Starfield and Nebula #aiart #synthart #nebula #starfield #mp4

We can’t get Republicans to comment on the record defending the substance of Trump’s policies. How about if reporters try asking them about Trump’s inability to correctly capitalize? Ask them why, if Trump is so great, they don’t themselves abuse the language like he does.

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025. Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky

reminder that Dracula was a contemporary novel, i.e. set in the year it was published, which was 1897 and Coca-Cola was first commercially bottled in 1886 you can 100% depict Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward and Holmwood chugging at these motherfuckers while they go huntin

"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Feel like it's relevant to drop Dido Belle into the thread

The Indo-Greek kingdom stretched possibly as far as modern Gujarat during the reign of Menander I, according to Strabo's quotes from a lost work by Apollodorus of Artemita.

There were entire Greco-Buddhist kingdoms in Central Asia after Alexander's empire, and East Asian Buddhist art has a partial Hellenistic inspiration.

Quite. Plus I'm just reading about the menagerie at the Tower of London. They had live lions there by 1235 and an elephant, presumably Indian, by 1250.

Look at the manifests for ships in the Royal Navy in the 18th century if nothing else - crews drawn from all over the world.

Gretchen Gerzina's Black England is really informative on this, especially on the 17th-18th century aspects.

My understanding is that there were African Romans over here when Britain was part of the Roman Empire, and I have it on good authority that ships got better since then

Chinese silk was very popular in ancient Rome. And there were always people with wanderlust in their heart who wanted to explore and see other countries.

There are (probably) Chinese remains from a 4th century Roman ruin in London. The Silk Road was older and longer than many people think. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

It’s startling how long we’ve known this, and yet how poorly it’s known. Between 20,000 - 40,000 Black people lived here! If people are interested, here’s a podcast I hosted about the lives of Black people in the 1700s www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Yeah. It goes earlier than the attached QP but another example: bsky.app/profile/prof...

although now I'm quite taken with "this colonialist expansion could have been an email".

like, seriously, how exactly do these people imagine Britain got a trading empire and then an actual empire without some sort of, you know, physical communication with other parts of the world. Do they think it was done by email?

"How could there have been--" By ship. "But is it likely--" Yes, because of the ships. And the sea all round the island that carries ships. And the massive number of trade routes and the burgeoning colonialism and the wars and the fact of human curiosity. "Seems unlikely."

I honestly don't know why people are in so much denial about this. I keep seeing variants on "how could POC have possibly been present in Georgian Britain?" like, have these people not heard of ships?

I regret to inform you, this is not going to make me a less insufferable know-it-all. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Listen, I pride myself on usually knowing everything about everything, but THIS just now was legitimately news to me. lizplank.substack.com/p/tylenol-is...

Satire is not fluff, it’s a mirror. Well done, South Park. SMITE!

Just thought about buying a pair of ladies Sketchers but cancelled once I saw a tariff surcharge of $6.30 on a &69.99 pair of shoes. Sketchers. SMDH.

Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere-Margaret Wise Brown. Hope you can shut off the noise & get a good night's sleep. Lots to do tomorrow. Hugs from my family 💤💙💤

Goodnight babies. Waiting for a nana phone call. Burner nana phone near by in case I need it for stuff. Hope you have a peaceful sleep. Hugs 💤💙💤

I was cutting up boxes for recycling and a piece of cardboard fell on the floor.

Back foote tucked in the shadows, waiting like Barnabas the vampire to drain you of your will!

pod of humpbacks in silver bay right now. lots of spouts and tail action 🐋 📍 sheet’ka, lingit aani

Wotch carefolly fore sombthing yu mite hav missed in tha stillframes i shared fromb this veddio

I have been taking surfing lessons. Still in the beginner kook trenches, but celebrating my last time on a foam board 😎 Graduating to a hard top next session. It’s fun to learn new things! Even if you look like a goober at the beginning. 🏄🏽‍♀️

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Karl the Fog helps redwoods grow so it makes sense that Karl is also helping McQ grow like a redwood

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MacWeen summons Karl to do a damp of the too much heats? Purrhaps MacWeen is a Karl whispurrer. 💙

Guyes! Owr frends @apostlesquirrel.bsky.social Skwirl, Olde Guye, & Lammchomp haff sendt us dis speshul portrit of McQ fur de garden!!! Idt luk juss liek himbs wit de longg tale an ebbryting! An bonus: idt combe wit nise peese of cardbord an sum crinkgly sellofanes rapping! We 🧡 idt! Tanks so mush!

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How abowt did skye @dano50.bsky.social? Dis de skye we haff tonite. Momb luff Fall skyes, de besst skyes.

Gud nite gud nite. Sleeb tite.

Dis mornink in #karlthefog

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

The Epstein survivors are fed up. They’re using Washington’s own playbook — opposition research — on lawmakers blocking the Epstein files. I’m publishing the first piece in “The Reckoning” series in The Red Letter on a GOP senator with close ties to Ghislaine Maxwell. Sign up, link is in BIO.

Does his resignation end the investigation into the pornography at the board meeting, without resolution?

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

now spinning #Vinyl