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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 3h
I met a traveller from Nazi site Who said: Two vast and golden legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, all far-right, Half-cut cult-members stand, whose zoned-, Out fanboy stance, and glaze of ketamine, Tell that its sculptors doen’t "get" irony
Elon fans has erected a gaudy gold-coloured statue of Musk in the Texas desert. In this photo they have lined up, all dressed as waiters for some reason, and posed in front of the naked legs of the erection.
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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 06/10/2026
Well worth reading, by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social: davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-anti-z...
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The anti-Zionism of fools
On the Corbynising of the Green party
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Knightshayes Court; Studio of Rembrandt, 'Self-Portrait' (prev 'Follower of R'). We proved through dendrochronology and paint analysis that the pic certainly came from R's workshop, but the great Rembrandt scholar Ernst van der Wetering was unpersuadable!
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That’s Life. Long life.
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Transmission Across Cultures: The Islamic influence on European Architecture
Writer and art historian Diana Darke brings to light the largely unacknowledged influence of Islamic architecture and craftsmen on the iconic buildings of Europe
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is amazing.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
…even their "expensive" option was cheaper than damn near anything the u.s. offers. Holy shit we are a healthcare garbage fire in so many ways
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Waitrose's FAUST would be more expensive.
Poster: MORRISON'S production of FAUST
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From yesterday: Frankenstein's monster's horoscope's illustration. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/the-monste...
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The Monster’s Horoscope
Frankenstein and the Stars
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That 1827 lunar eclipse over England was some kind of crazy.
A contemporary illustration of the "Eclipse of the Moon November 3rd 1827" shows, on the left, Britannia weeping, an ox wrapped around with a gigantic snake, figures (including a redcoat) in mourning beside a tombstone, skeletons dancing, horses yoked to a chariot rearing, lightning strikes ,a bay behnd in which giant exposions threaten British shipping, and a gold cross louring in the darkened sky overhead.
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swearclock ⌚︎ @swearclock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shag A Cabbage And Make It A Cauliflower It's 8:00AM
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Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Help me. Read my book. It's on Kindle/Amazon as an EPUB. It's a must read.
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Climate May Have Some Surprises in Store www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Opinion | Climate Catastrophe Is Still on the Table
Harrowing temperature increases remain unnervingly possible.
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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Orwell's sex life was also affected by his time in colonial brothels... After spending the night with him, one woman wrote that "he makes love Burma-Sergeant fashion, afterwards saying 'ah that’s better' before he turns over”. At least it would have been quick for the girls in Marrakechi brothels
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Gwendoline Hillman — Herbert James Gunn, 1925
Portrait of a skinny woman in a pink dress
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Go Ahead and Laugh at Mediums. They May Be On to Something. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...
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Opinion | Go Ahead and Laugh at Mediums. They May Be On to Something.
Research shows there could be benefits to sensing those we’ve lost.
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
You know how I keep saying that "AI" people since the 90s & 2000s all have the same metaphysical commitments & that the best way to understand them is through the lenses of comparative religious studies in new religious movements, mythmaking, & occult studies? I am not now & nor have I been kidding
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carljungfranz.bsky.social @carljungfranz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
* ........ In A Terrible Love of War, James Hillman, one of today's most respected psychologists, undertakes a groundbreaking examination of the essence of war, its psychological origins and inhuman behaviors. ........... *
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James Hillman - A Terrible Love of War
YouTube video by Intellectual Deep Web
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child. 1. Gangs of white blokes chanting racist slogans. Oh…..
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why do the RNLI have to explain themselves, and explain the valuable work they’re doing for all our benefits? I think the balaclava fash twats should have to do that first.
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Teeth uncovered in Indonesia that are up to 25,000 years old show signs of the person having sucked on whole betel nuts, probably to release pain-relieving compounds. The finding represents the oldest archaeological evidence of habitual drug use in humans” www.newscientist.com/article/2588...
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Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in teeth in Indonesia | New Scientist
Strange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound. This marks the earliest known example of probabl...
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
10-Minute Challenge: Angel Oak www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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10-Minute Challenge: Angel Oak
We’d like you to look at this tree for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I ask - in a world in which executives can replace the skill of workers, doesn't that mean that the executives get replaced by skilled workers? backofmind.substack.com/p/robot-clas...
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robot class traitors
the future and its ownership
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Esowteric @esowteric.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Be Your Real Self ~~~~~~~ “The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard observed that the most common form of despair is that of not being who we really are, adding that an even deeper form of despair stems from choosing to be someone other than oneself.” ~ Howard Sasportas, The Twelve Houses.
Image: Be Yourself / Swapsreddy / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. A single orange flower standing out in an area of tall, uniform, green grass.
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Genius of Yayoi Kusama in Three Works www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Genius of Yayoi Kusama in Three Works
Marking the artist’s death, and ahead of a retrospective at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, a critic chooses epic works that highlight Kusama’s creative range and impact.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/09/2026
I will always love Dolly Parton for this… “Of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No.”
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How Marlon James Confronted ‘the Story I Was Not Allowed to Live’ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...
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How Marlon James Confronted ‘the Story I Was Not Allowed to Live’
With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you haven’t heard, @trufelman.bsky.social and I started a new podcast about fashion and philosophy. Each month, we read canonical text — Voltaire, Rousseau, Hegel — and talk about how the author's ideas help us understand why we dress the way we do.
An illustration of Lord Chesterfield.
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wikipedia's Featured Picture of the Day today is this gorgeous geezer:
A photo of the aptly-named "rainbow lorikeet" (Trichoglossus moluccanus) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae.
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Milo Yiannopoulos, a Right-Wing Provocateur, Is Arrested by ICE (Gift Article)
Mr. Yiannopoulos, a prominent early supporter of President Trump, was detained at the New Orleans airport. The Trump administration publicized his arrest and shared a mug shot.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 28/08/2026
🌡️ Children bear the worst of extreme heat Under today's warming, children under 10 face nearly three times as many extra dangerously humid days a year as over 60s. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3232 #Science #ClimateChange #Children #Heat 🧪
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Age-specific exposure to human-induced increases in humid heat
Children are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts and will face intensifying effects of climate change during their lifetimes. Here, we show that children already face disproportionate ex...
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 29/08/2026
👶 A hospital programme cut newborn deaths Across 16 hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa, a new trial covering 134,630 women cut the odds of early newborn death by 22%. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41591-026-04599-w #Health #Science #Medicine #Africa 🧪
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A multi-faceted hospital-based intervention for intrapartum care in sub-Saharan Africa: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial - Nature Medicine
A stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial showed that implementation of a multi-faceted ALERT intervention that promoted essential practices of intrapartum childbirth reduced the odds of early perinata...
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Video: Inside a Secret School for Afghan Girls
Under Taliban rule, Afghan girls are officially barred from receiving an education beyond the sixth grade. Across the country, however, clandestine classrooms have emerged to defy the ban. Our Afghani...
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wow - just simply, wow “Scientists first recorded Earth's low-frequency "hum" in the 1960s, but its origin was a mystery. Now it is believed the noise is caused by ocean swells generated in the Southern Ocean, the sound of which echoes across the planet” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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The mysterious 'hum' of Earth and what scientists think is causing it
Earth is constantly humming with an ultra-low-frequency vibration that can be picked up right across the globe and has puzzled seismologists for decades. Growing evidence suggests it is the collective...
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Esowteric @esowteric.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Secrets ~~~~~ “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ~ Roald Dahl, The Minpins.
Image: Roald Dahl / Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Library of Congress / No known copyright restrictions. A black-and-white photo of Roald Dahl in a dark suit, white shirt, and patterned tie, looking into the camera.
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Roses are red Peonies are lace
A horse figurine with Ronaldo's face
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Tim Curry: A Life in Pictures
Curry thrived onstage and onscreen in meaty roles that brought him widespread recognition and generations of dedicated fans.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 27/08/2026
🧠 Lab grown brain tissue keeps track of time Harvard researchers found human brain organoids grown in a dish age in step with time in culture. Old cells mixed with young ones still "remembered" their age. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10877-x #neuroscience #brain #science 🧪
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Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years - Nature
Human brain organoids were developed for over five years in culture to demonstrate that brain cells can continue to mature and record the passage of time, following human-specific endogenous programs,...
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Pop Artist Known for Polka-Dot Paintings, Dies at 97
The Japanese artist’s polka-dot covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
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Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
The internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/m...
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‘Point Break’: The Totally Tubular Ride With High-Voltage Buddy Chemistry (Gift Article)
Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze were locked in as star-crossed rivals in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 adrenaline-fueled, utterly earnest surf action thriller.
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Ex-ape-? @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Silence, Wolves and the Wild East: Hiking in Portugal’s Côa Valley
A trek in a remote corner of the Iberian Peninsula brought a writer face-to-face with ancient oaks, rewilding efforts and prehistoric cave art.
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