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I've been doing a little teaching project of video shorts for my classes (www.youtube.com/@tinyhistoryof). Here's one on the "first religion" according to the 19th cent. anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor: youtube.com/shorts/P-tHM...

i have an agent that posts negative comments about Bryan Johnson the longevity influencer and owner of www.bryanjohnson.com until his agent gets fed up and emails all of my friends and colleagues about the fact that i have highly negative sentiment towards Bryan Johnson who i do not like

Today is National Black Cat Day 🐈‍⬛ , which raises awareness about how hard it is for black cats to get adopted from shelters & dispels the superstitions that still surround them. 🐈‍⬛ In their honor, I give you some black cats in ancient art & archaeological sites. www.americanhumane.org/public-educa...

"The War is ceaseless. The most we can hope for are occasional moments of tranquillity in the midst of the conflict." - Lobkowitz (Michael Moorcock, Warlord of the Air)

politics is rolling a rock up a hill forever and you have to fucking at it it and maintain some degree of positivity because you need people on your side to also keep rolling the rock. There's no single moment of permanent victory you just need to keep doing it

SA 6/232 🇦🇺 🇿🇦 🏏

At the second day of BRAMS 21st anniversary, Université de Montréal Dean of Arts and Sciences @fbouchard.bsky.social kicks the day off with a bit of Virgil: Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes (from the Aeneid - roughly "It is good to have improved life through discovered arts")

And the West in general, in case there was any doubt. What Kennedy said here is identical to what Dawkins said about Muslims in 2013. Old white men in particular have not had a single new idea in a long time. www.theguardian.com/science/2013...

I got the minimum score to do an LLB, enrolled in a BA/LLB to make Mum happy then dropped the Law bit and she was unhappy!

Farage now going on the air claiming Raheem Kassam, who called Kemi Badenoch a “Nigerian scammer”, denying he was his head of staff at UKIP, and claiming he is just “someone in America”. Soon he’ll be claiming Donald Trump is someone he just happened to meet in a lift

Mark Howard has an excellent Aussie accent of the sort that without being exaggerated, others are going to find somewhat hard to follow as he talks quickly! I love it! Music to the ears. 🇦🇺🇿🇦🏏

Kieran Healy calls this one of the two American ur-choropleths. Most countries only have one of these. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Bodhidharma, from a triptych of Bodhidharma and Landscapes of the Four Seaons https://collections.artsmia.org/art/117960/

On wellness culture, horror fiction, and shifting the blame

Interesting angle of the Starlink global monopoly debate.

A good, measured and more than a little depressing piece. This part though is wild.

Only the start of storm season so I forgot to defend my pastry against ants 🐜 Lucky I have some cake left!

Possibly a marriage stone, decorative tablet over a doorway in Heptonstall. It is inscribed F " 1 7 H E 3 6 " (Henry and Elizabeth Foster). It features a man and woman wearing contemporary dress. Marriage stones were still popular until Victorian times. Image Tim Green CC BY 2.0

*No matter how kinky dystopias might seem to the user-base, I'm pretty sure that utopias are even worse, if you'd like to keep your head on your shoulders medium.com/@bruces/utop...

And it is nonsensical to speak of the total number of objects.

Israel's longest serving Prime minister is posting images of queues outside polling stations in Arab towns, describing Palestinian citizens exercising their right to vote as an existential threat: "The future of our Jewish State is hanging in the balance".

Re-upping this in light of today's controversial phone call to Vladimir Putin placed by leaders of Finland and Norway.

I mean, it's not often that my very specific political interests are catered to, but I am a big fan of gherkins.

My god he even has the facial hair of a 19th Century municipal socialist.

The motor-cars on the shining street move in semicircles of spray, semicircles of spray. —Charles Reznikoff, "After Rain" That's the whole poem

I really don’t understand what this person actually wants us to do food-wise, apart from getting bizarrely chipper about pouring vinegar on green beans.

Yikes!! @kenklippenstein.bsky.social "Feds Prep for Election “Doomsday” Scenario: Intel official: “Nobody knows what the president might do if the mid-terms don’t go his way” " www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-prep-...

The exact moment my son Oliver is lowered to the ground by the Ent he has journeyed on