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In terms of the female bald Centauri, some of those were skull caps, and others weren't; we let it be known that we wanted to support women going through chemo or other treatments who had lost their hair by casting them here, money that could also help pay for medical bills.

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Show about a really big cryptid called Jack Creacher

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Super stoked for the new DesiQuest Winter Special. Can't wait to see what @thatbronzegirl.bsky.social and crew get up to. youtu.be/xS5D-xI5f0w

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Q: Now look closely, 007. Now this might look like a normal Windproof Compact Stick Umbrella for Rain, Trusted Seller One-Click Automatic Open and Close, Strong Reinforced Fiberglass Ribs, Easily Collapsible, Lightweight Portable Umbrellas for Travel Umbrella but turn the handle & the device will ex

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The alt text for these photos is so wonderful in French that I have to post it in the clear: "2 photos d'un très bon chien (beagle) en train de sniff-snouffer des vieux livres à la recherche de vrillettes"

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taps mic we're launching a podcast! Here's a round-up of our highlights for the months ahead: from a blockbuster garden exhibition, to free talks and tours (online and in-person), and the pilot of our very own podcast, Absolute Units. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

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'For this reason Christ makes you stand before him so that you renounce him ... er, Satan of course, renounce Satan ...' 🫣 Serious scribal error (به bihī: him, referring to المسيح al-masīḥ: Christ, corrected in the margin to بالشيطان bi-š-šayṭān: Satan) in Strasbourg, BNU, Or. 4226, f. 65v, line 1:

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I think it's actually spelled "Yeats"

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bove of deez nuts

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

Oh your priesthood is appointed by the divine will of the gods? Sounds like a deī hire to me.

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Lead us not into penn station

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Pausing a minute in the copyedits to highlight something poignant that I can only mention in the article. It's about the Tudor William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.

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A monk in Ravenna wanted to get documents proving his monastery owned some land. He went to Constantinople to request these documents from the emperor, who provided them. But then he couldn’t find a ship back to Italy. He was miraculously transported home.

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this skeet reminded me of a fabulous essay jack sasson my bestie sent me. it's about the trees in the garden of eden, which tree is which, and what's up with all these trees anyway. it's hard to find, so here's a download link: drive.google.com/file/d/1p5aW...

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Finally, the game for those kids who grew up thinking they were grown-ups

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An image that shows just how wild ancient naval technology could get—comparing the hypothetical rams from the Actian ram sockets to the Athlit ram and one of the Egadi rams. For context: Athlit is around 7 ft long and 1,000 lbs.The Actian sockets are not even the largest rams get in antiquity.

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We have PhD-MD physician scientists because there’s a generally accepted understanding that being a practicioner of something and being a scientist of it are distinct skillsets with different training, but for some reason “legal academia” lawyers get to freely cosplay as historians and economists

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Thing my brain decided to do for a solid twenty minutes today: replacing the word "Dublin" in folk songs with "Goblin"

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Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls

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They say pandas are the dumbest animals in the world, but I bet they never listen to sad music when they’re sad so they can be even more sad.

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that flirty little grin. never change, Jamie

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So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!

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they are gonna see some hilarious shit when they get to my account tbh "It says this guy applied for 47 jobs in 2016, logged in every day for 9 months to check the status of one application in particular, then got a rejection email a year after the posting closed...that can't be right, can it?"

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this tweet inspired me to do some fun nerd stuff on here. so nerds, what’s your favorite library? i have two, both very personal: the first is uchicago’s harper library (now a reading room) and the second is the nashville public library, which is a stunner.

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Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.

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if you haven't learned about the imperial boomerang today's as good a day as any

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Getting ready to teach my medieval manuscripts class this semester. First week of class we learn...the beautiful, condensed language of catalogue entries. I made this annotated graphic of one to show everything we learn from this brief entry.

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Something fun I learned today is that when sailors first saw juvenile penguins in the Antarctic, they called them "oakum boys," after the fuzzy material they used for caulking gaps in ships

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Hardly ever see costume design get the recognition it deserves so must mention I am still buzzing from seeing Eiko Ishioka’s designs for The Cell on the big screen. Brilliant costume designer who played a heavy role in the beauty of Tarsem’s films before passing in 2012.

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THE CELL is a visceral feast for the eyes it is it is.

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I hadn't know that in 1920 E.M. Forster wrote (in a review of Wallis Budge's memoir) such a concise and magnificent f*ck you to colonial collecting in general and the British Museum in particular: archive.org/details/p1at... (attn @alexanderchee.bsky.social!)

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My last project as an English major was the creation of Shrimp Scroll, an epic poem about a little shrimp. It was inked on paper that I made and threaded together in a Book Arts course. The thread was red and white, after the protagonist (a candy-stripe shrimp, of course).

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For some reason, Harvard Art Museum is experimenting with AI-generated object descriptions and as you can probably guess they are terrible: ai.harvardartmuseums.org/object/287668 (this is a fibula, it isn't Greek or Roman but Near Eastern, and it can't have been heavily exposed to the elements)

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folks, since there is some confusion, yes, J.B. Pritzker is the rightful Khan, holder of the Great Seal of Genghis, lord of the steppes, but in southern Illinois his legitimacy rests chiefly upon being a 'chakravarti,' or 'wheel-turning king.'

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Today I learned about the 🇨🇦 artist Sandra Sawatzky and the epic-scaled embroidered tapestry she has created, emulating the Bayeux tapestry, to chronicle the history of fossil fuel extraction. #needlework, #SubversiveStitch www.theblackgoldtapestry.com

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land of the free

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[mouth directly on the microphone] public opinion on immigration is malleable

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the whole point of Oxbridge tutorials is to teach you this skill, ideally you should go into an hour-long two or three person conversation about the book having read no more than the introduction and the back cover.

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