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@sciurusdrey.bsky.social TIL there's a Wizards union for MTG creatives.

Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My expert opinion on Second Temple Judaism, now that I've read roughly half of one book about it: golly those Hasmonaeans sure were a mixed bag, weren't they.

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Nick @kukkurovaca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do any folks have any examples of sensible academic institutional policies regarding the use of AI (in all contexts, by students, faculty, staff, management)? Either actual policies adopted by schools or proposed policies/guidelines. (And no, "fuck AI" is not actually a policy, although I agree.)

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

History Folks, do any of you know good GIS resources for the Ancient Mediterranean? The Pleiades project is very good for certain things (individual sites, artifacts) but very limited for others (kingdoms, provinces, etc.).

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: The band U2 celebrates its 50th anniversary by announcing that, after years of hard work, Bono has finally been able to remove his leather pants.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just heard a news spot about the state of AI music generation. My thoughts: Tired: AI composing music Wired: humans composing music Inspired: humans not-composing music #FreeJazz www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WEL...

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Masahiko Togashi Quartet - Speed and Space (Full Album)

YouTube video by Poo Lives

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Astronomy Cast @astronomycast.com · 25/09/2026

During the night, our Patreon crossed 1100 paid members! On Sept 1, we removed all ads, and all our content has always been released under a creative commons license. To make our ad free reality work, we need to get to 1500 patrons. Like our content? It's time to join! patreon.astronomycast.com

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll use the current Shakespeare discourse to remind people: Modern English: looks like Shakespeare and everything after Middle English: looks like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Old English: looks like Beowulf Check out those two works, and prepare for a blown mind.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Low-key surprised Amazon isn't rebranding today as Buy Visibility Day

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@jake.sooscreek.productions Workplace anecdote: Tableau briefly occupied the Kirkland office where Bungie used to be, and a coworker of mine got assigned to the same cubicle he had occupied during his time years before at Bungie.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The 20-second pipeline of react videos from "This is my first time hearing Gorillaz" to "Ohhh, THIS song."

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shout-out to diesel fuel, you now cost over $7.20/gal in my area.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Underexplored image genre: Google Streetview vehicles being pursued by animals.

A screen shot from Google Streetview showing a road in farm country, with two large docs following after the camera (vehicle). It is a browser window with a search bar in the upper left, and shows the address of the location.

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Bettina Joy de Guzman @ancientlyric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have the entire first Book 1 of Iliad sung in dactylic hexameter with my lyre on YouTube (just Google Bettina Joy de Guzman Iliad book 1). And also I have an album on Spotify “Odyssey and Iliad: Volume 1” . youtu.be/Ks1cnEi2tU4?... open.spotify.com/album/2FYETW...

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Iliad 1.1-43. μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Homer Ancient Greek, lyre. Iliad A Day 1 of 365! Bettina Joy de Guzman

YouTube video by Bettina Joy de Guzman

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

<GIS word-salad> Esri, re-license mosaic dataset tools for non-commercial users, you clods! I need those. </GIS word-salad>

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Lindsey Odom @sciurusdrey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do I have any MTG and/or Spoonie friends local to the Nashville area?

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@rickbrannan.com To close the loop on a prior discussion, I got my hands on a copy of The History of the Second Temple Period by Sacchi. It feels dated but is giving me a solid initial picture of the topics and issues running up to the time of Christ.

An image of the book cover of The History of the Second Temple Period by Paolo Sacchi. It is pink with white letters, and as an "AP" symbol.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@rickbrannan.com I live in the Tech world and have certain impressions of LLMs and GenAI. What is your perspective from the Humanities space? What's the state of the world over there and how folks like you are using these tools?

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@miraphorism.bsky.social It's official, you can describe something in legal documents as "weak sauce"

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@miraphorism.bsky.social This sounds like it will have some uhhhhhhhhh implications.

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love that this includes 'What is Benchmarking and Why Should You Care?' RISE-UNIBAS/humanities_data_benchmark: LLM Benchmark Suite for Humanities Data github.com/RISE-UNIBAS/... #AI4LAM

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GitHub - RISE-UNIBAS/humanities_data_benchmark: LLM Benchmark Suite for Humanities Data

LLM Benchmark Suite for Humanities Data. Contribute to RISE-UNIBAS/humanities_data_benchmark development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Don't spend $1000+ for a foldable iPhone, you can get a cheap second-hand vise and fold your current iPhone for much less.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

TFW back to back 30 minute meetings run 45 minutes each, and make my calendar and productivity a complete train-wreck.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For anyone obliged to use AI, check out CMUX, it's a power-user terminal focused on AI workflows. If you've ever put off rebooting your computer because you didn't want to lose your context (or two, or twelve), this is probably worth looking at.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Shout-out to the Cybertruck driver I saw recently, cruising down I-5, leaning back with BOTH FEET UP, OUT THE OPEN WINDOW.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Quick reminder that a language is defined by what its speakers do with it. If English speakers normalize "y'all" as the 2nd person plural pronoun, or change "ask" to "aks", or anything else, that's not wrong, it just is.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@rainofterra.gay Dearest Terra, can you characterize how you use LLMs in your ops work? I'm curious how these things are in your corner of tech.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Another day of back and forth with Claude.

A screen shot from a Simpsons episode showing the office assistant Smithers sitting at a desk in front of a tape player and a case of tapes labeled "Sycophantic German". The caption is white letters saying "Good question, sir! Great Instincts!"

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Back in the 90's, the local hard rock station KISW had a day each year where people could request literally any song (I forget if it was a fund-raiser or what). And every time, some guy would request Dolly Parton's 1978 disco album.

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Sporks Pantalones @sporks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this was the first version of "Jolene" I ever heard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHj7...

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Paula Cole - Jolene (live)

YouTube video by dtune

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Greek learning status: having to say "What the hell is going in with the word 'trireme'?"

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's been sinking in bit by bit over the last 30+years that all the depictions of helicopter pilots as half-mad weirdos comes from pilots in 'Nam experiencing physical, emotional, and moral brutality.

A photograph of Dwight Schultz as Howling-Mad Murdock, the pilot from the A-Team series. He is wearing anachronistic leather aviator's headgear, a grey leather jacket, and a white scarf. He's looking off past the camera.

A screen grab from the movie Clear & Present Danger showing Harrison Ford's character talking to the helicopter pilot, played by Tom Bower. Bower is sitting in a helicopter cockpit wearing a beige jacket and cap, and looking at his wristwatch.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A few road trip photographs from the area of Bay Center and South Bend, WA.

A photograph of a long one-story building, white with a rusty-red roof. It is somewhat dilapidated and wavy from settling, due age and being on pilings over the river. There is a two-lane road in front of it, and the sky is blue with many puffy white clouds.

A photograph of a Chinese restaurant named Chen's Restaurant. The sign is white with red and black lettering, and a telephone number is faded and almost illegible. The right end of the sign says "LOUNGE" and has kitschy symbols on it. The building is blue/grey with red trim. A neon OPEN sign hangs in the window. There is a white SUV parked in front. It is sunny, and the sky is high light overcast.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Visited Billy Frank Jr. nature area today.

A photograph of a pond with a uniform layer of green plant life on the surface. Two ducks (mallards?) swim across the frame, leaving trails on the surface. The ducks are brown with bits of white and color, the pond is a light pea green.

A photograph of a paper bowl serving as a swallow's nest. Two hatchlings reach up out of the bowl with their mouths open toward an adult swallow, captured in mid-flight just above them. The bowl is white, and perched on brown wood. The hatchlings are dark gray/brown with prominent yellow beaks, the adult is dark blue/grey with a cream colored underside.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When did screwing stuff onto other stuff become A Thing? If you had a nut/bolt, or a screw-top container, when in history would someone say "YOU'RE A WIZARD!", when would they say "That's awesome!", and when would they say "So what?"

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

TIL that Duane Allman played guitar on Herbie Mann's album, Push Push.

A photo of an album cover. Blocky orange letters read "HERBIE MANN PUSH PUSH", and a (presumably) naked Herbie Mann is shown from the belly button up. He has a normal build, and his skin is a bit glossy. He is holding a long flute in one hand, laid over his shoulder. The background is effectively solid black.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nolan's Odyssey movie? More like Whine-Dark See, AMIRITE

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@rickbrannan.com Are there any histories of Second Temple Judaism that is considered best of its kind? I see a gigantic multi-volume one by Grabbe but for my needs (context on earliest Christianity), it feels WAY overkill.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@jessecox.bsky.social Dearest Jesse, I'm midway catching up on Chilluminati but if you still do History's Mysteries type spots, here's a topic: the Tocharian people. The short and sensationalist version of the story is "Celts in China." FWIW!

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Doug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

With the solar eclipse coming up on Wednesday evening it’s good to draw people’s attention to this useful and timeless* explainer of different astronomical phenomena. * since 2014 in its original Twitter form

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@jake.sooscreek.productions And now, a brief message from the stellars jay in our backyard: "HEY! HEY ASSHOLE! ASSSSSHOOOOOOOLE! HEY! YES, YOU, ASSHOLE!"

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Since it's been on my mind lately, and it's broadly applicable (religion, language, woodworking, etc.), here's a quote from Roy Underhill: "When people ask 'How did they do it back then?', you have to remember that there was a lot of 'they' and a lot of 'back then.' "

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Puget Sound farmland, in the Skagit City area.

A black and white infrared photograph of farmland. There is a tilled dirt strip in the foreground in front of a large field of low-lying plants (not sure what crop). Beyond this are several farm buildings and a stand of tall leafy trees. There is a wood telephone pole near the left edge of the frame. The scene is bright but the sky is filled with puffy clouds on the horizon. It has a very slight sepia tone cast.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Every time one of these "What X was popular the year you were born? Mine were etc. etc. etc.", a small part of my brain thinks "Ooh, that's fun, I wonder what mine are." and then the opsec lobe of my brain screams "DON'T DOX YOURSELF, YOU TWIT" In short:

A screen cap from an episode of the cartoon King Of The Hill, showing a man in a green hat, suspenders and a white shirt, holding a concertina, and saying "Life is a series of compromises." He is in a dark office or den, with a bookcase in the background.

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