Thony Christie

One of my pet peeves in a thriller film, somebody digs a grave in the woods in ten minutes. I spent many years working as a field archaeologist and to dig a hole of that size in normal soil takes one hell of a lot longer. Add undergrowth and roots to the equation and you are looking at even longer.

Counting the days. All calendars are conventions and a compromise. The natural measures of time the day, the (lunar) month and the year are incommensurable, a long mathematical word meaning you can’t measure the one …

Theologian, historian, jurist & philologist, Joseph Justus Scaliger, to whom we owe the Julian Day Count used in astronomy was born 5 August 1540 #histsci
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Anyway, I’m going to share my piece for Disability Visibility on why medical museums like the Mütter are problematic spaces for those seeking disability pasts/histories

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/07/28/m...

Learn a German word today:

Bügelbierflaschenzudrücker (swing top beer bottle shutter).

"Something is wrong with a nation where white people believe that Black people with felony convictions deserve to be murdered by police but a white (orange) man with 34 felony convictions deserves to be president."

#BlackPeopleMatter #ImpeachTrump #TrumpIsUnfit #TrumpForPrison

Take this from a theorist of (non)knowledge: this is not 'failure', this is a very deliberate set of omissions/exaggerations/interpretations that have a clear political goal, which is to make sure the (still mostly white) Brits are fighting asylum seekers, rather than their own ruling class

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

It's so obvious, do I really have to explain it to you?

The only thing wrong in this piece is the statement Gazans had "normal lives" before the start of (this) war - they v much didn't: like other Palestinians they existed in an apartheid state without equal rights to movement or access to vital resources & facilities, subject to numerous oppressions.

For the last twenty years Gaza was the world's largest concentration camp

Hoover Makes Available The Newly Processed Papers Of Nancy’s Reagan’s White House Astrologer

Huge archive news: The Hoover Institution has opened access to the most powerful figure in the Reagan White House: Astrologer Joan Quigley. 🗃️

The very same day a Trump official announced he wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.

This would more or less halt the ability of scientists and academics from visiting the US to give talks, attend meetings and workshops, collaborate with peers on research and I think that is the primary point. 🧪

@astrologee.bsky.social

Counting the days. All calendars are conventions and a compromise. The natural measures of time the day, the (lunar) month and the year are incommensurable, a long mathematical word meaning you can’t measure the one …

Theologian, historian, jurist & philologist, Joseph Justus Scaliger, to whom we owe the Julian Day Count used in astronomy was born 5 August 1540 #histsci
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It's a telling sign that to be a useful politician these days one must have graduate level education in invertebrate zoology.

One, I am not sure the highest priority here is the victims, justice for the victims or combatting child exploitation, or at least I do not feel this way. If there was justice for the victims we would see some kind of accountability for the years they allowed this horrible human being, if you can call him that, to prey on underage and young girls while jet-setting around the world with high-profile individuals and/or entrapping his victims in his various mansions and/or his notorious private island. And to make matters more severe continued to traffic, rape and assault victims while on prison work-release and/or even after being a registered sex offender for about a decade. Rather, I feel like the DOJ’s and FBI’s priority is protecting the “third-party”, the wealthy men by focusing on scrubbing their names off the files of which the victims, “know who they are”. To learn that our own president has utilized thousands of agents to protect his identity and these high-profile individuals is monumentally mind-blowing. That is their focus? Wow!

One of Epstein's victims calls out Bondi's DOJ for protecting the powerful men in the files.

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Precisely zero lies told.

Memorial in the shape of a Celtic cross in a graveyard. it has some fencing and wooden supports in front, which are holding up the wall beside it.

Close up of the inscription to George Wilson, noting that he was founding director etc, with symbol below of an eye in a hand in a triangle in a circle.

I recently paid a visit to the memorial of @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social or The Industrial Museum of Scotland's founding director George Wilson (1818-1859), Professor of Technology. His symbol for Technology, which can also be found on some of our early labels, is at the bottom #histSTM

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them

I'm so glad someone is finally reporting on this.

As a friend of @toriherridge.bsky.social, I find it so egregious that her expertise has been targeted. She is a world expert in extinct elephants! And @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social studies NZ's fossil birds ffs!
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

The man is the walking definition of a total arsehole

The title graphic from the musical Hamilton. Instead of a silhouette of Alexander Hamilton forming the tip of the large black star at the center of the image, there is a black and white image of a balding, sideburned William Hamilton.

William Rowan Hamilton was born #OTD in 1805.

His reformulation of classical Newtonian mechanics via the principle of stationary action is one of the most beautiful ideas in all of physics, and is at the heart of nearly every modern theory in physics. 🧪 ⚛️

To all the Gazans posting on my time line, firstly I have no way of knowing which appeals for help are genuine and which are scams, secondly I quite literally don’t have any money so, I couldn’t help the genuine ones even if I could identify them.

The central problem with the "this is really scary stuff" argument is federal elected Ds not acting like it

It's why the Democratic Party polls so poorly at the moment

50 Jobs in the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net Explore 50 real jobs from the Middle Ages—illustrated in a rare 15th-century manuscript from Nuremberg, showing medieval workers at their trades.

50 Jobs in the Middle Ages, illustrated in a rare 15th-century manuscript from Nuremberg, showing medieval workers at their trades. www.medievalists.net/2025/08/50-j...

They say unicorns bow to virgin maidens, but they don’t say what happens after they kneel. They don’t say what the horn is for. They say they are gentle, but only in the way a trap is gentle when it waits.

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

A detail from a 1697 German almanach: printed flowers made with a woodblock and positioned in a Schreibkalender VD17 7:700977V.

In 1697 Germany, your florists would have recommended buying this printed bouquet, and your bookseller would have recommended buying the copy of the #Schreibkalender that featured this floral element. #bookhistory

An excellent tome, highly recommended
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University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation