The Alentejo region of Portugal is a beautiful landscape of rolling hills, rivers/streams, and cork trees.

Evora, Portugal is lovely. You can visit Roman ruins, people watch and have an Alentejan meal in Giraldo square, and contemplate your mortality in The Chapel of Bones.

#sunset The Algarve, Portugal.

Restoration work in the Forum of Trajan coming along.

Galveston bay today about an hour or so before sunset.

Tough, tough loss for the Jays. But what a series. Congrats to the Dodgers. Back to back WS winners even more impressive.

Ever since Game 6, I've had a gnawing feeling the Dodgers would win Game 7. Pulling for the Jays still, but Smith HR has their backs against the wall. Damn. They were just 2 outs away and then 1/10th of a second for that cleet to get back down at home plate.

Straw is 0 for 8 in the WS. Now or never...

Both teams get out of bases loaded with 1 out (bottom of 9th and top of 10th). I'm 99.9999% sure that's never happened in a Game 7 of the WS.

What a WS and game 7. First HR to tie it in the top of the 9th, collision in the outfield to prevent the winning run. What else is in store?

Read beyond the dead internet / bots framing for the rest of the article on a potential future of trusted micro social communities.

Just signed up. Who else in my network can?

⏳ One Week Countdown! #InternationalArchaeologyDay is almost here! The AIA and partner organizations worldwide will be hosting exciting programs for all ages. Explore our #IAD calendar to discover events near you: buff.ly/hD67zv5

Always a fun thread.

The House of the Vettii in Pompeii post recent restoration work. (Photos mine)

In this mad world, it’s more important than ever to stop and smell the flowers when you have the chance to.

The cliffs of the Algarve, Portugal.

Splendid village and castle of Monsaraz, Portugal near the Spanish border.

Mérida, Spain. Truly an open air museum and worthy UNESCO World Heritage City. Most enjoyable to visit the city during Emerita Ludica and be among those dressing as Romans.

Alentejo, Portugal; 13th century castle.

The Capitolium of Ostia, in the north end of the city’s Forum. Dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. Built in the Hadrianic period - early second century CE.

The magnetic deflector shield glows brighter when it is under attack from a plasma energy weapon. (This is what is actually occurring.)

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology

The Baths of the Seven Sages are a public bathing complex in Ostia Antica, ancient Rome’s port city. Named for frescoes depicting Greek philosophers, it features a rotunda with a well-preserved mosaic floor in its frigidarium (cold room) dating to the Hadrianic period (117-138 CE). #mosaicmonday

The House of the Vettii in Pompeii post recent restoration work. (Photos mine)

Some interesting and easy things to do if you are feeling off or in a funk.

Restoration work in the Forum of Trajan coming along.

In this mad world, it’s more important than ever to stop and smell the flowers when you have the chance to.

Hello from Livia’s garden

My Rome away from home.

Here’s our new #kitten to cleanse your timeline.

Western society has long valued confidence in leaders as a way to bring some sense of order in a chaotic world. The problem is that critical thinking skills have back slid so far that many people can’t recognize overconfidence from someone scamming them.

I figured some of my followers might enjoy a timeline cleanse. I have been watching a family member’s dachshund while they are on vacation. Here he is happily running and playing ball.

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

Can conversational AI influence public opinion? TL:DR Yes, and the more post-training models have for this purpose, the more influence they exert but also the less factually accurate they become (not a good combination).

The Houston area has some of the best restaurants in the country across dozens of world and local cuisines.

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

There needs to be accountability for why the system was not used by county officials.

Roman mosaic of the grape harvest, Casa del Anfiteatro, Merida, Spain. #mosaicmonday

New discovery! During excavations in the Via Alessandrina, #Rome, archaeologists have found a large male marble head beneath the Forum of Trajan. www.ansa.it/lazio/notizi... 🏺 #archaeology

Visited a local produce farm yesterday. Brought home onions, carrots, a watermelon, corn, peaches, sweet potatoes, and more. Made a great vegetable soup for dinner last night!

Enjoyed watching the Astros win against my old hometown Phillies last week. Lots of changes this year, but the team is doing well at mid-season atop the division.

A #Roman mosaic underwater at Baiae. It once decorated a luxury villa in this town - a playground for Rome's elite, especially during the summer - but which is now submerged below metres of water due to geomorphic change on the coast (📷 Antonio Busiello) #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology AncientBlueSky

Going to see #Metallica for the third time tomorrow. First was in ‘93 with Faith No More and GnR at The Meadowlands. Second was in SF in 2017 (I think). Excited to see them again and go with my daughter this time! Visited the pop up merch store in town. Fun experience.

#sunset The Algarve, Portugal.

The cliffs of the Algarve, Portugal.

A few glimpses of Faro, Portugal.

Convento São Paulo, Redondo, Portugal. Amazing tile work from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Splendid village and castle of Monsaraz, Portugal near the Spanish border.

Standing stone dated to 6,000 BCE in the Alentejo, Portugal.