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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 1h

To be clear, I'd love to have some legit counter-examples from the West (not from a Buzzfeed list) about how ALL humans are gross, so we can avoid Orientalist assumptions that Japan was weird.

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Roman Hautala @romanhautala.bsky.social · 1h

3. quantum volueris, de medone’. Et ille, accedens ad fratrem Stephanum, ei auriculam amputavit et dictis potatoribus aportavit
= Meanwhile, there was a certain inn nearby where a certain drink was made and sold, prepared from water and honey, which they call mead.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 3h

#tengri #mongolsky

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 3h

This form of Mahakala came to symbolize Qubilai Khan (1215–1294), the famous Mongol emperor and founder of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), as the wrathful destructive power of the universal sacral ruler (chakravartin).

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Mahakala Stone Sculpture | Project Himalayan Art

This powerful Buddhist protector deity is a manifestation of divine wrath employed to remove internal and external obstacles—including political adversaries. Art historian Karl Debreczeny connects thi...

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Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social · 1d

A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS

A promotional image for an edited collection called "Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future." The collection editors Dr. Victor Monnin & Dr. Alison Laurence are putting out a call for contributions. Abstracts are due January 10, 2026 to dinoparkfieldguide@gmail.com. Find the full call at: https://tinyurl.com/dinoparks

The background image is of the outdated-but-adored Iguanodon models at Crystal Palace Park.

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 13h

We wouldn’t have the Star Wars books we have without Carol Titelman and Lucy Wilson getting it started and keeping it running when it mattered the most in the early years.

Tom @darthinternous.bsky.social · 15h

Random fun fact of the day - women are the reason #StarWars #publishing exists. And the reason it has been so successful that it could endure as it has for so many decades.

(I'm an expert on this stuff)

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 20h

The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Filming the Executor-class Star Dreadnought model

Filming the Executor-class Star Dreadnought model in front of a blue screen

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Yesenia Barragan, she/they @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you to faculty at my alma mater for this act of solidarity. Means the world to me and my family 🙏🏽

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 14h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 15h

I remember someone once scolding me that advocating for cats to be indoor-only is “classist” because not everyone can afford toys to keep them entertained inside. I was like madam their favorite things are sticks, crinkly paper, and cardboard boxes. Literal garbage.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 16h

Spotify has started running ads for ICE. My brothers (both musicians with music on Spotify) and myself can no longer justify paying for it. I've jumped ship to Apple Music, but of course Apple is also shitty.

Does anyone have experience with other streaming apps and have recommendations?

Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 17h

I just hope it spreads the amount of fans.

Also you are definitely right and it is insane how big of a role Courtship had cause it... well let's say I don't rank it super high in my ranking of EU novels.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 22h

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 22h

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

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r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 2d

“On the question of intent, much fudged and fettered by those legal minds who wish to keep the high standards for genocide untainted by Palestinian blood…”

💯.

The only way to deny genocide in Palestine is to believe that Palestinians aren’t equally human.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘It is peculiar, to say the least, that Israel is being given, in a “peace deal”, land that it has not managed to capture militarily.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Selma Dabbagh | Knowledge of the Relevant Facts

Israel has assassinated a record number of Palestinian journalists, refused to allow international reporters to enter...

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 2d

Mongolian has some wild Eurasian etymologies! 🥰 My favourite one is nom ᠨᠣᠮ ('book'), from Greek νόμος, via Sogdian and Old Uyghur. The semantic shift 'custom, law' > 'scripture' > 'book' is lovely.
Btw nomos also has a Syriac > Arabic result, nāmōsā ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ > nāmūs ناموس 😀
@kebuhcah.bsky.social

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"There are no analogies in this book. No symbolism or any other kind of radical left ideology. No one majors in humanities, and no professors get tenure."

Finally, a Book That Cannot Be Banned

This is a good book. It has a cover and many pages. This book is endorsed by parents and is church-friendly. It is clean and full of Grace, as in i...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC from last night.

Debunking the right's obsession with Antifa

Rutgers University History Professor Mark Bray joins The Weekend: Primetime to share why he and his family fled the U.S. over safety concerns amid the Trump administration's broad attacks on Antifa. H...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5d

"When they fought, the Vikings fought hahd! N’ some’ah the ones that got the most famous fahr fightin’ the fuckin’ hahdest were the Varangians who fought in Constantinople befoh r’it turned intah a Turkish caliphate ah whatevah." #LeifEriksonDay

A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians

Art by Matt Smith - - -Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go...

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 5d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Bix Caleen and Cassian Andor, who is one (two) of the people that made the rebellion in Star Wars possible

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 5d

This week on The Medieval Podcast: Medieval Wolves with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medi... #wolves #medieval #podcast

Medieval Wolves with Elizabeth Marshall - Medievalists.net

This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Elizabeth Marshall about where we find wolves in medieval sources, how early English writers saw them, and how wolves both add to – and steal –…

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Dr. Ruth is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 8d

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