need to find a mysterious benefactor asap

Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,250 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’🍺 ‘stung by a scorpion’ 🦂 and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯 From Deir el-Medina, royal tomb worker’s village 📷 by me #Archaeology

* The Last Jedi is the best movie after the original and it's not close. * George Lucas is definitely racist but not in any normal kind of way. * Skeleton Crew is probably the second-best series after Andor. * There should be more Devaronians.

How to create the future utopia in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot books:

Probably hang out in Cairo or Kaifeng

Mad Max movie where he stumbles into a guy named Bruce who just has Solar on his house and an EV and he's basically fine.

The only people more foolish than the ones who deny that smoking is cool are the ones who deny how shitty the world was when you could smoke everywhere.

By this metric, I'm a Zoomer, which is terrible news for my students

Yeah, I'm sharing an open to work here, 'cause there's some awesome historians and researchers on Bluesky, and it'd be great to work with y'all. #JobSeek #OpenToWork #History

Steve Kerr spot on as usual

The true sign of a """"high trust society"""" is a multiplicity of benches, public toilets, taps for drinking water and playgrounds, plus well utilised public transport.

Oh you think it's "cool" to do a heist? To assemble a crew of specialists, each with a unique backstory, to create a beautiful ballet of theft? You think it's "cool" to purloin beautiful treasures under several redundant layers of security? You people sicken me. Next you're gonna say you use drugs.

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The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

Car driving up Elizabeth Street blasting 'How Soon Is Now'. Yes brother!

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Many of the best revolutions began with mutinying sailors!

heated chivalry

this is an absolute ✨ cultural moment ✨

Erudite yet concise intro to a mode of discourse that, despite being ubiquitous in our society, is too often overlooked (partly bc it's often eclipsed by or conflated with discourses around race)

If a trap producer worked with a New Orleans brass band to make a song for an animated segment of Sesame Street, it might sound like this

I should explain why I ask: we have an idea that, despite being a heavily urbanised country, Australian identity symbolically resides in rural places and spaces. But so many of the best Aussie movies of the last ~30 (50?) years have been set in cities and suburbs. Is our self-image evolving?

My latest article: 'We don’t know who did it. We don’t know their gender, their ethnicity or their political beliefs... What we do know is that in the summer of 1983–84, a fungus called Phragmidium violaceum was introduced to Australia – deliberately, secretly and illegally.' Call it 'plant noir'!

What are some Australian films that really make a city look good? I'm thinking, e.g., of Two Hands, which, despite all the King's Cross grime, is such a love letter to Sydney.

a weird belief that is held across basically all sectors of American life is that boy dollars and boy votes are better than girl dollars and girl votes and so if you have a lot of the latter you need to be constantly trying to exchange them for the former

I'm gonna be laughing about this quote from Lizzy Goodman's Meet Me In The Bathroom for days

I know this statement might seem extreme to some, but the trouble is, I see Lebanese as human beings.

Saw a swamp wallaby at Yarra Bend last night, disappearing in and out of the long grass with each hop. Its fur was black as pitch. No pic!

Don't be put off by the big words in the title - this article is about when, how and WHY settler Australians decided to stop introducing new species from overseas. The answer may surprise you! (It's xenophobia.) If you don't have access, lmk in the replies and I can help you out.

I'm 20 years old. I'm listening to a new song by my favourite band, the Strokes. It kind of sucks. I'm 27 years old. I'm listening to a new song by one of my favourite bands, the Strokes. It kind of sucks. I'm 32 years old. I'm listening to a new song by the Strokes. It kind of sucks.

Imagining a guy who thinks the phrase "down for the count" is about being hot for the vampire puppet from Sesame Street

I hope there's a journalist/social media expert currently investigating how the Iranian government found and deployed all these weapons-grade posters seemingly overnight

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

City where I felt most bored: Brussels City where I felt most scared: New Orleans City where I felt like nothing good was ever gonna happen to me again: London

I don't think I will ever admire him the way I admired Papa Frank. But I also think he has the potential to be an even better pope.

Yes I'm drunk but regardless I need desperately to eat this

there should be a video game set in the tim winton extended universe where you get to drive a car along a endless coastal road and shoot a gun at the ocean

I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt

One of the few moments in my adult life I believed the USA could be redeemed was when I first watched this video of John Cena extolling the diversity of his country. Now go watch Peacemaker. youtu.be/4wqV9y1lAqU?...

Hadn't thought about it like this before but there's a case to be made that Musk and his DOGE cronies did a kind of "paper genocide"

I fear future historians will struggle to explain why paedophilia was such a major theme of global politics and popular culture in the late 2010s and 2020s. QAnon, the Epstein files, the Drake-Kendrick beef, reactionaries slurring queer people as "groomers", I'm sure the list goes on

Another candidate for FTOAT (funniest tweets of all time)

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

<I’m wheeled into the Pitt> Santos: male, 36, at happy hour, now saying “tummy feel crazy” Al-Hashimi: 47% of men’s bodies reject modern IPAs. They’re too hoppy now Robi: the silent killer. Get him to surgery McKay <alone now, staring straight at camera>: I am the same type of communist as you

People are reminiscing about the funniest tweets but I'm not seeing any love for Brooks Otterlake? Imo he is second only to dril