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Ethnobotanist, anthropologist, polyglot & filmmaker living and working in Brazilian Amazon; traditional medicine, sensory ecology, Indigenous media; New York Review contributor; Blog: Notes from the Ethnoground https://ethnoground.blogspot.com
"They are evil and they are stupid"
-- @meidasjordy.bsky.social sums up the Trump regime using only five words (not counting repeats)
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"Our world is controlled by a bunch of man-babies... and they're actually masking how deeply incurious and stupid they are."
-- @giorgioangelini.bsky.social on the alt-right meme machine behind QAnon, Pizzagate & Team Epstein @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/podcast
#TwinPeaks favourite scenes 🤍
- Do you believe in the soul?
- Several.
- More then one?
- Blackfoot legend. Waking souls that give life to the mind and the body. A dream soul that wanders.
- Dream souls? Where do they wander?
- Faraway places. The land of the dead.
- Is that where Laura is?
We keep selling out of signed copies of Devious Dreams, the brilliant book on Mulholland Dr. by David Lynch scholar @thornewip.bsky.social. John just brought us 10 more copies, so grab one now – they'll be gone soon! In our dedicated David Lynch section: mzs.press/David-Lynch-...
There's always a [fill in blank with disgraced social media platform's trademark noun for "lie"]
This is not the best part of the firing, but it’s in the Top 10.
If some people are beautiful because they are so fascinatingly ugly, there must be people who are ugly because they are so fastidiously beautiful [that they] have achieved technical excellence at the expense of erotic charisma.
—Becca Rothfeld on the phenomenon of Looksmaxxing, in The New Yorker
Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles: rising exemptions are playing a big role in the measles outbreak that is sickening, hospitalizing, and killing children in the U.S.. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u... @nytimes.com
This weekend I’ll be at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social artist alley table L-08. I’ll be taking commissions at the show, will have original art from BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/THE QUESTION: ARCADIA and I’ll be selling this new TWIN PEAKS print.
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
"Our world is controlled by a bunch of man-babies... and they're actually masking how deeply incurious and stupid they are."
-- @giorgioangelini.bsky.social on the alt-right meme machine behind QAnon, Pizzagate & Team Epstein @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/podcast
P.S.: you a fan, a hater, in recovery or some sequential arrangement thereof?
Secretly my favorite line in the book, so thanks for zeroing in on it
"... and many posters for what she assumed was a rock band called Rush."
-- as a fan since my teens I both appreciated and resented this throw-away line from the latest @michaelidov.bsky.social spy thriller
"Everyone has a fact check in their wallet."
-- @jdickerson.bsky.social on Trump's mendacious #StateOfTheUnion, from the latest Political Gabfest @slate.com
***Bonus feature: AI-generated epic presidential poetry c/o @davidplotz.bsky.social
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Mine too! 🤟🏻
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. A New Yorker Best Book of the Year; An Economist Best Book of the Year; A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
"Spycraft was a field of empty traps, rusting open."
-- @michaelidov.bsky.social in the much awaited, twisty and thrilling 2nd installment of the "Cormorant Trilogy"
"... and many posters for what she assumed was a rock band called Rush."
-- as a fan since my teens I both appreciated and resented this throw-away line from the latest @michaelidov.bsky.social spy thriller
Word.
If only he had dunked a bit harder and much, much sooner. He will never be forgotten for unleashing this monster on our republic.
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![The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read:
‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’
Translated as
‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’
This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift.
The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreifnagf7o3c3tsvpawfj2o5exyqsg52vwrovvapsjrhwtzd6tv5bf4)
The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ Translated as ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift. The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA
Timeless humour!
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA
#Archaeology
And give the regime an external enemy to blame
"For others, it may not seem so obvious..."🧐
Go figger... 🤔🤔🤔
How about Newsom/AOC or vice versa?
"Maybe the imagination is s sort of wind that blow through all the worlds."
--Philip Pullman
Watch out for slippery ICE!