MxE (They/Them)
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human, writer, researcher, educator
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Timeline cleanse!
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
February 7, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Timeline cleanse!
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷me
🏺
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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February 7, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Doing art badly is good and sacred
February 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Doing art badly is good and sacred
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Untitled by Cy Twombly, 1967
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137451
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137451
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Untitled by Cy Twombly, 1967
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137451
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137451
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February's fossil of the month is now on display. Found by one of our wardens during a lunchbreak wander, this slab of limestone was hiding a mass of 200-million-year old crinoid heads and tendrils all entwined and laying over each other!
#FossilFriday
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#FossilFriday
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February 6, 2026 at 11:54 AM
February's fossil of the month is now on display. Found by one of our wardens during a lunchbreak wander, this slab of limestone was hiding a mass of 200-million-year old crinoid heads and tendrils all entwined and laying over each other!
#FossilFriday
(1/2)
#FossilFriday
(1/2)
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A true rarity, this bronze goose was discovered in the ruins of Constantinople’s famed luxurious hippodrome. It has a pipe in its beak, so it was probably part of a fountain, providing water to the 100,000 spectators who could fit into the circus stands. 🏺 1/
Roman, 4th c. CE. #BritishMuseum
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Roman, 4th c. CE. #BritishMuseum
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February 1, 2026 at 8:52 PM
A true rarity, this bronze goose was discovered in the ruins of Constantinople’s famed luxurious hippodrome. It has a pipe in its beak, so it was probably part of a fountain, providing water to the 100,000 spectators who could fit into the circus stands. 🏺 1/
Roman, 4th c. CE. #BritishMuseum
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Roman, 4th c. CE. #BritishMuseum
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👀 Did you see this article about Slavoj Žižek from @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social this week?
Read now: https://bit.ly/3YZgyfw
Against Progress: https://bit.ly/4qw8YoI
Zero Point: https://bit.ly/3ZqGeBR
Also available as audiobooks!
Read now: https://bit.ly/3YZgyfw
Against Progress: https://bit.ly/4qw8YoI
Zero Point: https://bit.ly/3ZqGeBR
Also available as audiobooks!
Slavoj Žižek – it’s time to reject “Progress” and rebuild the Left - LSE Review of Books
Two essay collections by Slavoj Žižek, Against Progress & Zero Point are a provocative critique of liberal progressivism & the contemporary Left, reviewed here.
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January 24, 2026 at 1:51 PM
👀 Did you see this article about Slavoj Žižek from @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social this week?
Read now: https://bit.ly/3YZgyfw
Against Progress: https://bit.ly/4qw8YoI
Zero Point: https://bit.ly/3ZqGeBR
Also available as audiobooks!
Read now: https://bit.ly/3YZgyfw
Against Progress: https://bit.ly/4qw8YoI
Zero Point: https://bit.ly/3ZqGeBR
Also available as audiobooks!
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A massive 2700-year-old, 18-ton statue of an Assyrian deity that was excavated in Iraq in November 2023
January 28, 2026 at 6:06 AM
A massive 2700-year-old, 18-ton statue of an Assyrian deity that was excavated in Iraq in November 2023
reading material:
"creative and critical responses to the rise of the Far-Right"
interferejournal.org/siamo-tuttx-...
"creative and critical responses to the rise of the Far-Right"
interferejournal.org/siamo-tuttx-...
Siamo tuttx antifascistx
This issue began with an observation. In 2024, more than one hundred countries across the world held general elections affording it the nickname, the “year of elections” (John & Sen, 2024). The…
interferejournal.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:55 AM
reading material:
"creative and critical responses to the rise of the Far-Right"
interferejournal.org/siamo-tuttx-...
"creative and critical responses to the rise of the Far-Right"
interferejournal.org/siamo-tuttx-...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
reading material:
"Man Versus Monster: The Morality of Macbeth in the Contemporary Screen Adaptations by Roman Polanski and Justin Kurzel"
Dorian Świtała (University of Opole)
ORCID: 0009-0007-5236-2539
explorations.uni.opole.pl/wp-content/u...
"Man Versus Monster: The Morality of Macbeth in the Contemporary Screen Adaptations by Roman Polanski and Justin Kurzel"
Dorian Świtała (University of Opole)
ORCID: 0009-0007-5236-2539
explorations.uni.opole.pl/wp-content/u...
explorations.uni.opole.pl
January 26, 2026 at 4:10 AM
reading material:
"Man Versus Monster: The Morality of Macbeth in the Contemporary Screen Adaptations by Roman Polanski and Justin Kurzel"
Dorian Świtała (University of Opole)
ORCID: 0009-0007-5236-2539
explorations.uni.opole.pl/wp-content/u...
"Man Versus Monster: The Morality of Macbeth in the Contemporary Screen Adaptations by Roman Polanski and Justin Kurzel"
Dorian Świtała (University of Opole)
ORCID: 0009-0007-5236-2539
explorations.uni.opole.pl/wp-content/u...
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Absolute Immunity -> Absolute License -> Lawlessness
January 22, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Absolute Immunity -> Absolute License -> Lawlessness
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This beautiful #Roman enamelled copper alloy flask in hexagonal shape was found in Welzheim.
The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
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The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
This beautiful #Roman enamelled copper alloy flask in hexagonal shape was found in Welzheim.
The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
The small vessel was a product of a workshop in Britain or Gaul and was presumably used to hold perfume.
Dating 2. century AD.
#findsfriday 🏺
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
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The Inflated Surround by Andrew K Peterson out now from Submersible Press.
submersiblepress.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/t...
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The Inflated Surround – Andrew K. Peterson
We here at Submersible Press are proud to bring to you The Inflated Surround by Andrew K. Peterson. Drawing from the 1960s counter-culture publishing phenomenon of The Whole Earth Catalog, as well …
submersiblepress.wordpress.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 AM
The Inflated Surround by Andrew K Peterson out now from Submersible Press.
submersiblepress.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/t...
submersiblepress.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/t...
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Monumento Nacional Vermilion Cliffs en el norte de Arizona.
January 20, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Monumento Nacional Vermilion Cliffs en el norte de Arizona.
thoughts about [being in] the world:
Bartosch, Roman. "Agency in the Anthropocene." Nordic Journal of English Studies 24.2 (2025): 22-43.
publicera.kb.se/njes/article...
Bartosch, Roman. "Agency in the Anthropocene." Nordic Journal of English Studies 24.2 (2025): 22-43.
publicera.kb.se/njes/article...
Agency in the Anthropocene
| Nordic Journal of English Studies
publicera.kb.se
January 17, 2026 at 3:52 AM
thoughts about [being in] the world:
Bartosch, Roman. "Agency in the Anthropocene." Nordic Journal of English Studies 24.2 (2025): 22-43.
publicera.kb.se/njes/article...
Bartosch, Roman. "Agency in the Anthropocene." Nordic Journal of English Studies 24.2 (2025): 22-43.
publicera.kb.se/njes/article...
The first complete draft of _The Loom_ was completed this morning.
(attached are plates of pages from abandoned drafts of _The Loom_)
(attached are plates of pages from abandoned drafts of _The Loom_)
January 14, 2026 at 11:42 AM
The first complete draft of _The Loom_ was completed this morning.
(attached are plates of pages from abandoned drafts of _The Loom_)
(attached are plates of pages from abandoned drafts of _The Loom_)
Pragmatic perspective(s) on unreadability and applications of thoughts on the topic:
Vitale, Antonio, et al. "Personalized Code Readability Assessment: Are We There Yet?." arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07870 (2025).
Vitale, Antonio, et al. "Personalized Code Readability Assessment: Are We There Yet?." arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07870 (2025).
January 12, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Pragmatic perspective(s) on unreadability and applications of thoughts on the topic:
Vitale, Antonio, et al. "Personalized Code Readability Assessment: Are We There Yet?." arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07870 (2025).
Vitale, Antonio, et al. "Personalized Code Readability Assessment: Are We There Yet?." arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07870 (2025).
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18 months ago I was photographing birds in a US national park when someone jumped out of a car in front of a dozen witnesses, put a Glock to my forehead, and demanded my camera.
This shot is from my first time out birding after that.
Living like this is a deliberate choice.
This shot is from my first time out birding after that.
Living like this is a deliberate choice.
January 6, 2026 at 7:04 AM
18 months ago I was photographing birds in a US national park when someone jumped out of a car in front of a dozen witnesses, put a Glock to my forehead, and demanded my camera.
This shot is from my first time out birding after that.
Living like this is a deliberate choice.
This shot is from my first time out birding after that.
Living like this is a deliberate choice.
existent film:
_After the Hunt_
Director:
Luca Guadagnino
Writer:
Nora Garrett
www.imdb.com/title/tt3215...
_After the Hunt_
Director:
Luca Guadagnino
Writer:
Nora Garrett
www.imdb.com/title/tt3215...
After the Hunt (2025) ⭐ 5.8 | Crime, Drama, Thriller
2h 18m | R
www.imdb.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:35 PM
existent film:
_After the Hunt_
Director:
Luca Guadagnino
Writer:
Nora Garrett
www.imdb.com/title/tt3215...
_After the Hunt_
Director:
Luca Guadagnino
Writer:
Nora Garrett
www.imdb.com/title/tt3215...