Sebastian Säge

Speaking of similar things, do you have any recommendations for reading material of England's history of medicine hawkers, quack doctor and itinerant tooth pullers? I'm doing amateur research at the moment, any suggestions welcome. Send me a DM if you want more specifics

It was not so long ago I found out Charlie Chaplin was Romany.

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Me: sometimes I stay up all night and I don't go to bed. It's called "bonus time".

My loved ones: no it's not.

Medieval pilgrim badge displaying three phalli bearing a crowned vulva in a procession

Medieval pilgrim badge displaying three phalli bearing a crowned vulva in a procession (1375-1450)

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For people interested in our fucked up history, an interactive genocide map

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Ah yes "Sleepy Don"

Wowser

Facts

Part of McGinnis's illustration for The Odd Couple, depicting Walter Matthau climbed in an armchair with his feet on a coffee table. His legs have at least an extra femur's worth of length proportionate to his body.

Cover for a Hard Case Crime novel called Little Girl Lost. The McGinnis illustration shows a sexy dame perched on a brick wall, with one (normal) leg and one weirdly long leg with a gigantic elongated foot, the whole looking like she's had some kind of HR Geiger designed oar surgically attached to her pelvis.

Robert McGinnis, who has just died, was a genius and I own a book of his art, so I'm saying this fondly, but he did sometimes do strange things with the human leg

Still one of my favourite articles I go back to

Hell yeah

Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham Follow A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since. 2:15 PM 3/24/25 1.5M Views

The IDF has kidnapped the co-director of Oscar winning film No Other Land after being assaulted by a gang of Israeli settlers.

A more innocent age of disinformation?

Nina, forever and always

A small ivory skull. One side shows the skeleton. The other shows the fleshy face with worms coming out of it.

It's #MementoMoriMonday!

One side of this figurine features a human face crawling with worms and insects; the other side shows a skull - the flesh eaten away. Date unknown.

This unusual object is from the Wellcome Collection in London.

YouTube video by DavidBowieVEVO David Bowie - Lazarus (Video)

Something so profound and unsettling about making a dance out of your own mortality

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East Window, 2008 designed by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart

YouTube video by Scott Lavene Prettiest Peach by Scott Lavene

Class

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Kneecap holding the head of a king George statue beheaded in Melbourne by protesters

Guardian article with the headline: Statue of King George V beheaded in Melbourne on King’s birthday holiday

Love that someone brought the severed head of King George to the Kneecap gig in Naarm.

That's beautiful, I could see something like that in Krtek, my favourite retro cartoon

I think the pitch to European governments is that they absolutely need to start funding more research and analysis into the far right, because if the far right takes power, the entire research community is completely screwed. researching the far right is central to the maintenance of science, itself

Currently reading about that in your book