"Every day, scientists are allowed to publish sentences like, “Many assume there is a close connection between human history and culture (Donaldson 2019)," and yet English departments are the problem?' Friction is good. Joined-up thinking is good. Refusing to be ashamed about the humanities is good.

Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

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Have to reshare this every time I see it. Raymond Chandler mocking science fiction in 1953 and sounding cool as hell. He should have written some space stories.

Alle meine Gedankenstriche sind handcrafted

Fair play to Danny León, the Spanish Olympic skateboarder. This shot may never be eclipsed.

No shit, Sherlock: „Es ist offenbar doch nicht so einfach, in einem dicht besiedelten Wohngebiet eine sechsspurige Autobahn zu bauen.“ Es ist so in Irrsinn, an dem Projekt überhaupt festzuhalten, egal in welcher Variante. www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/ausb...

Ausbau der A100: Bund schließt Abriss von Wohnhäusern in Berlin nicht aus

Für die Stadtautobahn nach Friedrichshain und Lichtenberg prüft der Bund sechs Trassenvarianten. Anwohner fürchten, dass ihre Häuser weichen müssen.

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Der Kontinent vertrocknet, und es kommen Kriegsleichen und Munitionsreste zutage, das ist eine Metapher, die sogar mir zu offensichtlich ist.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/paracosm #smbc #comics

Ich wundere mich ja eh, wie viele Leute sich trauen, ihren Laptop einfach am Platz stehen zu lassen, wenn sie weggehen. Aber einen Laptop *mit entsperrtem Display* stehen zu lassen? So viel Vertrauen in andere Menschen hätte ich gerne…

“On the allegations that we would be ‘engineering the apocalypse’, NERV reaffirms its mission statement to work on the betterment of humanity across a variety of domains, in a pragmatic and inclusive manner”

The Prisoner is on the criterion channel ⚪

always bums me out we don't get elephants in sweden. last mammoths went extinct like 4000 years ago, within recorded history. on an island somewhere. we could be having horrible sami vs swede political fights over mammoth grazing rights, their impact on rail traffic etc

Ville Sinkkonen@villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 2w ago

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~

Das ist die neueste Innovation der deutschen Automobilindustrie: V6-Diesel, 299 PS, Leergewicht: zweieinhalb Tonnen, Höhe 1,80m, Breite 2,2m. Ich kann es gar nicht erwarten, dass diese Konzerne endlich verenden.

I don't know what I was expecting from this trailer, but it wasn't actually what is in the trailer, and that's not a bad thing youtu.be/UVAki9SGrlg

WICKER | Official UK Trailer

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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Pepper Labeija Paris Is Burning 1990

Alt: Drag Queen Pepper LaBeija, wearing an extravagant golden gown, walking the runway in the film Paris Is Burning.

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Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 2w ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

One of my Crank Theories of Everything is that the kind of work that survives and becomes part of the canon are stories that feature internal contradictions, because that means they have a rich text that can resonate with people in radically different circumstances and contexts.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3w ago

and even the Iliad itself both celebrates and deplores violence and suggests an empathic understanding of the fate of the losers of war, including the women. the lament of captive women is a repeat theme in later Greek drama.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Mal wieder aktuell ein Blick zum Mars, wo sich auf dem Bild des Curiosity-Rovers ein marsianisches Kaninchen am Schatten verrät.

Interviewer: list five words that describe your character Me: great idea! You go first.

Donkey Hotay 💩@donkee.bsky.social · 3w ago

Interviewer: list five words that describe your character Me: Where the fuck am I?

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

((Trauer im Vordergrund, aber kurze Anmerkung zu „Auto in Menschenmenge gefahren“: Das Auto ist nicht von selbst gefahren. Selbst wenn die Nennung eines Täters nachgeschoben wird, sollte das nicht die Schlagzeile sein. Das gilt für Terror genauso wie für andere Verbrechen.))

Absolutely hands down Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in “In the Mood for Love” www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Gu...

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE | Official Trailer | 20th Anniversary Restoration

YouTube video by MUBI

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Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 3w ago

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

What an immense joy and satisfaction to see the fragments of the ceiling fresco from Region IX excavations reassembled. The vibrant colours and the intricate details of the highest quality are mesmerising. Currently on display in the Large Palaestra, #Pompeii

{watching this video of emily wilson reciting aloud from the odyssey in the original greek} Ma'am,, respectfully,,,, 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

“He’s the most stable thing in British politics” 🙃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQo1...

Larry the cat welcomes another UK prime minister to Downing Street

YouTube video by Associated Press

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It really does just come from this inchoate sense, derived from the film 300 and half-remembered high school history, that the Spartans were the most manly men to have ever manned and that's it. It is that thick-headed and anti-intellectual. There is no grappling with the actual Sparta.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4w ago

I am endlessly fascinated by right wingers' obsession with Sparta. I can understand an initial vibes based appeal I guess - like if you opened the first page of a book on timocracy and were twelve. but the thing about history is you can find out what happened to those guys

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what in the actual

Richard Wells@slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4w ago

One of my favourite paintings, 'A Seated Woman Looking at a Child Through a Window', a ghostly 17th century work by the enigmatic Jacobus Vrel. Next to nothing is known about the artist, did he even exist? More than enough room for a Schalcken the Painter style BBC Ghost Story, I would've thought..!