The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

We should have never doubted this man

Here's some paper cut-out fun for the whole family: an #Etruscan tomb, complete with 3D sarcophagus, frescoes, *and* grave goods! This print in the #BritishMuseum was probably from Campanari's 1837 exhibition of Etruscan and Greek antiquities at Pall Mall, London. Print it out! 🏺 1/

#portfolioday I'm an illustrator and 3D artist from São Paulo, Brazil. 📩 Contact: [email protected] ☕️ Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/pauloleite/s... 🎁 Redbubble: redbubble.com/people/thek560/ 🖼️ Prints: inprnt.com/gallery/thek560/ 🌐 All my other links: linktr.ee/pauloleiteart #dinosaur #paleoart #3dart

Hello there! I’m an archaeologist and 3D artist, and when I can I’ll post about my art, archaeology, or my other interests. #PortfolioDay

People say “online isn’t real life” but at this point I feel like online is more real in some ways. This is something the US President actually did - but if you describe it to someone who is offline they would think you were lying!!

A glimpse into #childhood in Roman #Egypt - some wooden action #toys from Karanis: a toy sword, a toy hammer, and a toy weaver's comb. Dating 1st to 4th century AD. 📷 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 🏺

This is not just a number. This is one million people who have had to leave their homes and often their beloved pets. They’ve had to leave behind Christmas cards their toddlers made, framed family photos, food, clothing, their father’s stamp collection, safety, and their memories.

"there are crazy, dangerous people on public transit!" lol, have you ever been on a highway in the US? I'd much rather hear some guy shouting conspiracy theories than get killed by someone in a giant pickup who was doing 20 over the speed limit while watching tiktok

I want to have a word with whatever 20th C architects/engineers/builders decided routing water and sewage pipes within the concrete slab foundation of a building was a good idea and should be standard.

Brutal.

Pyrrhus coming back to Epirus after intervening in Italy and Sicily, being unable to control the Strait of Messina from the Carthaginians, and turning Rome into a regional superpower.

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

Also, we can get to the moon faster than a train can travel across the US. It's like our infrastructure is perpetually stuck in 1965.

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

feel like there should be more hype around the fact that there is a moonshot tonight

I am forever disinterested in the commercialization aspects of space flight. I dream of the stars because they are beautiful, not because it could make rockets more powerful or Instagram more predatory. I have to accept that in my lifetime all of astrophysics is a PR write-off for the military

The Merchant of Venice is a political text. Old Man's War is a political text. Star Wars is a political text. Even an instructional design textbook is a political text! All texts encode or challenge assumptions about the world. THERE IS NO TRUE NEUTRAL POSITION.

LORD OF THE NAZGÛL RISO print coming soon.

After years away I have returned to writing about video games with a piece for Remap about the less immediately obvious problems with DLSS 5

new townhouses suck because they're just way too dense leaving none of the amenities of traditional urban rowhouse development. it has nothing to do with the architecture or build quality www.slowboring.com/p/make-townh...

I think what the tech industry doesn’t fully understand is that people dislike friction. Too many accounts and subscriptions needed and ads everywhere? People will find something without those things, including just pirating your shit.

This is honestly borderline racist framing of events. Iran isn't "fighting like an insurgency" or even engaging in what you'd classically understand as asymmetric warfare. They're just employing, you know, strategy.

“Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments…”

A remarkable archaeological discovery beneath the waters of Lake Neuchâtel! In November 2024, the remains of a Roman cargo ship, dating 1st c. AD, was discovered. The wreck contained hundreds of pottery vessels, Spanish olive oil amphorae, tools and weapons, including the #sword shown here. 🧵1/2 🏺

This delightful little painted wooden horse was a child’s toy around 2,000 years ago. It dates from 1st - 3rd century AD Roman Egypt. The wood has been preserved so well by the intense dryness of the Egyptian climate. 🏛️📷 British Museum #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Reminder to share with your friends who love a Weird City, and to the rest of your friends who just don't know it yet

24-MAR-2026 1800 GMT bloodwork.show

I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it.

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

Deranged autocrat in charge while a fire breaks out in Rome? I’ve seen enough. Welcome back, 64 AD.

Over 40k people die a year due to cars in the US and that isn't even factoring in environmental damages. Instead of acknowledging the harm that cars cause to the populace cyclists continue to get demonized by people who can't even conceive of an infrastructure not centered around cars.

"Well well how the turns have tabled" x.com/JonnyMicro/s...

For Immediate Release. "STAR WARS" SET TO BEGIN PRODUCTION IN TUNISIA ON MARCH 22.

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

Listening to latest Shelved By Genre over on @rangedtouch.bsky.social and have to let y’all know Goran already has you covered on the album cover with the sword laying across the hobbit necks in the barrow and it rules (like all his LOTR art)

Esse é o futuro dos videogames com o DLSS 5

nobody wants this shit. we want the taxes we do pay to go to schools and healthcare instead of being used to flatten buildings full of children in Iran. how are you so bad at this

Born on this day in 1593, the amazing Georges de la Tour. Painted the mysteries of night. Here, the newborn. So still.

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood. trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️ republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️ “sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️ naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️ villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️ powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️ list goes on

Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.

For #FindsFriday one more chance to enjoy the extraordinary newly-discovered Roman lead pig from Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion; one of a pair seemingly abandoned 🤔 Emperor Domitian's name is cast on the top, declaring it to be Imperial property 🧐 👉 @rcahmwales.bsky.social 3D model here: skfb.ly/pG6DJ

I guess I didn’t wake up thinking I needed to know the names of the 279 named triremes ⛵️in the 4th century BCE Athenian navy, but it appears we all do. link.springer.com/article/10.1... I do like that 3.58% had animal names like Λεοντῆ (lion skin) and Λέαινα (lioness). Greek epigraphy is fun! 🪦

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start Length: 5.6 cm 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

The new _Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers –thr first volume of the LIMES XXV’s Congress_is out now open access. So many great articles on women & the Roman army; digital mapping of the limes; and a lot of articles on walls from Britain to China. www.sidestone.com/books/curren...