Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Good guess, but no."

The authentic sounds of musical instruments used in ancient times 🎶 #saturdayvibe 📹 Bilimtüel

My offer: a drawing from H G Wells himself depicting a Tripod attacking people, drawn on a cover of an early copy of 'The War Of The Worlds'.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Sir Thomas More and his family. Fantastic study for (alas!) now lost painting by Hans Holbein. So unusual as a family portrait, but then, this family was unusual too. Today is Thomas More's day.

Brother Mort liked the peace and solitude of his herb garden but even so a visit from Sister Dot and her latest tranche of dirty jokes rarely went unappreciated

There isn't a sigh hard enough for these dumbass headlines. Warriors were a SOCIAL GROUP, and later a legal classification. Gender was not relevant to whether one was part of a warrior group/family/etc. You might as well write: THIS JUST IN: WOMEN EXISTED! www.the-independent.com/asia/japan/b...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college (inc. grad school) Intro to Science Fiction Roman Religion Islamic Art & Architecture I Historiography (Theory & Methods) History of Espionage

i think the thing that bugs me is the complete neglect for separation of church and state. i do not think you should market you book as being fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off i say this as a moderately accomplished author who has written/published fic in her adult life!

being even a little bit brave is often enough!

the whole "the north was just as racist" narrative was made to distract from this shit and it's time we stop perpetuating it.

So they turned to this Navajo PFC we had found on base and pulled in, they explained why they didn't want to talk, and said they thought it would be best if she spoke. And this boot looked at this O-6 and O-5 and said totally deadpan "Gentlemen, I have some bad news for you about the Navajo."

So he dropped it on the Squadron CO, but he didn't want to speak either, because he was a Vietnamese American, and the Group CO was so convincing that now he thought it would be weird to be the one talking as part of an ethnic group that had fought the US even outside WW2.

We got base PAO to set up an event for locals and media, but the Group CO didn't want to speak. Why? He was Japanese American, and he thought it would be weird since these were vets who had fought the Japanese.

This reminds me of one of my favorite stories. During a Javelin Thrust in Yuma one year, we brought two Navajo Code Talkers out to talk to the comm Marines about doing the job in WW2, get a brief on modern comm gear, and so we could ensure we still had Marines who could say they shook their hands.

RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab

Here's a story about my point. Years ago, I was head of the DC Prisoners Project, and we carried a bit of weight in local politics. There had been a great deal of work to get the Council out of picking city contractors, bc that was often just cronyism. Personally, I totally support that.

Our blog posts get auto-posted to social media. I don't use FB myself, but went in there to post this. I don't expect to see similar attacks from any Bsky users, but figured I should elaborate on my personal opinion here.

This is a very smart framing.

Eric Adams is here. “Many people call New York the Irem of America” he says, “I will be the moderate candidate for Lord High Potentate of Ulthar.” Somehow you know this is the real Eric Adams, his pouch laden with gold given by the strange traders of Leng.

join a dedicated team of psychonauts as they venture deep into the mind of David Brooks.

My stepfather told me once “Talent gets you to college. After that, you gotta work.”

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.

two ICE guys grab someone near a protest and start beating him. “Stop hitting me,” he shouts, “I love Stephen Miller!” “Don’t fuck with us, buddy,” says ICE. “NOBODY loves Miller.”

ICE goons travel in threes: one to read, one to write, and the other to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.

JD Vance arrives at the airport in Greenland and gets in line at customs desk. Customs officer: Occupation? Vance: No, just visiting.

Three Americans are in a gulag. Each compares why they are there. The first says: "I voted for Marjorie Taylor-Greene in 2018." The second says: "Wait a minute, I spoke against Marjorie Taylor-Greene in 2026." The third says: "I am Marjorie Taylor-Green."

I'm going to be very blunt here: headlines like this and articles like this are a significant part of our media problem because they make people believe things that aren't true

This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

Something I got out of reading Clausewitz is considering myself subject to moral forces in the same way I am subject to physical ones. You spend a day in the rain and you’re going to be affected. You watch misery and cruelty all day, you’re going to be affected. The rationale doesn’t change that.

i might feel differently if the entire west (if not the entire world) weren't *also* in the throes of a pretty reactionary hard-right battle, but, well, here we are, all of us stuck with all of these shitty governments together.

thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"

I'm not sure if @beijingpalmer.bsky.social remembers this or not, but ten years ago today....

"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.

Binding design for the 150th anniversary edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009. Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper. #ArtAdventCalendar

Came across Clarissa Dickson-Wright’s autobiography in a charity shop. It is everything a devotee of weird history could hope for

techbros: we have created AGI cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game is coming to Kickstarter in early 2026! I've been working closely with Magpie Games to bring the world of Temeraire to life in this exciting new RPG. Follow along & be among the first to take to the skies when the project launches! www.kickstarter.com/...

Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart www.economist.com/christmas-sp...

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

Let's take a minute to discuss how hard it was to find pictures of rats that looked even remotely menacing. The stock photographers will not be caught taking pictures of rats that make them look scary. The shark photographers could learn a thing or two.

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different. Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread! Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️ Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology