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Clear thinking, empathy, & right action maketh the man. That's the goal.
Allowing Ukraine the rights of any independent, sovereign state is not a “concession”. It is an obligation. - P. O'Brien
I often use memes. If you don't like it, tough.
Allowing Ukraine the rights of any independent, sovereign state is not a “concession”. It is an obligation. - P. O'Brien
I often use memes. If you don't like it, tough.
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We're looking at you, Magas, conspiracy nutters, & vatniks:
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction & the distinction between true & false no longer exist".
- H. Arendt
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction & the distinction between true & false no longer exist".
- H. Arendt
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A few years ago, Bill Nye the science guy debated creationist Ken Ham about evolution. The last question was "what would change your mind?"
Bill Nye said "Evidence."
Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this."
I think about that a lot.
Bill Nye said "Evidence."
Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this."
I think about that a lot.
December 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A few years ago, Bill Nye the science guy debated creationist Ken Ham about evolution. The last question was "what would change your mind?"
Bill Nye said "Evidence."
Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this."
I think about that a lot.
Bill Nye said "Evidence."
Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this."
I think about that a lot.
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A new discovery has revealed gold-decorated iron lances that were sacrificed at a sacred spring in modern-day Boeslunde approximately 2800 years ago.
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.
vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.
vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A new discovery has revealed gold-decorated iron lances that were sacrificed at a sacred spring in modern-day Boeslunde approximately 2800 years ago.
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.
vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.
vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...
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Wow.... Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize
Duelling prairie chickens, a snake-mimicking moth and a once-a-year sunrise at the South Pole feature in the best images from the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2025
www.newscientist.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Wow.... Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
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(850) We Were WRONG About Ancient Cats – New DNA Study Changes Everything! #OldeNews - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9byO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9byO...
We Were WRONG About Ancient Cats – New DNA Study Changes Everything! #OldeNews
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
(850) We Were WRONG About Ancient Cats – New DNA Study Changes Everything! #OldeNews - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9byO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9byO...
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From the latest China Decode. Full episode on the Prof G Pod feed or YouTube channel: link.chtbl.com/ProfGPod?sid...
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
From the latest China Decode. Full episode on the Prof G Pod feed or YouTube channel: link.chtbl.com/ProfGPod?sid...
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The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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A couple of weeks ago I visited this amazing ancient tomb in Gouézec, Brittany. Measuring 16m long, it is often referred to as Gwele-ar-Ronfl, 'the Ogre's Bed' (small dog for scale). #TombTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A couple of weeks ago I visited this amazing ancient tomb in Gouézec, Brittany. Measuring 16m long, it is often referred to as Gwele-ar-Ronfl, 'the Ogre's Bed' (small dog for scale). #TombTuesday
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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For those who haven't come across the Terrible Worlds series - these are standalone novellas, entirely separate to one another in setting and plot, but loosely grouped in conceptual trios...
Next year, a new TERRIBLE WORLDS novella is coming your way from @aptshadow.bsky.social !
Preorder PREACHING TO THE CHOIR now: https://geni.us/preachtc
And dive into the rest of the thematically linked series whilst you wait. Each novella is a standalone but 1-6 are available in bind ups too!
Preorder PREACHING TO THE CHOIR now: https://geni.us/preachtc
And dive into the rest of the thematically linked series whilst you wait. Each novella is a standalone but 1-6 are available in bind ups too!
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For those who haven't come across the Terrible Worlds series - these are standalone novellas, entirely separate to one another in setting and plot, but loosely grouped in conceptual trios...
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You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.
September 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.
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Although most US cities have failed at attracting families with kids in downtowns and other urban places (largely through the creation of a self-fulfilling prophesy of failure), other places, including Vancouver, have succeeded. Read my @vox.com interview with @volts.wtf. www.vox.com/2017/6/21/15...
Young families typically leave cities for the suburbs. Here’s how to keep them downtown.
Urbanist Brent Toderian explains how Vancouver held onto its families.
www.vox.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Although most US cities have failed at attracting families with kids in downtowns and other urban places (largely through the creation of a self-fulfilling prophesy of failure), other places, including Vancouver, have succeeded. Read my @vox.com interview with @volts.wtf. www.vox.com/2017/6/21/15...
Evergreen cartoon
For decades, sustainable & responsible cities haven’t just been possible — they’ve been common sense, logical, ridiculously obvious! And yet we’ve failed to act. A better future through better cities is STILL possible with real leadership at every level. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Evergreen cartoon
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Artist Josh Kirby (1928-2001) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, 1964; R, 1963
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
L, 1964; R, 1963
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Artist Josh Kirby (1928-2001) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, 1964; R, 1963
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
L, 1964; R, 1963
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
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Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
![My photo shows a thin, rectangular, dark brown leaf of wood, which is broken in places. Across the surface are six lines of cursive Latin handwriting. The text is written in black ink which appears faded and faint. The Latin reads:
nenụ ...[.]n. Brittoneṣ
nimium multi ‣ equites
gladis ‣ non ụtụṇtur equi-
tes ‣ nec residunt
Brittunculi ‣ ụt ‣ iaculos
mittant
Translated as:
… the Britons are unprotected by armour (?). There are very many cavalry. The cavalry do not use swords nor do the wretched Britons mount in order to throw javelins.
On display at the British Museum.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreiepntyce43pmmptw3xewwjw46tha2u4sqm7mptegttx5u2mqj527a@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
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With The Beatles Anthology now streaming, it seems a good time to revisit the band's Hamburg years that set them on the path to stardom.
Here are Paul and George talking about how The Beatles's gruelling musical apprenticeship in Germany shaped them.
Here are Paul and George talking about how The Beatles's gruelling musical apprenticeship in Germany shaped them.
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
With The Beatles Anthology now streaming, it seems a good time to revisit the band's Hamburg years that set them on the path to stardom.
Here are Paul and George talking about how The Beatles's gruelling musical apprenticeship in Germany shaped them.
Here are Paul and George talking about how The Beatles's gruelling musical apprenticeship in Germany shaped them.
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Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
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This is a point that needs repeating. It’s fiscally conservative to house the homeless, it’s also the right thing to do.
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is a point that needs repeating. It’s fiscally conservative to house the homeless, it’s also the right thing to do.
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an art nouveau masterpiece built in 1904 by architect alfredo campanini, italy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
an art nouveau masterpiece built in 1904 by architect alfredo campanini, italy.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up.
Irreversible damage was done to the pharaoh’s body.
www.livescience.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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need-a-penny, take-a-penny
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
need-a-penny, take-a-penny
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Recent research showed that a huge proportion (87%) of Brits rely on hanging wet clothes inside their homes – and they’re unknowingly causing serious issues.
A study by the University of Manchester found that drying a wet load of washing indoors can release two litres of water into your home.
A study by the University of Manchester found that drying a wet load of washing indoors can release two litres of water into your home.
The mould truth: Expert warns Brits of one common habit that brings damp into their homes
As winter returns, and households dry laundry indoors, new research suggests this is contributing to dangerous mould problems in the home
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Recent research showed that a huge proportion (87%) of Brits rely on hanging wet clothes inside their homes – and they’re unknowingly causing serious issues.
A study by the University of Manchester found that drying a wet load of washing indoors can release two litres of water into your home.
A study by the University of Manchester found that drying a wet load of washing indoors can release two litres of water into your home.
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An interesting inscription reveals new information about a previously unknown Roman governor at Carthago Nova (Cartagena), Spain.
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...
A Roman Inscription Found in Cartagena Reveals the Name of an Unknown Governor and the Use of a Urn for Casting of Lots in Antiquity
A team of Spanish researchers has presented the discovery of an extraordinary object from the Roman period that sheds light on the history of ancient Cartagena (southeastern Spain). It is a metal cont...
www.labrujulaverde.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
An interesting inscription reveals new information about a previously unknown Roman governor at Carthago Nova (Cartagena), Spain.
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...