I think if you're thinking about human society, as a human, you can't help but generalize and reason from abstractions, and it's a mistake to be a platonic reasoner about the past and human nature but it's equally problematic (as I might be falling into here) to be a strict nominalist.

Pelasgus@pelasgus.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think there's this way of viewing peasantry, esp. european peasantry pre-nation state formation, that has an almost noble savage tinged way of viewing it but people in every society are a complex interaction of superstition and sophistication

I think there's this way of viewing peasantry, esp. european peasantry pre-nation state formation, that has an almost noble savage tinged way of viewing it but people in every society are a complex interaction of superstition and sophistication

Peanuts ass pottery art en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior...

NOOOOOO 😭

Rory Naismith@rorynaismith.bsky.social · 3d ago

(Shared from various people on FB) RIP Chris Wickham

dog be like: "Eh, this water is gross, change it human." also dog after running: "You know what would make this clean water great? Tennis ball."

Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.

Why does it always feel like the 70s had better graphic art than literally ever since.

Rachel Cole@rmartincole.bsky.social · 3y ago

All reports in this thread are from the collections of Northwestern University's Transportation Library. Materials we've digitized can generally be found in HathiTrust. Learn more and search our catalog here: www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-co...

Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards is back with its list of 2026 finalists, taking on a kind of blooper reel-like quality with some of the goofiest happenstances and candid moments photographers captured. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/10/come...

the more history i read the more it seems exploration is not in human dna, it is a 16th to 17th century western ideology that has been universalized and whose origins have been obscured.

i love that they put rfk in these. there's no reason to do it besides rfk sucks and obviously this is his fault so suck it brain worm loser.

Donna Stern@dvsmemphis.bsky.social · last wk.

Check your freezer: bettergoods Authentic Italian Lemon Alfredo Fettuccine, UPC 194346442706, is under a nationwide listeria recall at Walmart. State agriculture departments caught it in routine testing. FDA has lost thousands of employees. Food safety needs people, not cuts. #momsky#sheshed

A key thing to know about international relations is that no two countries with a Bass Pro Shop pyramid have ever gone to war with each other.

👌OpenAI, if you're listening👌

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w ago

i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.

I am always shocked by early European/Mediterranean art that depicts animals from much farther east or south. Peacocks in mythology and frescos, for instance, which are native to India and Sri Lanka!

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · last wk.

Me today.... So glad the weekend is almost here 🫩 Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. 📷 Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana

it's actually kind of remarkable to me that there are living human beings that admire augustus as a role model as interesting history? sure. a role model? fuck me your brain is broken

Well. Nice to see my work provoking interesting thoughts on modern war.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2w ago

today in depressing takes, like "the war with iran probably isn't going to end"

This is not true. The universe began in New Jersey on Dec 31, 1969 11:59:59pm UTC-5. Everything revolves around Bell Labs. Life before then is a simulacrum

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2w ago

your computer doesn’t have a “clock” that tracks “time.” It increments a variable based on quartz resonance, and it fails spectacularly at tracking time whenever leap seconds are factored in

Honestly, just being honest, gotta be honest here. Touching an 1800 year old object as an American is fucking mind blowing 🤯 Elagabalus IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG LIBERTAS AVG

Skipped the burg

Pelasgus@pelasgus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Every time I have a glass of burgundy I think "damn, these fuckers burned Joan of Arc" 😢

Every time I have a glass of burgundy I think "damn, these fuckers burned Joan of Arc" 😢

It's always code freeze never code thaw when am i supposed to merge 😭

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

JD Vance on Angie Nixon: "Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America"

Sound down! I had Merlin app listen to this blue jay as I hadn't heard this vocalization. Merlin said 'Wild Turkey'. Blue jays have advanced vocal learning capabilities & large repertoires, they can produce surprising vocalizations including domestic/wild turkey gobbles & clucks. #birds

Mr. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social, Kaldellis was on Lex recently and stated iirc with few exceptions the Roman Empire never really used its military forces for social suppression as a military dictatorship would. Is this a standard academic take? It seems as I read Kulikowski it wasn't uncommon.

Accessibility first design sounds great but there's no one design that perfectly accommodates all contexts or situations even for a given piece of software or hardware. I think starting from accessibility assumes software is easy, but making accessible software is a lot.

Every classic warfare trick that they call clever is actually just perfidy. I have a new Theory of Ancient Perfidy: did an ancient author call it clever? It's perfidy. Trojan horse? Perfidy. Red cliffs? Perfidy Hastein's coffin? Perfidy. The Cimbri at Noreia? Perfidy.

When its hot out, 75 feels hot. When its cold out, 75 feels cold. You can't explain that.

Bill O'Reilly & Stephen Colbert on Show

ALT: Bill O'Reilly & Stephen Colbert on Show

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the actual development environment for the Macintosh prototype was even more cursed and esoteric than the thing Neal Stephenson used, involving several incantations spoken from the mouth of Burrell Smith: www.folklore.org/Scrooge_McDu...

There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology.

I believe I have found the ultimate cure for depression. It only costs 10 dollars for a hummingbird feeder And six thousand dollars a year for sugar

Pelasgus@pelasgus.bsky.social · 2w ago

it is so hard to express how much i love these little guys.