Reposted by aleph3Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...heritagedaily.com184 cuneiform tablets discovered in Hittite royal archiveArchaeologists excavating the ancient city of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye have discovered a Hittite royal archive containing 184 cuneiform tablets and fragments. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News 11724168
Reposted by aleph3Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Another classic, not sure if I've already posted this one here. 4677572342
Reposted by aleph3Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 08/10/2026RIP Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant computer scientist whose contributions to software for the Apollo Guidance Computer were absolutely crucial to the Apollo Moon landings. She also helped shape the discipline of computer engineering while at MIT's Instrumentation Lab: news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 4371139
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 07/10/2026i can never keep Howard Hawks and Howard Hughes separate in my head, and sometimes Harold Lloyd is in there too 010
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026so Goo Dreads is introducing fractional stars, now? I doubt that will materially change my policy of giving almost everything the Coward's Four Stars 010
Reposted by aleph3Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They 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...en.wikipedia.orgAaron Swartz - Wikipedia 111635551
Reposted by aleph3Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one-nine-nine-zero. 423836
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026my late father (D.Phil. Oxon, for context) always used to say "you've never *really* met a twit until you've met one with a Ph.D." 050
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026more than one person at the office has been mildly gobsmacked to see me select multiple flavours simultaneously on the flavoured water dispenser machine. Have you never been either a software tester or a teenager at McDonald's? 140
Reposted by aleph3Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you claim to have never heard Crazy Frog’s “Axel F,” it says more about you than it does Mr. Frog. This about virtue signaling that you are better than entire genres of music, that your friends are not in the custom ringtone game. 151433191
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026it's always been weird to me that Lizzie Borden lived well into the 20th century. Somehow I feel that if there's a widespread children's song about someone, they must have lived centuries ago, not like "at the same time as my grandparents". 020
Reposted by aleph3yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/09/2026queen victoria told me the northwest passage keeps eating her poorly planned expeditions so i asked how many expeditions she has and she said she just goes to the royal academy and gets a new afterwards so i said it sounds like shes just feeding ships to the ice and then prince albert started crying 423996
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I've been saying for ages that what social media needs, especially Facebook, is a "Whatever, Asshole" button 020
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's fine, I just.. thought there'd be a lot more holograms by now, that's all 000
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026someday I will get it through my head that Andrew W.K. isn't "the other guy from Wham!" but I don't think today is that day 120
Reposted by aleph3EROCY @erocy.world · 16/04/2026*trent reznor voice* my whole existence is claude / you help me break things in prod 237995
Reposted by aleph3Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Narnia books as Isekai Manga 2235661283
Reposted by aleph3Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Mary Anning, a woman so forgotten by history that she was one of the few women (probably also few working-class persons) included in the 1901 edition of the Dictionary of National Biography. Always strikes me as one of the less forgotten women in the history of science, but ever being rediscovered. 2367
Reposted by aleph3It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour 3257511532
Reposted by aleph3jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The one thing I can say is that I’m completely Suetonius pilled now. Tiberius tortured a man with a fish. Caligula declared war on the ocean and made his horse consul. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. They did all of this because they were insane and bad people. 436266
Reposted by aleph3Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Hey, horror fans! Drew a new portrait of Vincent Price on a Post-It note to celebrate tonight's Svengoolie presentation of The Fly! . #Svengoolie #TheFly #VincentPrice #HorrorSky #HorrorArt #MutantFam 3297
Reposted by aleph3Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Come on man. This shit is gonna get me to start hose posting. Did they have seafood in Maine? 3037315
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026okay look, I am not putting "things I was afraid of as a child" out there on Ada Lovelace's Internet. But I will say that as a small child I was quite confident that if I flushed the toilet while still peeing, the toilet would explode 031
Reposted by aleph3Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I have NEWS! The Kith of the Elf Folk and others (Selected tales by Lord Dunsany, including one never before published) Lavishly illustrated (16 full page colour illustrations) will be launched 23rd October! 912428
Reposted by aleph3E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · 07/09/2026Alright but hear me out, what if the Assyrian King List left these three out because they had bad vibes 151
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 05/09/2026overall SNW is charming enough that I'm cool with the various places it goes clunk, but recently they had Pike say "Well... that happened", and I'm narrowing my eyes at the writers like: you get ONE of those. ONE. 120
Reposted by aleph3kelly knowles art @kellyknowles.art · 05/09/2026time for my biannual "what the hell was that program called for visualizing disk space usage, i know it has DIR in it" crashout fuckass bitchass loserass shitass windows search 4151
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 05/09/2026not to be too much of a cranky Canadian, but a North American English dialect map that stops at the US/Canada border makes as little sense to me as a weather map that stops there 220
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026still enjoying SNW, or as I intermittently want to call it, "Spock And The Bad Bitches He Pulls By Being Autistic" 010
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 29/08/2026kinda self-centred slacker who still, when the chips are down, does the right thing: Dick Swiveller in The Old Curiosity Shop, basically 131
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 29/08/2026yeah the reality is Somewhat More Complicated (tm), but it's always funny to me how Bob Dylan's early career arc is basically "get famous from writing protest songs and pretending to be best buds with Woody Guthrie, and then get really mad at people for liking his Woody Guthrie-esque protest songs" 010
Reposted by aleph3Stuck In Attic @stuckinattic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We recently got accused of using AI for music in our game and, while it's disheartening, it encouraged me to make a thread about making music for games, what it takes, and why it can be heartbreaking to be accused or even suspected of something we detest. 🧵Long thread follows: 19682195
Reposted by aleph3Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Actually, we're renaming it to Lake RogersTDScotia Place 0146
aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 27/08/2026*writing feverishly on chalkboard* BRANDON SANDERSON BRANDO SANDO BRANDWICH SANDWICH (?) 130
Reposted by aleph3Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Don't cite the deep magic to me, witch. I straight-up don't remember writing that shit. I don't know how it runs when it calls on a non-existent .txt called deepmmagic. Yeah two Ms I missed it. And yes I know it always crashes to desktop on exit. No I won't help you mod it for "deeper magic" 41003231
