Divers Uncover World’s Largest Late Roman Hoard with 50,000 Coins Hidden Beneath the Mediterranean A forgotten treasure hidden for centuries beneath the sea is reshaping the story of Rome’s reach across the Mediterranean.

Divers Uncover World’s Largest Late Roman Hoard with 50,000 Coins Hidden Beneath the Mediterranean dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/worl...

The Taliban’s new penal code reads like an assault on human rights. Women are now less important than animals, and they’ve legalized slavery. They’ve also implemented a caste system and empowered people to punish each other, without involving the legal system.

You know the phrase, "the lioness does not concern herself with..."? Ancient Greeks had a version: "Hippokleides does not care." Herodotus says that this statement became a proverb.

Here's the background: the tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes, had a banquet to test out his daughter's suitors.

Haha brilliant

Urnes-style Uppsala memorial runestone

🐲 Urnes-style Uppsala memorial runestone (U 614) from Torsätra, dating to the late C11th.

📝 'Skúli and Folki raised this stone in memory of their brother Húsbjǫrn. He fell ill while collecting payment on Gotland' (Historiska).

The runemaster was most likely Visäte.

My 📷 Historiska museet

"We'll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst..."

Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis.
Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫
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Bird Snuggles into Photographer’s Chest And Stayed With Her for Warmth on a Snowy Day (LOOK) A photographer Fay was visiting a park when a friendly robin came over and nestled right atop her camera near the warmth of her jacket.

Bird Snuggles into Photographer’s Chest And Stayed With Her for Warmth on a Snowy Day (LOOK) www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bird-snuggle...

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Media literacy: how to spot nutrition grifters

This is very good, go listen to it

The geo-engineering of the landscape around Bronze Age Gla in Central Greece

See the full video "The Marvels of the Mycenaeans with Pete Kelly (aka History Time)"

YouTube: youtube.com/live/uYxM4aX...
open.spotify.com/episode/43en...

Monica V @BlakPantherBabe If you pronounce it EYE-ran, then EYE DGAF about your opinion 5:36 PM • 6/17/25 • 7.6M Views

She has a point

The argument against protestors is DARVO The logic that enables abuse also enables authoritarianism.

For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about the police, military, and ICE escalating violence against immigrants, communities, journalists, officials, and anyone in their path—and how protestors are being blamed for it through abusive rhetoric known as DARVO.
spitfirenews.com/p/the-argume...

Yup. I lived in Paris for five months, and protests were just part of daily life. I was really struck by it since protests had been relatively rare here, but the French people I knew didn’t think it was a big deal at all. They’ve normalized expressing dissent in a way we never have.

Photo featuring a woman, dressed in a long black robe with a vacuum cleaner on a dusty hillside with hills going into the distance

Vacuum, 2007 performance by Raeda Saadeh, a Palestinian artist #WomensArt

Good morning . Thank you to @soapachu.bsky.social‬ for this morning's #foxoftheday !

Israel is starving Gazans.

Europe must stop double standards, condemn Netanyahu and compel the Israeli govt to act, our Co-chair @vulatsetsi.bsky.social told the Congress of @lesecologistes.fr

Distortion as a path to reality | Ben Ware The decay and extinction of Francis Bacon's work bleeds into a philosophical view often overlooked.

“The paintings seek to ‘unlock sensation’, to provoke a convulsive, existential shudder in those who encounter them,” writes Ben Ware on Francis Bacon’s art. | iai.tv/articles/dis...

Read more about how the decay bleeds into a philosophical view of Bacon’s art to heighten his genius.

#philsky

It's basic science isn't it

WELCOME AQUARIUS SEASON! AHEAD OF YOUR TIME AS AN EXTREME SPORT! APATHY IS OUT! FREEDOM AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! ORGANIZE! REVOLUTIONIZE! FUTURIZE! REFUSE TO OBEY IN ADVANCE! CEASEFIRE IS THE FLOOR! COLLECTIVE LIBERATION IS THE GOAL! LIFE IS SHORT! THE OLIGARCHY IS HERE! NEVER LET THEM STEAL YOUR JOY!

Dr. Jones illustrating the most important and rewarding part of being an archaeologist.

Very cool

Oh I really want to go to Delphi!!

Bishop confronts Donold during sermon at inaugural prayer service. Bless her.

How is the EU protecting social media users? YouTube video by European Greens

📱 *This* is what we mean by freedom of speech.

🥲 You’ve heard everything that’s going on the various social media platforms from removing factcheckers to allowing hate speech, all under the banner of ‘freedom of speech’.

youtube.com/shorts/WXMjL...

Watching Sherlock with us!

Hahaha 😂