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Niels Grotum

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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 7h
This. 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.
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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 11h
It'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.
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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 15h
After 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:
A dialogue about a boy beating his younger sister because she's singing too loudly and laughing about it afterwards.
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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 17h
once I got so mad at a guy I almost did something about it, but then I didn’t
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 20h
Several 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...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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The 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
Public Enemy's Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black album cover.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This 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 🧪
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Eric Freeman @freemaneric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I probably won’t see Digger but it would’ve been an A+ Letterman topic. “Hey Paul, uh, you seen Digger?” etc.
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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🐻⬇️🥲
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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In conclusion, J.J. McCarthy is a land of contrasts
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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now 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.
A plasticine model of Frank Muir.
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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh shit, Dad's here. Bag full of orange slices for the kids at half time, smart.
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CAA Denmark @caadk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Call for abstracts for the annual CAA Denmark seminar. This year the topic is Models in Archaeology.
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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The 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...
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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Re-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.
“After recognising Dad’s problem with accepting failure, I start telling my children every time I don’t get a job. So that at moments when they’re not feeling particularly successful, they might take some comfort in knowing we’re all in the same boat. Everybody in the world is in the same boat. Even ‘apparently successful’ people.” 

Ade Edmondson (Berserker)
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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s hard to convey how gross and grimy the aughts were, but ‘Primetime’ does an impeccable job. vincemancini.substack.com/p/primetime-...
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‘Primetime’ is a Perfectly Grimy Film About the Moral Rot of the Aughts
This is the film Lance Oppenheim was born to make. New York Grime, meet Florida Sleaze, in the God-forsaken Bush years.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dear me, you've had some cowboys in here.
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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.
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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 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.
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Brian 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.”
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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What?! Oh don't worry about "reputational risk"... you can go straight to "reputational damage."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
NSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular Muppets
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NSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular Muppets
PORTLAND, 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...
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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Started a classic Ninja Turtles watch with my three-year-old, learning how I grew up woke.
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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ba Ga', that's Tommy Cutlets' music
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Martin, 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
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie 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_CtU8XQ
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Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
being 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
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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I got excited and forgot the alt text. Look at it!
A legend from the 1779 map of Hvedstrup. The title text is framed by cornucopia. At the top these hold grain. On the sides flowers and apples and pears.  All around agricultural implements: scythes, rakes, shovels, troughs. Below on a wee pediment thing is the map signature.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'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.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Oddly” = they didn’t bother to get image permissions. But I did. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Stunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dog
A cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
i hate it @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social, please kill this
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026
I'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
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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Losing 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
Maned wolfBush dog
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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Niklas Jordan @niklasjordan.com · 18/09/2026
Sideprojekt: 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 🧵
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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I fear we need to have a chat about setting achievable goals. (But also: Jesus Murphy.)
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Babies.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of the rare cases where “you couldn’t make it these days” is true. You would be sued into the grave.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 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...
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A 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
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gwen 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...
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NFL fines Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair for displaying name of Palestinian girl on eye black
The league issued Al-Shaair a similar fine in January for a message in his eye black that read “stop the genocide.”
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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
JOB NEWS: I will no longer be part of Ed Sheeran's tour as an opening act. Excited to pursue new opportunities in cyber!
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you like puzzles and hate money, philology might be right for you, I soberly counsel my young students
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Niels Grotum @ngrotum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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The "Is this a pigeon?" guy looking at the JAV title "I Was Eaten By 6 Unusually Hot Sluts" and asking, is this Orphism?
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
bury me in khakis and a lanyard so hell knows an expert is coming
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 14/09/2026
Unambiguously 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
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.
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Scott Spratt @scottspratt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Caleb Williams is the most fun quarterback to watch from the backfield camera angle
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