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📰 Prehistoric dice from North America hint at humanity's long history of play, suggesting games of chance were popular as far back as 12,000 years ago 🎲
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @uk.theconversation.com
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New Tom Waits! Massive Attack collab is a banger.
Now who the hell are these federal pricks?
Hiding in the senate like a bloated ass tick
Air conditioned fuckstick loafers
Sittin in a room full of army posters
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New pilot project aims to reduce aspiration pneumonia (a prime cause of infirmity and mortality among the elderly) through reading sutras.
"The Dream of the 90s is Alive in Portland" is 15 years old; it is as far from us as the Macarena summer is from its release
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Is working making women less religious?
In a way, yes.
Globally, women are more religious than men, but their religiosity is declining much faster.
One interesting reason is discussed in the book "Donne e Religioni in Italia" by Stefania Palmisano and Alberta Giorgi:
79 years young 🔥🍾💥 and full of energy on stage
Happy birthday to James Newell Osterberg, aka Iggy Pop, the "Godfather of Punk," who was born today, 1947, in Muskegon, Michigan.
Photo: Jimmy Fontaine
#punk #punks #punkrock #iggypop #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Hybrid Talk April 23, 2026 3:30 PM EST Understanding Yang Zhu’s “Joy in Life” Philosophy in Ancient and Medieval Texts (Erica Brindley, Penn State University) rccs.rutgers.edu/rccsevents/e... @efbrindley.bsky.social
Happy 420. Here’s an article I wrote on cannabis in Sanskrit medical literature, with a little sidebar on jazz terms for the gañj. www.academia.edu/119332545/Ca...
In The Peach Blossom Fan, love blooms as the world falls apart. Kong Shangren’s masterpiece follows scholar Hou Fangyu and courtesan Li Xiangjun, whose devotion is tested by the Ming dynasty’s final ruin: corruption, betrayal, and political collapse closing in on every side. 1/3
An account of university learning in the 14th century (from a 20th-c scholar):
'Oxford and Cambridge increasingly educated laymen, anxious for a little grammar and a year or two away from home, but not intending to put their university training to serious professional use.' Plus ça change?
This case - of a former US military guy turned prison guard turned hired brawn for Chinese spies - is fascinatingly bizarre. Also among his targets was a sculpture of Xi Jinping as a coronavirus particle in the middle of the California desert, as I chronicle in my book Let Only Red Flowers Bloom.
Page with marginalia in the head margins
Title page of the 皇朝中外壹統輿圖
Page with hand-drawn repairs to the map
Some more notes in the head margins, this time in red ink
This #MarginaliaMonday, let‘s look at this 1863 copy of the 皇朝中外壹統輿圖, a collection of detailed #maps of China and beyond. A previous owner added annotations, amended map, adding mountains, lakes, and borders, and even restored parts of the maps by hand. A true marvel! #Sinology #ChinaBooks
3 Screenshots from the movie "Scarface" (1983): First, a bearded man in military attire passionately speaks into multiple microphones at night, with the subtitle reading, "We don't want them! We don't need them!" Second, a crowded boat named "Ocean Clipper" is packed with people, pulling into a harbor under daylight. Third, a man in a floral shirt with a scarred face sits slumped in a chair, while another man in a suit presses against his face to show his scar.
Apr 20th 1980 - The Castro regime announced that any Cubans wanting to emigrate to the US were free to board boats at Mariel, west of Havana. The next day 125,000 Cubans arrived in Florida.
📽️📅 Scarface (1983)
TONIGHT! Don't miss our April lecture with Dr Marco Reggiani who will be exploring how Japan’s shrinking, ageing rural communities—often seen as symbols of decline—are becoming spaces of innovation and reinvention.
Monday 20 April 2026. Find out more and book 👉 https://loom.ly/sLV_pbI
How the Pentads and Breaths seem to flutter by…
already it is Gǔyǔ 穀雨 Grain rain
yet I feel Shuāngjiàng 霜降 Frost’s Descent 😉
See our:
Chart of the 24 Breaths & 72 Pentads of the Year.
‼️with corresponding 🌏 antipodean equivalents
Free pdf download on our KoFi page
ko-fi.com/s/16216f98b7
quiet weekend great time for someone to get cracking on this
<The sky> is complete, the earth is complete, the caverns are complete, and what is in them is complete before these four gods in their goings forth. (PTF)
4 Screenshots from the movie "Ed Wood" (1994): First, a man in a tuxedo appears on an old-fashioned television screen with a patterned curtain backdrop, raising both index fingers and saying, "Furthermore, I predict." Second, the same man continues speaking on the television screen, now with his eyes closed, saying, "by April 19, 1970,". Third, he opens his eyes dramatically and finishes his statement with, "I predict men will have colonized Mars." Fourth, two men in tuxedos, one younger and smiling, the other older and intense, react to the prediction; the younger man says, "Wow! Ain't that somethin'?"
Apr 19th 1970 - Jeron Criswell King (aka The Amazing Criswell) predicted, that by this date, we will have colonized Mars.
📽️📅 Ed Wood (1994)
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
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I'm compiling a digital corpus of Tangut texts. The first batch of texts is extracted from academic publications in open-access journals and Academia.edu. If you'd like to join our transcription project, don't hesitate to send me a message :)
The three theologies. With an insane harvard salary
A small wheel bicycle with compartments for storage, a front lamp, and rear rack with pack. A flashlight and an extra wheel are mounted on the rear pack.
Fongers military folding bike
1898
The White House Military Office Army aide was on “Football” duty this afternoon for Trump’s departure from Las Vegas for Phoenix. The ~45-pound satchel accompanies Trump 24/7, enabling him alone to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons—up to 900 on alert—at any time.
great time for so many schools to be shutting down their religion programs.
yes, we religionists are clearly irrelevant. nothing to say here.
Recorded the first episode of my new monthly Central Asia infused musical radio hour at Sphere Radio, an independent radio station in Leipzig
The first mix includes some of my favorite retro gems from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan
on.soundcloud.com/29fjCOYHfGzS...
Totally the time for so many colleges and universities to be shutting down their Religious Studies programs.
I'm 62.
「王言：「世尊！變化密移，我誠不覺，寒暑遷流，漸至於此。何以故？我年二十雖號年少，顏貌已老初十[7]年時；三十之年又衰二十；于今六十又過于二，觀五十時宛然強壯。世尊！我見密移，雖此殂落其間流易且限十年。若復令我微細思惟：『其變寧唯一紀二紀，實為年變；豈唯年變，亦兼月化；何直月化，兼又日遷。』沈思諦觀，剎那剎那、念念之間不得停住，故知我身終從變滅。Here's King Prasenajit grumbling about being old. He's 62. Which means the Buddha is also 62 when he preaches Lengyan jing.
