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“the lackeys of the wicked vizier have stolen the numident” sounds like the plot of a terrible fantasy novel, and yet it is both real and terrible

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Probably not would be my guess—you do get some variation but that’s a really wide stretch! Not too surprising, really, the British were using standardized firearms and calibers, but the militias were using Whatever Guns Were Lying Around, many of which were usually hunting pieces.

I know a thing or two about this project! Fun fact: deformation index (one of the stats in the FAQ) measures how pancaked the musket ball is, which ~correlates to how hard it hit something, which ~correlates to how far away it was fired from its impact! These guys were all shot from pretty close.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are happy international women's day and pronounced ooleehayleestee ahyaylee doonahdaw-tluh-suh ahnee-gay-yuh oonah-jhay-lee eegah

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

This is what the old men told me when I was a boy. Once when all the people of the settlement were out in the

Not necessarily the answer, but this sounds very relatable to me as a neurodivergent dude. Autistic folks and ADHD folks (my brain gremlins of choice) often read as intense to others for various reasons and often learn to directly temper themselves as a result.

I helped edit this super cool story of a dude from India who wrote his name on Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago! 🏺🧪

This policy is so evil it has layers. A millionaire shortbread of evil. Dense, buttery “we are refusing help to people who need it,” the sugary crunch of “this is utterly counter to both domestic and international law,” and the smooth chocolatey taste of “this is just straightforwardly KKK shit.”

A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

Love to faceplant directly into the exact strategic challenges faced by *checks notes* the Assyrian Empire

A screenshot from Star Trek: Voyager with the Emergency Medical Hologram in the foreground touching a PADD he's holding, and Lieutenant Paris and Ensign Kim in the background, in gold and red hockey uniforms, with ice skates slung over their shoulders and hockey sticks in their hands.

Alright, since you all won't stop talking about how great it is, I'm starting to watch Heated Rivalry. Definitely not what I was expecting so far.

The Wikipedia entry on the Tuscon Garbage Project is distressingly short.
🧪 🏺 #Archaeology

Oh yes

hell yeah old rock science

野鳥がたくさん描かれたスマホ壁紙用イラスト

壁紙

A plot of Bayesian modeled probabilities for radiocarbon ages. They are in perfect order from oldest to youngest up the stratigraphic column.

New dates back today from a 4,000yr old shell midden on the Georgia Coast! A perfectly accumulated context! c. 2 meters of regular midden accumulation in less than 100yrs 😍 #archaeology #ecology #radiocarbon

amazing follow up

I am so, so incredibly pleased to have helped to support the purchase of this generation-defining abomination

The handful of times anything like this has ever happened in the past, all of them in the 19th century (e.g. the Broad Seal War in 1839-1840), it required the Clerk to be all-in on the scheme, yeah.

I had a whole thread about the Minnesota Dildo Rebellion yesterday, which I ended with famous quotes about revolution updated to the current moment. I was very proud of my work, but I think only one person saw them. BEHOLD MY WORK, BLUESKY.

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

*drum roll*

Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!

I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

An illustration of an amateur home renovation blueprint drawing surrounded by a calculator, a cup of coffee, and a clipboard with documents on it. The blueprint depicts a modest two bedroom suburban home with an addition at the rear; it holds a large bin of enormous pears. The documents read "Renovation Budget: Kitchen $10,000 Living Room $3,000 A/C $4,000 Pear Wiggler $200,000 Floor $5,000. A post-it note atop the document reads "Someone who is good at financing budget this- My family is wiggling"

The Author's Barely Disguised Home Improvement

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

As far as I can tell: a combination of being ornery, dyed-in-the-wool Covenanters and the Lowland Clearances, from which I conclude that getting along very poorly with theocrats and landlords is a cherished family tradition.