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"We are a primitive people," confessed a third emigrant, "wandering widely in a strange land." History grad student - @SalemState MA

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Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage (Remastered)
Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage (Remastered) YouTube video by Michael

Apparently, the original 2007 fan video that married Arcade Fire's song and Sergio Leone's images was taken down for copyright reasons, but someone was good enough to recreate the magic.

07.03.2026 21:59 👍 86 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

07.03.2026 20:54 👍 293 🔁 122 💬 5 📌 3
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#HistoryHumour #TheOdyssey

07.03.2026 22:01 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

That’s right. It’s basically birth of Christ, 1066, 1215, 1492, 1620, 1776, 1861-65, 1929, 1939-1945, 1968, 1978 (blizzard). That’s all you learn

24.02.2026 02:26 👍 102 🔁 16 💬 12 📌 0

The only way you can think AI does lit reviews better is if you’re not interested in making an intellectual argument or building theory … which uh, is pretty key to the advancement of knowledge

24.02.2026 01:51 👍 69 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 3

Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean

23.02.2026 01:29 👍 2478 🔁 373 💬 20 📌 0
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Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

22.02.2026 16:24 👍 9968 🔁 2274 💬 65 📌 112
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

19.02.2026 23:03 👍 5302 🔁 839 💬 20 📌 28
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23.02.2026 00:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts
Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts YouTube video by BBC

Ink Radio.
The only place you’ll hear.

21.02.2026 16:55 👍 868 🔁 216 💬 63 📌 29

On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Holger Afflerbach

The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Fussell

14-18: Understanding the Great War Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau & Annette Becker

22.02.2026 01:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

20.02.2026 22:57 👍 20074 🔁 2893 💬 557 📌 170
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having to thank "the reviewer" for "their" helpful comments when i know exactly who that bitch is

13.02.2026 09:18 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Mexican Jesus | American Gods Episode 6 Clip
Mexican Jesus | American Gods Episode 6 Clip YouTube video by American Gods

"American Gods"
youtu.be/dpBjph1T3Ls?...

14.02.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A thread about some of the amazing collections of copyright-free images on the internet. I'll add the NY Public Library. To limit to public domain, click the "Search only public domain" box near the search bar digitalcollections.nypl.org

14.02.2026 15:08 👍 31 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

roses are red
violets are blue
lilacs are neither red nor blue, but if they had to answer a follow-up question picking whether they leaned more toward red, more toward blue or did not lean toward either
that would be terrible for this poem's scansion

14.02.2024 21:32 👍 61 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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08.02.2026 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It should be easier to find some beauty products without having to reconcile with our broken consumer capitalism.

11.03.2025 07:40 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Too much old world is dying, not enough new world struggling to be born

08.03.2025 15:55 👍 43 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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26.01.2026 04:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...and in their collective obsession with the Thucydidean Trap, they happened to miss the point entirely; this wasn’t Sparta🇨🇳 and Athens🇺🇲; it was Athens and Melos, the Delian League all over again...

21.01.2026 01:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
20.01.2026 18:01 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about

19.01.2026 18:28 👍 12020 🔁 1576 💬 123 📌 66
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18.01.2026 00:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

17.01.2026 18:23 👍 13899 🔁 2308 💬 391 📌 144

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

17.01.2026 20:33 👍 17349 🔁 1788 💬 783 📌 179
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A motto for editors and proofreaders everywhere

17.01.2026 09:43 👍 106 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 2
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Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "listen mate, life has surface noise."

17.01.2026 06:15 👍 3581 🔁 419 💬 0 📌 92