Feast days were not leisure days. Your goat needs milking as a matter of health and safety, and the goat does not particularly care if it's the feast day of St. Boniface

The person who originated this claim (Gregory Clark, 1986) walked it back when it was revealed that he came to this conclusion was because he was uncritically reading 13th century manorial records What those record actually reflected was labor *owed to the lord*, not the peasant's total labor

"liquid corset" by amplituda design

Thy bush is an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain enclosed, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

Did Michigan fans do this?

this so funny to me, i love and respect that she made this distinction

Asserting a third kind of sci-fi anime: Ghost in the Shell (Psycho-Pass, but not Bubblegum Crisis, which is Urusei Yatsura)

elf

How far are we willing to allow AI to change the world? How far are we willing to allow AI to change *us*?

me when someone says POSIWID

I'd never heard this part? This is from over a decade ago so I assume it's just going to be believed forever because it was in the news

#SomethingBeautiful Venice carnival

Who is she that gazeth down like the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

(obviously individual judgements don't satisfy everyone, but you want a system that people in the abstract consider to produce results that pass muster, according to their values)

his theory was that essentially a justice system's purpose is to resolve disputes in some way that provides emotional satisfaction to all involved, based on the prevailing values of the time

this is a really interesting thread and it reminds me of professor of legal history i worked with whose work was trying to figure out how and why we consider modern trials and, say, viking trial by combat or medieval trial by ordeal are even the same thing

On Her Majesty's Secret Service, kind of

How is this a real headline?

Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though

nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative

people don't want to say it but all newborn discourses are kind of ugly

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am given to understand that the overall Odyssey translation is not very accurate but it's in ways that you wouldn't notice unless you're a scholar or superfan or read Greek; a lot of the cutesy or modern choices are fine

been listening to claude radio for the last hour and it is currently playing pro-union anthems

I see you, boymoder. So that's why they let you in

ok look we all know we're gonna need to do a lot of firing in 2029 and we all know a mckinsey guy DOES know how to clean house,

Tag yourself; I'm poetrygender.

I just looked up 'photos of abraham lincoln' and got to this quote which is pretty amazing honestly

the dogpile is poisonous to the soul and to the discourse. it turns the hearts of those piling on towards glee at seeing violence. and hardens the heart of the one piled upon

Japan is one of the most R&D intensive non-US countries, and RIKEN is its most prestigious (non-university) research institute. If you isekai’d it into the US, it only has the fourth biggest R&D budget in the state of North Carolina, which is like the twelfth biggest state bsky.app/profile/awma...

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Another way to say this: if you face a lot of genuine persecution, which trans people do, it's easy to mistakenly view any sort of conflict you face as a part of that persecution

The fact they cropped this makes everyone who criticized the composition or vibes right and everyone calling details into question wrong imo (of course I'm putting myself in "right," lol)

These things happen, let's focus on substance and not make a mountain out of a mohel hill

Which could have been the monitor on the Fairlight sampler they were using.

Incredible

if I wrote the story, it's Aiuniquely gay

There’s an odd selection bias here, because those audiences are less likely to recognize AI writing

RING-MAKER (2017)

Now you might think this is me just continuing my bit about the rural-coded Working Class Progressive because that would be a funny middle name for him. You would be wrong. “Tater” is in fact the government middle name of Gage Workman, ballplayer, as Jason Benetti gleefully informed us.

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tfw I have straits at home

[flirting] i need to kiss you because i'm doing a kissing study