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(I say that like I didn't watch a whole video of a cargo train dragging another train and give it a like before heading to Wikipedia to learn all about this new technological wonder.)

YouTube video by Ivo Radoev Alstom Coradia Stream EMU arrives in Bulgaria for testing / ЕМВ на Алстом пристигна в България!

The Bulgarian national railway operator has purchased a bunch of modern electric trains from a French manufacturer courtesy of the French taxpayer and the first unit arrived for testing a few days ago.

Bulgarians are acting like it's the Concorde lmao

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sfh...

We might take the letter as a laudable attack on the sexual exploitation of the socially inferior: confessors w/ their confessees, monks of oblates &c. But Damian (as w/ Alain of Lille's Complaint of Nature) seems to be unable to conceive of sex between people of equal rank, between *men* in short

cover of Matthew Cullinan Hoffman's translation of Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah

Just read the intro (75 pages) to a Very Catholic translation of Peter Damian's 11th-century letter to the Pope Leo IX on sodomy, called, since the 14th c, The Book of Gomorrah. Having just taught Damian's letter in David Rollo's translation (for Brill), I thought Hoffman would be enlightening.

@kalinah.bsky.social And Lichtenstein. Idkn why everybody underestimates them - they are rich foljs too you know.

Have fun and stay safe!

Cover of Speculative Whiteness by Jordan S. Carroll

Hugos were last night, and just grabbed the winner of Best Related Work and read on a train journey - it's a quick read, tracing fascist tropes and fascists through sci-fi. Especially good on fascists readings of works and also proto-fascist nerd-wish-fulfilment Mutational Romances.

YouTube video by Alvin Zhou Films The World's #1 Sushi Restaurant That's Impossible To Book

My virtual restaurant tour continues... Can't deny this guy would probably be a better employer. The way he introduced his apprentices like they're the Avengers was cute.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9q...

in going to step in here and suggest that historians might find value in the rich archaeological literature about reconstruction drawings, their ethics and perils as well as the scholarly work they do.

I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.

If anything, I think the point of the surveillance tech is to remove the need for basic human interaction so that profoundly antisocial people can still benefit from the transactional effects of having real human relationships

ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.

Massive congrats! Can’t wait to read another Jeremy classic later.

Brownish hummingbird in flight among some tall grass. Wings outstretched as if on a cross. Wearing an imperceptible smirk.

Is there anything you need to confess to Hummingbird Jesus before it is too late? Be honest.

В Бургас животът е така.

Saw the new Superman with my friend who works for NATO and when they showed the LuthorCorp building she whispered, “That’s where my next job is going to be.”

(In fairness, someone else was using it, but I found the image too funny not to share.)

There’s a modest half-pipe ramp in my local park and this is how the youth make use of it.

This is a very troubling claim: someone who the Lemkin Institute - genocide experts - clearly believes is an expert in photo interpretation says there is evidence of an expanding mass grave near the CECOT prison in El Salvador… where the Trump regime sends detainees.

The US US discovered debt as a natural resource around 2000, and has been exporting it ever since.

Excellent article by @bhgreeley.bsky.social

on.ft.com/40NNZmt

Paris, BnF, MS n. a. l. 1628 – copied at Monte Cassino ca. 1075 under the supervision of its translator, Constantine the African. The text is called the Isagoge and it was composed in Arabic in the 9th century by Hunayn ibn Ishaq. The script of the present copy is called Beneventan. Source: Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Gallica).

It never gets old. I'll be talking about this MS at #IMC2025 ( @imc-leeds.bsky.social) tomorrow. And I can sit here, in Phoenix, consulting it online tonight. It was written sometime around 1075 at the monastery of Monte Cassino, under the supervision of its translator, Constantinus Africanus.

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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First time I’ve received a physical copy of Speculum in the mail and it made it all the way from Chicago to Bulgaria. Maybe the Medieval Academy of America membership fee is worth it…?

Listen, who hasn’t traveled abroad for unrelated reasons and decided to undergo IVF treatment on a whim after scanning a QR code off a bistro menu?

Wow. This is the kind of local color you only notice in the mundane details. But what if non-Americans need IVF too?

More travel pics please!

A plant-covered sauropod in the style of maybe 70 years ago, made of concrete, its neck and head either protected or replaced by corrugated green piping, proposed up with three boards each meeting at the top of its pipey neck

Guys in the Azores today I saw the best dinosaur sculpture and maybe the best sculpture I've ever seen