Also you can tell how closely he’s engaged with the Iliad because he posted an image of the, um, *rechecks photo* The Odyssey.

Ah. A postcard from the magazine Logic Problems has arrived.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚 The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602... This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅

Part 2 of our history of the remarkable flight of the California Clipper in WW2 is now available. To get back to the US after Pearl Harbor, Ford and his crew are asked by Pan Am to do something no commercial aircrew or passenger plane has done before: Circumnavigate the world. #history #aviation

8 Languages That Have Been Lost To History While some languages have survived and thrived, others have died out completely and remain little more than a memory. by Robin Gillham www.thecollector.com/languages-lo... Languages at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #history_language

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

From the BBC on Chat GPT www.bbc.com/news/article... I’ve labelled this text as graphic because the themes in it are so disturbing.

This story by Sarah Martin has generated huge interest today all around the world. A question it poses for Aus - why is Roblox not in the government's social media ban? www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Trump literally could not care less if you live or die.

“Duralex preservative” 🤨 Excellent @secondmentions.bsky.social

There is nothing uglier than the snooty, wrinkled-nose "I TOLD YOU SO" from white climate dudes on 1.5c Not just because they're patting themselves on the back for a lazy prophecy. They're now helping to ensure 2C gets missed. And 3 and onwards until they die happy about their soothsaying skills

Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'. Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy. [ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]

Take the blue pill: phys.org/news/2025-10...

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

If the AGI push was a conspiracy, how different would it be? Interesting essay in MIT Technology Review.

I want somebody to ask ICE whether they've considered using sandwiches as a crowd control weapon. After all, being hit by one doesn't cause injury but from their reports it sounds like it was extremely traumatic.

Old news with elegant @secondmentions.bsky.social: the infamous prop, the priceless but elusive masterpiece, and more. www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales. The Merthyr Rising. The Rebecca Riots. The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?

With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton. No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.

Amazing 🧵👇👇👇

Timeline cleanse! The @rijksmuseum.bsky.social has put out a banger of a voyage round Petronella Oortman's dollshouse. Not to be missed. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/dollshouse

'You lot had it easy! I were obliged to be referred to by my actual name, forced to accept a six-figure, one-off payment and an annual stipend, and made to go and live in a large house on a country estate paid for by my brother.' The Four Yorkshiremen meet the (former) Duke of York.

Great thread of vegan recipe websites - most of them focused on being CHEAP and EASY!

In December 1941, Pan Am flight 18602 was trapped the wrong side of the Pacific by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. To get home, her civilian crew would need to do the near-impossible: circumnavigate the world in commercial seaplane. In our new series, we tell tell their remarkable story.

No matter the platform you should have your default feed be reverse chron of who/what you follow and curate and diversify that feed. You’ll be better informed and less prone to disinfo and group think. This is a hill I will die on.

In the interests of comparative museology, we went to Terveuren to see the costly changes made to the explosively racist and inflammatory Musée Colonial The new building, an elegant, expensive Miesian box, together with the underground complex, has the effect of isolating the 1910 museum even more

If you want to see trumps full speech in which he makes these threats here it is in its entirety. the American media is not telling us what is being said by the fascists. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rgS2...

But have you tried using this image before you start complaining about your students not reading?

Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast Let's roll.

Interesting review of a new "AI browser". I'll stay well clear and feel that everyone else should too. www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/...

"I think I shall have a rest from thinking as I have been told I do too much..." ------ Postmark: 21 July 1906

Another fascinating etymological/linguistic chart from @yvanspijk.bsky.social. Maybe I'll be a linguist when I grow up.

“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”

Reminder that there is a site with completely free subscription and no ads, and it sometimes mentions TV as well www.discontinuednotes.com

samizdat in the digital age is w y l d layer in genAI and the need for physical copies takes on a sharper more urgent point sneaker nets, pigeons w 5 TB usb sticks, water proof headphones w 32 gb storage, open source printers/printing press, the return of the zine, etc

Happy Birthday, Helen Augusta Blanchard! Born October 25, 1840, Blanchard was one of the great inventors of the early industrial era and held 28 patents. Learn more: engineergirl.org/125209/Helen...

The origin of the words ‘beanfeast’ and ‘beano’, from Alfred Duggan's 'Growing Up in the Thirteenth Century' (courtesy of @charliefarrow1 on X)

The thread of which this is part shows the appalling state of the UK Conservatives and by extension of the country. The movie is worth watching too 🙂

The daring jewel heist at the Louvre was a masterclass in efficient planning, skill and organisation. It's imperative that the culprits are now apprehended and asked to form a government.

Terrific thread on phone security 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Well, that was the point

Before coffee: I hate everybody After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

Just saw that Pizza Hut in the UK could be folding. I think that officially makes it Calzone Hut. Eyethangewe. I’m here all week. Try the veal.

The dismaying diet @secondmentions.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...