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Mandaeans and others speak out against threats to Iranian leadership www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/...

Australian classrooms have worse air quality protections than many pet shelters and greenhouses www.croakey.org/australian-c... #publichealth

A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one

Position (tenured) in ancient/late antique Jewish history, religion, and culture at Harvard (deadline 9/1) academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14958

Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. The next phase will double the gas turbines. A short vid on a dataset I found showing the scale of this problem Part 1 below, or full on YT here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQC...

Today I learned that Britney Spears is an anagram of Presbyterians

Bluesky may not be the old web but it is where the old web hangs out

This is extraordinary: "emissions by data centres needed to train and deliver AI services are estimated at around 3 per cent of the global total, close to those created by the aviation industry."

So more a Lamarckian moment for American then

"Worse than being drunk or high" hfs how did screens even pass safety testing when any small cabin or seat-change must be rigorously crash-tested??

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

y'all when I tell you this was the most fun I've had all week

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

Have too many of these lost loves and it's still too soon to talk about any of them

Just checking something

This is known as a “Holy Ghost”

Who was going to tell me about the Hebrew (and bit of Syriac) on Vader’s chest plate

welp i guess the guy who was going to review GOSPEL THRILLERS for "Reading Religion" decided not to so up for grabs? readingreligion.org/978100938461...

A small piece of my heart/soul is available for FREE this weekend as a part of the #indiebooksale Treat it well. indiebook.sale

Sometimes I feel like I've hated every printer I've ever used since my 1984 Juki 6100 daisywheel printer.

BLACK STREAM is out in 7 days! To celebrate, I'm running a comp where you have a chance to win: 💠 A signed copy of THE WAY OF UNITY 💠 A signed copy of BLACK STREAM 💠 A Velspar Elegies mug To enter: 1. Re-post 2. Fill out: shorturl.at/72u1U Closes March 4

I am very hype for this! I loved the first one and did not expect a sequel so soon

Dear bsky, let me introduce my dark fantasy series: Velspar Elegies. ♦️Book 1: THE WAY OF UNITY mybook.to/ItTq "dark, traumatic, intriguing, hypnotic, and poignant" -P. L. Stuart ♦️Book 2: BLACK STREAM mybook.to/RpzPTJ "This is fantasy of transcendental scope and exquisite execution." -Joseph Sale

whenever AI sucks at math I’m like damn maybe it can replace me after all

If you want to understand where a very large swathe of "AI" is, today, then you very seriously need to engage w/ religious studies & mythology — & understand I don't mean "mythology" in the pejorative sense of "falseness" or "fantasy;" I mean "animating beliefs," or "fundamental guiding narrative."

WILLY WOKA OH NO!

Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

Get thee to a nunnery ✝️

"sorry bro, that scholarly lacunae was filled ages ago"