Darcy Conaty

Terracotta statuette of a dog with upright, pricked ears and a fluffy upright tail. He has an oval object - supposedly meat - in his mouth, painted red. Black pigment can still be seen on his ears and the tip of his tail, in addition to some traces of red on his coat.

Every dog owner: ‘What’s that in your mouth?? Omigod, drop it, drop it!’ 😱

This Greek (Boeotian) terracotta dog appears to have a red piece of, um, meat in its mouth. I’m sure he earned it (‘Hey, that dead guy over there wasn’t using this.’)

1st half of the 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me 🏺

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You might see the below image going around being circulated regarding the Union St fire in Glasgow.

It's AI slop. pure AI slop. Relatively convincing if you don't know the place, but 100% Fake.

Don't share it - debunk it.

Lets go into more depth....

Some people think that every lost war is lost because pencil-necked politicians set limits on what soldiers can do.

Some wars are lost because politicians are unwilling to think about the limits of what soldiers should do and what it's possible for them to do.

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.

PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

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"Like all propaganda, the Cass Review is not intended to stand up to scrutiny. It is intended to make a bang, a media blitz across the country saying trans healthcare is bad, which can then be used by the government to justify further restricting access to gender-affirming care."

People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason

There's a conversational thing maga chuds do that I call motivated incuriosity.

They will say thing X, which to normal people is something very, extremely, cartoonishly, obviously connected to thing Y.

And then act incredibly confused frustrated when you bring up thing Y.

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I'll add beware of posts that say "Source: "reputable site"" but don't actually have the LINK to it. If it's a screenshot of a post and it has that, find the original and check the source. It's become really common to spread disinfo, knowing you will be screenshot so no one will notice REAL link.

Over the past year, Trump has pushed nearly 7,000 workers out at the Social Security Administration and reassigned thousands more away from field office work.

The result?

A swath of "ghost offices" that are open in name only after being drained of the staff required to function.

I love that Don Herbert/Mr. Wizard was included in Mary Robinette Kowal's "The Calculating Stars" (Lady Astronaut series).

I remember watching it as a kid, and I'm delighted that you were able to use his book for your science club!

Why now is the time to be loudly anti-war We don't need the clarity of hindsight to know war in Iran—or anywhere—will end in physical, moral and financial ruin.

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

During the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald in 1945, many of the camp guards tried to escape by disguising themselves as prisoners or civilians. Newly liberated prisoners recognized several guards immediately, and you can imagine how that ended for them.

The 14th Amendment is clear: The Constitution, not the president, defines who is a citizen.

Birthright citizenship is central to who we are as a country, and we're fighting to protect that right at the Supreme Court.

The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

"'The court finds that there is significant public interest in ensuring the religious freedom of all citizens and the state’s position that religious freedom is somehow less important than other exceptions in the abortion law puts the court in an untenable position...'."

The only possible justification I can think of for having gender markers on our ID is so that the person looking at the card can glance up and go, "Yeah, that tracks."

So it should *look like what you present as.* (Lots of NBs in my family so also 🤷‍♀️ on the whole "convenient for observer" thing.)

I used to pass a shop window with a family of ceramic pigs in overalls. I told my roommates how incredibly ugly they were.

One day when I passed it, they were gone.

I worried all the way home that I was going to find them in our kitchen.

Never did find out what happened to them.

Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH.

The article covers newly released discovery in the case.

Here’s what discovery confirmed:

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My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

Six years in, the future of democracy is still on the docket None of these attacks on our elections were getting the attention they deserved. In October 2019, I decided to do something about it.

Democracy Docket has grown dramatically. It publishes seven days a week. It has several daily and weekly newsletters that go out to more than 400,000 subscribers. Its social media accounts reach millions. Its YouTube channel has more than 650,000 subscribers. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/six-...

My 1st vote was for McGovern in 1972. He carried MA & DC; the rest went for Nixon.

That didn't hurt as much as 2024.

Todd @redacted Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz, Todd as drawn a line then labelled it canal RIOS 508 @redacted MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

We have the meme for that!!!

It's impossible to tell the Selma and Bloody Sunday story if you erase Jimmie Lee Jackson.

It's literally sanitizing the story.

There's also the story of Amelia Boynton. Famously photographed beaten unconscious.

She would reprise her Selma March with President Obama at the age of 109

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.

Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false.

It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false. trib.al/3KARfN0

Iran retaliated with missile and drone bombardments against U.S. bases and allied territory, targeting military facilities across the Gulf, including Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. One Iranian drone killed six American service members at a U.S. command center in Kuwait. Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. “I guess,” he says. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

Donald Trump’s White House is blocking top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail can reveal. The FBI, Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center were preparing to put out a joint intelligence statement on Friday to state and local authorities alerting them of a heightened threat due to the ongoing war in Iran, a senior DHS official said. The bulletin, which was reviewed by the Daily Mail, details 'elevated threats by the government of Iran to US military and government personnel and facilities, Jewish and Israeli institutions and their perceived supporters, and Iranian dissidents and other anti-regime activists in the United States.' 'Radicalized individuals with a variety of ideological backgrounds also may see this conflict or other geopolitical events as a justification for violence,' the report continues. The five-page bulletin blocked by the White House provides specific details on how Iranian proxies may carry out attacks across the country. One section explains how local law enforcement can respond to this type of violence. The official title is 'A Public Safety Awareness Report: Elevated threat in the United States during US-Iran conflict'. Homeland Security broke protocol and gave the White House a heads-up about the nationwide bulletin hours before it was set to be released. Top Trump officials ordered it placed on ‘hold’. The White House did not deny blocking the terror bulletin in a statement to the Daily Mail.

Time: Asked if Americans should be worried abt attacks at home: I guess.

Daily Mail: The White House blocked release of FBI/NCTC warning of elevated risks.

Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7 Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration