A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.
May as well dive right in.
Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?
According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”
Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
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Big tent!
28.01.2026 21:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
You need Fuego to melt ice. I need Your Pet Cat. Too much risk there.
28.01.2026 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I do want this to be a broad coalition but I’m not sure we ultimately have the same goals in mind
28.01.2026 19:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
“Trey do you even hear yourself, how can a Moma Dance melt ice? That doesn’t even make sense!”
28.01.2026 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
so we’re not ordering any @phish.com webcasts until the band says something about ICE or until they cover that 4 Non Blondes song right
28.01.2026 18:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Also one of the main anti-WC arguments was about taxonomy and cocoa solids but lol bros your so-called real chocolate doesn’t typically have those anymore either
28.01.2026 18:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
this time of flux is a great time to revisit and reevaluate some old prejudices
28.01.2026 18:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hey @fishtree.co I haven’t changed my evil ways
28.01.2026 15:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Oh this makes more sense now
08.11.2025 17:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Came here to say this, that was absurd
08.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bring Her Back was much more intense than I expected
10.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I hope A. J. Daulerio is having a great day
24.07.2025 16:07 — 👍 32 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Some curated tunes for your weekend from myself and @ed209.bsky.social
Stay safe out there, buds.
13.06.2025 23:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@ed209.bsky.social is out this week, so this is roughly what the inside of my brain sounds like
23.05.2025 16:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Worth keeping this man in mind as Trump fawns over the Saudis who ordered his death
13.05.2025 16:07 — 👍 1373 🔁 355 💬 22 📌 9
"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness
13.05.2025 16:09 — 👍 1294 🔁 227 💬 66 📌 20
your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
29.04.2025 18:47 — 👍 24634 🔁 4269 💬 177 📌 74
Immaculate handpicked vibes from @ed209.bsky.social and myself to enhance your weekend.
Set your crossfade to 2 seconds to really {{{feel}}} it
25.04.2025 22:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
04.03.2025 15:50 — 👍 28256 🔁 5904 💬 123 📌 234
"I'm a creep I'm a weirdo" well then shut the fuck up I don't want to listen to a song by a weirdo
29.03.2025 03:14 — 👍 220 🔁 23 💬 10 📌 0
I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.
20.03.2025 11:59 — 👍 5711 🔁 1533 💬 214 📌 59
The way these sleeves melted onto the cd’s after one summer though
16.03.2025 19:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically.
www.defense.gov/News/Feature...
16.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 1091 🔁 372 💬 54 📌 34
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