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Roosevelt seems to have had quite a bit of correspondence with Kuno Meyer, and in a couple letters expressly thanks him for copies of his works.

- Such an unusual name, Eisenkot (iron-dung). How did your family come by it? - We changed it in the nineteenth century. - You changed it TO Eisenkot?!? - Yeah, used to be ⴰⵣⵏⴽⵯⴹ (Aznkʷḍ “gazelle”)!

I'm not criticizing those who are showcasing the accomplishments of scientists, artists, and writers to debunk RFK Jr.'s comments but I think it's also important to treat them not as ignorance, but as the outright malice they are. He made those comments to claim a US citizen is unfit for the Senate.

It is free on YouTube! youtu.be/sObbuyGPRm0?...

Not quite. But we are about the same distance in time from the Cruel Empire of Tsan-Chan (“three thousand years hence” from 1919 in “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”) as we are from the composition of the Odyssey.

RIP, Walter Koenig.

Imagine being having a brain and heart dead enough to admit this to a reporter.

The Congo Basin had some of the most unique forms of indigenous proto-urbanism featuring near-grid-like settlement patterns; straight streets over 40ft wide, and square houses built in parallel lines

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Reminded of this quote from the Tunisian reformer General Husayn Ibn 'Abdallah in a letter to the US Consul in 1863.

we must not idealize the cheesecake factory. even with cheesecake automation, it's brutal physical labor with no rest ever since the advent of cheesecake taylorism

Who is the capitalist class? This new calculation shows that only about 1% of humanity has income from capital ownership greater than the median wage in their country. The rest of us - 99% of the world's population - live mostly on wage labour. Sources here: globalinequality.org/global-incom...

Cannot recommend cuke-opuswv enough

AI proponents cling to the idea that the tech is going to enable boundless creativity, but I've seen what it enables; endless spam. It's enabled people without a single ounce of creativity in their bodies to make endless Balatro clones, genuinely no thoughts of their except Balatro but slop.

Mon Oncle is one of the primary prequels to Twin Peaks: The Return.

Roses are red That great wave was off Kanagawa

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

I keep trying to tell The Onion people that they need to buy out national review and turn into a parody site, but just don't tell Armond White, and keep publishing his reviews.

Chocolate sauce gettin EXPONSIVE

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

The evolution of the graduating class spelling out “seniors” combined with a year number in cups on the chain-link fence over the last five years: 23NIORS (ok, twenty-threeniors. nice.) 24NIORS (bit derivative) 25NIORS (fiveniors—really?) 26NIORS (what are we doing here…) 2ENIO7S (twoeniosevens???)

Night loofah! feat. seminole pumpkin (left), datil pepper (right), and yaupon holly (center rear)

There were 27 miles of rope used for rigging in Master & Commander. Modern rope naturally coils in the opposite direction of rope made during the Napoleonic wars. So the production paid a shop to make period accurate cordage.

i've been very sad that none of the french student protests are getting to bsky so i've spent my day off trawling X for videos, and i'll post them here so that you can follow the events. organized in chronological order. it's gonna be a huge thread. first though, one from today. solidarity <3

We’ll always have the Jump to Conclusions Mat…

Do you disavow the Brotherhood of Steel?

Drop some COMPUTERS 🖥️ 🖤💻

Workers in the 17th-century Gold Coast (Ghana) earned about as much as those in Stockholm and Vienna, in real wages per hour These findings challenge the long-held presumption that Africa was historically poor compared to the rest of the world.