(Also what sort of assessment is that?)

Thomas “Crazy Train” T-shirt

That actually is funny and I’m stealing the idea.

Might buy this and wear it to mine.

A box of Disappointing Affirmations. This one reads “Just because you can doesn’t mean that you should. But you’re going to do it anyway. Because you never fucking learn.”

Lol

Brings yogurt. Forgets spoon.

😑

Mark Twain died #onthisday in 1910. The best known of his books is Huckleberry Finn, not so well known is Jap Herron which, according to a woman named Emily Grant Hutchings, he dictated from beyond the grave via a ouija board... publicdomainreview.org/collection/j... #OTD

Glassmaking Technique: Mosaic Glass YouTube video by Getty Museum

Watch how to make a mosaic glass bowl
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5qgt...

Part of a colourful Roman mosaic floor depicting doves drinking from a vase from a townhouse that dates AD 1-50. The house is now below the Caseggiato delle Taberne in #OstiaAntica.
📷 my own.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome

My photo shows a Paleo-Babylonian clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform text, still partially enclosed in its original clay envelope. The clay is pale orangey-brown in colour displayed against a grey display case background. The outer envelope has been broken open, revealing the inner tablet beneath. Both surfaces are covered with densely packed wedge-shaped characters, which record a contract for the sale of a house purchased by Mannum-balu-Samas at the price of 1/3 shekel and 15 grains of silver. This is followed by the names of the numerous witnesses including the mayor Sin-magir and the courier Apil-ilisu. The same text is repeated on the envelope in the event of a dispute, which was broken to inspect the internal document. It is dated 32nd year of Hammurabl's reign, 10th month, c. 1750 BC. The clay envelope measures 87 mm (height) × 55 mm (width), while the inner tablet measures 64 mm (height) × 43 mm (width). On display at the Museum of Antiquity in Turin. Collection number MAT 740.

A 3,750 year-old contract for the sale of a house recorded on a clay tablet, still in its original clay envelope!

Museo di Antichità, Turin
📷 by me

#Archaeology

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

Imo the only proper use of Meta glasses is to troll Scient*l*gists by running into their buildings in an attempt to map them for Tiktok clout.

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

I’m finding publically calling myself out a significant motivator 😂

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

I should probably leave the house today. But I also want to play video games. So I guess I’m going to sit on my phone and scroll for an hour or so. 😑

"Sergeant, what inspires you?"

Walking Tank from @westfaliaminis.bsky.social for @trenchcrusade.bsky.social

Never start a project hungry.

#miniaturepainting #trenchcrusade #beans #nerdlings #minipainting

Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

torn between "we need to soften IP law to stop the calcification of the culture" and "we need to give the Tolkien estate the right to extrajudicially execute these clowns at will"

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

I do. Or did, until I also realized this was incorrect. I think I’ve got it to a place where it feels stable enough without the lock now, but I have to consciously be paying attention to it or I just let it lock like I’m used to.

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

please clap

#Cat
#Caturday

"A robot ran faster than a human" like, fukken, yeah. Speedboats swim quicker than people. Helicopters jump better. My milk frother makes better hot chocolate than I do with my bare hands. That's not an *accomplishment*. That's the function of a tool.

Full text with illustrations is on Gutenberg...

www.gutenberg.org/files/36039/...

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.