As certain persons to whom I am married (ex-radio dj, so she knew what was up) observe, nobody actually listens to lyrics.

Still are, btw.

HOLY FLURKING SNERT!!!!!!

'Egyptian/Phoenician Glass Dog Head Bead, 6th-4th Century BC' www.lotsearch.net/lot/egyptian...

it's never been so important to keep your favourite stuffie close #DailyRainbow

Me, not a sports guy, squinting at scores: So it's Detroit vs...tuberculosis? @thehappysorceress.bsky.social , who knows me: Yes.

And we love them both #pride #transgender

Happy IPO, everybody!

Evangelos Chrysos. Ironically one of the last teachers I had in academia, but as I was coming from archeology, he was the guy who really got me onto closely reading texts. Also, absurdly inspirational, as the other archaeology students we dragged to his lectures can attest.

Pouring one out for Constantine XI Palaiologos.

This. And if I'm OK with having a pack of lies rather than verifiable research, I can make up far more entertaining ones on my own.

Rosenbaum is apparently trivially seduced, and AI-as-marketed (as a tool to replace writing and creating) is not valuable at all. And I'm not using it in any way in my writing.

Now that all my backers received their copies (both digital and printed), Inks & Paints of the Islamic Golden Age is available as an ebook: payhip.com/majnouna/col...

Ying tong iddle i po!

Stop, collaborate, and listen, but it's Vidkun Quisling.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds sounds like a great double-bill concert.

Yeah, wishlisting this.

Coming out of anthropology as I am, I'm all "SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF VALUE, BABY!!!!"

Tippecanoe AND Tyler, too? In the economy in the wake of the Panic of 1837?

[My thief in D&D, trying to figure out how to pick a fishlock.]

I was just talking about this kind of thing a few days ago. Happy to be on the same page as this Pope on the topic. bsky.app/profile/tcar...

Rainbow discovers his first ever giant ice pop and falls instantly in love

A Double Bubble, as it were.

My enduring fondness for second/third TTRPGs like GURPS, first edition Paranoia, and James Bond 007 is why I think of myself as less Old School Renaissance and more Old School Long 19th Century.

Took an archaeology course on prehistoric art.

Turn (On) Undead

“Turkey reiterated that there is no sultan’s document or firman legitimizing the removal of the Marbles from the monument and their acquisition by Lord Elgin. It called on the UK to stop citing the existence of a firman in international intergovernmental forums.” 👀

BREAKFAST ALL DAY

Thinking about a Paranoia adventure. I'm so close to a terrible idea for it.

Basmati smells SO FRICKIN GOOD.

OK, that works.

Lawrence of Arabia

I wanted to return to this, not because it sheds light on the modern world in any way I can think of now, but because Henri's brief episode as king of Poland is just a wild story. Parallel 🧵

You may ask yourself.

I'm not a concert guy, but this tangentially reminds me that I've seen Carlos Santana three times, and never once on purpose.

I honestly can't read the tone here. I *think* it's supposed to be come kind of burn, but a baby capybara in a Hawaiian shirt approaches the Platonic ideal of adorable.

Being a humanities guy in IT has its quirks, like finding narratives in the past to explain the present. Recently, I've been seeing managers and executives going wild over AI because it lets them build stuff which impresses them, and I realized I was having a Henri III in Venice moment. 🧵

Humans have been able to domesticate so many species on a global basis because pretty much anything with a backbone loves scritchies and with our primate fingers and grooming behaviors, we're in an ideal position to take advantage. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

"I'm not a Republic serial villain, Dan..."

TIMECRIME!

Somewhere, there's a color commentator saying "This is the first time a piece of traffic safety equipment has been used in a defensive play since a k-rail playing for Chicago stopped a bunt in Oakland in 1987. It had just been brought up to the bigs from the AAA Jersey Barriers the week before..."

As Douglas Adams demonstrated many years ago.

The only gender is fear. Fear and surprise. TWO genders, fear and surprise. Surprise and fear and ruthless efficiency. Three genders! Surprise and fear and ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the pope. ...I'll come in again.

If people are fighting for any other platonic solid, it's a particularly rambunctious game of D&D.

LRT: No, but seriously, that's approximately the annual tuition and enrollment of UT Knoxville, the main campus of the University of Tennessee system (where my dad spent his academic career and helped endow their Medieval studies program, which was way out of his lane).

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

Baseball commentator: "It's been a real Renaissance season for [player]" So he's discovered perspective? Attacked Venice then suddenly switched sides to defend it? Tried to prove both Plato and the Bible support the designated hitter rule?

Born #onthisday in 1828, the English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and serious wombat fan Dante Gabriel Rossetti... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uommibatto-how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat #otd

If I understand these commercials correctly, Burger King has had a revolution and become a republic.

Happy Mother's Day!