I’m pissed that we’re all going to have a shitty 10-15 years economically because a dozen techboys believed that it was possible to write code to the point that the program could write better code and eventually either kill us all or make us immortal, and so they spent $1.5tn for $41bn in revenue

This is metal

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

I think it’s interesting how if you describe gendered expectations backed by significant data you will be demeaned as a man-hater but if you regularly do stuff like casually using sexist language toward women you’re just considered normal

Miniature scene of skating near a castle (w/ a few mishaps) by Hans Bol of Mechelen, 1571. Today is his birthday.

do you gotta personify the dead trees in the vacant lot too. they're having a hard enough time without you imagining they have an opinion about what's happening Wondermark #1578; In which Trees are a Lot

A #Roman rock crystal ring decorated with a crescent and stars inlaid with gold foil - it looks like an emoji 🤩, but for the Romans this wasn’t just decoration. The motif was associated with death: crescent and stars were symbols for eternity and afterlife. Rock crystal was valued...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

One of my Bluesky highlights this year:

One of the arguments I make here is that Black women academics, especially, often have our academic credentials disregarded (implicitly and explicitly) if we mention, even in the slightest way, how our discipline reproduces inequality – structurally or conceptually. folukeafrica.com/activist-or-...

See also: Mexican artist Francisco Mora's 1958 print "La Democracia" (Democracy). Mora was the longtime partner of Elizabeth Catlett, who was barred from reentering the US for decades due to her political involvements

"It is almost unheard of for such footage, describing internal decision-making and dissent within the Chinese military, to become public, and discussion of the 1989 crackdown is still heavily censored in China..." Unpaywalled here: archive.ph/s14ZL

Annunciation. Mary looks pleased in spite of Gabriel's rather faded lilies. What was that about, one wonders. By Tyrolean artist Michael Pacher, whose day is today.

Devil: see, this is an EVIDENCE BASED argument! St. Wolfgang: sorry, that is not a peer-reviewed journal. By Michael Pacher, 1479. It's his day.

In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history. #teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16

Haha...? ... Yikes! In 1965. So, this is a fun read, there is a stunning map(s) that highlights the location. Went "wow!" as I read. Give it a whorl, free to read. I also, like big maps, I cannot lie. (*to the tune of Sir Mix-a-lot, "Baby got back")

The remains of Thirwall Castle, near Greenhead in Northumberland. The castle was founded in the early 14th century using recycled Roman stone from Hadrian’s Wall. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #ThirwallCastle #Northumberland

The ‘Netherby Genius’ - a relief of a guardian spirit which was found at Netherby, the site of Castra Exploratorum Roman Fort, in Cumbria. The relief is now part of the collections at Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #TullieHouseMuseum

At the heart of it all? The god Saturn was an ancient deity often connected with the Greek Titan Cronus and was viewed as the father of Jupiter. Saturn is often depicted in iconography with a sickle or falx. #AncientRome #Saturnalia

✨Prepare yourself - it’s Saturnalia time✨ It’s that time of the year! Between the 17th and the 23rd of December (the festival expanded in length over time), Rome became a place of revelry and norms could be temporarily subverted.

"learning is the result of human grappling with the parts of the world that resist us and our capacity to understand. This conception of education is antithetical to the transactional and antihuman program of... AI"

"Recorded history...has left us with a tremendous corpus of raw material to read and analyze. Should we?" That ship has already sailed, sport. The pseudo-intellectuals of the techbroligarchy never fail to meet expectations.

All of this.

I like to think of myself as Schroedinger’s WoC in academia: I’m simultaneously so powerful that I keep white men from getting their rightful jobs in academia and simultaneously so powerless/disenfranchised I spent over a decade in precarious jobs across the world sans networks and sans godparents

It remains intensely ironic that it is only through critical scholarship on race, gender and class that we can understand how White male grievances and entitlement like this contributed to this fascist moment where higher ed and media are being broken apart and re-segregated and whitened

For #ReliefWednesday we're looking at perhaps the most celebrated piece of ancient #Roman #cameo #glass, the #PortlandVase in the #BritishMuseum. Made in #Rome between 15 BCE and 25 CE, it shows two scenes, whose meaning is still obscure, but whose beauty is undisputed. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️ Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Athens c. 475-465 BC. Photo Getty Museum: www.getty.edu/art/collecti... #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

Dept. of Comedy Regulation.

McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

This is the essence of magic, which does not create but summons. ~Franz Kafka

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. ~Madeleine L'Engle

#vss365 #memory

#StreetArt #TagTuesday

So dim and fragile this cheap trinket among lights and wonders. But I see surprise and delight enough to kindle a #memory strong and bright. A gift to survive me. #vss365

Subtle Goodness A spark in the tinderbox, Within the common daily round, It brings solace against shocks. Faint signatures of kindness, In books where cruel numbers press, It challenges the blindness. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art

If you are a white man in media and STILL whining about all the Black/poc/women who "took your jobs" after the absolute bloodbath/backlash and almost violent re-whitening of media, punditry and academia in the past year, you should go to therapy, find god/gods or take up knitting Just my two cents

I recall the taste Of forgiveness Iced berries, Juice chilled On my tongue. The red, Tiny mercy Of your warm December. #PhotographersofBlueSky #nature #Photography #EastCoatKin #ColorADay #RedWed #ArtYear #poetry #vss365 #recall

a vision of blue I recall the waves crashing. the moonlit night imagining a lighthouse The sea waves against the cliffs. #recall #vss365 #sea #lighthouse

NEW: Jack Smith will make his case to Congress today while navigating a labyrinth of secrecy rules, laws and restrictions — and a room full of Republican lawmakers eager to trip him up and incriminate him. w/ @Hailey_Fuchs www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

These are a few of my favourite words …

#recall more than story, the feeling bone deep, etched in marrow as if our very essence is born of exposure and the world becomes an unending frozen stream #vss365

Call your people in Recall when Calling was a sacred act Call to the wind Recall what happened Call your spirit back in Calling all parts hidden Recall that we are all Calling for a world to live in #vss365 #recall

When I was just a youngin' one thing I do #recall our phone was in the kitchen tethered to the wall so if you wanted privacy you bought a longer cord squeezed in the room that housed the broom and then your heart you poured #vss365

#vss365 Simmering #memory Beneath a broken heart Rising forth from a numbing soul - Shimmering tears behind a faint smile

watchmaker repairs gears as blue-tit imitates profession en'branch 𓂃 ོ𓂃 #wildwalkprompt #blue-tit #nature #watchmaker

I have a drawer that’s filled with keys of every shape and size. I can’t #recall what locks they fit, but saving them feels wise. #vss365

I do not #recall You being that tall She says as we step Onto a platform And into a life #vss365