every link I click in the unrealized projects rabbit hole is another project I will never realize

unfortunately, I hate to inform you, but in trying to make the most distilled form of a Skinner box, Heather Flowers made art

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

#OtD 19 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt decided to illegally deport over 1000 Chinese seamen who lived in Liverpool. Even men married to British women were expelled, along with some of their wives who were then stripped of British citizenship stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9142...

This is very embarrassing, but I've been caught out with vet fees for my cat's teeth. I can't scrape together enough money to take the hit, so I'd be very grateful if anyone can throw a few spare pounds towards his gofundme 🥲 #CatHelp #CatFund #VetBills #Help gofund.me/2d0fab351

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Commenting on student papers which analyze the hunting scenes from the Jiuyuangang tombs, I am suddenly confronted with the problem of Bears In Early Chinese Art. So far the students seem pretty uniformly convinced these are rats, which is giving them an odd take on hunting in the late 6th century.

The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London. Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.

I can't believe this is real

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands? chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨ Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

Around this time of year, brits will wear ‘poppies’ out of deep respect for the international heroin trade

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility. Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom. 📷Metropolitan Museum 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Last night, we watched an episode of Zillow Gone Wild wherein a young girl in the 1970s convinced her parents in Lake Tahoe to paint her bedroom like the palace at Knossos and I have never felt closer to a small child.

ruin a classic by changing one word: Dream of Green Chambers 青樓夢

An unusual item in my collection, Mister Black’s Secret by Catherine Barr. At first it seems like an early example of cheezburger speech but it was actually written in a shortlived teaching alphabet called ITA.

Right now we are being hustled by a postcard seller.

Did not realize how much I needed Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones's utterly adorable drawings of pigs (thread). First up, front & back views of a prized pig adorned with a flowered garland, from Lancaster @darthbluesky.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social eb-j.org/browse-artwo...

dudes rock

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

SPILL TEA, O MUSE, 'BOUT ACHILLES FLIPPING HIS SHIT

incredible photo on wikimedia commons that isn't currently used in any articles

One Piece flag at the Nepal Gen-Z protests.

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

There’s a real generational divide between Labour MPs leaking to the Guardian and Labour MPs leaking to the Huffington Post

The Uncertainty of the Poet, by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913

only around a decade to go until another PM thinks "I know, I should hire Peter Mandelson"

A slide from my med school syphilis talk

Pixie and Fluffy are the most beautiful best friends.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️ 1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist

These stunning golden #duck heads flanking the head of Hathor were found in the royal tomb at Qatna/#Syria, dating 15th/14th century BC. The unique object may have been part of a cosmetic container. National Museum Damascus #archaeology 🏺 🦆

Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate

Norma Jean update: she is doing great! She is off all pain meds now and her horn is healing well - there have been no signs of infection. Since she loves to play rough it's still too soon for her to rejoin her friends. It's hard for her but she's getting lots of attention from staff and volunteers!

Thank You For Your Attention To This Classical Chinese: 會暑，上轀車臭，乃詔從官令車載一石鮑魚，以亂其臭。 It was summertime, and the emperor's sleeping-carriage began to reek. An imperial order was issued: the officials in attendants were each to transport a load of fish in their carriages, to cover the stench.

Come on, man

"We've created models that share a 'secret language' of meaningless but mutually-appreciated literary markers, defend obvious gibberish with impressive-sounding theories, and become MORE confident in their delusions when given more compute to think about them" ah fuck the robots discovered Theory

train station platforms everywhere else in the world: ads, jaunty city slogans, maybe some street art train station platforms in Oslo, for reasons not explained anywhere:

medievalists will be like 'if Bede were alive today, he'd breathe the true passion for learning we need back into the humanities and save them', no, he'd have started running his own Mastodon instance about railways and started getting in fights about rolling stock on the Brussels metro

What’s better than a metal band named after an episode from Greek mythology? The fact that the band adopt the man-eating mares of Diomedes being fed their own master as a symbol of “eating” the patriarchy.

Eels are classic. And also classical! In fact, they're the only fish mentioned by name in Homer's Iliad. In Book 21, Achilles kills a Trojan in the River Scamander. Like ya do. And immediately, the eels begin to nibble on the dead man's kidneys. Nibble. 'Cause eels are dainty. 🗃️🧪

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

It’s #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🦉❤️ To celebrate here’s an Ancient Greek clay aryballos (perfume flask) in the shape of a little owl! Dated c. 640 BC. The Louvre, Paris 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

2/2 A fierce bad tiger. And very small! Netsuke by Matsushita Otoman, mid-19th century Japan. Less than 2 inches high. #WorldTigerDay

I bought Thistle a cement slab and I think it's a hit

Found a new type of guy

Incredible things are happening in Kemi Badenoch's Conservative Party

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