Gerard Mercator, Flemish, cartography and globe-maker, was born 5 March 1512 #histsci
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Gerard Mercator, Flemish, cartography and globe-maker, was born 5 March 1512 #histsci
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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Yritykset haluavat koulutettua työvoimaa ja Kokoomus on se puolue, joka koulutuksesta eniten leikkaa.
Selkeä ristiriita, kun vasemmistopuolueet ovatkin ne puolueet, jotka haluavat voimakkaimmin tukea yritysten tärkeintä pääomaa, eli osaavaa työvoimaa.
Yritysten olisi hyvä herätä tässä asiassa.
Johtajien palkat erkaantuvat muista, vaikka Suomen talouskehitys surkeaa. Ei ihme, ettei Suomi lähde nousuun, kun epäonnistumisesta palkitaan. Sama tapahtunut elinkeinoelämän etujen kanssa.
stat.fi/fi/julkaisu/...
This letter, addressed to a spice merchant in Montpellier, is dated to the 1250s and written mostly in medieval Occitan. The most compelling part to me is that it's written on paper rather than parchment. Remarkably early example of paper in this region, especially among merchants! #medievalsky
04.03.2026 21:11 — 👍 34 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters
An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism
This was so good, thanks for sharing it.
05.03.2026 08:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Having preserved the knowledge held by these communities, it was no longer necessary, or even convenient, to preserve the people themselves."
This is about indigenous NAm peoples and their linguistic record, but it applies to all imperialists and robber barons alike.
Nihil novi sub sole:
"Many people disappear from the telling when a machine is treated as a historical actor."
This is a great article to read and reflect on the current preoccupation with technology.
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
04.03.2026 14:40 — 👍 15576 🔁 6616 💬 279 📌 260If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
04.03.2026 02:17 — 👍 2711 🔁 966 💬 17 📌 40
On a more serious note, rapid armament depletion has been one of the identified risks from pretty much every major exercise of the last 15 years. Not to mention the evidence provided by the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Legit impressive how quickly this administration has fucked up the US military.
when you are an author (or a student) putting in texts even "just for editing" into gen-AI, you are at risk of plagiarism bec this is how the algorithm works. in old-fashioned academic integrity lingo, you participate a mass "collusion". we end up with 30 essays with the same structure & argument
04.03.2026 10:44 — 👍 28 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Syksyllä tuntematon jarru ja nyt henkeä salpaava romahdus verokertymissä. Yhden pisteen vihjeenä: syyt näihin saattavat löytyä läheltä. Ja ratkaisuehdotuksena: muutamaan peiliin voisi VM:ssä ja hallituksessa investoida.
www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/b7...
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibu6vuc7ofetq5hla3gfcknocotbfl3yk2ajczk6qfd2hnjxrav6q@jpeg)
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
04.03.2026 11:14 — 👍 3746 🔁 1175 💬 16 📌 37
Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social
03.03.2026 19:20 — 👍 1418 🔁 506 💬 20 📌 15
Kertomus valtionvarainministeriön toiminnasta kahdessa osassa.
Missä ammatissa tällaisella suorituksella voisi pitää duuninsa?
VM nykymuodossaan pitää räjäyttää taivaan tuuliin ja rakentaa uudelleen.
Ei voi olla niin, että Suomea käytännössä johtaa yksisilmäinen joukkio, jonka talouspolitiikka on vain oikeistolaista leikkaamista, velkajarrua ja austerity-luokkasotaa, joka tuhoaa Suomen. Tarvitaan monipuolisempaa osaamista!
Huom! Esitelmäehdotuksien deadlinea Suomen 1700-luvun tutkimuksen seuran konferenssiin "1700-talet och Norden – The Eighteenth Century and the North" on jatkettu 10.3. asti.
1700.fi/tapahtumat/
Tässä on se oleellinen konteksti, jossa on tulkittava velkajarrusopimusta, jota toteutetaan valtionvarainministeriön laskelmien pohjalta.
Ovatko poliitikot tosiaan niin helvetin naiveja, että astuvat tähän poliittisen uransa hautapaikkaan vapaaehtoisesti?
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
03.03.2026 18:18 — 👍 118 🔁 62 💬 14 📌 9
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
🧵 1/4
Valtionvarainministeriön likimain ainoa duuni on laskea budjettihommat ja ennustaa mitä niille tapahtuu poliittisten muutosten myötä.
Minusta pitäisi vetää koko porukka vaihtoon, jos siinä ainoassa duuni menee jatkuvasti näin raskaasti vihkoon.
www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/b7...
When we talk about slavery, we're talking about a system that goes beyond the mere physical ownership and control by white planters over black enslaved people: we're discussing a system of psychological terror which pervaded every element of enslaved people's lives, even beyond the living.
03.03.2026 12:32 — 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 0This is the story of slavery at its most traumatic, one predicated not just on physical violence against enslaved people by slave owners, but the all-encompassing terror of slavery as a psychological tool of control and oppression, and the desperate ways enslaved people tried to resist it. A small 🧵
03.03.2026 12:32 — 👍 56 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 4
Snippet of a hand-written text with the word 'received' spelled <Receiv,d>
Does someone know anything about the practice of using a comma instead of an apostrophe? I've so far come across two writers doing this: one is late-18th century, and the other (pictured here) unknown but I reckon late-18th to mid-19th century. #spelling #punctuation #manuscripts
02.03.2026 08:44 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Turun Historiallisen Yhdistyksen ja Turun kaupunginkirjaston yhteiseen Historia nyt! -luentosarjaan kuuluvassa luennossa 1.4. Uponnut katedraali -tutkimushankkeen jäsenet kertovat Turun tuomiokirkon keskiaikaiseen rakennushistoriaan liittyvistä tutkimustuloksista.
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Dictionaries plagiarize each other like anything, but Thomas Cooper's 1578 Thesaurus linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ uses the same wording – although his dictionary is Latin-English, and your leaf is from an English-Latin dictionary.
quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A1927...
Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
