I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,250 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’🍺 ‘stung by a scorpion’ 🦂 and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯 From Deir el-Medina, royal tomb worker’s village 📷 by me #Archaeology

@emophilips.bsky.social at Punchline in SF on Saturday was the hardest I’d laughed for literally years. He had the whole room in the palm of his hand. A master at work and if you ever get a chance to see him live then do it. (And not one person was killed and eaten as far as I saw!). 10/10.

When I was a kid I hoped the future would bring flying cars and a society without unnecessary poverty. Nowadays I just hope for an (equally implausible) future where people just understand what rates are.

Mood:

So much beautiful Viking art, ooo. Pardon us while we swoon 😍https://smarthistory.org/viking-art/

Listen to this, outstanding reporting by Allan Piper….

The definition of “any goal will do” to win a match which was “any win will do”. (And new long-term injuries to two of our most important attacking players, naturally). #coys

This season is utterly cursed. #coys

thank god i found it again

Who knows if this is crippling levels of stupidity or horrendous levels of cruelty? Or both? But it is definitely not just a *little* bit of either. God MAGA are just absolutely scum. No other word for it. Lowest of the low.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

Here’s an easy mnemonic to help you remember the 26 letters of the alphabet

Here’s a charming Roman fresco of a little rabbit eating figs 🐰❤️ From Pompeii, 45-79 AD. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

That is total fucking bullshit. Last week the criteria were (with instant conviction from the pundits) “does the player touch the other player’s back with two hands?”. That was it! That’s what the ref fucking said on TV! Neither a foul imo but fuck me that’s bullshit. #coys

This post and its replies is the ultimate Bluesky irresistible force v immovable object artifact. Virtually no one can be dragged into its orbit and say anything that is approaching sensible, realistic, thoughtful or true and as a result, of course, no one even tries. Pure Hot Takes everywhere.

Now I understand the sign I saw at my local college a while ago. #COYS

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

The “Emo Philips Plays Columbus, Fort Wayne & Toledo” Tour is delighted (& relieved) to be adding the following cities: Columbus Fort Wayne Toledo emophilips.com/shows/

By this point it feels strange to say things like this and not reflexively end with a "Furthermore he should be impeached and removed from office"

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

Heheh, I love this. #COYS

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

WOW, this is the earliest known group of chess pieces in the world! 🤩 It includes two foot-soldiers, two mounted riders, an elephant with rider, a figure driving two horses, and a figure driving a three-horse chariot. Ivory, AD 700s. Samarkand State Museum-Reserve, Uzbekistan. 📷 me #Archaeology

Maybe one of the most influential political commentators in America is a thoroughly ignorant, credulous moron. Weird - wouldn’t have expected that from a MMA jock.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Interesting data (from Waymo) showing that robotaxis are significantly safer than the average human driver. This is likely because they respect traffic rules. An NYT op-ed by a neurosurgeon calls for a broader adoption as a public health measure. Thoughts? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

When this stuff first came out a couple of years ago I remember some member of the pundit class saying ‘he had us all fooled’ and it was like, honestly, speak for yourself

Quick reminder that it is not at all surprising when pop artists whose entire persona and artistic output is about money, consumption, dominance and going on and on about how fucking awesome they are *were never people who were likely to have good politics or outlooks on life*. They told you that.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Just an unrelenting piece of shit.

Wow, “French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The worst charts I've ever seen at work

Who has made this 🤣

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Once again I am calling on @postopinions.bsky.social to byline the editorials ascribed to the editorial board, because readers should be able to make fun of the specific person who wrote this dogshit and thought it was smart www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

So it’s NOT my imagination

This is, I think, correct. This is the heart and soul of this sort of politics, this is exactly what it's all about for them. And it makes me despair of being able to share a society with them.

Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

sorry but this is such a funny post from someone self identifying as a hobbit in her username

This won’t even work as intended. The people objecting to refugees aren’t asking for people to have to stay longer and jump through more hoops before they’re naturalised. They point blank want anyone not exactly like them kicked out.