Read what Heraklion Archaeological Museum says about this flask: heraklionmuseum.gr/en/exhibit/m... More info on this link: smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️ Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

this is a good thread but skipped one of the craziest effects of the rice controls — the near destruction of korean artisanal liquor, and replacement in the market with green bottle soju which is grain alcohol with sweetener. it's cheaper and higher proof. korean alcoholism was never the same

Here's some info on this and why it doesn't actually work www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/tetr...

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Konstantiniyye was Kōnstantinoúpolis Now it's Konstantiniyye, not Kōnstantinoúpolis Been a long time gone, Kōnstantinoúpolis Now a Turkish delight on a moonlit night

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

yeah man i LOVE technology* *the implements by which the people of the "Corded Ware" culture (c. 3000-2350 BCE) applied the signature indentations to their ceramic pottery

Μέρος της θεραπευτικής διαδικασίας , να βγάζεις ο,τι βαραίνει την ψυχή σου . "Υπεράνω πάσης υποψίας " 100Χ80 λάδι , ακρυλικό , κάρβουνο

a lot of people (including Kat) have talked about how these trials get turned into very popular content; people make huge amounts of money because a lot of people (mostly but not only men) find misogyny fun and entertaining and gratifying.

continually grateful that i came up on a niche internet message board for a now long defunct internet comedy website that wasnt a toxic hellpit and not say something awful

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

If watching horrible footage of real-life violence made people into better human beings, 4chan would be the kindest place on earth.

Memories going way back of La Taza de Oro on West 14th Street in Manhattan (like, my dad was a regular when he lived in the neighborhood in the '70s and started bringing my mom and me when we came along). And their pernil and rice and beans.

Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to: Vasilis Papakonstantinou Ensemble Phoenix Munich Devo (with prev, of course) Alkinoos Ioannidis and Eleftheria Arvanitaki Lenine (I think we were supposed to get something signed at that one, heh)

signed up for ko-fi as well if people want to financially support my writing and my poetry and my posting preview is broken for some reason so heres just the url ko-fi.com/neurosismancer

ive just published my first ever chapbook of #poetry 40 pages of poems and photography in a name-your-own-price pdf on itch.io its called hymns of survival and rage and its some of the most emotional poetry ive written over the last year neurosismancer.itch.io/hymns-of-sur...

what is the connection between nostalgia, ai slop, and fascism? find out for yourself in my new essay: synthetic ghosts of a past that never was neurosismancer.neocities.org/80snostalgia...

You know that feeling of being trapped and kind of panicky when you don't know where the exit is? Yeah, that. To the point that being conscious of what methods I have available makes me want to use them a lot less.

I posted more on depth on this here regarding asexual representation vs the ever present sexless heroine in fiction. bsky.app/profile/mori...

Anyways, here is your reminder that the sexless warrior maiden (not to be confused with an actual asexual character), is a patriarchial male fantasy .

This absurd overestimation takes place with basically all minority groups. In 2022, Americans thought 30% of the US was gay or lesbian, 29% was bisexual & 21% was trans. They also thought 27% were Muslim, 30% were Jewish & 41% were Black.

Bruh

Did you know that your city almost definitely has a deal with the phone app "Libby" where you can enter your city library number and get access to an enormous number of ebooks? This is great because if there's a day you don't want to be on social media, it gives you somewhere to sink your attention.

There might be another name for this but I think of it as the Socrates fallacy because this was basically his method -- we have a word, so let's clarify the definition so that we can correctly identify the real thing in the world that it names.

Just b/c history has given us these two words doesn't mean that speculative literature naturally falls into two distinct categories that can be correctly labeled with these words. Likewise attraction to more than one gender doesn't necessarily come in two distinct forms just b/c we have two words.

Sci-fi vs fantasy debates fall into the same fallacy as bi vs pan -- the assumption that because we have two words, there must be two real things in the world that they correspond to.

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍 From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #Archaeology

It appears that we are entering a vicious cycle where slop translation makes the world outside English seem ever more more inaccessible and ugly, so we want to engage it less, so there is less demand for translation, language-learning, language-crossing experience

… and less desire to explore no less understand what is happening outside the confines of our own native language, or perhaps the screen of our phones

Thinking about @burrata.bsky.social ‘s question of “who’s studying the opposite of globalization rn, and what’re the keywords for the opposite of globalization” and reading these dispatches from professional translators suggests we are entering a world siloed by language in which there is less …

when people looking at medieval europe perceive paganism they're mostly just looking at medieval merry-making with a specifically and inescapably catholic context whose cultural signifiers have been eroded without the merry-making going away

so the thing about all this is: yes, it’s unjust that a pink polo white guy gets ROR in a situation when a black person would have likely been brutalized or worse, WHICH IS WHY PINK POLO WHITE GUYS ARE THE ONES WHO SHOULD RISK THIS STUFF

In the 1990s, Kaori Ekuni (1964- ) was known in Japan + Korea “the female Murakami”. Her best-known novel in English is Twinkle Twinkle, the story of a straight, asexual woman married to a gay man who is romantically and sexually partnered to someone else.

That's not exaggeration either. In 1672 the Dutch killed and *ate* their corrupt Prime Minister.

Big #Egyptian news!! Book on Hieratic. Free to download for 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

All of my heart and all of my Greek rage went on this one. Forever grateful to @khoreo.bsky.social for letting me talk about this issue.

ALWAYS go to the grocery store on holiday. And if you can get to the housewares store and the feed-and-seed, so much the better.

Re: the mall evangelist thread, lots of people are suggesting responses that would also have been funny, but I used the one I did because I like to keep this front and center in how I deal with Christians. Evangelism is spam.

Late for her shift at the bodega

Biblically accurate 'fuck you'