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Helen Barrett
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I usually have zero interest in royal crap, but this is fascinating - and a great spot by New York magazine.
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elrondcupboard.bsky.social@elrondcupboard.bsky.social |
34 followers 134 following 491 posts
No valuables stored in this account overnight
Mostly using this to follow subjects of interest - i.e. history, protest and environment - expect long periods of silence with outburts of sarcasm.
Occasionally there may be memes.
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Helen Barrett
@helenbarrett.bsky.social
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I usually have zero interest in royal crap, but this is fascinating - and a great spot by New York magazine.
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John Cullen
@nellucnhoj.bsky.social
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Worm Boys. They're universal.
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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How the fuck is it using that much power?
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 13/20
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 13/20
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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Ok is this because the shoe is covered in bees?
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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The latest drone footage from Tesla's Texas "Gigafactory" has all the old familiar hits: multiple uncontrolled fluid leaks (possibly environmental violations), piles of parts staged outdoors in the elements, and an End Of Line "hospital" for especially janky Cybertrucks
youtu.be/1sjFH4qeHk0
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Congrats to everyone on Twitter, still pretending they're not actually frequenting a Nazi bar as the jukebox plays the Horst Wessel Song at a deafening volume.
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Stef Schrader
@hoonofthe.day
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writers should be allowed to financially bankrupt these morally bankrupt ghouls who steal our likenesses/bylines to vomit out low-quality chatbot-written garbage www.404media.co/a-beloved-te...
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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Cursed energy from Streeting
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Randy Meeks
@imrandymeeks.bsky.social
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I don't even go there, and this is still the funniest shit
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Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social
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You can even see a map of all the places tied to Odysseus and what is even more fantastic are the network tabs that should relationships to others. Like, this is off the charts (with the Apollo node lit up) for anyone doing network analysis. manto.unh.edu/viewer.p/60/...
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Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social
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For those teaching, researching, or interested in visualizing Greek myth, there is an invaluable new interactive map & database of Greek mythic persons, objects, & places called MANTO. The raw linked open data alone is stunning but the maps are also fantastic [1/4] manto.unh.edu/viewer.p/60/...
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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Whenever I see someone say “I used ChatGPT to write my RPG character backstory” I die inside a little
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Brían Hanrahan
@hanrahanistan.bsky.social
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great podcast on (what is now) Ireland in 2500-2000BC, the Beaker pottery era
(as he explains, an indirect product of the 90s/00s Celtic Tiger construction boom, which unearthed much new archaeological material)
www.abartaheritage.ie/amplify-arch...
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LeithMotive
@leithmotive.bsky.social
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You read this? www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
I think that's one prong of criticism, there are others. Not least that 'intelligence' at least as understood in human history up to now, has been a biological phenomena.
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 12/20
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 12/20
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Phil Plait
@philplait.bsky.social
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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can.
More:
cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...
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Sean M. Smith
@reallyseansmith.bsky.social
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That's the good stuff.
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Wendy Xu
@wendyxu.bsky.social
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this absolutely blew my mind it's the coolest thing i've read in a minute
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidd...
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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I just know it ended up Salt Glazed
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Pål, Son of Bengt
@sonofbengt.bsky.social
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Huge if true...
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András Forgács W
@andraswf.bsky.social
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People think I'm taken in by contemporary toxic masculinity when I say I want to build my own house These people never saw an English house before
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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We’re now in the era of “you will have an en-suite even if it removes a significant percentage of actual living space”
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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I haven’t been to the pottery studio since the 20th thanks to my tendonitis but just picked this little guy to take home
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis
@paularcurtis.bsky.social
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Yes we have work to do on climate crisis & sustainable lifestyles, but do we really need orientalist takes on the "feudal" "ancient city" of Edo? Research on Japan's successes (and its many failings) in environmental sustainability was done by Totman decades ago. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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Yeah its the same reason film posters are blue and orange, its just annoying seeing it arrive unfiltered in AI prompts
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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Them; "You're the youngest child aren't you?" *me hunched over the plate defensively, eyes alert for predators while I stuff my face as fast as possible* Me; "How can you tell?" Them; "Just a hunch"
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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You essentially need to have a full time job posting and to be lucky enough to hit enough numbers for the algorithm to boost your profile
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John Bull
@garius.bsky.social
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This will be doubly awkward as the number of NOMINATIONS required for a candidate to make the Tory Leadership ballot ISN'T a percentage. It's a fixed number. 100 MPs. I'm sure it sounded reasonable at the time. Good luck getting 100 Tory MPs to agree on something when there are only 121 of them.
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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Very good thread this. In many ways this was a typical 2020s European election. When you consider how so many of those are ending, that's a bit worrying.
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Alexander Clarkson
@aphclarkson.bsky.social
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With elections across Europe there has been a recent tendency of overcorrecting from past mistakes to focus entirely on far right dynamics that were once scoffed at It means dynamics that are just as important such as factional positioning in France's Left or the rise of England's Greens get missed
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Judah Grunstein
@judah-grunstein.bsky.social
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Some initial thoughts on the UK elections. 1. It confirms once again that when a center-right party veers to the hard right to weaken the far right, it ends up doing the opposite. After purging moderates and going full-on wingnuts and fever swamp, the Tories got decimated by Reform, not Labour. 🧵
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Claire Cock-Starkey
@nonfictioness.bsky.social
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This is great from the Guardian: Analysis by the Sutton Trust suggests that Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have the highest number of ministers educated at comprehensive schools, and the lowest proportion in modern history who went to private schools.
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James Hunt
@jameshunt.bsky.social
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Someone on the BBC coverage just said "the monarch is politically neutral, always has been, always will be" which, IMO, is a legitimately hilarious take on history.
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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AI art always seems to veer towards orange blue and purple/pink for some reason
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Midsomer Murders Bot
@midsomerplots.bsky.social
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Midsomer Norton’s MP is found thoroughly defeated…. #UKpol
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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Steve Baker could have quit any time he liked rather than milking the public for 80 grand and expenses
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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We used to be a proper country
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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First time I've ever actually had a Labour MP I think.
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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Farage must have comprimat on multiple director generals because this has been the pattern for decades now
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Patrick Stokes
@patstokes.bsky.social
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Look at these place names. Absolutely made-up country.
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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Anyway, bed and we’ll see the damage tomorrow
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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“What in the world is going on in there?”
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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I'm not supposed to comment on these but frankly this book set me down a path where the rest of the fantasy genre was hollow and void (I was like 12 at the time) Get hold of it if you can.
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 11/20
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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Libera te tutemet ex Conservatives
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@elrondcupboard.bsky.social
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“They grew a square patch of millimetre high green and called it nature” - Tacitus
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