Domínguez (Castelló de la Plana, 11 d'abril de 1985) és un ex-jugador de futbol valencià que actualment és propietari del Club Esportiu Castelló.
May 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The evil river & its priory
The Strid Strid emergency throw line Bolton Priory Some trees
May 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Yorkshire stones have lost the juice
A review of a stone circle near Bradford, where the reviewer complains that there is no energy in the stones anymore
April 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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hard to believe this was once the world!
Scarborough rail lines
March 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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oh yeah - I'm a RETVRN guy but for the railroads around Bradford
the Queensbury lines around Bradford
March 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Branded vape @hkesvani.bsky.social @phoeberosaholly.bsky.social ?
Vape from Dalston in London branded 10k puffs
March 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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My office overlooks St. George’s church in Bloomsbury, where the Nicholas Hawksmoor spire is modeled on the Mausoleum
St. George’s church in Bloomsbury St. George’s church in Bloomsbury St. George’s church in Bloomsbury
March 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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American dipper I saw recently on the frying pan river #birds #bird 🦉🪶

“He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters…”

- John Muir, The Mountains of California
March 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I can see it
JB Prizker Mashed up with Henry VIII
March 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Duolingo Italian screenshot of the translation for “There are many beautiful shirts here.” A man with a shirt from "Dan Flashes", a store that sells expensive shirts with complicated patterns
March 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Recently saw this recreation of the she-wolf mosaic in Denver - this time sans Romulus and Remus. Perhaps this is a before / after?

📸🏛️ Denver, CO / Leeds, UK

#MosaicMonday
A she wolf mosaic in Denver, modeled off the mosaic found in Aldborough (UK), about 300-400 CE (now at the Leeds City Museum). The original mosaic, found in Aldborough (UK), about 300-400 CE (now at the Leeds City Museum).
March 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Some further context of the resolution between Riki Anne form In Your Face in 1996

www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5B...
MENACE AXES NBC PICKET FOR BRANDON TEENA "JOKE" New York City: Following a weck of intensive discussions with NBC officials, the NYC Menace decided to forgo a planned picketing. [forgo the picketing] of Saturday Night Live. The threatened action in followed a February segment of SNL's "Weekend Update" by staff regular Norm MacDonald in which he stated: "In Nebraska a man was sentenced [to die] for killing a female crossdresser who had accused him of rape and two of her friends. Excuse me, but in my mind they all deserved to die." Following expressions of outrage across the trans and queer communities, Menace spokestrans contacted NBC, vigorously expressing their shock and anger. They received immediate responses from the head of NBC's Standards & Practices, as well as Media Relations. Reviewing the show, NBC agreed the line was inappropriate and should not have aired, adding that similar incidents would not re-occur.
February 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Get on the bird feed, they love birds bsky.app/profile/dary...
A European robin in Walthamstow
February 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM