a stone tree holding up a balcony in barcelona. casa antònia burés, built in 1906 on carrer d’ausiàs marc, is one of barcelona’s modernist gems.

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RIP Don Iwerks, "an innovator whose work brought The Disney Company to new technological heights, aiding in perfecting the sodium vapor process used in Mary Poppins, developing the 360-degree Circle-Vision camera and implementing the projection system for the fan-favorite Star Tours attraction."

Wonderful Minoans

Why is Ukraine suddenly dominating the Sea of Azov? In just 6 days, over 70 russian ships—mostly shadow-fleet oil tankers and tugs—have been damaged or destroyed. Tonight alone saw 28 hit. 🧵 1/

Oldie but a goodie.

this is 2x Chicago Public Library’s FY25 budget

This week on the Untitled History Podcast, I sit down with @piratebeckalex.bsky.social to explore the myths and reality of the golden age of piracy, including how pirate attacks actually worked. Watch below or listen via your pod app of choice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtW... #history

😂😂 If this was my dad I’d make him all the American food he could eat!

a follower saw my many posts about the “American Mom Murdered by ICE” posters and made a poster of Lorenzo for wheatpasteing—you can download it here: drive.proton.me/urls/VJ15H93...

This is the content social media was absolutely meant for. I am enthused and enraptured.

Star Trek Villains Wrong answers only

Mildly interesting historical prop inspiration: petapixel.com/2018/01/25/j...

Some of the loudest voices online aren’t voices at all, just automated scripts designed to repeat, amplify, and mislead. Learn to spot what’s human and what’s scripted. Stay alert.

The Sun don't care where its shine hits, high or low.

Science Discovers the Exact Location: A Study Shows That Odysseus’ Ithaca Was Never an Island www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/s...

A good read on the American Visionary Art Museum. www.thebanner.com/culture/arts...

This is a Pom-pom crab. No, really 😄 🦀 (Also Boxer crab or Cheerleader crab) The pink structures are actually living sea anemones that the crab holds in its claws for defense and to help mop up food particles. If one anemone is lost, the crab clones another by tearing it in half to regenerate.

“The truth of us, always, is we are flawed, and we fix it, and in each repair, we discover we are more than we have ever been before.” Brilliant, from @mollymckew.bsky.social

This is a neat thread (and the replies) but I think I have to disagree. First, the number disparity isn't that large for most of the war, but also it is not clear to me that the CSA's strategic position demanded the destruction of the Army of the Potomac. What it required was a failure of US will.

People liked it, but that Ted Chiang essay on AI published earlier last month is actually not very good on the technical merits. Critics of AI companies need to be much more conversant in how LLMs work in order in order to propose meaningful regulations and responses to them. Let's discuss...

Enshittifying the internet, art, critical thinking, and the planet. A sad quadfecta.

This is dedication. The original Bayeaux Tapestry had a team of women working on it.

In 1925, archaeologist Leonard Woolley was excavating the temple complex at the ancient city of Ur. That's the ziggurat in the background. As the excavation proceeded, he found something quite surprising: artifacts hundreds of years older than Ur itself. Let's talk about the oldest known museum.

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Now available and shipping at the end of this month on Blu-ray in the US from the @vinsyn.bsky.social website from #OCNDistribution #PartnerLabel #ETRMedia: #Boutique: To Preserve and Collect (2024)! This special limited edition slipcover was limited to 500 units

Okay. So. Obscure Military Holy Orders. Bear with me on this one: In 1687 the French were aggressively expanding their trade and slavery operations on the Gold Coast. As part of this two young West African boys were sent back to France, most likely as slaves. One may have been called "Aniaba". /1🧵

I’ve seen this movie. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stuff

Archaeologists in France Dig Up a Jar Packed With Tens of Thousands of 1,800-Year-Old Roman Coins www.zmescience.com/science/arch...

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.

I ordered a box of candy bars to be delivered Wednesday. This will either go well, or I will have a fiery arcane chocolate mass monster rampaging down my sweltering street.

Great thread comparing Zuckerberg to Lukashenka. There's an essay version as well.

Easily one of my favorite stories about the production of #YoungFrankenstein. #TCMParty

Steam engines at Actium. Octavian would have gotten a nasty surprise LOL

Walton Goggins stars in the Strokes' new "Going Shopping" video

"CENTRISTS UNITE!" It's 15 people. 5 of whom aren't even elected yet. All of them in districts trump won. Don't let corporate media - especially media owned by Bezos - convince you the party is somehow fractured by throngs of centrists pushing back. It's not. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Why thousands of Roman coin hoards were never recovered, new study reveals | Archaeology News Online Magazine archaeologymag.com/2026/06/why-...

Admiral Rob Bauer: If Russia wanted to attack NATO, where do you think that decision would be taken? In Beijing. Chinese are basically allowing Russia to stay in the war. They provide Russia with everything they need to make weapons. Chinese can still say, "We don't give weapons."

ICE will be the cause of its own demise, behaving like this. Agents Pitts & Henry should've refused act like authoritarian tools against US citizens. If Gonyea & Streever *actually* broke the law, they would have arrested them. They didn't. That tells you this is intimidation, not law enforcement.

Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49

Inside the stunning recovery of the lost Herculaneum Scrolls | National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

New fake latin American vatnick poster - @otrakuentamas.bsky.social - all he does is complain about UKR conscription, but of course no word about Russia, etc. Block or scold, your choice. The words are no new RU BS we haven't heard for 4 years already now.

Fair.

new take™ www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFi...

F1-like calendar, F1-like performance? How Formula E is "growing up" in its big brother's orbit#FormulaE

Is anyone really surprised that Trump was outsmarted by a single-cell organism?

Featured in the latest Digest: What Happens When the Flow of Immigrant Workers Suddenly Stops? www.nber.org/digest/20260...