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americans view 9/11 as a generation-defining national disaster; you have to understand that in many countries the generation-defining national disaster started as a line item in the State Department's budget

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Minimalistic fresco decorations in a #Roman villa beneath the Basilica of San Sebastiano, c. 235 AD. Join us on Exploring Art History: ideasroadshow.substack.com 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #medievalsky #archaeology

Detail of Minimalistic fresco decorations in a Roman villa beneath the Basilica of San Sebastiano, c. 235 AD.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera @seanelorivera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

San Diego is not expendable. Our lives are not bargaining chips. The President’s words were reckless, dangerous, and a betrayal of the people he swore to protect. I love this city, and I will never stay quiet when someone treats our families, neighbors, and communities like they are disposable.

Tonight, the President of the United States stood on a stage and told a cheering crowd, “Let them take out San Diego.” He went on to call the destruction of our city “a very small price to pay.”

San Diego is home to 1.4 million people. We are workers, families, children, veterans, immigrants, sailors, Marines, and people who love this city and call it home. We are not expendable. Los Angeles is not expendable. No American city is.

For a President to speak so casually about an attack on the people he is sworn to protect is reckless, dangerous, and treasonous. At a time when American servicemembers and their families are already bearing the consequences of his war with Iran, San Diegans deserve a President focused on keeping them safe, not talking about sacrificing them.

Every elected leader in San Diego, regardless of party, should condemn these comments without qualification. There should be nothing partisan about standing up for our city and the people who live here.

Our lives are not bargaining chips.

Donald, keep our name out of your mouth.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Long ago, a lord named William de Soules ruled #Liddesdale from #Hermitage Castle. It is said that he practised sorcery, stealing his tenant's children to use in sacrificial rituals. Finally, his aggrieved tenants wrapped him in lead & boiled him alive at nearby #Ninestane Rig. #SundayintheBorders

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

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Naomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Couples costume idea: A time traveler giving a dorito to a medieval peasant

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 03/10/2026

Custer’s first stand

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i can feel the spookiness in the air

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/09/2026

🌁 San Francisco gets tangled in murder, deception, and a missing statuette in this LibriVox recording of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 public domain classic, THE MALTESE FALCON. 🕵️‍♂️ Follow the trail to the full audiobook 👇 archive.org/details/libr... 🧵

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 25/09/2026

"Did you hear about the Western Massachussetts lesbian bar?" You bolt awake in the fens of Wessex. You are not online. It is 875 CE. You are the general Guthrum, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Wessex must burn.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Time Machine Drone (yes, of course I have one 🙄) was up over Maryport Roman fort today. #RomanFortThursday (on a Sunday, because, like, time travel)

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#AmphitheatreSaturday – The magnificent Pula Arena in Croatia, one of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres. Built of local limestone, it measures 132 × 105 m and could accommodate around 23,000 spectators. Its four distinctive external towers contained cisterns for rainwater.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hell creek painting comm

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

9,500 years old! And still intact! A Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry. Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000. 🧵/1/2 📷 me

Woven cylindrical basket displayed against a black background, with a wide rim and rounded base illuminated by a spotlight.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a wannabe associate member of the EU, it's time for Canada to join the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic and embrace circulation planning. Down with the yankee-dumb all-way stop, welcome to the Euro-smart priority street sign!

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oddly, they don’t include photos of the cat and dog. Here’s ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ (Zmaragdin, ‘Emerald’) the cat (who is appropriately on its own luxe pillow), and a leaping ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ (Okeanos, ‘Ocean’) the dog. 📸 Anatolian Archaeology

From a large floor mosaic which depicts a grid of panels, each with its own image against a black background, dividing by strands of guilloche. This one depicts a white cat on a pillow, its name in Greek above, translating to ‘Emerald’.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/09/2026

Archaeologists Discover More Old Shit That Sucks theonion.com/archaeologists-discove…

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.

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3D Stoa - Patrimonio y Tecnología @3dstoa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Recientemente hemos colaborado con un equipo multidisciplinar del @csic.es y el Museo Arqueológico Nacional en el hallazgo de la Copa de Berlanga.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today,

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

so 80% of the people who made the game I just bought and have been enjoying no longer have a job ?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026

How many students were kicked off their campuses for protesting this stuff? It's not just the psychotic openly genocidal propaganda, it's that the people in power in the US made it so that if you criticize this openly, your life could be destroyed.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From 2011 to 2020, over 33,890 U.S. workers suffered heat-related injuries or illnesses, and nearly 1,000 have died from extreme heat since 1992, though underreporting is common. 2/3

a photo of a worker laboring in the field on what looks like a very hot day with this text: FROM 2011 TO 2020, OVER 33,890 U.S. WORKERS SUFFERED HEAT-RELATED INJURIES OR ILLNESSES, AND NEARLY 1,000 HAVE DIED FROM EXTREME HEAT SINCE 1992, THOUGH UNDERREPORTING IS COMMON.

- YALE PROGRAM ON CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've been tasked to cover data center issues at work recently and I've learned some interesting things about data centers' environmental impacts that I thought I'd share Some really unexpected stuff beyond the energy/water stuff most people know about at this point

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“This is the tomb of the dog, Stephanos, who perished. Whom Rhodope shed tears for and buried like a human” 💔 Bringing back my 2023 Rhodope & Stephanos portrait for #internationaldogday 🐶🏺🌿

Art by flaroh illustration. A seated ancient greek woman holding her white lap dog.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ok Brazilians, I compiled all your lil guys gals and... things on fire... in one big collage! hopefully your fav is in here 🇧🇷 #cryptids #mythology

big collage of 18 brazilian cryptids, from top left:
- CURUPIRA - little boy with fire for hair, little bead necklace, skirt made from leaves, holding a little spear, but his feet point backwards from the way he is facing
- BOITATA - little green snake on fire sitting in their little egg after hatching
- MULA SEM CABECA - little horse without a head where instead there is an open flame, white and brown splotches, and a heart cutie mark
- CURACANGA - disembodied head on fire, looking at a melted icecream sadly
- JARAGUA - little orange horse skull shaped head, with a flowy blue dress with many pink flowers, a little multicolored bow
- BOTO-COR-DE-ROSA - pink shiny river dolphin splashing out of the water, wearing a tiny yellow straw hat
- CUCA - teeny green alligator in oversized red stilettos in a long wavy blonde wig feeling really fancy with spread arms
- IARA - little bucktoothed kid singing her little heart out on a toy microphone, with long blue hair and a yellow red fish tail
- MATINTA-PERERA - harpy looking kid with bird wings and bird feet, in a green linnen dress, with a baby pigeon sitting on her head
- CAIPORA and PORCO-DO-MATO - small dark skinned child with bright red hear wearing a whole leafy shrub as a dress, with their pal a little baby boar, looking at a green bug in suspicion
- CABOCLO-D'AGUA - little green fish boy with yellow fins and a fish tail, just floating about with blue bubbles around him
- SACI-PERERE - small boy with only one leg, a big red cap and red shorts, smoking a pipe making pink bubbles
- PE DE GARRAFA - kid with a shaved head and a cyclops single eye in blue shorts with one foot stuck in a glass bottle
- GARANTIDO and CAPRICHOSO - cow mystical creatures, one is cream with a red heart and a red bell the other is black with a blue star and a blue bell
- MAPINGUARI - sloth like creature but the torso is one huge eye and one huge mouth
- CABECA DE CUIA - grey skinned boy sitting in shallow water, with a huge shiny head

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Alberto B. Foglia @abfoglia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anglosphere bike helmet discourse is too much. It’s literally the least effective and most impractical safety intervention for the average* cyclist, but everyone becomes a safety scold about it. *as in going 10-15km/h on a safety bike, not 30+km/h on a sport/ebike. Injury risk increases w/ speed!

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Claims about human nature and political or social effects are going to almost inevitably false. For instance 'all war results from human fears of outgroups' is a badly formulated proposition. But it immediately falls over when you consider there are no monocausal explanations for war.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Photos via Instagram riverreachconstruction, which has turned into a cat account.

There are four men in the photo, one of which is wearing a safety vest. The man in a safety vest is holding a small kitten, who is wearing a tiny hard hat.

The kitten in a safety vest and tiny hard hat.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

People would likely be living in groups of about 100, extended families more or less. Each group might break up into nuclear families seasonally or join with a few neighboring groups nearby who are also kin. Security concerns are domestic. Violence is mostly domestic. Conflict resolution--domestic.

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Alberto B. Foglia @abfoglia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yeah, this has been my problem with this debacle as well - broad claims about human nature that are very in-line not only with fascist thought, but even the pre-modern lines of reasoning used to justify colonialism and conquest for literal millennia.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🏺Sorry but everybody knows that the #Uluburun is in fact the GOAT Wreck ⚓ 😉 ... but here'sa Q for ancient historians & archaeologists: what would be your dream "Holy Grail of shipwrecks" for the BCE era; a find that could answer a specific question, or reveal something theorised about the past?

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