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Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought: ‘You know what this needs? A leg!’ Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆 Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

The Krewe of Dolly will parade in honor of Dolly Parton Sept 25 — 9 25 — and city will declare it Dolly Parton Day www.nola.com/gambit/music...

If you’d rather be yelled with and praised, than yelled at and cursed: demonstrate an understanding of the job description and give people a reason to pay attention.

"Until then, Furnari is left with a 6ft 4in statue of a renowned racist, which he has spent $100,000 making, and which no one wants to buy." I can't stop laughing

🏺Doing some collections research and data ingest today and have come across the sweetest little copper alloy cat, from an unknown Egyptian site but now held by the Egypt Centre in Swansea. 📜 egyptcentre.abasetcollections.com/Objects/Deta...

Ancient Greek perfume vase in the shape of an owl, 650-640 BC🦉❤️ The Louvre, Paris 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

Strawberry economics

Europa Missions xkcd.com/3234/

The PR guy at DoorDash is having a bit of a crash out

Some 4,300 years ago, an Egyptian artisan carved this little hedgehog emerging from its burrow! 🦔❤️ Lovely naturalistic detail from a limestone wall relief in the Tomb of Mereruka at Saqqara. Old Kingdom, Sixth Dynasty, c. 2330 BC. 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Ancient Egyptian gold finger-ring set with a mouse amulet inscribed with the cartouche of king Thutmose III. Gold and glazed steatite. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1479-1425 BC. Squeak squeak Thutmouse! 🐭❤️ 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Her grin knowing how this arrest looks (Published in The Atlantic today)

Sorry but this is far too accurate

I really needed that hour but they stole it

you don't have to read graphic descriptions of SA even if the rapist is running the country right now you don't have to read or watch graphic depictions of bombing innocents even if it's happening right now you can be angry about and take action against wrongs without exposing yourself to trauma

Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature

I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs. It is fact now. Sorry.

No, you're the one sobbing over a mortgage commercial.

i’m creating a new conspiracy theory that the reason that there’s so much film discourse with people not understanding what they watch is because there’s two versions of every film and they show different theaters a different version at random

A charming #Greek terracotta aryballos in the shape of a hedgehog 🦔. The vessel was used to hold oil. Dating 6th century BC. On display at Antikensammlung München.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread! Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️ Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology

Two scenes by Richard Scarry to gladden the hearts of all introverts 🙂

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Apropos of nothing in particular: SHOES Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on. Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.

White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!” That’s quite a legacy.

ADHD increases dementia risk, but the available epidemiological data suggests that stimulant medications may normalize risk. Totally fascinating Thanks @hologramvin.bsky.social for this post! I did not know this so I hunted down the original paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Fine, I'll read the thread....

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio #Archaeology

This only happens to you once

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win