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Table of four columns headed, respectively, "1,000,000 Years Ago," "150,000 Years Ago," "10,000 Years Ago," and "150 Years Ago." The first column contains four roughly-shaped stone tools, the second has four more finely-shaped stone tools, the third has yet more sophisticated stone and bone tools, and the fourth has the text "Introduction of Interchangeable Parts."

Table of four columns headed, respectively, "1,000,000 Years Ago," "150,000 Years Ago," "10,000 Years Ago," and "150 Years Ago." The first column contains four roughly-shaped stone tools, the second has four more finely-shaped stone tools, the third has yet more sophisticated stone and bone tools, and the fourth has the text "Introduction of Interchangeable Parts."

23.02.2026 00:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Get your war on 3: ok I hate to act like a fucking dumbass but are we at war? I mean, did we ever officially declare war? Declare war? Who's got time to declare war when there are so many bombs to drop

Get your war on 3: ok I hate to act like a fucking dumbass but are we at war? I mean, did we ever officially declare war? Declare war? Who's got time to declare war when there are so many bombs to drop

03.01.2026 07:32 πŸ‘ 687 πŸ” 262 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 18
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"It says here on page 62 that the task of Danish Marxism is to abolish itself", said Toad cheerfully.

"Lovely", Frog replied.

12.12.2025 10:46 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The verse goes

Midst the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
And as He died to make men Holy let us die to make men free
Our God goes marching on

And, like, honestly you wanna burn down Richmond all over again when you hear it!

09.12.2025 07:42 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Strings of lights back and forth on the side panels seemed to be their solution

06.12.2025 01:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think there’s only the one, saw it parked on leonard avenue once

06.12.2025 01:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

our local cybertruck is sporting christmas lights

05.12.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

27.11.2025 09:30 πŸ‘ 2308 πŸ” 743 πŸ’¬ 206 πŸ“Œ 474

It’s not the first year they’ve done this! I was sure it would be changed but no.

24.11.2025 20:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
stock photo of a smiling man in front of a classroom with the text β€œalert but not paranoid; relaxed but also situationally aware.”  β€œAlert,” β€œparanoid,” and β€œsituationally aware” are written in a cursive β€œwine mom” font.

stock photo of a smiling man in front of a classroom with the text β€œalert but not paranoid; relaxed but also situationally aware.” β€œAlert,” β€œparanoid,” and β€œsituationally aware” are written in a cursive β€œwine mom” font.

why does the active shooter training use wine mom font

24.11.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure

05.11.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 335 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
guy said, β€œDo you like Marx?”

I said, β€œI haven’t met him.”

Guy said, β€œNo, no, he’s dead.”

β€œWow, what happened?”

β€œNo, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, β€œWhy are you asking me if he died long ago?” 

β€œNo, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” 

I said, β€œSounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naΓ―ve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

guy said, β€œDo you like Marx?” I said, β€œI haven’t met him.” Guy said, β€œNo, no, he’s dead.” β€œWow, what happened?” β€œNo, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, β€œWhy are you asking me if he died long ago?” β€œNo, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, β€œSounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naΓ―ve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

05.11.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 9379 πŸ” 2604 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 150

@lenorajoon.bsky.social I was instructed to share this with you

11.10.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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1 AM, clouds moving in

07.10.2025 05:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

features in my Alfred Thayer Mahan but with magic fanfic

29.09.2025 10:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

guys want one thing and it's literally 'a single-family home designed by TKA that looks like a state-system university library built in the 70s'

26.09.2025 15:51 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
American Library Association poster text reads: 
Library Work: 
The Profession on Which All Other Professions and Occupations Depend; 
The library serves: 
teacher, minister, doctor, lawyer, engineer, merchant, artisan, social worker, student, home-maker; 
It offers: 
culture, information, recreation; 
Library work puts the librarian in touch with every human interest. 
A challenging field to the college graduate

American Library Association poster text reads: Library Work: The Profession on Which All Other Professions and Occupations Depend; The library serves: teacher, minister, doctor, lawyer, engineer, merchant, artisan, social worker, student, home-maker; It offers: culture, information, recreation; Library work puts the librarian in touch with every human interest. A challenging field to the college graduate

kinda wanna put this ~1925 ALA poster on the inside of my library science zine

16.09.2025 18:53 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

old news, twenty-five years ago i was calling myself a neo-loyalist

16.09.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The series of questions I ask myself when I wake up each morning πŸ“š

18.08.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5
An image of a proposed redesign for the Massachusetts flag: it is a photo collage with a huge Dunkin Donuts at the center with the Harvard "Veritas" seal on the front of the building and a huge lobster plush doll walking out the front of it. The enormous smiling head of Governor Maura Healey rises up from behind the building, with heart-shaped sunglasses pasted over her eyes. Three bros in the lower left of the photo are raising a toast in red Solo cups, and in the lower right a (possibly drunk) young white person wearing a white T-shirt and sunglasses is waving a huge rainbow flag and wearing a rainbow boa. The word "MASSACHUSETTS" appears in the upper right in enormous pink-sprinkled letters in the Dunkin Donuts font.

An image of a proposed redesign for the Massachusetts flag: it is a photo collage with a huge Dunkin Donuts at the center with the Harvard "Veritas" seal on the front of the building and a huge lobster plush doll walking out the front of it. The enormous smiling head of Governor Maura Healey rises up from behind the building, with heart-shaped sunglasses pasted over her eyes. Three bros in the lower left of the photo are raising a toast in red Solo cups, and in the lower right a (possibly drunk) young white person wearing a white T-shirt and sunglasses is waving a huge rainbow flag and wearing a rainbow boa. The word "MASSACHUSETTS" appears in the upper right in enormous pink-sprinkled letters in the Dunkin Donuts font.

The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip* www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

25.08.2025 13:57 πŸ‘ 310 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 63
Kaiju press conference

Kaiju press conference

I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.

22.08.2025 20:59 πŸ‘ 1583 πŸ” 546 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 55
 Dubbed Peterloo by Manchester Observer. Meeting called for Parliamentary reform and repeal of corn laws.  4 women and a 2 yr old among the dead. The Waterloo veteran killed was John Lees, the  son of a mill owner who joined the Royal Artillery aged 15, a regiment which had two guns present but not used at Peterloo. He was beaten horrendously and died of wounds 3 weeks later.

Dubbed Peterloo by Manchester Observer. Meeting called for Parliamentary reform and repeal of corn laws. 4 women and a 2 yr old among the dead. The Waterloo veteran killed was John Lees, the son of a mill owner who joined the Royal Artillery aged 15, a regiment which had two guns present but not used at Peterloo. He was beaten horrendously and died of wounds 3 weeks later.

OTD 1819 Peterloo Massacre. 18 killed & hundreds wounded when pro-democracy meeting of c.60,000 people charged by Cheshire yeomanry, Manchester & Salford Yeomanry & 15th Hussars with 31st & 88th Regts & artillery also deployed. 15th fought at Waterloo & a Waterloo veteran among marchers killed.

16.08.2025 07:36 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

This is so good

23.07.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably five years ago, there was a screenshot of a tweet that bravely asked:

Did Karl Marx accidentally discover the ills of capitalist society in pursuit of his autistic special interest, linen coats?

I need this tweet for a talk I'm giving in August. I'll explain later, there's no time.

17.07.2025 03:40 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Leaflet (ca. 1915) including a recipe for "suffragette salad," which involved gelatin, lemon juice, cucumbers, and mustard.

Leaflet (ca. 1915) including a recipe for "suffragette salad," which involved gelatin, lemon juice, cucumbers, and mustard.

Adding headings "Suffragists" and "Mustard (Condiment)" to the same record is possibly the highlight of my week

18.07.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the freezer will live in the garage and the ghosts can too

12.07.2025 16:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Eric Williams

06.07.2025 20:08 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

now that is a special display of affection(?) reserved just for you

05.07.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

years avoiding you but now she demands attention

05.07.2025 12:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

feeling seen right now

27.06.2025 10:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0