Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

I just migrated to a blacksky-operated server and it was super easy. instructions here if you want to do the same: docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name. The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”. It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving

Roses are red as a kid I watched Peter Pan

This is how I've become familiar with it as well. The focus being on our exploitation (because no matter what, we're all being exploited) as opposed to our "productivity". Still, curious to know what other frameworks are developing.

Good news from the European Association of Archaeologists #Archaeology

ICYMI, my essay about the importance of Greek voices in Greek myth adaptations has been longlisted for a BSFA Award in the Best Short Non-Fiction category. Please vote for it by Feb 19! Or if you can’t vote, please share far and wide? www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

I'd add that progression through unofficial tiers is already built into enlargement -- it's been a while since the last opt out expired, but a major "tier" is the temporary opt out of freedom of movement for workers, which can last up to 7 years after accession en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...

Everybody says you can't have a two-tier EU, but in practice different tiers already exist: for countries inside the Euro and those outside; for those covered by the mutual defence clause and those not. So this plan would put even more forms of EU integration in this same category.

a multi volume textbook series with more authors called “ian kershaw” than women

George Orwell wrote that "A millionaire cannot, for example, light the streets for himself while darkening them for other people", but I think we'll find that the opposite is also true. Billionaires can't destroy public infrastructure like without also making life darker for themselves as well.

Therapist: The body keeps the score, Mr. Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein: Okay, but define the ‘game.’

“Simone Weil once noted, ‘Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, and boring.’ And that’s what this documentary is accidentally showing us: the barren and monotonous evil of this American moment.” By @lyz.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/evil-i...

Pointing out antisemitism on the left is one of the most annoying experiences one can have on Bluesky, not only do you get actual antisemites in your replies but also other leftists who are reflexively defensive and who bristle at the slightest critique.

"If this isn't porn then explain why I have a boner, liberals."

I think this is probably it

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Anonymous account: not a red flag, many people need anonymity Independent journalist: not a red flag, many of them are doing important work Anonymous account with “independent journalist” in bio: yeah there’s like a 90% chance that’s a fucking Nazi

How many if you remove Gretna Green?

If you have any information about this whatsoever, I’m marisakabas.04 on Signal

"documents found at the local record office showed sign language was used in a marriage ceremony at St Martin's Church on 6 February 1576. According to the transcript of the wedding certificate, Thomas Tilsye was deaf and married his wife Ursula Russel with signing assistance"

Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.

John Frow, Genre

Some Iron Age ramparty goodness from Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, high above the villages of West #Dorset Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland We love it here 📷 Feb 2023 Happy #HillfortsWednesday !

My husband volunteers at St Joseph’s Hospice Bereavement Service in Hackney and he’s running the local Half Marathon to raise a little bit of cash for them. If you can spare something, it’s a very worthy cause: www.justgiving.com/page/mike-wi...

Yes! Let’s fucking go! «Sources to NRK: Council of Europe lifts Jagland's immunity The Council of Europe has considered the matter of whether the immunity of the former Secretary General should be lifted.»

TIL after a whole lifetime of being told about how Europeans first explored Antarctica starting in 1820 that they've found the body of an indigenous Chilean on the continent who died sometime between 1819-1825 and now I need a recount

✨ Community, support, nature. Love this proposal and the topic of study. ✨

tumblr still has it, despite everything. social media platforms are really almost impossible to kill.

När svenska medier på allvar börjar gräva i bl a polisens och försvarets aningslösa affärer med Palantir kommer skandalen med Transportstyrelsens IT-upphandling framstå som en mild västanfläkt. Jag har nog aldrig sett ett mer öppet mål vad gäller granskning (bortsett från alla hemligstämplar).

"Napoleon achieved his success by ignoring logistics" is a bold take when you consider that such successes include losing his entire army in Egypt due to logistics, losing his entire army in Russia due to logistics, turning the Peninsular War into a nightmare by replacing logistics with theft...

Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

I’m beginning every panel I chair for the rest of my career with this frontal attack…

There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't play

This article makes me start to see Chomsky's campism/tankism as a desperate attempt to buy indulgences he could set against his own participation in the military-industrial complex.

Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

There's a question about BlueSky on today's quiz! catfishing.net #595 - 7/10 🐈🐟🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐈🐟🐟🐈

One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"

It’s fucking heartbreaking watching the pleas from MN residents start echoing the pleas from Gaza residents

I'm keeping my Christmas decorations up until the Valborg bonfire. I can't afford to lose any cheer while it's still winter.

Dress for the job you want [gay farmer] not the job you have.

Sounds like someone who wouldn't pass the security check to be the quartermaster of a Swedish home guard platoon.

Grab today's Hindustan Times to find an annotated version of the India-US joint statement putting specific key details in context. If you couldn't get your hands on a copy, we have also made an online interactive version of it that you can read from our app (link in replies).

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

Bli granne med mig? Den här tomten (egentligen en bit av en naturbetesmark) ligger bara 300 m från mig.

The little grey aliens aren’t aliens, they’re visitors from our future.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (1955).

I'm running my first dungeon and dragons game in decades soon!