Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
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english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
Amazing video of the construction of the Kusuma Neolithic Hall, a recreation of a 4,500 year old structure found near Stonehenge...
More: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Another shot of the door at St Edward’s, Stow-on-the-wold.
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
#AmphitheatreSaturday - The Amphitheatre of Salona in Croatia, built in the late 2nd century AD, is a major Roman arena that seated up to 18,000. It features vaulted chambers and shrines to Nemesis beneath. The site later became linked to Christian martyrdom during Diocletian's persecutions.
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[King of the Chalcolithic Varna Culture c.6,000 years ago]: I fear the end is near. Make sure to bury me with all my gold regalia.
Underling: My lord, even your...
King: ESPECIALLY that.
The future is so stupid
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Increasingly feel like the Titan submersible disaster was one of the defining moments required to understand the start of the 21st century, in the same way that the Titanic itself provided an emblem for the start of the 20th.
#RomanSiteSaturday a modern-day 'Roman' villa in rural France this week.
Ruins like this must have dotted the southern British landscape in the post-Roman era, waiting to be reoccupied or their building materials re-used
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Seth Cotlar
Following Hadrian
Dr Toby Driver
Still thinking about "When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you don't ask which seat. You just get on"
My questions would be more like:
- where is the rocket ship going?
- does it actually fly?
- is it going to explode?
- how will I get home?
- why are you smiling like that?
the search bar seems to just universally assume the user is talking to it when the query includes second person pronouns i guess
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Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida.
Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
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Been talking to a man from Sofia Bulgaria and as often happens I’m just embarrassed by my lack of knowledge about places on this earth. Anyway now I am obsessed with Sofia and this from the Varna Necropolis is so rad.
a swarm of spring bugs
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Accidentally made Gemini roleplay as a fried egg when I googled a quote from Mixtape.
