There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. from "Sources" by Adrienne Rich

The legion was recalled to cover Southern England as replacement troops during an invasion in the Balkans that mobilized closer legions. So they dug a 3.6 m deep hole at Inchtuthil & filled it with nails. And not just a few: 6 tons of square iron nails, 875,400 in total, plus other iron fixtures.

I'm doing a project on spatial statistics of plant distributions, and there's a thing called Forest-Based Classification and Regression... that unfortunately refers to "forests" as in "bunches of trees" as in the branching data structure, not the type of plant

embrace prosocial klingon thought

In my teens I briefly flirted with bowler hat wearing, a flirtation that abruptly came to an end the day I also tried to eat an apple and got called a 'Magritte Dickhead' by a particularly cultured bully.

Santa Claus in a 1956 or 57 Segraves Pumper, Santa Cruz. 🎅🚒

The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic Photo: Pete Seaward

More of this nationwide please!

MYCHART WRAPPED

I love how the hotels lean into Midwest Fur Fest. Furry money spends as good as anyone else's

i love reposting this one

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

science, where is my pet parasaurolophus

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Thinking about this a while ago, the phrase I arrived at is something like “I’m not equipped to say for certain whether there’s hope for your soul, but I’m not your divine caseworker”

Found the most Alaskan card possible for my friend's baby shower lollll

leef

Biological woman? What if alchemical woman?

Gift link here:

one of us.

fuck yeah weird al (flashing lights warning)

There is also the Weatherstar 3000, which emulates how the weather channel used to be in the 90's, complete with smooth jazz weatherstar.netbymatt.com

my friend mostly listens to classical music so his Spotify Wrapped age is 224

One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.

That's a very nice stick, though.

*olivia newton john voice* let's get comfortable, comfortable

VOMBATIFORM

today in Unfortunately I Get It it is sick that they’re doing away with the newborn Hep B rec and this MAHA shit is being fueled by the incredible cognitive tax of navigating a world that is indeed full of industrial poison and doesn’t give a fuck for pregnant people’s health

Same with childcare workers. When we asked Nugget's day care if there was a vax rule, the director started awkwardly explaining how to get an exemption. She visibly relaxed when we clarified we vax and wanted to know that other kids were too.

"Give him all the shots," is exactly what I told our ped with our son, too. Also, "I vaccinate cows. That needle is TINY."

It's happening now! It's great to help celebrate the ongoing success of one of our longest-standing contributors.

Really, the yearly "oh god what's in canned pumpkin" is merely pulling back the curtain. NOT to reveal the nefariousness of food companies, at least, not in this case. No, it's to reveal that behind the curtain, botanic taxonomy is chaos.

Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.

@patrickwyman.bsky.social I'm diving into the Prehistory season of Tides, and you mentioned a course you taught on "doing history with the natural sciences". I don't see much on google, so -- What was the actual course title? Is any of that material online anywhere?

encouraging my dog to go potty faster: *dalek voice* ELIMINATE, ELIMINATE

i am thoroughly enjoying these books. they're not on the masterpiece level of Magnus but if you want to read a Jon-like figure dealing with Lovecraftian bullshit and also being gay kissed for the first time, give Whyborne & Griffin a try

Christine: We're under attack! Whyborne: *collapses the roof on the monsters using earth bending* Rupert: Be careful, you almost killed us too! Whyborne: 🤷 Christine: And you're ruining this ancient eldritch monument! Whyborne: oh FUCK, you're right, think of the archaeology, what have I become?!

Not to spoil the fun, especially because you quite possibly guessed as much, but pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/d...

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

Mousecow has got herself a new box today. #EverybodyLovesMousecow

*youth pastor voice* Hey kids, let me tell you about another creator who also streamed from afar....

in another life i might have been a paleographer. that sounds arcane and fascinating as fuck

for generations scholars have debated which gender goes to college to get more knowledge, and which goes to Jupiter to get more stupider. in this essay i will...

OH MY GOD HE IS PRECIOUS

Christians: has anyone written a full length filk of "Joshua filled the bottle of Cherry Coke"?

People's desire for both "refugee" and "colonizer" to be moral (or value-specific) terms instead of simple descriptive ones tends to get them into analytical trouble

*sigh* back in 2016 I said if Trump wanted to do universal health care on the condition it be called TrumpCare, I'd take that bargain now he gives us kei trucks ig?

fuck

good post. TIL that "office" (in the sense of job/duty) derives from "opus fecit", "thing done"