Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 20hI am always shocked by early European/Mediterranean art that depicts animals from much farther east or south. Peacocks in mythology and frescos, for instance, which are native to India and Sri Lanka! 010
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 23hit's actually kind of remarkable to me that there are living human beings that admire augustus as a role model as interesting history? sure. a role model? fuck me your brain is broken 100
Reposted by PelasgusWayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well. Nice to see my work provoking interesting thoughts on modern war.see.my 0203
Reposted by PelasgusNoah Weinberger @noahweinberger2003.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is not true. The universe began in New Jersey on Dec 31, 1969 11:59:59pm UTC-5. Everything revolves around Bell Labs. Life before then is a simulacrum 2296
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Honestly, just being honest, gotta be honest here. Touching an 1800 year old object as an American is fucking mind blowing 🤯 Elagabalus IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG LIBERTAS AVG 000
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Every time I have a glass of burgundy I think "damn, these fuckers burned Joan of Arc" 😢 011
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's always code freeze never code thaw when am i supposed to merge 😭 000
Reposted by PelasgusAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1 30497072341
Reposted by PelasgusSue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sound down! I had Merlin app listen to this blue jay as I hadn't heard this vocalization. Merlin said 'Wild Turkey'. Blue jays have advanced vocal learning capabilities & large repertoires, they can produce surprising vocalizations including domestic/wild turkey gobbles & clucks. #birds 11755100
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mr. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social, Kaldellis was on Lex recently and stated iirc with few exceptions the Roman Empire never really used its military forces for social suppression as a military dictatorship would. Is this a standard academic take? It seems as I read Kulikowski it wasn't uncommon. 100
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Accessibility first design sounds great but there's no one design that perfectly accommodates all contexts or situations even for a given piece of software or hardware. I think starting from accessibility assumes software is easy, but making accessible software is a lot. 100
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Every classic warfare trick that they call clever is actually just perfidy. I have a new Theory of Ancient Perfidy: did an ancient author call it clever? It's perfidy. Trojan horse? Perfidy. Red cliffs? Perfidy Hastein's coffin? Perfidy. The Cimbri at Noreia? Perfidy. 100
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When its hot out, 75 feels hot. When its cold out, 75 feels cold. You can't explain that.static.klipy.comBill O'Reilly & Stephen Colbert on ShowALT: Bill O'Reilly & Stephen Colbert on Show 000
Reposted by PelasgusArcturus🌟Emrys yr Ymholgar 🧙🏻♂️🔮 @arcturusemrys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the actual development environment for the Macintosh prototype was even more cursed and esoteric than the thing Neal Stephenson used, involving several incantations spoken from the mouth of Burrell Smith: www.folklore.org/Scrooge_McDu... 161
Reposted by PelasgusWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology. 1429144
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I believe I have found the ultimate cure for depression. It only costs 10 dollars for a hummingbird feeder And six thousand dollars a year for sugar 000
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it is so hard to express how much i love these little guys. 000
Reposted by PelasgusMoudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Since we all really FELT that ancient pooch who wouldn’t drop the ball, I figured I may as well tell you a bit about dogs in ancient Mesopotamia. They leave traces everywhere, from bricks to burials to proverbs. Here’s a 4,000-year-old paw print of a pooch on a brick from ancient Ur 201107242
Reposted by PelasgusGluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A general problem with logical fallacies is that we do not live in a world where we possess many true statements. Logic fails because we are only 50% sure the input is true. 121
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Everyone wants to date the renaissance from some random silly flighty thing like "rationality" 🙄 or "perspectival art" 🤮 but I know what really matters: debits and credits. Obviously we should date the renaissance from the invention of double entry bookkeeping. Signed, ***, CPA 000
Reposted by PelasgusAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz 854305470
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026grackles are savages i don't care how iridescent they are 000
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm about to finish Cunliffe's Steppe, Desert, and Ocean, I also have his Driven by Monsoons and I have Abulafia's Great Sea. Does anyone know of a good big history that includes more than just Indian Sea littoral Africa? 110
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When Hurricane Milton blew through a tower crane in St. Petersburg was broken off and crashed into a neighboring building. It's actually sop to leave them untied during a hurricane so they spin free on the spindle because tying them in place would make the wind forces greater on the spine. 100
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I know it's fashionable to just fucking hate ai these days but without it i would have never learned about popol vuh or nart sagas or the movie kill or pushpa or even like hrotsvit and ad alpes and the books im using to learn latin. 100
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Désolé même si je peux parler français je vais continuer à dire "sharkoodery" en anglais. I will however correct anyone that thinks a cheese board is charcuterie. 😤 000
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Orberg's Roma Aeterna is a pretty cool object independent of its language learning pedagogy. It's like a survey of roman history as the Romans would have seen it with primary sources from Aeneas to the end of the Republic. It would be worth reading even if it weren't adapted. 010
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Alright honestly ancient geography doesn't make sense and i think the old authors were as bad at it as GRRM. Freaking Ulysses leaves troy on WESTERN ANATOLIA and it takes him 10 FREAKING YEARS to get to Ithica!? A speedboat 🚤 could make the trip in a day! 🤦♂️. The clever one. Not that clever! 100
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I love dressing like a Milton Friedman speech. Irish linen, vachetta belt from Arizona, Japanese sashiko denim, and Italian desert boots. No one country could design a good fit from scratch. 010
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026an apple a day keeps the doctor away pero prefiero una copita de amontillado 000
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"This was the first act with which Odaenathus proved himself a powerful and reliable ally to the central emperor. He accepted Gallienus's provincial appointees without demur, but he was also, to all intents and purposes, the independent ruler of an eastern Roman empire." Kulikowski, p. 168 100
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026me and my doberman looking for a chuck it ball in the grass: 🐕🤷🤬⌛🥎 (he's a sight hound and i'm red green colorblind) chuck it attrition is a serious impediment to growth in the dog economy 000
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If the Gulf of Mexico is the New Mediterranean And Tampa is the New Rome of the New Mediterranean Then Tarpon Springs is the Nova Magna Graecia of the New Rome of the New Mediterranean 100
Reposted by PelasgusMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads. 541917162
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i used to wear exclusively mall jeans and kohl's tees and then i read postrel's book on the history of fabric and gq'd myself in the most autistic way possible. 010
Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Greeks in Brittania, a story in 3 acts: Act I 🫒😃 Act II 😮 Act III 😵💀⚱️ AI said Greeks didn't have a colony in Brittania because you can't grow olives in Britain. Romans survived in Brittania because you can make Garum in Britain. 030
