Back when computers looked like proper computers.

If y'all are interested in warfare in precolonial Africa, there is a pretty good introductory text: Warfare in African History by Reid a.co/d/076wxRmF

Oooh we are posting super bowls? Here is an example from the British Museum's collection of incantation bowls. These would be inscribed by magicians for a client who would place it upside down on the corners or at the entrance to a house to ward off evil spirits. 6th to 8th century. Mandaic. Iraq.

I am kind of inspired by this. Now if only the California community college system would get on board and all faculty to assign literature again instead of long-form journalism.

Now if they were using PowerPoint…🤔

Of course @grantbrisbee.bsky.social had to mention past Giants non roster invitee Bryan Brickhouse (great baseball name), which meant I had to listen to a Commodores CD this morning. www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

I made kung pao chicken tonight.

Holy f-stop, I didn't realize that #InvadersFromMars was shot (in this weird Super Cinecolor process) by John F. Seitz, who shot pretty much all of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges's best films- including Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard- en route to his seven Oscar nominations. #TCMParty

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

This was a really great resource for quick and dirty lookup of basic facts about countries. I am sorry to see it go.

The story of Budapest brings back fond memories of my own European trek across continental Europe in the 90s. Except, I had a really nice apartment in Budapest from a lady at the train station. It was well located, clean, and only 7 USD per night.

Update. We finished Feb 2 with 28 earthquakes. Plus there was one while I was at the library today and a patron who wasn't a Californian freaked out and ran outside.

"In many Washington and Pentagon circles, 'resilience' has become a comforting abstraction. Slap some 'resilience' initiatives on a PowerPoint or tout it in a speech, and the resilience fairies will solve it."

Has anyone else noticed that Zotero's CMS citations are now incomplete, missing cities with books and page ranges for book sections?

Cc: @stevecooke.org

Join us Wednesday night at 8pE for three Bugs Bunny shorts (co-starring Marvin the Martian) followed by sci-fi film INVADERS FROM MARS (1953) #TCMParty ^JW

This is getting ridiculous. 25 earthquakes today.

Made me think of the movie C.H.U.D. (1984).

Being jolted out of bed by an earthquake and then having 20 aftershocks was rather disconcerting this morning.

That is a funny skeet. IYKYK.😂

I made paneer today for muttar paneer because I had a gallon of milk that expired. I just sampled it. It came out good.

I forgot what a magnet for cat hair corduroy trousers were. Gotta find the lint roller.

I am making cheese curds and Tangerine can smell the milk heating on the stove.

Rare sighting of Clementine and Tangerine sharing the box on #Caturday

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Philosophy and Western Civilization Asian Religious Traditions Geographic Data Analysis Religious Literature in Hebrew The Art of Narrative Philosophy and West. Civ. was taught by Chris Belshaw (now at York). Great teacher!

Remembering Alan Ladd on the anniversary of his death (January 29, 1964)

@edebruin.bsky.social knows of what she writes. One of the experts in the field of civil war, security sector reform, and coups d'état. Gendarmeries are ubiquitous in Francophone countries and in part are coup-proofing and mainly a force for MOOTW. Then there are pro-government militias...

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

I love this thread. It is a great short short story prompted by Greg Bovino's return to his office in California.

Assuming the Giants outfield is Jung Hoo Lee in LF, Bader in CF, and a platoon of Gilbert and Matos in RF, which is a really nice defensive outfield, you now have a log jam at DH again with Encarnacion and Ramos vying for time. With Eldridge and Devers sharing time at 1B, you'd then have 3 DHs.

Woo Boy! Got a huge Big10 matchup in the household between Michigan (wife is alumna) and me (Nebraska MBA) on Tuesday. Nebraska is 20-0 on the season and Michigan is 18-1.

Y'all are gonna crumble into dust at this. . .

Ok, this made me chuckle. 58% of Swiss say: “I would like neutrality to be interpreted in such a way that Switzerland can join a defence alliance such as NATO if the threat increases.” Which is a hilarious question & position as joining NATO is the end of neutrality.

100% this. Since 1995, I have traveled extensively internationally and never encountered hatred. Extra hassles at immigration control in 🇨🇦 and 🇮🇳. Other than that people have never given me a hard time.

I've been reading Duncan's book Russian Messianism, and I am struck by how absolutely mainstream Putinism is. The ideology is straight out of Dostoyevsky. a.co/d/hgCCZO1

My idiot orangeys! 🙄 These cats now have a fixation on flipping over their water bowls. Bowls are squeaky clean. Water is fresh. They still tip them over every time I put down fresh water.

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

One of those iconic 1970s thrillers that is up there with The French Connection, 3 Days of the Condor, the Parallax View, Magnum Force, and Marathon Man.

The Crane River brewpub in Lincoln, NE was the place I used to meet my friends after work at the university. I have fond memories of putting back a few and sharing the buffalo nachos with my mates. Their best beer was a barleywine they occasionally offered.

The 11th Airborne Division was created three years ago from elements of the 25th Infantry Division, which was the unit that became America's designated "peacekeepers" for deployment to Haiti back in the 90s. Do they still have training to operate as peacekeepers?

The Hmong were organized into an anticommunist militia by the CIA/Green Berets during the Laotian Civil War and Vietnam War.

An intra-NATO tripwire is wild.

BREAKING: A full-scale airlift is running around the clock, transporting troops and military equipment to Greenland. The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

"A return to licensed production as opposed to participation in joint programs (like the JSF and beyond) would severely undermine Canada’s defence industrial strategy and our capacity to properly equip the RCAF in both the long- and short-term." macdonaldlaurier.ca/jets-jobs-an...

It will be in every PPT to the Department of War until January 20, 2029. Then never spoken of again.

Clementine has lost enough fat to get up on the top of the bookcase again and she is in a mood.

Ronald Reagan’s budget director.

Kinda depressing that my age cohort is now old enough to have the music from their teenage years featured in drug ads. I liked it better when the music was being featured in baby product ads 20 years ago.

I wonder what kind of animal is scavenging, stone fruit, berries, and garbage and leaving cow pie sized purple poos on the trail where I run. There can’t possibly be a bear in suburbia can there? Large animals I have seen: deer, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, raccoons, skunks, foxes, opossums.

3 earthquakes, magnitude 2-3, in succession around The Bridges golf course in San Ramon.