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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Todd Howard trying to win GOTY with the same game for 15 years in a row was really funny to watch tho
Skyrim came out on 11/11/11. I was 16.
They announced TES6 in 2018.
Since that announcement I got married, graduated from college and law school, got a job, moved across the state, bought a house, and had a child.
TES6 is still in pre-production. This is the 7th re-release of Skyrim.
They announced TES6 in 2018.
Since that announcement I got married, graduated from college and law school, got a job, moved across the state, bought a house, and had a child.
TES6 is still in pre-production. This is the 7th re-release of Skyrim.
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Todd Howard trying to win GOTY with the same game for 15 years in a row was really funny to watch tho
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Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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"the balcony was added in the 1930s" www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Forbidden love: Verona restricts access to Juliet’s balcony
Outraged tourists shouted ‘Shame!’ when officials worried about overcrowding cut numbers and began charging at the supposed setting of Shakespeare’s tragic play
www.thetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"the balcony was added in the 1930s" www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
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RFI has the best info on how the Bénin coup attempt failed. At Bénin government request, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria mobilized the multinational response under ECOWAS umbrella. Nigerian Air Force struck mutineer positions. France provided intelligence support.
www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...
www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...
Tentative de coup d’État au Bénin: comment l’intervention de la Cédéao a été décidée
Au Bénin, face aux putschistes, l'intervention militaire de la Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (Cédéao) a été rapide et efficace. Comment expliquer cette attitude ? Éléments de...
www.rfi.fr
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
RFI has the best info on how the Bénin coup attempt failed. At Bénin government request, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria mobilized the multinational response under ECOWAS umbrella. Nigerian Air Force struck mutineer positions. France provided intelligence support.
www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...
www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...
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YOU NEED TO DROP EVERYTHING AND WATCH THIS RIGHT FUCKING NOW
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
YOU NEED TO DROP EVERYTHING AND WATCH THIS RIGHT FUCKING NOW
Heh, tani nie są. Ciekawe jak ogarniają kwestie dowodowe przy Karcie Polaka i kto im robi obsługę prawną.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Heh, tani nie są. Ciekawe jak ogarniają kwestie dowodowe przy Karcie Polaka i kto im robi obsługę prawną.
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Bombs on train tracks. Arson attacks on malls. Poisoned water supplies. These are just some of the recently foiled plots in Russia’s growing campaign of aggression across Europe. What was once a mere nuisance has escalated into a serious threat.
An #FTEdit 🧵 on the new era of Russian sabotage 👇
An #FTEdit 🧵 on the new era of Russian sabotage 👇
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Bombs on train tracks. Arson attacks on malls. Poisoned water supplies. These are just some of the recently foiled plots in Russia’s growing campaign of aggression across Europe. What was once a mere nuisance has escalated into a serious threat.
An #FTEdit 🧵 on the new era of Russian sabotage 👇
An #FTEdit 🧵 on the new era of Russian sabotage 👇
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A cartoon by Barbara Smaller. #NewYorkerCartoons
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A cartoon by Barbara Smaller. #NewYorkerCartoons
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...
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Possibly the most self-destructive reaction towards the US antagonism against the EU is by national leaders offering national partnerships.
This is exactly the kind of avenue for the US/Trump to split Europe and reign over smaller European countries.
This is exactly the kind of avenue for the US/Trump to split Europe and reign over smaller European countries.
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Possibly the most self-destructive reaction towards the US antagonism against the EU is by national leaders offering national partnerships.
This is exactly the kind of avenue for the US/Trump to split Europe and reign over smaller European countries.
This is exactly the kind of avenue for the US/Trump to split Europe and reign over smaller European countries.
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The media industry (and film studios in particular) is a notorious graveyard of reputations made in other industries, and I think this is probably true even when that reputation is "annoying nepo"
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The media industry (and film studios in particular) is a notorious graveyard of reputations made in other industries, and I think this is probably true even when that reputation is "annoying nepo"
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Dazzle Ships in Drydock, Liverpool, 1919, painting by Edward Wadsworth. Dazzle camouflage was created in WW1 to protect British ships from German artillery, making it difficult to estimate speed and direction. Wadsworth supervised design of camouflage patterns. #NorthernArt
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Dazzle Ships in Drydock, Liverpool, 1919, painting by Edward Wadsworth. Dazzle camouflage was created in WW1 to protect British ships from German artillery, making it difficult to estimate speed and direction. Wadsworth supervised design of camouflage patterns. #NorthernArt
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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As pro-democracy protests swelled in cities around China in 1989, leaders decided that only the army could put a stop to them. One major-general objected to the order
The general who refused to crush Tiananmen’s protesters
A leaked video of his court-martial has suddenly appeared
econ.st
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
As pro-democracy protests swelled in cities around China in 1989, leaders decided that only the army could put a stop to them. One major-general objected to the order
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KOTOR 1/2 remaster or TIE Fighter remake or GTFO
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
KOTOR 1/2 remaster or TIE Fighter remake or GTFO
Heh, in an early 90s TV movie, having a bottle with water in one shot and no water in the next one, would not be noticeable. Btw it’s not often that you can see a real, working, easy method of creating a silenced weapon (one-shot, and only partially effective, but still).
December 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Heh, in an early 90s TV movie, having a bottle with water in one shot and no water in the next one, would not be noticeable. Btw it’s not often that you can see a real, working, easy method of creating a silenced weapon (one-shot, and only partially effective, but still).
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Very poor framing for this piece. I think Trump II is such a challenge for conventional analysts compared to Trump I because it has added a racist civilizational layer to its narrative of grievance over free trade and NATO burden-sharing.
And that's a language many people aren't equipped to parse.
And that's a language many people aren't equipped to parse.
Trump Has Long Disdained Europe’s Elites. Now, It’s Official.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Very poor framing for this piece. I think Trump II is such a challenge for conventional analysts compared to Trump I because it has added a racist civilizational layer to its narrative of grievance over free trade and NATO burden-sharing.
And that's a language many people aren't equipped to parse.
And that's a language many people aren't equipped to parse.
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Not at all surprising that @gideonrachman.bsky.social nails it in his reading of the NSS here.
"The Trump administration view of 'western civilisation' is based on race, Christianity and nationalism. The European version is a liberal view founded on democracy, human rights and the rule of law ..."
"The Trump administration view of 'western civilisation' is based on race, Christianity and nationalism. The European version is a liberal view founded on democracy, human rights and the rule of law ..."
December 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Not at all surprising that @gideonrachman.bsky.social nails it in his reading of the NSS here.
"The Trump administration view of 'western civilisation' is based on race, Christianity and nationalism. The European version is a liberal view founded on democracy, human rights and the rule of law ..."
"The Trump administration view of 'western civilisation' is based on race, Christianity and nationalism. The European version is a liberal view founded on democracy, human rights and the rule of law ..."
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“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”
That’s fun blast from the past: Alain Resnais and Raymond Queneau cooperated to create a short film espousing wonders of plastics. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lG1h...
Le Chant du Styrène 1958 - Alain resnais
YouTube video by Cplusr
m.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
That’s fun blast from the past: Alain Resnais and Raymond Queneau cooperated to create a short film espousing wonders of plastics. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lG1h...
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Some scary shit for you:
A skoilet for your spooky dookie. Say boo when you poo.
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Some scary shit for you:
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Just been reminded of this heartwarming picture of a rabbit and an eagle. Morning all
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Just been reminded of this heartwarming picture of a rabbit and an eagle. Morning all
Article about (anti)submarine bastions 😍
Atlantic Bastion: the UK’s response to Russia’s submarine threat on.ft.com/48oG6bv
Atlantic Bastion: the UK’s response to Russia’s submarine threat
Defence secretary says new strategy and technology is ‘a blueprint for the future of the Royal Navy’
on.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Article about (anti)submarine bastions 😍
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there