Dr. Ellen Bauerle

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Are two weapons better than one?

This mummy portrait from #Roman Egypt depicts a young woman who (based on her clothing & hair) lived & died about 1900 years ago. She was presumably part of a family of some wealth, as she is shown wearing some gilded jewellery, including earrings, a necklace, & a wreath in her hair 🏺AncientBlueSky

Readers may remember all the discussion re the woman in "Goldfinger" ('64) who was painted gold as a special effect. Who knew you could do that? Maybe just paint TFG gold and then un-gild that historic office.

I confess I have a small shelf of books where things like that went wrong. None from Michigan, I hasten to add. JK Galbraith's "The Tentured Professor" is included, along with Plato's famous dialogue the Cdarmides (on OCT jacket but not book).

Yes: “Flinders Petrie” is not much of a provenance.

For reasons, I have multiple papyrological volumes lying about, but it's unclear why VoidCat wants to play only with them. Wants to learn Greek? Coptic? prefers jacketed books? I keep stacking them out of her way, she finds another path. Tho as I type her new fave is Rex Wallace's Etruscan manual.

That's kind of mean to Panera: in this warm weather, usually their umbrellas are open and welcoming, unlike these.

All hail the wise nibling!

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

"We committed the largest copyright violation crime ever and now we're being faced with the largest copyright class action ever?!? WHAT THE HELL?!?"

A sunken grassy area in the middle of a city, surrounded by a fence. At the bottom is a rectangular area covered by glass

#RomanSiteSaturday This ditch is all that's left of Augustodunum, the Gallo-Roman town that became Bayeux

The wall on the left, under glass, is the remains of the ramparts

Interestingly the name #Bayeux comes from the Baiocasses tribe who lived here!

📸 Mine

#archaeology #france #photooftheday🏺

Always wanted to visit Tamanis. I hear the Tamanisian Devils are cute.

A map of the US that labels the states with nonsense names

It’s like it has 3 Ph.D.s in geography

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Just finished 10-minute survey from WaPo re why I unsubbed, was it the cost? What if they give all digital? Or recipes? Back issues? No, WaPo, it’s the loss of talent resulting from loss of editorial independence. You know, democracy, darkness, etc. Will Lewis is no Ben Bradlee.

This whole thread… Animals are striking curious poses.

I know, right? So annoying.

Note the use of passive voice in the headline and that the sources aren’t even placed (in the administration or Harvard) in the NYT article. The journalists shouldn’t be trusted moving forward until they demonstrate higher standards. This reporting may have influenced Brown and Cornell’s agreements.

WH leak apparently behind NYT claim Harvard is settling w Trump for $500M. Garber says not true. Student journalists doing Times’ work for them. 😠

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

I installed a camera to see what was going on with our water feature that kept being taken apart at night (I recently filled it with rocks with a central fountain so it wouldn’t be constantly muddy), figuring I’d see a raccoon. I hadn’t expected an all-night pool party! 😂
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝

My old Epson Stylus was a dream. Its Epson successor advised me that while others might escape the plague working at home, WFH wasn’t in its (newish) contract. Its Canon replacement is nicely obedient to the household will and cheerfully WFH.

Those are not small raccoons, for that matter. Chonky guys.

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‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored

‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity

Agreed: he seems oddly dissatisfied. Perhaps because the figure behind the mask has not yet brought him his prosecco and almonds.