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Retired academic thinking about writing a book. Proud Twitter refugee and endorsed by no one. All images are used under fair use.
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Well said Johnnie

Those who voted for the felon......

Emperor Heliogabalus (AD 218-222) wore sandals decorated with diamonds & gold. Fashionable Roman thongs were soon engraved by the finest artists. Eventually however, sumptuary laws & price controls were imposed by Gaius Valerius Diocletianus (AD 245-313), in AD 301.

If you live in CA, CT, IA, IL, KS, or ME you might have an election on Tuesday! And I made it really easy! I created a guide so you can be as informed as possible! I even included Maps so if you don’t know if you’re in that district, you can find out ariellaelm.substack.com/p/every-tues...

So, he has blown $11m in taxpayer dollars playing golf so far... Remember that as he takes benefits from the sick, ageing and veterans.

Victorious Roman soldiers on return to Rome celebrated by substituting bronze nails in their caligae (war sandals) with gold and silver tacks. The fashion caught on & soon patricians decorated their shoes with gold and jewels until Emperor Heliogabalus (AD 218-222) banned the practice.

There’s something happening in this country.

This is huge! Trump is ramming his agenda through now, so he can’t be stopped later—shock & awe. But look at these approval numbers—he’s underwater on our major issues. Public opinion is against Trump & his policies—his approval rating is historically low. It’s only going to get worse… MUCH worse.

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

Emperor Aurelian(AD 270 - 275) deemed yellow, white, & green be restricted to women. Red & purple reserved for himself & his sons. Ambassadors to foreign lands might wear gold rings, but men were forbidden from wearing silk garments of any sort. Purpura-dyed silk garments cost their weight in gold.

Get activists to set up food banks and engaged in local schemes to help out.

Banksy Art ❤️

During the reign of Claudius I (AD 41-54), some marines in the Roan Fleet demanded compensation from the emperor for marching shoes they had worn out. As a result the entire fleet were forbidden from wearing shoes and ordered to go barefoot.

Incompetent asshat hired rich, Incompetent asshat... outcomes were as expected.

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Did a zoom chat tonight. Told a few jokes. Turns out I’m not remotely funny.

A must read (gift article). Stories of deportees dumped in Panama by the admin. Gut wrenching. @haleaziz.bsky.social

Dyeing was an expensive process, both colour & materials were used in Classical antiquity to depict rank . By law Plebeians were restricted to one colour; officers, 2; commanders, 3; & patricians up to 7. Purple was reserved for aristocrats although scarlet could be worn by Patricians & Equites.

"Trump owns this, Elon owns this, and all of those spineless GOP Senators who greenlit Sean Duffy own this... We can barely go a day without a plane crashing. Maybe next time these Republicans should disconnect their lips from Trump’s ass and focus on the people they’re supposed to be representing."

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

Three men, pints perfectly synchronised, photographed in the Seaforth bar on the corner of Gorbals St and Rutherglen Rd in 1966 by actor Steven Berkoff. 📷 Steven Berkoff #glasgow

In Roman, Lex Oppia, was adopted in 215 BC, Marcus Porcius Cato argued lifting restrictions of women's dress would invite moral decadence and social upheaval. He was right and both followed in quick pursuit. The sumptuary law was later repealed 195 BC with the Lex Valria Fundiana.

ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe? ZELENSKYY: Yes

Then ask why...?

In antiquity, the Greeks had some laws relating to clothing, such as; women could only wear three garments at a time. This may account for why most women went barefoot. The amount of money lavished on clothing was also regulated by the wealth of the family.

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New Jersey was still a British colony in 1770 & subject to sumptuary law directed to all women ,'whether virgins , maids or widows, seduce or betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's male subjects by virtue of .. high heeled shoes, shall incur the penalty of the law enforced against withcraft...'

Trump officials have terminated more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration without realizing that they oversee America’s nuclear weapons. They are now trying to rescind the terminations.