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The Navy's New $348 Billion Columbia-Class Nuclear Missile Submarine Is In Trouble The Columbia-class ballistic-missile sub program is slipping and getting pricier, but contracts, facilities, and modules show progress toward 2029 delivery.

The US’ priority #1 submarine program is in trouble. Our $368B #AUKUS future sub program is hitched to the US’ troubled priority #2 sub program. But our bathtub admiral, Defence Minister Richard Marles, says there’s no need for concern. 🤦‍♂️ #auspol

🏛️ The beautiful mosaic floor of the Roman baths at the sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia, Greece. The baths were built in 150 CE on the site of pre-existing ancient Greek baths. 📹 My own.

How Wealth Reduces Compassion As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline

You've seen the studies about how it's been documented that wealth tends to destroy empathy? They weren't wrong. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How AI is draining Australia’s green power Podcast Episode · 7am · 26/01/2026 · 16m

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How AI - and particularly hyperscale data centres - are draining Australia’s green power resources. Interview with @ketanjoshi.co

What Covid in Pregnancy May Mean for a Generation of Children A growing body of research shows that exposure to Covid-19 in the womb can have a subtle but lasting impact on brain development.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh no, I've found someone who makes awesome replicas of Bronze & Iron age stuff.
Including the Carnyx, which I'm obsessed with.
I already hear my wallet crying.
www.obradorshop.com

Bronze filial with a model of a horned sheep on top.

We hope your #FridayFeeling is as happy as this bronze sheep from the Iron Age kurgan of Tunnug 1, Siberia.
Dating to the 9th century AD, it's one of the earliest examples of Scythian animal-style art! #FridayVibes

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🏺 #Archaeology

YouTube video by TIME On This Day... 1776 | January 1: The Flag

Did I already mention we're doomed?
This is TIME, yes, that TIME, sharing Al generated videos.
Who wants to go point out all the errors?
I have a sudden headache.
youtu.be/sV52AUVGc6I?...

Two milk colored gribbles with beady black eyes. from https://lastwordonnothing.com/2013/08/13/snark-week-the-gribble/

A milky bug with big black eyes looking alarmed. From: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gribble

Wood munched on by gribbles. From https://lastwordonnothing.com/2013/08/13/snark-week-the-gribble/

Meet the gribble. These tiny pill-bug relatives live in the ocean and nosh on wood and plant debris. They were Enemy #1 during the days of wooden ships (along with shipworms), but have since faded into peaceful obscurity.

Like the gribbles of yore, may your future be filled with uneventful days.

Israel has now said it accepts Hamas' estimate of the Gaza death toll, 71,000+, after years of insisting it was inflated. We're about to welcome the head of that state as an official guest.

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

The Jewish Council unequivocally condemns the racist act of violence and terror against First Peoples and their allies at the Boorloo/Perth Invasion Day rally on January 26.

Full statement available on Instagram. Sign Common Threads’ open letter below.

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If you were going to hold any religious institution in Australia to account, you’d start with the Catholic church

a cliff fall of random rubble that has arranged itself into the face of a heavy browed bearded man

Sussex has legends of Giants but I never thought one would reveal its face in such a dramatic way

ClassicsBluesky 🧵🏺

#LatinForTheDay – 28 January #Horace

“tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati,
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,...

Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...

Somehow I've missed the blanket radio & tv coverage of this, with constant updates & speculation, breathless interviews of politicians and members of the 'target' community, demands for new laws, & castigation of the Prime Minister for not preventing it.
#Auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Soviet Army soldiers chatting to the children just liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp

30 years ago, on the 27th of January 1996, Germany observed the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism for the first time. Since 2005, the 27th has been declared International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. #otd #history 🗃️

Yesterday was a cold day for a visit to a very muddy Oxfordshire quarry to look at dinosaur footprints.

Unpacking the Rise of 'Smart Authoritarianism' in China A conversation with Jennifer Lind, author of Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny.

In Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny, Dartmouth associate professor of government Jennifer Lind advances a sharp, unsettling concept she dubs “smart authoritarianism," showing how China’s regime has learned to maintain power while limiting the economic damage of repression. Listen!

I would have thought that impossible to be sung by a crowd.

Starmer faces potential rebellion from North West MPs MPs in the North West of England are asking for more money for their region, causing Keir Starmer a headache scenario

MPs in the North West of England are asking for more money for their region, causing Keir Starmer a headache scenario | Peter Sagar

Just remember that right now the Albanese Govt is spending billions to the fund the USA military.

As usual, the hugely wealthy and the powerful recognise and mitigate airborne risk for themselves, while denying the risk exists for others, in the interests of profit and political expediency

YouTube video by ZCZ Films Season 5, Episode 19: The secrets of art restoration with Simon Gillespie

#Art #History Waldy and Bendy Adventures In Art
ZCZ Films
@januszczak.bsky.social and @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social
Season 5, Episode 19: The secrets of art restoration with Simon Gillespie
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The French battleship Saint-Louis - and I swear this was a genuine ship and not some sort of accident caused by an excess of LSD in the iron foundry - seen at anchor. It's an incredible collection of cranes, funnels, masts, fighting tops, guns, small boats dangling off the side like baubles, and all the classic lines of French ships of the time. And - significantly - nobody else's. For reasons best known to the designers a it appears to have had a veranda added to its arse. An unkind critic would note that no intelligence, artificial or otherwise, was misapplied to the creation of this image. An even unkinder one would note that it was.

How the hell am I going to explain this thing to people who think this account is staunchly against AI?

"I think Xi Jinping, when he looks at the world around him, sees a place beset by threat, especially from the West."

James Kynge on the worldview guiding China's foreign policy.

Watch in full➡️ https://bit.ly/4qwKdJ7

Medieval image of 2 herons in the water. The one in the back has it's beak in the water, looking for eels. And the one in the front is shown in two different poses: 1 with it's head up, and an eel in its beak; and 1 where it is grabbing an eel that is coming from its bottom. The eels are drawn standing in greenish water, and the whole thing is in a circle. You can just see text surrounding the circle, so you can tell that the image is part of a book. In fact, it's from a bestiary, and you can see, in red letters, the word "Ardea", meaning heron. The text doesn't name the herons in the image, but we can imagine that the one in front is called Willyon, & the other is Sarawiskers. You'd like to think that Willyon's behavior would make him an outcast, because it's what would happen to you if you tried that sort of thing among friends. But herons are more open-minded, and Sarawiskers isn't going to judge him. We could all use a friend like that. Image is from: BL Harley MS 4751, 41r

It's Tuesday. So let's talk about birds eating eels, passing them, and eating them again.

It's a THING that shows up in art & language. Here for example, is a lovely 13th C. image of a heron, shown in various stages of eating and...um...recycling eels. Or, at least, an eel. 1/4
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Medieval marginal drawing showing a man grabbing an eel that's coming from a heron's bottom. The heron is, in its turn, sticking its beak into the bottom of a man who is playing a horn. The whole thing is a mess. You'd expect to see this sort of thing at a party at Jerry's house, but not here, in the sacred, boring borders of a medieval manuscript. I mean...the ridiculously stylized minims of the text are all business. And yet the margins are all party. It's the mullet of manuscripts, friends.

And I guess maybe that's an object lesson for us, in this world that feels like it keeps circling back on the same problems again and again. It ain't new. We've been doing it forever, & now we're back...staring into the eyes of a recycled eel. Again.

This too, shall pass. /fin