A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
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The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
Norwegian police say an explosion occurred outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo early Sunday, with no injuries reported.
Authorities said blast happened at around 1:00 a.m. local time. Police believe some form of explosive device may have been used, but the cause and motive remain under investigation.
A Flemish merchant samples the wine while a human treadmill loads casks in the town square
A nice comparandum for Roman illustrations of human powered cranes
"Gentlemen, I asked you here in order to show you the folly of the Persians, who, living in this style, came to Greece to rob us of our poverty. Republican Romans, for their part, held in contempt the ways of their neighbors to the north, the Etruscans, a race inordinately bent on the delights of table and sex. Surviving Etruscan figures on sarcophagi show their men to have been distinctly potbellied-indeed, the Roman nickname for an Etruscan was obesus.
It is truly awful in its text if awesome in its illustrations
Also how would you use this tool?!
Twisting object labeled bronze pastry wheel from Gaul c 200 AD
Do you recognize this artifact? I is illustrated in a 1968 potted history of food and I have no other information
Surely it’s chicken noises? A random mix of chi/qoppa/digamma/epsilon sounds like chickens squabbling: …khekhqwkhekhqwkhqekhe
Truth
Awww, look at my home state, learning from all the Lost Cause bullshit that echoed in I was taught in school in the '80s.
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
No I did I a quick transcription. Y is a reasonable reading.
bearded man holding rooster kneeling unbearded man holding rooster kneeling
May the best cock win! I must say I would not want to hold a rooster with exposed genitals. Seems dangerous. Also check out this bizarre inscription
EX ? ? ? C K T K X E X Q K X E X Q E X Q E X E
any thoughts?
collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
clay model of cat and rooster
Most cats I know would not be able to take an adult rooster. Perhaps this cat is of extraordinary size?
collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
This brainstorming exercise is leading to many things. 1) how many post do relate to publications past and in progress AND 2) how bad I've been at ensuring my posts have stable images, links, and the right key terms so I can find them again. 2/ livyarrow.org/2020/05/06/m...
I had an idea for a short piece for a festschrift, but then it grew into a mega piece and I sent it off to a journal. Now I'm using my random post button looking for a topic on which I might have something short to say in print; this means I keep reading old posts. 1/ livyarrow.org/2013/07/10/2...
RPC 4606 and 4608
The car must have some stand alone significance as it can appear with text in it and no Baetyl. Wierd.
RPC 3870 Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟ ΤΡΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩ ΣΕΒ Edition Αὐτοκράτορι Τραϊανῷ Καίσαρι Ἁδριανῷ Σεβαστῷ Αὐτο(κράτορι) Τραϊ(ανῷ) Καί(σαρι) Ἁδριανῷ Σεβ(αστῷ) Translation to Emperor Trajan Caesar Hadrian Augustus Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right Reverse inscription ΣΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΑΣ Edition Σιδῶνος θεᾶς Σιδῶνος θεᾶς Translation of the goddess of Sidon Reverse design car of Astarte on two wheels; In ex., ZΚΣ Metal copper-based alloy
Sometimes you can even see the wings on the Baetyl in the car.
I'm looking at the coins of Sidon for a totally separate reason and getting distracted by the awesome Aniconic Cult Object. This Baetyl and the car it rides in are all over the coins and best of all some times it gets WINGS.
screen shot of coin database: Obverse: IMR (sic) CAE MAR (sic) SEV ALEXANDR (sic); laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from rear Reverse: COL AVR PIA METR SID; three-quarter view of two-wheel car of Astarte, right, with shrine with four columns within which baetyl on two supports; on the roof, four palm branche
I'm obsessed with how well the 3/4 perspective of this parade car.
As Arendt observes, if human rights are dependent on individual states for enforcement, they will always be dependent on citizenship status. This is what allows ghouls like Miller to do what they do. The only way to actually achieve human rights is to abolish borders.
Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.
I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.
They also didn’t pay cover 🖕
i am told on here all the time that theres just nothing democrats can do in congress and that its pointless to do messaging bills and yet here is a member of the fucking majority - one of the worst cretins -- doing just that.
We do this every summer! 100% works.
Instead of spraying for mosquitos this summer, try the Mosquito Murder Bucket!
It's cheaper than paying a company and doesn't kill all of the beneficial insects in the area.
#garden #gardening
BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.
I keep these in my feeds and pause to remember. But this face reminds me of someone I feel I knew and loved. Someone with whom I should have had long conversations with. May her memory be a blessing. May her portrait inspire a world without concentration camps and wars of agression.
