Reposted by Niels GrotumDr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 7hThis. And while we're on the subject I'll repeat my plea to permanent academics that they update their own pages. Writing job apps that fit a department profile is so much easier if you know what other people are *currently* working on. 043
Reposted by Niels GrotumColin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 11hIt's really depressing how terrible Deshaun Watson had to get for Browns fans to boo him and how not-particularly-good he has to be in order to elicit cheers. 47611
Reposted by Niels GrotumMatthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 15hAfter making it past the opening crawl of the first two chapters of Lingua Latina per se illustrata, we're ready to start learning about Roman culture... LLPSI: Here's some Roman culture: 6161
Reposted by Niels GrotumAndrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 17honce I got so mad at a guy I almost did something about it, but then I didn’t 2275
Reposted by Niels GrotumBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 20hSeveral weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp... 4446712060
Reposted by Niels GrotumThe Quietus @thequietus.com · 01/10/2026'Apocalypse was the record the group had been building up to. But its messages were their most controversial and the presentation of them the most risky the band had yet attempted...' Many Happy Returns to #PublicEnemy's Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black, which turns 35 today! buff.ly/UYNVV0x 13910
Reposted by Niels GrotumMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪 14406171
Reposted by Niels GrotumEric Freeman @freemaneric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I probably won’t see Digger but it would’ve been an A+ Letterman topic. “Hey Paul, uh, you seen Digger?” etc. 1859075
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In conclusion, J.J. McCarthy is a land of contrasts 000
Reposted by Niels GrotumAlex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006. 1439852
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh shit, Dad's here. Bag full of orange slices for the kids at half time, smart. 010
Reposted by Niels GrotumCAA Denmark @caadk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Call for abstracts for the annual CAA Denmark seminar. This year the topic is Models in Archaeology. 053
Reposted by Niels GrotumVince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The guy who dined and dash, ran into the street, and then got hit by a car, whose driver then pulled a hit-and-run, is my new favorite local story of maybe ever. www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/crime/f... 2119821
Reposted by Niels GrotumGirl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Re-listening to Ade Edmondson's autobiography on audiobook, and I love this so much I bothered to type it out so you could all enjoy it too. 2518
Reposted by Niels GrotumVince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It’s hard to convey how gross and grimy the aughts were, but ‘Primetime’ does an impeccable job. vincemancini.substack.com/p/primetime-...vincemancini.substack.com‘Primetime’ is a Perfectly Grimy Film About the Moral Rot of the AughtsThis is the film Lance Oppenheim was born to make. New York Grime, meet Florida Sleaze, in the God-forsaken Bush years. 811414
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill fuck. 020
Reposted by Niels GrotumProfessor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The joke about someone who has only seen one TV show getting that show's vibes from any other show they watch has wider applicability. To wit, if students study the Mongols (or gunpowder empires or whatever) without understanding it in context, they will be apt to compare everyone to the Mongols. 161
Reposted by Niels GrotumBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.” 11310128
Reposted by Niels GrotumIsabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What?! Oh don't worry about "reputational risk"... you can go straight to "reputational damage." 083
Reposted by Niels GrotumThe Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026NSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular Muppets theonion.comNSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular MuppetsPORTLAND, OR—Admitting that he was completely at a loss over what he could possibly add, NSFW artist Caleb Driscoll told reporters Monday that he was struggling to improve upon the raw sexuality of th... 272116392
Reposted by Niels Grotumrivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Started a classic Ninja Turtles watch with my three-year-old, learning how I grew up woke. 1313
Reposted by Niels GrotumDraculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Martin, an Orc: Well boys, looks like meat's back on the menu Niles, an Elf: Ooh, has the Altura resumed their delightful venison carpaccio? Frasier, also an Elf: He's talking about eating Hobbits, Niles N: Hobbits? Oh dad, you know they play merry hell with your digestion 120058
Reposted by Niels Grotumthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQyoutu.bePressure DropYouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic 211059362
Reposted by Niels GrotumRyan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026being online is often to be part of an open world RPG where everyone has forgotten what the current mission is or if there even is one 619320
Reposted by Niels GrotumDavid Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I got excited and forgot the alt text. Look at it! 063
Reposted by Niels Grotumweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106792531
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I've had the esprit d'escalier blues all day, regretting that I didn't say what I ought to have said in a meeting yesterday. But at least I'm not this poor sucker. 010
Reposted by Niels GrotumKristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Oddly” = they didn’t bother to get image permissions. But I did. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...livescience.comStunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dogA cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago. 1113
Reposted by Niels GrotumDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026i hate it @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social, please kill this 2548779
Reposted by Niels GrotumMicah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026I've had my share of sports hate for lebron over the years as a celtics fan but I have always admired the fact that he was hyped as a future inner circle hall of famer from the time he was 15 and somehow surpassed those expectations while remaining a normal, grounded dude this shit sucks 83954
Reposted by Niels Grotumc3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin 14278432095
Reposted by Niels GrotumTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Narnia books as Isekai Manga 2235601281
Reposted by Niels GrotumNiklas Jordan @niklasjordan.com · 18/09/2026Sideprojekt: Jeg elsker vejrkort som Windy, Ventusky og zoom.earth – men ingen af dem bruger DMI's modeldata. Så jeg byggede Vindy.dk 🇩🇰🌦️ Kun prognoser fra DMI's officielle model i 2 km opløsning, 60 timer frem. vindy.dk 🧵 53010
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I fear we need to have a chat about setting achievable goals. (But also: Jesus Murphy.) 0172
Reposted by Niels Grotumpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One of the rare cases where “you couldn’t make it these days” is true. You would be sued into the grave. 1246042
Reposted by Niels GrotumErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...himalmag.comMary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritageA US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States 6211114
Reposted by Niels Grotumgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“When I’m walking off this field, that’s the type of stuff that I’m thinking about that I have to check myself when I’m sitting here crying about football when there’s people dying every single day.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/760...nytimes.comNFL fines Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair for displaying name of Palestinian girl on eye blackThe league issued Al-Shaair a similar fine in January for a message in his eye black that read “stop the genocide.” 2427
Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026JOB NEWS: I will no longer be part of Ed Sheeran's tour as an opening act. Excited to pursue new opportunities in cyber! 020
Reposted by Niels GrotumMaggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you like puzzles and hate money, philology might be right for you, I soberly counsel my young students 2449
Reposted by Niels GrotumIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses 227131713351
Reposted by Niels Grotuma team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026bury me in khakis and a lanyard so hell knows an expert is coming 91556213
Reposted by Niels GrotumAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 14/09/2026Unambiguously the right thing to do, obvious at the time, and that is true even if you thought whatever the bushies were planning next was correct 110016
Reposted by Niels GrotumScorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history. 6135941126
Reposted by Niels GrotumScott Spratt @scottspratt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Caleb Williams is the most fun quarterback to watch from the backfield camera angle 27114