His ancestor

A dark stone-lined passage way of a Neolithic tomb

With humans now pushing beyond earth orbit in #ArtemisII it's worth looking back 5000 years to another extraordinary celestial endeavour

The megalithic builders of Bryn Celli Ddu passage grave on Ynys Môn/Anglesey carefully aligned the entrance with the rising summer solstice sun ☀️

📷 My own, 2024

Nick Clegg unveiled a portrait of himself at the National Liberal Club yesterday and it's hard to tell which one looks less like Nick Clegg, the portrait of Nick Clegg or the actual Nick Clegg

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda
It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

From: Jeffrey Epstein
Sent: March 3, 2006
To: [Redacted]
Subject: RE: new televisions

nicee seeing u at islannd last wkend . hope u will think abut my idea for “ motion smoothing “ on tvs .
make sure its enabled by default .

let s make world a smoother place , my frend .

You didn't name the horse during that entire trip through the desert? Is this a joke to you

tweet screenshot: a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Heard a lot of you chatting shit about Newgrange, and I'll admit it's a solid B-tier henge, but Avebury is the thinking man's henge - it encircles a large part of a village. You can live in a henge.

The "and post it on the Internet" part of this is such a weird addition. It's like if someone had said "I'm bad at cooking" and the response was "just make bad food and serve it in a restaurant". That's not what people are saying!

Eminem tosses you a pack of crayolas

“Poor people have a right to art!”

They sure do. So get to it.

If Anyone Builds It, Squidward Dies – The Case Against This Device In Bikini Bottom

Obvs

a bright and colourful map of Wales

A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980

people using Overflow instead of Wrap on Excel sheets

My photo shows three small brown fibre baskets made from twined esparto grass. They are remarkably well-preserved and almost complete. They have been radio-carbon dated to the Mesolithic period some 9,500 years ago. Dimensions: Left basket: Height = 10.7 cm; Diameter = 7.2 cm Front Central basket Height = 9.4 cm, Diameter = 6.5cm Right basket: Height = 13.5 cm; Diameter = 8.6 cm The exceptional preservation of the baskets is due to “The unique conditions for the preservation of organic material in the cave are related to the null humidity resulting from the geological character of the cave. Moreover, a dry wind current is generated by the prevailing climate in the area, and the north-south direction and narrow and deep morphology of the Angosturas gorge channel the wind toward the cave, through the narrow upper entrance. The wind cools as it travels through the cave, increasing in speed; it is cold as it exits through another narrow entrance located in the lower part of the shelter. The lack of prevailing humidity in the area and the circulation of wind in the cave as it cools and dries prevent the proliferation of bacteria, increasing the amount and diversity of preserved perishable material at the site.” Quote from the research article: ‘The earliest basketry in southern Europe: Hunter-gatherer and farmer plant-based technology in Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol)’

Timeless design!

Incredibly, these beautiful fibre baskets are about 9,500 years old! 🤯

Look like they were made yesterday rather than by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers!

From the Cueva de Los Murciélagos (Cave of Bats), Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

I just sent a template rejection e-mail to 56 job applicants. They could see it was one mass email because I didn't hide their addresses. I did this on purpose. BCC is for cowards. Let's stop pretending that every single applicant is unique and special. You are all drones who didn't stand out. You are the sperm who didn't make it. You are nothing to me. One generic email is all you deserve. For me, it's merely a matter of efficiency. And efficiency doesn't care about your feelings. Better luck next time, [Applicant Name]

I said it.

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus pen, one below the other. The knib to the left. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The four images show the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

HP Spaceball 2003 (1991). While the mouse operates on X and Y axes, the HP Spaceball also used the Z axis, making it easy to rotate objects in 3D space. Plus the white plastic made it look like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Reading aloud isn’t just for children For my kids, stories are visceral, a chance to inhabit other worlds and other selves. For me it’s a necessity —cathartic, bonding, joyful, and cheaper...

"Where other mums reach for a glass of wine, I reach for a book. It is, first, about escaping the horrors—fatigue, boredom, low-level despair—of [...] parenting. Reading is great, but reading to my kids is life-saving and intoxicating," writes Sasha Mudd

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...

Illugi Pétur Ágústsson þjóðhetja

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.

This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.

A long text conversation that implies urgency With the urgent message being Skibidi Brian

Ozzy

An archer with a bow confronting an unarmed man. The archer is saying "Hast thou betrayed us? Hast thou betrayed me?". The unarmed man responds "Avon, I was waiting for thee".

Your reminder that you can create your own Bayeux Tapestry at home, using:

htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/

The Welsh cannot pronounce “jewelry” and will become unreasonable if prompted to