i have seen nothing to disabuse me of my belief that a good deal of political analysis is driven by the gender anxieties of the analysts themselves
11.02.2026 15:49 β π 168 π 23 π¬ 3 π 1@pinderb.bsky.social
Roller Derby Non-Skating Official, retired Software dev, Long Island, NY. Merrick Chorale. he/him
i have seen nothing to disabuse me of my belief that a good deal of political analysis is driven by the gender anxieties of the analysts themselves
11.02.2026 15:49 β π 168 π 23 π¬ 3 π 1You'll see two extras dressed as Epstein and Maxwell following behind Tom Cruise as walks through the party scene.
12.02.2026 02:34 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Lawrence Krauss being endearing again: "good news btw is that woman on conciliation committee seems like a sweetie.. she is oldβ¦. not some young metoo bitch."
11.02.2026 20:58 β π 692 π 116 π¬ 32 π 59Despite having written thousands of lines of poetry, only one complete Sappho poem survives.
12.02.2026 02:20 β π 84 π 24 π¬ 1 π 0Photo of a clay cuneiform tablet with a crack down the centre shown from front and sides
Drawing of a cuneiform tablet that is arranged in a table.
The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the fieldβs name.
The first field is called βOf the soldiers who stood in for their fathersβ.
Itβs ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving
People defending this post are taking way too much pleasure in calling a woman a βbitchβ and thatβs why I donβt like it.
12.02.2026 00:09 β π 1767 π 111 π¬ 131 π 20This is one of the most annoying tropes for historians. 'What, you need to go to the archives? Hasn't everything been digitized.'
Honey, not even every book FROM THE 19TH CENTURY has been digitized.
Man, I didnβt think there was a way for this story to get dumber butβ¦
βDoD loaned the high-energy laser weapon to DHS, who promptly shot down some mylar balloons with it without telling anyone, resulting in the FAA closing airspace and disrupting air travel nationwideβ
β¦sure did the trick
Like what Noodles the Shiv said in "The Hoods"
12.02.2026 06:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So good!! I love that more people will get to hear this
11.02.2026 20:48 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The waistline gonna move regardless!!!!
09.02.2026 19:35 β π 35 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0And some lyrics sites are not fully searchable.
10.02.2026 07:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An actual glimmer of blue on this morning's walk here in Glastonbury. I had to stand and stare for a while as didn't believe my eyes!
09.02.2026 09:10 β π 352 π 42 π¬ 4 π 3I miss when the internet worked. Trying to search for something and finding everything but. And I used to be good at finding stuff online, it was a whole thing.
09.02.2026 12:22 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0The panic over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast was blown massively out of proportion by newspaper owners trying to tank the reputation of radio as a medium, which is a lesson in how many problems attributed to flaws in human nature are actually five rich guys lying.
09.02.2026 17:38 β π 64 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0bsky.app/profile/tgk.... we have a potential ripcon 2 event unfolding. repeat, potential ripcon 2 event
09.02.2026 15:57 β π 276 π 22 π¬ 9 π 0Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
09.02.2026 16:47 β π 7347 π 2175 π¬ 9 π 61Hi. It's me. I'm the baby owl. πͺΆ π£
10.02.2026 03:11 β π 688 π 95 π¬ 16 π 7BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not βmove onβ from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
08.02.2026 17:07 β π 44525 π 16974 π¬ 969 π 969randomly thinking about the Moody Blues cover band in Delhi called the Bloody Muse and ngl, I always thought their band name was way better
08.02.2026 14:55 β π 156 π 9 π¬ 7 π 0The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
08.02.2026 15:59 β π 11274 π 3855 π¬ 1 π 40It's not just that they get rid, the closest thing the UK has to a national religion is the feeding frenzy when they realise the PM is a lame duck where everyone at all levels of all parties moves in to get a bite or two in and they eat their prey alive before choosing the next tribute as PM
09.02.2026 12:01 β π 317 π 46 π¬ 6 π 4Turned off YT shorts 2 days ago and the number of bullshit AI videos I'm seeing has already gone down by like 4 orders of magnitude, try it, nobody should have to exist in a sea of garbage and that includes your eyes
08.02.2026 13:39 β π 209 π 21 π¬ 12 π 2I also meant to write an essay last year about how JRRT writes the Shrie as a secular (semi-)industrialized democracy and portrays it as worth defending, although his depiction also isnβt wholly uncritical.
But last year was a bad year for writing.
Martin Luther blowing off the legacy codebase and refactoring the whole thing from scratch, only to end up with a thousand equally incomprehensible forks
09.02.2026 18:29 β π 62 π 10 π¬ 4 π 0Textile piece with embroidered representations of plants and flowers in a busy composition in pinks and purples predominantly
Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #WomensArt
09.02.2026 17:20 β π 553 π 106 π¬ 2 π 5De pracht van het #treinlevenβ¦
(Foto YUKI Photography)
#Shiga #Japan
#trein #train #spoorwegen #railway
#fotografie #photography
#travel #travelphotography
#landscape #landscapephotography
#winter #sneeuw #snow #vorst #frost
Gift of Mrs. Heinz Schulz
Dunes and Pier (DΓΌnen und Mole) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/66155
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