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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Three Human Skeletons", edited Polaroid photograph, dated 1977-1997, by Dutch visual artist Aat Veldhoen (1934-2018). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Object number RP-F-2016-147-1971.

Image showing three human skeletons standing on each others' shoulders, against a dark background, on the left side of the image. The right side of the image is covered in a multicoloured field in pastel shades.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Learn a second language while at university. When history students ask me what courses they should take (which happens surprisingly often), I tell them language – not history – courses. If you have an opportunity to go to university you should try to learn a 2nd language, regardless of your major.

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Gregory Brown: Learn A Language

Alt: Gregory Brown: Learn A Language

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You will be visited by three spirits.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 24/08/2026

Another effective channel is to tell the racist fucker to piss off and kick him out. You do not have to indulge this bullshit in the name of "academic freedom." There's "controversial" and there's "completely unfounded racism" They are not the same

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I will not negotiate away anybody’s human rights and I will oppose any politician who thinks that is an ok stance. I don’t care what party. If you’re going to support democrats who oppose transgender humanity the entire thing isn’t worth fighting for. The line must be drawn.

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Star Trek Next Generation

ALT: Star Trek Next Generation

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Table of Contents
Preface
List of Maps

PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA
Introduction

PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA
I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage
II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots
III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump
IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land
V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony
VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break
VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant
VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie

PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY
IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right
Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity
Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

okay fine i'll read the thing based on the first skim i did i'm not holding my breath, but since we're cited repeatedly i'll engage in good faith.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Expecting consistency from the fash is a failure to understand that the fash don't care about truth or facts.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2026

It turns out that FUN will pack the house and have a line queued up outside. I will bet a shiny nickel that Boudicca and Vercingetorix and Leif Eriksson were fun. At least one of them, anyway. It’s a helluva power.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Why do I like to live in Copenhagen? Because it's so peaceful here.

Image of the monster from 1961's "Reptilicus", with the caption "It's been 23,858 days since Copenhagen's last kaijuu attack".

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/06/2026

Hell yeah 👏🏽

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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I was really not worried about the hantavirus until this administration started saying more and more forcefully everything is fine

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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

Panel 1: Ami Mizuno saying to her friends, "I need you all to swear..."

Panel 2: All rhe girls saying, "FUCJ." with varying keels of enthusias.

Panel 2: Ami, flustered, saying, "Nghh!! Like, a promise??" And an offscreen voice saying, "ooh"

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MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com · 06/05/2026

No matter how much you worked, you'll never be as tired as a cat that did nothing all day.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

people all over the world starting to understand how it is possible to bankrupt a casino

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel. (So many movies I could choose, but it has to be RHPS.)

media.tenor.com

a close up of a woman 's face with the words i could show you my favourite obsession below it

Alt: Frank-N-Furter saying "I could show you my favourite obsession".

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VierLeger @vierleger.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Not to excuse conspiratorial ideation, but it kind of feels like the right has managed to create a reflex lack of trust directed at the institutions run by them in a fraction of the time it took the right to cultivate their own distrust in liberal institutions.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21/04/2026

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats. Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

If it's not Vladimir Putin, it's Vladimir Putin.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

People do what you pay them to do. You pay corporate executives to make stock prices go up, not to make better products. You pay politicians to get re-elected, not to govern well. You pay reporters to get a bigger audience, not to tell the truth. And so forth. Be aware of what you pay people to do

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This is super weird and downright excellent.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 20/02/2026

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that. Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits

Image of King Ghidorah, the three-headed dragon kaiju.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13/11/2025

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that. But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal. You can’t negotiate with people like that.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This is the Way. Don't give them an inch.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Today's episode of "A Girl and Her Fed" by @kbspangler.com and @alepresser.com resonates with me. This is what I mean when I say that "I am not a good man, but I can fake it convincingly". www.agirlandherfed.com/1.2284.html

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A Girl and Her Fed

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Ghostober (01/31)

A ghost girl, with half her skeleton visible through her body, writing ghostober in glowing letters with her finger

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

"Der Rächer" (The Avenger), later cast of a 1914 sculpture by German sculptor Ernst Barlach (1870-1938). Barlach's pacifism as a result of his experiences in WWI, and his Expressionist art (denounced as "degenerate"), led to him being persecuted by the Nazis. In the Tate Gallery, ref. no. T00951.

Bronze sculpture of a man wielding a sword two-handed. He is bent forward against what appears to be a strong wind, about to strike with the weapon.

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