“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (2.13)

"The Archers" is regularly trending, but there is only one set of Archers I recognize.

Oh is Lupita Nyong'o not Greek-looking enough for you to play Helen of Troy? You better be fancasting someone who looks like Nia Vardalos.

LinkedIn is the one website that would be exactly the same if it were entirely LLM generated.

I’ll turn my AC off after the data centers turn theirs off. There’s not a chance in hell I’m sweating it out in my *house* while Amazon runs at full bore “for the servers”. Fuck em and their messenger boys

On point. #Satire

Today I cleared a lane that’s left only about 15x50 left in the southwest quadrant. It was perfect weather- 75, clear sun and dry. It was a great 4th! To hands and knees grid search the initial 40’x90’box and this one took, per my gps tracks, 22.25 hours and covered 18.3 miles in total.

I wrote about Michael Mann’s Thief

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

…there amidst smoke and sweat, they gave back, without grudge, or loss of time in the sending, in kind whatever the enemy sent, globe, and cone, and bolt, hollow or solid, an iron greeting to the rebellion, the compliments of the wrathful Republic.”

Jews: Whats going on here? Catholics: Ok, so to understand why Mel Gibson is going to hell over what he claims is JUST Latin we have to go back to 1054...

Calling all history of astronomy nerds, the latest open-access book from the Alfonsine Tables project is now available, featuring late medieval tables from Central Europe - Jan of Głogów, Albert of Brudzewo, Johannes Schöner, & many more: 🌞🌒🪐 www.brepols.net/products/IS-... #HistSTM @brepols.net

I know. You've been wondering what contemporary jazz sounds like when the composer, leader, & pianist is a Japanese woman. Spoiler: It sounds great. Follow the link. 👇🏽

“War endures because young men love it, and old men love that in them” Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, 1985 Aneirin, 6th Century:

Finally, the Gododdin has arrived

House-made ketchup. Just give us Heinz, they figured it out already and you're not improving on the recipe.

A very PNW day at Soda Fork. I laid out a 10,000 sq ft box on the hillside, then subdivided that in 2,500 sq ft boxes. I then cleared a 15x50 strip in one of them.

I don’t feel like I’m asking for the world to want this for me

“Can massive investments in artificial intelligence translate into sustainable, widespread business models for all, or will only the few profit that recently stole all our texts and images?”

This is very niche, but very funny www.instagram.com/reel/DZpnxqU...

Can I be a little salty that this has taken 6 weeks to ship?

Tiny Human went to a singing workshop and they taught them how to sing a special song a capella. She is now walking around the house singing Sweet Child Of Mine. This is the greatest thing ever!

“Army Cadets”

If it had an engine, yes

New Dante meme dropped

Someone had dog ice cream for the first time. This will backfire on me somehow

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

We’ve identified an amoeba sect that has a long history of conflict with the hostile algae and can be considered moderately aligned with our interests. I’m proposing an arm, train and equip mission, with limited combat roles, for US advisors.

Every algae you kill just radicalizes 10 more algae

It worked during the Malay Emergency, we just need to physically separate the different phenotypes of algae.

The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

That Criterion Kubrick box looks like the kind of thing you buy and display on a table, so visitors know you're the kind of person who owns a thing like that.

Mal stares

“Sir, we are tracking the burn down on active algae incidents in our AOR and we continue to see the trend as amber turning green.”

His colleagues, family, friends and sources remember Zane Sparling as a talented reporter with a flair for language and an offbeat sense of humor that kept the job light even on days the work — and his health — were bleak. Read more at theoregonian.visitlink.me/QxR5KI

I legit thought this was about Pickett’s Charge until I saw the episode title

Legacy of the Geats: How the Memory of Beowulf’s Tribe Survives in Modern Sweden www.medievalists.net/2026/03/geat... #Beowulf

...a horrible horseman hurtled through the doors his body as brawny as any can be so bull-necked, big-thighed, bulky and square so long-legged, large-limbed, looming so tall I can hardly tell if he were half troll or merely as large as living man can be-- alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/ #alliteration

Someone got all tired out supervising me on the search today

Just so no one thinks I'm picking on the British... "Gee, Brain, what do you wanna do tonight??" "The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take break out of Anzio."

"Gee, Brain, what do you wanna do tonight??" "The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to sink IJN flattops in the Coral Sea!"

We went to a one-man Fringe performance this evening, "The Gregorian Chant Comedy Hour." The whole show was delivered liturgical chant-style, and he opened with a joke about the Albigensian crusade. Respect.

Out for a little wind therapy after one long week.

And I’m proud to be an American

How is he STILL PUBLISHING?!?

Made in 1510 for the Iron Maiden LPs of the 1980s. #IronMaiden