1/2 Holy crap! Dental work in 59,000yr old Neanderthal. “…earliest instance of cavity treatment [using] different tools in addition to drilling, complex finger movements, indicates capacity to intuit source of pain, comprehend feasibility of elimination & select efficacious dental intervention.]*

Yes, the likes of Boise & Charleston airports are sitting ready to accept thousands of international flights!

So like…how many gold bars can current government people request for vague “work use”? Just wondering...

love love love this thread. (Would love one focusing on Middle Eastern at some point also.)

I can’t watch the end because I’m afriad she’s going to look in a mirror and start saying “Candyman"

I am working on the edits of my second book and on the one hand every part of drafting and editing a book is painful and exhausting but on the other hand it’s one of the most satisfying and thrilling things I’ve ever done with my brain and I cannot IMAGINE outsourcing any part of it to a machine.

Luckily our house is really awful retaining heat. We are buried in hot water bottles all winter long, but I’m really grateful come heat wave season

It’s horrid

I cannot agree with this enough times. I positively shudder every time I hear it in conversation

People saying that users prefer the bubble of BlueSky to the feral viciousness of Twitter - well...yes. In the same way I prefer a restaurant where the staff are nice and the food is good over one where they stab you with forks while serving bowls of cold piss.

Anyone who has looked into the history of how the American Right used the abortion issue to drive up political wedge and polarise people will know exactly why this is starting to be inserted into the conversation by the UK Right

I’ve never seen these before. Amazing!

Ahh shit. (the shopping centre is no more valuable than any other place of course, it’s just such recognisable landmark and it feels bad to watch it burn)

John Schofield of York University on the value of archaeology - it’s not just about the past. theconversation.com/six-reasons-...

Actually…Why DO people playing at parcour always shout PARCOUR?

"If one’s concern were really the preservation of Greek antiquity as a living tradition, the closure of a classics department would represent a far more serious loss than a casting choice in a Hollywood blockbuster." This right here. A thousand times. jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/you-dont-r...

I just got catcalled by the guys repaving our neighborhood road. My objective observation: it was neither complimentary nor offensive.* It just made me think, “is this the early 90s?!” It just felt bizarrely anacronistic.

Sometimes the best thing to do with heirlooms is use them. Take the train set out of the box and let your grandkids play with it. Use the fine china. It might break. Let the doll’s lace dress get dirty. Not all value comes from being untouched for eternity.

Ok but why don’t we just try?

So apparently the Palantir and co Enhanced Games are now reduced to 1 day, free to watch and the website is 404’d? They built a stadium for this shit? What an amazing day

I sighed again. I was having a lot of opportunities to do it and I think I was getting good at it.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Someone please explain to me why the UK government doesn’t boost desperately needed sectors by offering free tuition in exchange for X years of NHS work. It seems like such a no-brainer? The NHS psychiatric need is beyond disaster levels, for one example

This fucking guy

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Kiddo and I came to London yesterday. The mission was to pack for overnight in a single purse/small backpack. Turns out I was carrying this, among her “bare necessaries.” At the hotel I found out I had been carrying this the whole time. She literally packed rocks.

My kid is obsessed with commercials. She thinks they’re the greatest. It’s not like we’re from different generations, it’s like being from different universes

I agree. And take the specific example of corporate customer comms. For a beautiful while Twitter was the place you could actually get help, and easily. It’s WHY I first got on Twitter! But brands have not come to Bsky & X restricted the comm lines & brands are just fine with that acutally.

Get wrecked, GameStop

#ChariotTuesday is that a thing? IT IS NOW. This may be the earliest depiction of a Mycenaean chariot (c1350BC). It was found at Enkomi. It has 2 horses but, contrary to Homeric descriptions, it carries 3 men, perhaps indicating a parade rather than war/hunting. Anyway, enjoy. 🏛️BM 📷mine

Ha ha! This is culturally right, but also one of my friends’s moms voices a character. Glad to know she’ll still have that job.

WHAT?

This keeps catching my attention because as it scrolls past she looks like she’s in a sea of baked beans

If you’re looking at jobs right now the listings are bleak. It is 99% training AI gigs

This is especially painful when travelling for work

Remember this when you take them on airplanes.

More of this please

Even the reflecting pool has mar-A-Lago face now

I CANNOT get over the irony of him giving a REFLECTING POOL a gaudy makeover so it will look slicker and shinier and more expensive (in his mind).

This is cool. Not in a good way, but in an informative way

Latvia has been expecting this. Will be interesting to see if we hear more

i don't even where this comes from but I remember reading something about the rise of science poking into everything in increasingly fine detail, and God, seriously annoyed, having to create more backstory on the fly...

I see that effect mostly in how she asked for the settlement, he doesn’t even have to sign a NDA, yet it’s all being framed as a win for her. I feel like her media machine is in high gear to steer it that way. (Not that I’m saying he’s great. I’m Team they're-both-terrible ugh)

Finally, a perfect distillation

Today my kid is at her first residential, so I have gone on a trip myself! Two days away on a solo writing retreat! Here I am hoping to manage to like the log burner 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Billionaires be going round buying islands and seeing who can screw society most in order to show how Special they are, but irl all they need to do is flash Caffeine Free regular Coke (if they can find it)

Why is it so hard for some leaders to understand that it matters whether a country seems: capable, likable, admirable, trustworthy

We talked about this in my anthropology studies, and I think a lot about what K-pop & and how they dealt with a certain political leader has done for how South Korea is perceived, for example. It’s kind of the whole reason the British monarchy still exists in its form.

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

I loathe the modern lazy approach of taking good and useful things away from everyone instead of punishing/removing access from bad actors. Over and over and over again we see this