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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 2h

from my pitch for a live action Bambi (& Thumper), not necessarily these two, it's just conceptual

Photo: a young deer is standing beneath a apple tree, the branches making a dark green umbrella, watching as on the edge of a hedge a white-tailed bunny hops away

medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 7h

Just got a V-safe text from the CDC (“Vaxxed?”) & since I had the mini-malaria chills this time tried to respond. Old password expired and CDC site reset button doesn’t work. Can’t create new account, error message. Tried ‘Help’ email form, got 2 Captchas, form stopped responding. #publichealth

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 7h

this will only cement the film’s popularity

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 10h

If you're doing unstable remnants of empire trying to bolster a humiliated military via spiritual warfare, it would be far more based and trad - not to mention economically efficient - to just stick a stylite on top of the Washington Monument

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 10h

it’s not too soon to call this work “definitive”

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 11h

I stopped using Booking.com about two years ago bc I’d specifically used their map to choose a place near a resort, months in advance, and when I put the name into Apple Maps on the day it was 20 miles away, next to an airport. Customer service acted like *I* was trying to scam them.

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Matt Levine on agentic AI killing customer lock-in: “They will tirelessly move money around to pay the last basis point to market makers.” I’m a frequent Levine reader but if you don’t mention that AI solutions come with a tireless error rate that can exceed basis points, it’s bad

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Medieval coroner, looking up from body: He’s been ælf-shot. Reeve: I don’t see… Coroner: The arrows are invisible.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gasoline will have a big impact on September CPI. EIA data show Sep YoY gasoline inflation is 36%. Diesel (not a line item in CPI) will be worse, at 68% YoY. (Diesel demand is half of gasoline by volume; shows up more on the PPI side, and/or embedded in inflation of other goods with lag in CPI)

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s a commonplace insight by now but it has been really instructive to see the CEO of six separate casino-hotel bankruptcies steering the wealthiest country in the world hard onto the Shoals of Stagflation Like, if you ever thought, “no, SIX times?” it’s all big as life on the national IMAX screen

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“[T]he diaries of a Jesuit colonist in Mexico record buffalo being kept in the nature gardens and zoo of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma. There was no North America without buffalo. There is no North America without buffalo.”

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it came to me in a dream* *another Bluesky post

Crude Photoshop where the little vampire girl silhouette from the “Let the Right One In” movie poster has been replaced by the Meta Muse mascot

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

feeling a little bearish wrt my personal consumer confidence index like six months of steadily worsening indicators, and almost certainly whatever belt-tightening you’ve been doing is not keeping up think we’ll see major shifts soon as people give up on temporary measures

Screenshot: on Jan 6,2026, GasBuddy was predicting yearly average gas prices to fall below $3/gal, “lowest since 2020”

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a perfectly normal job working on a frickin’ volcano. With…

Dr Evil making “lasers” scare quotes with his fingers

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy Invasion of 1066 for the Anglo-Normans who celebrate! *somberly* Wishing Anglo-Saxons a reflective day of contemplation.

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

such a beautifully modern illustration of the observation that romcom and horror exist on the same axis

Swan Boy (by Branson Reese) panel: Noel is airily declaring: “Eh, I'm sure we only hear about the bad ones. Stalking probably works fine most of the time.” This reasoning is supported by a screened-back view of the survivor-bias bomber meme tho bc this is Noel he’s getting the survivorship bit backwards.

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

terrific alpenglow on Always Snowy last evening

iPhone photo: looking across the dark blue waters of Port Susan to where Mt Baker looms large on the horizon, its snowy upper reaches reflecting the pinks of sunset

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*morning after waking up to see I'd sent horrible drunk texts to everyone I know* Wow, so it seems AI has gone rogue and is trying to destroy me

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this is absolutely a gag cutaway from an Arrested Development ep where a tech CEO has been convicted of “light” genocide

Screenshot: story header from The Guardian where Zuckerberg performs a sickly rictus of good humor while holding an AI whatsit aloft, behind him looms the cutesy mascot in red plaid that ordered the bodies burned

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No doubt this is the shrine of the “hair” of St Cuthbert #medievalism

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Taunting? Looks to me more like he’s taking the piss.

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Prophet margins must be thin. Thanks, be here all day.

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Seattle Opera had a program where high school students got free tickets AND they sent a rep to classrooms to explain the opera before the show AND in my English class we would read each libretto before going to the show as a group. That was meaningful as hell to 16-year-old me.

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A very early Voight-Kampff test from Peanuts

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

lived my own private Pluribus today in the grocery store when everyone* stopped their cart in the middle of the aisle, staring vacantly at their phones *2 people

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

every so often island code requires that I drop everything and go try to spot the Orcas

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ask Me About Spending 27 Hours in Heathrow … Twice

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my soup label said it only had 3 grams of fiber, which to me sounded like rookie numbers that needed to be pumped up, so I added some fiber powder and reinvented this stuff, except with corn in it

Mattel’s green-ooze Slime being poured out of its plastic garbage can container

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“As part of that process I had to work out how I wanted to treat the Trojan Horse,” Nolan told Thomas Duke in an interview on TikTok. “I was very influenced by seeing The Planet of the Apes when I was a kid. We had the Statue of Liberty half destroyed. That idea of a fallen monument.”

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If this isn’t now your favourite Roman carving, you’re wrong. It is. I will not be discussing this further. Found Vindolanda; on display Chesters.

A really cute little running wild boar, looks like it could be from Shaun the Sheep.

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well at least the democrats didn't spend ad money reinforcing this frame. They would have to be complete fools to have seen this behavior for years and do that.

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

one of my deepest preconscious ideological commitments is to the tatanka restoration currently have two buffalo neighbors down the road but when I was in SF I found out there was a whole paddock in Golden Gate Park and walked 20 miles (I got lost, repeatedly) to see them

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“self-centred men who are argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic are much more likely to own a high-status car such as an Audi, BMW or Mercedes”

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a slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 @drunk.moe · 19/09/2026

This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019)

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

in theory this bird center-frame, just behind a preening neighbor, is a rare-to-this-neck of the woods sharp-tailed sandpiper ought to be holidaying on the west coast of Alaska, maybe an El Niño tourist

Photo: a bunch (at least 14) of "regular" to the PNW sandpipers are perched on various driftwood logs and center frame, not wholly visible behind this jackass sandpiper who refused to move, is a slightly more chestnut version with a darker back and a dark chestnut cap

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Merleau-Ponty stays winning, would like to see more embodied phenomenology in the WSJ

WSJ excerpt:

In 1945, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty suggested that we have an identity of our own from birth, but it becomes gradually more distinctive and, as he put it, "embedded" as we accumulate memories and experiences.
Identity isn't just in one's politics or favorite foods; it accrues in little things, glances and gestures and bits of wordless self-expression. There can be no self, then, without the body. And as long as the body remains, there is at least some indication of a self. That
alone is enough to allow us to look at a parent and still see something of the person we once knew.

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

gosh I knew about the saltwater intrusion to the limestone that passes for “bedrock” in Florida but I had not connected the dots on foundation rebar/steel being bathed constantly in brackish groundwater

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the classic “cutting off my leg saved me 50% on shoes”

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

person just awakening from 15-year coma: what the hell? Facebook is trying to monetize things that used to be free!

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

well there went $90 on medieval tree books reliving horrible experience having to rewrite my dissertation’s Rood chapter like 3 years in bc Bintley et al decided to stick their noses into arboreal matters really interesting reading for tree people tho

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

engaged in a battle of wills with Google Gemini bc I asked it to play “Wicked Game” on Apple Music and it’s defaulting to the 2013 Luca Citoli house remix?

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

watching Brokenwood Mysteries on PBS, appears to be licensed from AcornTV BUT THE WEIRD THING IS every time there’s a visible murder weapon stuck in a body a censorious someone has very clumsily blurred it out this ep it’s a specific dagger, the type much discussed, but you can’t see it

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

oh, fraggle rock the publisher’s copy editors removed the caesura space between the Old English a/b verses in this chapter which means they did that throughout the volume?

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