Skip James - Catfish Blues
youtu.be/YlvaHEXP7NU
14.03.2026 20:23
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What say the augurers?
Iranian architects and bricklayers seem to have the ability to *weave* brickwork!
Apartment No.7, Damavand, Iran. By Studio Moon
βOur instinct at the firm is, every time we hear about another attack, we need to see the chat logs because thereβs [a good chance] that AI was deeply involvedβ¦β
βBut, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.β
That dog won't hunt.
Tagging Gang Lepidoptera
If irony weren't already dead, this would kill it.
"No price tag would make universal healthcare unaffordable."
"We're waste deep in the big muddy and the big fool said push on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxg5...
What business have I with this pipe?
βIβve been studying names for almost 25 years now, and Iβve definitely never seen it before" -- Laura Wattenberg, @babynames.bsky.social
Unusual bracketed antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "ship", a spaceship, fr the first English translation of Lucian in 1663! But refers to a nautical ship caught in a whirlwind & then traveling the stars.
Also updated the entry.
sfdictionary.com/view/1389/ship
Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!
in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life
the canals of Mars, as drawn by Percival Lowell
Happy Percival Lowell's birthday!
oh cool weβre doing the Wire Mother experiment again, but on all of society
you ever sometimes think about how Frankenstein was a cautionary tale about instrumentalizing life by boiling it down to only its parts, and withholding love and the ability to learn in a safe environment, ultimately undermining personhood?
I think about that sometimes.
Unusual antedating challenge of the day: $500 prize for a pre-1732 English example of "vampire", from @vampirestudies.bsky.social. (Note that OED's entry is unrevised, and we've known about 1732 for some time.)
vampirestudies.org/2026/03/01/5...
shooting and crying aside, what does it do to the moral fabric of a military to unleash a hellish apocalypse on a nation of 90 million without even being told a coherent reason why. not even a "they hate us for our freedoms." what does it do to the moral fabric of a nation? i think were finding out!
im not particularly competent to understand or explain it, but i suspect that this failure to build even a false moral scaffolding for your actions is extremely dangerous for us and for civilization as a concept. there's prob a reason why civilizations have had these hero self myths and narratives
Just a reminder that Romans that owls
Ulula ulula instead of hoo hoo. @sentantiq.bsky.social has the best ancient animals sound list: sententiaeantiquae.com/2017/09/24/z...
βFullones uαΈ·ulamque cano non arma virumq(ue)β π¦
βI sing about fullers and an owl, not about arms and a man"
CIL IV, 9131, Pompeii (IX.13.5), 79 CE, a graffito near a door entrance parodying the fist line of Virgil. ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/gra...
This is the same company whose other AI toy was telling children how to start fires a few months ago futurism.com/artificial-i...
Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
On todayβs episode of Cartoonishly Overt Sign Weβre the Baddies: theyβre taking the olive branch off the dime because it presents peace
"To enhance the accuracy of the compass further William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, redesigned binnacles to better compensate for magnetic deviation and introduced the iron balls that are placed on either side. They are named Kelvinβs balls in his honor."
texasmaritimemuseum.org/ships-binnac...
