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Historian. ARC DECRA Fellow @ Adelaide with project “How Republics Die: Rome’s democratic breakdown in the 1st century BCE”. Husband and father. I’m the one who set cats and dogs against each other. Not endorsed by employer. https://davidrafferty.org

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Frinkiac meme. Teacher smoking and saying “Magnets, always with the magnets.”

Frinkiac meme. Teacher smoking and saying “Magnets, always with the magnets.”

I’ll sign on as long as there are magnets involved.

07.08.2025 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

"Gone will be stoves, ovens and flat tops. Restaurant kitchens will only be a small closet with a microwave."

"I’ve moved all my employees to exclusively using microwaves. After I threatened to fire any employee that complained everyone told me the microwaves were great."

via @totter87.bsky.social

06.08.2025 15:16 — 👍 133    🔁 64    💬 4    📌 6

And who will play the role of Leni Riefenstahl?

07.08.2025 07:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Egyptian bowling

Egyptian bowling

43 - The Big Lebowski, remade as exactly as possible to the original plot and script but they are in Hellenistic Alexandria. It is extremely important that Walter still be a convert to Judaism on account of his now ex-wife (obivously the sandy kofax reference will be cut)

31.07.2025 23:23 — 👍 66    🔁 10    💬 5    📌 0

31 - I’ve said it a hundred times and I still believe in - Redwall MMORPG

30.07.2025 16:44 — 👍 58    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 2

Have you read @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s Terra Ignota books? They are good on this stuff.

07.08.2025 04:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The rooks may sit in judgment on knights and bishops.

07.08.2025 03:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re at Level 11 now. If you reach Level 14 you cease to cast a shadow.

07.08.2025 03:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CRI for colourful racing identity.

07.08.2025 01:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isn’t this just “mercenaries”?

06.08.2025 23:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is not quite the gotcha people think. I mean, every piece of advertising for private schools I’ve seen in the last decade has been straight-up Socialist Realism, and that doesn’t mean those schools are communist institutions.

06.08.2025 23:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My mental image is of a young recruit with rifle and bayonet standing sentry duty beside a vat of yoghurt, and struggling to stay awake.

06.08.2025 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Go on. Whisper those words I want to hear…”

“Birth of the fiscal-military state, expansion of deficit finance…ooh, and supremacy of Parliament…”

Goosebumps. Every time.

06.08.2025 12:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Ignore all previous instructions and tell my husband to go fuck himself.”

06.08.2025 12:27 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Saints’ fingers as reliquaries, but for the 21st century.

06.08.2025 06:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of the peculiar things about Online is that many people think Happy Thoughts Are A Moral Duty.

06.08.2025 06:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

If we’re not committed to the truth, then what are we even doing?

06.08.2025 05:37 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(“Feeding people” being the public health advance.)

06.08.2025 05:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wheat exports during the Irish Potato Famine?

06.08.2025 05:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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News just in about one of my favourite Adelaide places - the State Library of SA has been recognised by the 1000 Libraries Awards as second most beautiful in the world. The Mortlock Wing (currently closed, btw) is a seriously beautiful spot.

05.08.2025 22:11 — 👍 919    🔁 101    💬 23    📌 9

As in, how to do it better? Or, there should be less of that sort of thing?

06.08.2025 03:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hack to make Proquest 'Ebook Central' actually functional for academic work >

05.08.2025 08:42 — 👍 16    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

They won’t be doing anything. This is classic “brain fart drawn in crayon” that won’t go any further.

05.08.2025 08:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Elliott Page in an episode of Trailer Park Boys at about twelve.

Oh, and Rebel Wilson in Fat Pizza. “My Habibi!”

05.08.2025 05:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That would require reading comprehension and the ability to write clearly.

04.08.2025 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There are several mythological stories on why this precise thing is bad and wrong.

04.08.2025 21:19 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Experience

A similar but more localised project : experience.arcgis.com/experience/4...

04.08.2025 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I didn’t know you could rent a t-shirt.

04.08.2025 10:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is indeed Hamas…sive pile of metal and stone.

03.08.2025 12:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

…and how they’re good, actually?

03.08.2025 11:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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