Crying in the club about Bronze Age crossed wefts 🥹

The Website Where We Are All 38 Years Old and Left of Center is really the perfect place for this post

Photo of a narrow street blocked by a huge wall of stacked oil barrels

Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil Barrels—The Iron Curtain" (1961–62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank

Like there is a Chernobyl esque miniseries waiting to be produced from the perspective of people realizing how dangerous this was and facing an uphill battle to get people to do what's necessary to save lives... but I won't see that until maybe I'm like 80.

And low it came to pass that the Lord was disappointed in his children on the 7:03 Acela to Boston, and so he did decide to punish them with a plague of Bros going to a bachelor party, who boarded at Stamford, and proceeded to inflict their loudness and drinking upon the people, who were humbled

If he was a true Habsburg he would know he only needed to marry one Habsburg not kill 85-95 of them.

New to the collection: A Hewlett-Packard Model 35 calculator, from 1973. The HP-35 was the first pocket-sized scientific calculator, built to fit in Bill Hewlett's pocket. List price in 1973 was about $3,000 in today's money.

*ghost of gavrilo princip looking at ghost of john wilkes booth*

Tweet from Reverend Jordan Wells: "Why So Many Protestants Are Done with the Modern Papacy I respect Catholicism deeply, but this is exactly why so many Protestants have major issues with the current direction of the Vatican. The Pope’s clear liberal political bent is impossible to defend."

This is an incredible tweet.

Joke from my childhood. The scene is a bland parliamentary hallway somewhere in Strasbourg:

NPC: Dr. Hapsburg, are you going to watch the football quarterfinal?

Otto: No, why?

N: It’s Austria-Hungary.

HIRH: Whom are we playing?

If you put together the countries that might actually agree to joining a "Magyarist" group, which Austria won't do...

(Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria)

... it ends up looking like a different historical European empire

dedicated to the brave mujahideen fighters of luna

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

the scene at the northern virginia democrats' redistricting party is wild. as balloons and streamers fall, party members are rolling their eyes back in their heads and levitating in a circle as chants of "blood. blood. blood" echo through the auditorium. it's exciting to see the base this fired up

It’s his day

Next up in the “fuck you traditional republican district” bucket list: treating rural counties the way state legislatures in Missouri, Texas, etc treat their cities

These are all quotes from Frasier.

saying that charlie brown had "hoes" is like saying that temple of aphrodite at corinth had "hoes". what was happening there was within its own cultural context, and we should be careful about describing it in modern language

Art by flaroh illustration. Roma tapestry depicting the shewolf and twins surrounded by eagles, shields, and seven hills

A little late to the party, but happy 2779th birthday Rome! 🏛️🌿🏺 #natalediroma

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

🚨HOMER FRAGMENT ALERT🚨 Fragment of the Iliad found inside an Oxyrinchus mummy but as ritual, not as cartonnage, taking the place of what would normally be a magic text…

…and it’s the Catalogue of Ships! ❤️
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Thank you @lunatraktors.bsky.social for sending me this today!

how i'm entering silicon valley after the Great Unraveling

a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

The blockade is bad, but if the "most powerful Navy in the world" can't control the opening to a 20-mile seaway with 13 vessels, that's just horribly embarrassing.

Apple Backs Up Tim Cook’s Memories To Port Over Into Next CEO

Apple Backs Up Tim Cook’s Memories To Port Over Into Next CEO

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Millennials are ruining the cocaine industry

Minions undergoing mutations and surgeries so that they all have flared bases.

How many presidential campaigns staffed minions?

failing CBS news A russian circus performance took a frightening turn when part of the ring collapsed, sending a tiger into the crowd

Tired: Leopards eating faces
Wired:

90s style everything. Day-glo the shit out of everything. Make it translucent. Send out the packages with those weird smelling blow up chairs to sit on while you use it. Don’t subtlety me, we don’t have time