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Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of cosmic creation The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like

The artwork on a 4300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the Palestinian West Bank appears to show the universe forming out of primordial chaos – making it the oldest known visual representation of a creation myth.

Smart folks looking at rocks

Part 83 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke

history is a fucking joke lmao

Port Huron Times Herald, November 12, 1966. I did not know Leonard Nimoy based Spock's speech patterns on Somerset Maugham! Remarkable.

"Spock probably learned English formally. To achieve this kind of speech pattern I listened to recordings of Somerset Maugham reading his own short stories."

This will never get through the filters..
but trump giving Hungary Russian oil exceptions is so cunt to cunt it should be called tribbing.

This may be one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

A tiny little floofy white dog that looks like it weighs five pounds sopping wet sits very polite looking slightly nervous in a little clear raincoat with blue pipping. Next to a foot ignore the foot

Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass

Wallace the priest must defend the Chapel while surviving waves of undead trout, and lay them to rest for good.

A short, spooky experience coming VERY soon!

demmy.itch.io/troutpriest

#indiegame #trailer #dark #spooky

BBC really burying the lede there

Re: tendencies to ascribe personhood to #AI:

"...it was impossible not to invest the machine with some faculty of intellect; it seemed to have made the first step from brute matter to life and purpose, showing its progress by great power."

Dorothy Wordsworth, 1803, encountering steam-powered pump

Woodcarved sculpture of a really round capybara on a workbench, next to a carving knife. Seen from its left side

The sculpture seen from behind, it is almost pear shaped

Seen by the front, 3/4

Seen from its right side

New capybara just dropped
(Commissioned)

I love the eye roll on "It's a grey squirrel"

I would watch every one of these

Soviet submarine commodore Vasily Arkhipov may well have saved the world today in 1962.
Off Cuba, Soviet sub B-59 was being depth charged by US ships & was out of contact with the USSR. The captain, assuming they were at war, wished to launch a nuclear torpedo. Arkhipov vetoed it.

YouTube video by Alasdair Beckett-King Let Me Tell You a Story (Before the Ship Explodes)

Today's sketch: now on YouTube! See if you can spot the very subtle continuity error when the airlock opens.

youtu.be/NWoEWDJr6tA

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

picture of a face hugger from Alien posed as if scuttling from a tiled conservatory floor across the threshold into a carpeted room.

I know I've mentioned how it seems house spiders are massive this year but this is bloody ridiculous

Having 3I Atlas get its Earth closest point on Dec 25 is basically this year's Dr Who Christmas Special.

It would have been a better plot if the AWS outage had been on at the same time as the Louvre robbery...

"I told you... there's nothing Pierre can't do with a laptop."
"Stop yapping and get the other end of this ladder."

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

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A circle of autumnal beech leaves on top of a tree stump showing a gentle shift of colour going round the circle

17 yo daughter made this on our walk:

I'm ready for the next World Cup⚽️

サッカー大好きですっ☆特に関節技が得意ですっ☆

Very narrow shop in Japan loaded with a bunch of models

Which gunpla in this store in Japan do you think is load bearing

It's always a run reminder that muskox are such tiny little things.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

I agree with this, “I WILL RESIDE IN MY ROBOT BUNKER WITH TOILET CARROTS TO SURVIVE THE WAR” is men’s version of “I want to live in a vintage farmhouse with all my female friends, we’ll raise goats and open a little knit ware and apothecary store”