The pope is tweeting like a wide receiver. cc: @dennycarter.bsky.social

WSJ has a piece on the merchant sailors stuck aboard ships inside Hormuz. There are 20,000 of them (many from less privileged nationalities), effectively held hostage and running out of food. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Thank you for making my heart lift as I open the blinds.

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Have a break. Have 12 Tonnes of KitKat. Remember, kids, Nestle is literally the company who literally told African mothers that their breast milk wasn't good enough in order to sell more formula. Don't be a snitch, now.

What a time to be alive (derogatory)

If you hate ICE but somehow love the American military (which is magnitudes worse - they're just not bombing your asses at the moment) to this degree, you will be stuck with fascism for the rest of your days.

Afro Index has finally launched! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, good for artists, animators, writers, and anyone want to learn more about Black hair! Check it out at afroindex.org 💛✨ #digitalart

A twist: “Narjes Soleimani, daughter of the late Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, has denied that the two individuals arrested in the US are related to the family…”

Hot cross buns! Came out really nicely. Rather chuffed. #baking #hotcrossbuns

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

i have seen people try to explain it away as "that's just how double lashes look like" and i'm i stead chosing to interpret that as "is elizabeth taylor fan"

This is where rationalizing the irrational has landed the world

Please God

I am... Bemused.

Colleague after seeing my office desk: "Writing a book?" Me: "Making a single footnote!"

Is this real??!

Has anyone ever explained the eyeliner?

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iran is doing pretty well for having had its military capacity destroyed

Not totally sure if it counts as microhistory, but Jan Vansina‘s „Being Colonized: The Kuba experience in Rural Congo“ is an absolutely invaluable book for anyone interested in how the process of colonization actually looked on the ground from the perspective of those subjected to it.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout is now the longest nation-scale internet shutdown on record in any country, exceeding all other comparable incidents in severity having entered its 37th consecutive day after 864 hours.

Management consultants are ruining UK universities ft.trib.al/0LelZP9 | opinion

#43CAFE

Of relevance to recent bluesky discussion BBC News - Fewer people posting on social media, Ofcom finds - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I started writing a blog mostly to address my deep dissatisfaction with the way Africa is studied or talked about outside the continent, especially. This is mostly marked by absence. But when it is not, most interlocutors ignore the impact of external interference. folukeafrica.com/how-we-study...

Woe to them that interrupt my nap

🇧🇷Colhereiro 🌎Platalea ajaja Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O colhereiro é uma ave pelecaniforme da família Threskiornithidae. Também conhecido como ajajá e colhereiro-americano. 📷 Celso B Almeida

*"Artificial Intelligence" is a metaphysical declaration rather than a technology, so it has the inherent vagueness of politics, religion and/or espionage *People always pay plenty for the vague promises of all three

Isn’t it weird that every ai startup is impossibly unprofitable? Or that Anthropic and OpenAI subsidize their subscriptions in a way that no other company has ever come close to? Or that nobody can really explain why it matters in the present tense?

I think the subject of Tuesday’s newsletter is going to be about how weird AI is. It’s genuinely strange we have an entire industry that’s mostly sold on what people wish it did and a vagueness usually reserved for timeshare salesmen

The best explanation of Trump is the simplest one. American exceptionalism is talking to itself.

happy egg art holiday to all who celebrate (i have given myself hand cramps making them, please appreciate them!)

Christus surrexit! Alleluia! Happy Easter and many blessings to all celebrating.

If any of these people actual believed in "the God" they talk so much about she would fear an immediate lightening strike when she says something this obviously bs.

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(One person still alive on the whole continent after some combination of preventable disease, nuclear imperial war, and drought) wow that guy is resilient

For those of us in eastern Australia the New York stock market opens for Monday trading at 11.30 pm our time tomorrow night. If the USA is going to do anything big in the war, you would assume it will happen before markets open.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

#BBCNews - 'This has got me worried': Iranians fear what comes next after US strike on Karaj bridge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#BBCNews - Iranian Nobel laureate suffered suspected heart attack in prison, family says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #NargesMohammadi

New Moon, New York — George Copeland Ault, 1945 Oil on canvas 28 x 20 in

Cáisc, Modern Irish for 'Easter', at first looks unrelated to other Easter-words, beyond Scots Gaelic (Càisg) and Manx (Caisht). It goes back to the time when Irish had no /p/ sound – the closest it could do was /kʷ/. This is how Cáisc comes from Latin Pasca, like French Pâques and Italian Pasqua.

Really not discussed enough that a decent amount of people on here and Twitter insisted that the US wasn't using any of their bases on GCC soil to directly attack Iran and this has now been repeatedly disproven

Aria Fani of University of Washington’s Middle East Center is latest critic of Israel to lose position at US university

While the media focuses on the downed US fighter and crew, waves and waves of strikes keep up the pummeling, including of infrastructure, universities, and civilians.