Alberto B. Foglia

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers (LIMES XXV volume 1) @ Sidestone Press This publication – Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers – is the first volume of the LIMES XXV’s congress proceedings arranged around the original sessions, in order to form coherent thematical colle...

The new _Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers –thr first volume of the LIMES XXV’s Congress_is out now open access. So many great articles on women & the Roman army; digital mapping of the limes; and a lot of articles on walls from Britain to China. www.sidestone.com/books/curren...

I’m glad it was successful!!

In Dutch Kenau means a strong bossy woman, to some it's an insult, but not to me because I know the story behind the word.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce to you;
Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer

Wishing all the luck for Duke tomorrow 🤞

Bag or Sock Hat - Revival Clothing Company Our simplest 15th century medieval hat style is the Bag or Sock Hat which was particularly popular with soldiers in the third quarter of the century.

Is this maybe the style of Sam’s hat? There is a real type of hat called a bag hat, I think it looks kind of cool revivalclothing.com/product/bag-...

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

And these are nuclear aircraft carriers, some of which probably have nuclear warheads aboard, at a base that almost certainly stores multiple nuclear warheads, in the middle of the 8th largest city in the country

There is a daycare next to where aircraft carriers moor in San Diego

📚🖌️Seguimos trabajando en el libro ilustrado con el que vamos a explorar los orígenes míticos y arqueológicos de Roma. Está siendo todo un reto representar tantos episodios donde la historia y la leyenda se entremezclan.

@antiguaroma.com  @despertaferroed.bsky.social

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

overall, a hard rule against starting wars produces a world preferable to a world in which that rule is not respected. It will always be tempting for a stronger nation to use war against a weaker nation that displeases it in some way. It will always be the case that a nation that starts a war believes that its reasons this time are sound. What we have learned, in the most destructive possible ways, is that we are all better off with a hard and fast rule against making exceptions to the rule. Opening the door to things like “preemptive wars” to head off some form of (real or concocted) threat has the same effect as saying it is okay to shoot someone if they make you nervous. It causes a lot of people to get shot unnecessarily.

Banger after banger from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-countr...

average person cheering for war in iran

That argument exists because the lives of non-white people are cheap in imperial discourse. Mass death on the other side of the world has no reality outside of what space it takes up on the american tv news cycle. If it were otherwise, the old normal would have been as insupportable as the new

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

Honestly poor reporting that there is no mention that this declaration of war is illegal under the UN charter and US law…

"Why aren't reporters asking whether the president has the legal right to launch another Middle Eastern war?"

From my Zeteo piece/newsletter today:
zeteo.com/p/an-illegal...

I didn't even plan to be a childrens' book illustrator, but they wanted a #deaf illustrator for this project specifically - and I'm so glad I did it.
It was a rewarding experience that I'm very happy to finally see in real physical book form! 😍

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star: Spoons: Lavender background Hunger Scale: Red background Migraine Scale: Blue background Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

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Happy Black History Month!

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

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It was kind of surreal hearing Fine casually talk about visiting Israel while @katmabu.bsky.social described her grandfather being ethnically cleansed from his home by the nascent Israeli state, and how if she tried to even visit she would probably be arrested.

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

This site was excavated between 1952 and 65, where archaeologists uncovered a deliberately buried hoard of “A Million” nails, which turned out to be approximately 875,400 complete iron nails, with the rest being incomplete or corroded. They weighed around seven metric tonnes

Part of the Inchtuthil nail horde.

875,400 iron nails buried 6m / 18ft down to deny them to local tribes by Romans abandoning their fort in the 1st century CE.

I don't know anybody on "the left" broadly defined who isn't excited about technology – you know, actual technology: incredibly cheap photovoltaics, grid-level storage, ebikes, 3D printing...

what leftists generally have no excitement for are financial scams draped in software

3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage

I'm told that one or two spaces have just become available on the ICS Summer School in 3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

If you're interested in learning photogrammetry, RTI, 3D design, 3D printing, paradata and heritage ethics, join us!

Art by flaroh illustration. A cream and white Pegasus rears over the severed head of his mother Medusa who stares at him with glazed eyes. Flames rise from the lifeblood seeping from her neck against a red background.

The Birth of Pegasus 🔥🐴🩸