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Lithuanian folklore alert! On 16 March I'm speaking on the theme of 'Laumės as mirrors of women’s work, enforcers of taboos and deity-substitutes in Baltic folklore' at an online conference 'Living with Elves and Fairies' hosted by the University of Iceland and Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

Illustration by Shigeru Mizuki depicting a man running out of a house. Behind him is a paper screen covered in pairs of yellow eyes.

In #JapaneseFolklore, mokumokuren is a strange supernatural phenomenon occurring when the shoji (paper sliding doors) in buildings get old and damaged. Over time, the holes transform into disembodied eyeballs which peer out at you. While this yokai is not particularly...
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Comic idea that I can't execute: this picture but it's Bataille and a bunch of members of Acéphale and it says "and so.... They all wanted to be sacrificed"

consensus cracking for genocide

Philippines' 'Cockroach Lord' goes to bat for misunderstood bugs While fully aware most view cockroaches as disgusting, disease-bearing pests, the entomologist says they deserve more study and credit for their role in the global ecosystem.

The Philippines' lone expert on cockroaches has discovered 15 species and been dubbed "Cockroach Lord" by friends.

It’s the reason they say lefties are so intellectually incapable that they’re unable to do thought experiments. The second you deviate from the slightest patter of their script chuds have nothing, and so must pretend to be insulted when you point out some invalidity in their framing.

Besides I thought blue maga was stultifying concession to the aesthetic contours of the right like Qanon conspiratorialism, ai imagery and text as propaganda tools, and similar hallmarks, and cheerleading “blue no matter who” ideology.

“If you don’t pledge fealty and all your money to Platner right this second you’re blue maga lib who despises the socialist science of democratic centralism”

Look I realize the man is still popular despite either being a former Nazi or current dumbfuck, but that doesn’t obligate me to love him.

This raises the obvious question of what kind of thing the Trump admin might need the National Transportation Safety Board to do that a conscientious Board member would reject.

I love when a post gets even a modest amount of traction and all this webzone’s foremost Literacy Havers decide to log in and attempt to decipher it.

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

"If you can tolerate oil at more than $200 per barrel, continue this game."

Oh baby this is gonna be one HELL of a midterm.

Dancing dogs, Tumba de Tiros, Colima, 200–900 CE. A natural form of recognition, play, or dance among Xoloitzcuintli or the extinct Tlachichi dogs. It interprets the natural duality of the old dog, characterized by its wrinkled skin, and the young dog, suggesting the wise counsel of experience.

losing an hour on International Women’s Day feels right

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

it would be grimly funny if epstein was not merc'd by some shadowy cabal of deep state operatives on orders countersigned by trump and clinton, but by the median american carceral worker's reflexive compulsion to murder everything that's inmate shaped

the pokemon keep trying to play games with me and give me presents of rocks and sticks. look buddy that's nice but i'm kind of busy bringing rural electrification to cinnabar island

sleepoids hate it when an earlymaxxer dawn moggs them

Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon. History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.

Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.

Kham Khom, a Thai language version of Scrabble

Kham Khom tiles with Thai letters on them

I've been wanting Thai language Scrabble forever, and after digging around a bit I found out it exists and it's called Kham Khom (คำคม) although I can't find a digital version online, or a physical version for purchase.

クトゥルフのガレージキット受注販売しようか考えてるけど欲しい人いますか？

share if you're a fan of the pascagoula humanoid, pascagoula humanoid hive rise up

A "Humanitarian Response" Firm With No Federal Contract History Is Staffing Planned Immigration Detention Center in Maryland Anovaeon LLC, which has never won a federal contract, is recruiting for a 1,500-bed facility outside Hagerstown amid unresolved infrastructure concerns.

The first job postings for the Williamsport, Md. ICE detention warehouse appeared online.

The “humanitarian response” firm behind them has never held a federal contract.

While the oil fires are dramatic, the far greater evil is the US attacked an Iranian desalination plant.

Now Iran has attacked Bahrain's desalination plant.

Water sources are now on the table as valid targets.

There's a reason water sources are A#1 on the UN / Geneva Convention's NO list.

….oh

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.