Suffering from trepanation trepidation?
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Made in Scotland, from molecules. I write, I nitpick others' writing. Once a scientist, will always look good in a white coat. Learning ways to tell stories of science, medicine and the human body. Also run @theskylark.bsky.social
Suffering from trepanation trepidation?
banger
love this
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the ai has truly reached sentience
On the very slight chance that anyone on bsky has not already seen this:
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This is too much for my brain this late on a Friday afternoon. Or is it too laaaat? Leet?
Propping up the little lady books too.
βThe βDark Agesβ,β Haywood writes, βhas become a byword for ignorance, brutality and squalor.β He objects to that generalisation but then goes on to show that many areas were indeed dark. After Rome fell, the threads that held society together began to break. Across the old empire, splendid buildings were abandoned and knowledge of Latin waned. Violence took the place of governance. It is interesting to note that the Visigoths ruled the Iberian peninsula from 418 to 631 but left almost no cultural mark on the region.
come the fuck on, man. do you think Rome and Greece were not violent? do you think languages wouldn't change across 1000 years and (at least) 3 continents?
Omg a sequel to part 1
kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
Happy Friday. Donβt skip school.
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With the #SixNations returning this weekend its a good time to revisit this update from our Bill McLaren digitisation project on the beauty and value of #Rugby programmes:
archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/09/19/g...
#SportingHeritage #StirScanStudio
I don't think there's 30 years left to fit it all into.
Taps aff!
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El NiΓ±o
We are insane.
Our species is insane.
*Scotland develops a cunning plan to quietly secede from the UK and paddle up to Iceland before the neighbours wake up*
It can't be anything else because then we'd have to do something.
Photo of a letter that reads: βIf you donβt like my peaches, donβt shake my tree.β Sincerely, Shirley Jackson
If you donβt like my peaches donβt shake my tree
radio bulletins lol
Norman MacCaig on Philip Larkin βI used to judge his poetry very unfairly...I admired his wit, his brevity... But I couldnβt like it, because Iβm a happier man than he wasβ¦β [adopts lugubrious deep voice] β 'Life is a walk down Cemetery Road' - stuff and - think of all the pubs you pass on the way!β
also, loving the mask
beware accidental empathy
Might I request a public vote category for all us non-historians who feed on leftover snippets of history where we can? The Furniture Village Armchair Historian Ooh, I Never Knew That, That's Really Interesting award?
Chaos has been unleashed.
Iraq emerging as a new front in this spiralling conflict, with air strikes, militia, Kurds, Shia, proxies covert ops and more all in the mix
our report here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Also: oh Scotland, why won't you ever vote for us, they bleat. Why won't you just do as we tell you? Why not accept we know better than you...?
Why? WHY?!
BECAUSE YOU KEEP DOING SHIT THAT ONLY CUNTS WOULD DO!
Dire Straits?! Dire fucking Straits drowning out his adenoidal blether while we're, what, supposed to be wanking over some badly edited aircraft making the big whooshes and booms? WHAT IN THE MOTHERLOVING FUCK IS WRONG WITH EVERYBODY??!!! Even Alan Partridge would know this is dreadful.
just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"
It's a bitch when headaches just won't fuck the fuck off. Hope you can figure out the cause and get some relief.