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Ладно, ну как я могу пройти мимо тупого флешмоба про музыку. Это где-то с 12 до 28 лет примерно в хронологическом порядке, как я в них залипал.
My 9 albums: The Beatles - Help! Deep Purple In Rock Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here The Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In Hugo Race + True Spirit - Second Revelator Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots Soundgarden - Superunknown
October 9, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance:

beneficium: a favor, kindness, service
officium: a duty, kindness, service
&
munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift.
October 8, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Miri it is while sumer ilast with fugheles song, oc nu neheth windes blast and weder strong. ei ei what this niht is long. and ich with wel michel wrong, soregh and murn and fast.
youtu.be/7UvesKl8_W8?...
Medieval England - Anon. 1225: Miri it is while sumer ilast
YouTube video by Eric Boulanger
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October 6, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Какая игрушка должна быть у трехлетней сербской девочки? Конечно, же, надувная ГИРЯ!
September 21, 2026 at 6:24 PM
My apologies, 16th-century Polish magnates, I was not familiar with your game
Chicken War or Hen War (Polish: Wojna kokosza) is the colloquial name for a 1537 anti-royalist and anti-absolutist rokosz (rebellion) by the Polish nobility. The derisive name was coined by the magnates, who for the most part supported the King and claimed that the conflict's only effect was the near-extinction of the local chickens, which were eaten by the nobles gathered for the rokosz at Lwów, in Ruthenian Voivodeship.[1][2] The magnates' choice of "kokosz"—meaning "an egg laying hen"—may have been inspired by a play on words between "kokosz" and the similar-sounding "rokosz". The Chicken War was the first rokosz of the nobility in Polish history.[3]
September 19, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Респект
booksoflaw.bsky.social Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · Nov 10
And, last but not least, very slowly preparing a TTRPG based on the Lombard laws, that is more in my head than written down, but which I do enjoy play testing every now and then... #LangobardRPG, in which players investigate (or commit!) crimes in Lombard Italy in the second half of the 7th century.
September 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Очень долго искал, где же в руках у Леопольда, герцога Тосканского и будущего императора Священной Римской Империи, на портрете работы Помпео Батони в руках томик Монтескье. Нужно реально было сделать computer, ENHANCE.
Портрет императора Иосифа II и его брата, герцога Тосканского Леопольда, в виде просвещенных монархов Два тома Монтескье в самом уголке
September 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Позорно ничего не угадал в уральских и очень мало в греческом
September 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Жесть Светлана Богачева!
Также как не путать Натана Филдера, Ноэля Филдинга и Натана Филлиона?
ditzkoff.bsky.social Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · Sep 7
how is this real
September 7, 2026 at 6:20 AM
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danielsugarman.bsky.social
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”. The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims. Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.” Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar. He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive. In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down. “We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.” In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
August 30, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Почему я все это время был не в курсе, что Геродот критикует и опровергает Илиаду (книга 2, 112-120)?! Античник из меня так себе, конечно...
August 22, 2026 at 8:54 AM
СЯУ я узнал о существовании американского футболиста по имени Dick Buttkus
kenplume.bsky.social Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · Aug 11
HALF NELSON was a 1985 Joe Pesci TV series that was cancelled after 9 episodes, but its intro seems to last forever via an escalating cavalcade of absurd cast reveals, underscored by a theme song that feels like a gag gift when you can't license "I Love L.A."...
August 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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oglaf.bsky.social
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Comic strip! panel 1- some kind of motley troubadour strums a lute troubadour- At last, the hero we've waited for panel 2- man in armour strikes a heroic pose there's text over the top in a little square box, rather than a speech bubble. This is supposed to indicate that the troubadour's song continues over the top but I'm honestly not sure if that's clear troubadour(offscreen) - A hero who dared and strove panel 3 hero slumps. Troubadour pops his head in, just to make thngs clear troubadour- Initially panel 4- hero sits at home drinking troubadour(offscreen) - A hero who couldn't sustain it panel 5- hero slouches next to a huge dragon troubadour(offscreen) -who puts in a distracted bare minimum panel 6- hero listlessly stabs dragon. panel 7- Dragon unexpectedly drops dead troubadour(offscreen) -but triumphs anyway. panel 8- Hero strikes a heroic pose over dead dragon troubadour(offscreen) -For no clear reason panel 9- a bunch of people we've never seen before hoist the hero onto their shoulders. All seem happy. troubadour(offscreen) -a hero who is all of us panel 10- troubadour stands in front of the hero who's now a king. troubadour- when all of us are shitty panel 11- king- your music sucks troubadour - that's 'cause I never practice
August 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
В детстве я на разных дачах общался с экзотичными родственниками. С Анютой и ее родителями мы играли в странную игру "каравай-каравай" и читали молитвы перед едой. С Шоломом и Фиркой - не ели свинины и обсуждали бар-мицву. Все это было мне жутко интересно и непривычно.
July 31, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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tanami-m.bsky.social
#portfolioday always looking for a work, all kinds of illustrations for mtg, dnd, animation, or all other kinds of projects
July 14, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Покажите мне этого фракийского катафрактария! Я хочу посмотреть!
Марк Щукин, "Готский путь": О наличии неких далеких восточных связей в этот же период свидетельствует и находка в погребении одного из фракийских аристократов в Рошава-Дрогана на территории нынешней Болгарии (около Старой Загоры) полностью экипированного, закованного в чешуйчатую броню рыцаря-катафрактария с длинным сарматским мечом в ножнах бирюзово-золотого стиля и с портупей­ной нефритовой скобой, где изображены драконы в стиле эпохи Хань из Китая (Буюклиев 1986, табл. 8-10). О контактах с Востоком свидетельствуют и находки в памятниках средне­сарматской культуры китайских бронзовых зеркал с надписями иероглифами (L’or... 1995, fig. 117), так называемых зеркал бактрийского типа, аналогии которым прослеживаются даже в Индии и во Вьетнаме (Заднепровский 1993), и, в частности, нередко обнаруживаемые в сарматских захоронениях Предкав­казья небольшие черные «лепешечки» некоего вещества, которое при провер­ке оказалось опием-сырцом (Берлизов 1990, с. 148). Проблема наркобизнеса существовала уже и тогда
July 25, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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In practice the democratic 'revolutionary' type of discipline is more reliable than might be expected. In a workers' army discipline is theoretically voluntary. It is based on class-loyalty, whereas the discipline of a bourgeois conscript army is based ultimately on fear. (The Popular Army that replaced the militias was midway between the two types.) In the militias the bullying and abuse that go on in an ordinary army would never have been tolerated for a moment. The normal military punishments existed, but they were only invoked for very serious offences. When a man refused to obey an order you did not immediately get him punished; you first appealed to him in the name of comradeship. Cynical people with no experience of handling men will say instantly that this would never 'work', but as a matter of fact it does 'work' in the long run.
July 23, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Представьте себе, что вы записали вашего ребенка на онлайн-курс из восьми занятий, заплатили деньги, ребенок пришел на первое занятие, ему не понравилось, и он больше не ходил. Должны ли вам вернуть деньги?
July 22, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Узнал, что на древнеармянском свет, индоевропейский корень от которого имеем леукос, lux, light и т.п. - будет ЛОЙС
July 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Когда открыл монографию подготовиться к уроку, а натыкаешься на личные разборки)). С Уколовой я в одном чате состою, школьные учебники у нее хорошие, вроде...
Отрывок из книги Сурикова "Античная Греция: политогенез, политические и правовые институты" Первый том «Всемирной истории» вполне ожидаемо несет заголовок «Древний мир». В свое время автору этих строк тоже было любезно предложено принять уча­стие в его создании. Однако не все тексты, подготовленные нами для этого тома, появились на его страницах. В частности, мы получили поручение написать небольшую вводную главу к разделу «Античный мир», что нами и было сделано. Уж не знаем, по какой причине редколлегии тома не понравилось то, что мы подали, но, во всяком случае, вместо нашего текста в вышедшем томе помещен иной2, в качестве ав­торов которого обозначены В. И. Уколова (одна из ответственных редакторов тома) и А. И. Немировский (последнее произвело несколько необычное впечат­ление: ведь Александра Иосифовича Немировского на момент начала работы над томом уже не было в живых).
July 7, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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duncanweldon.bsky.social
Super interesting paper.
Open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Overall, the rise of the Medici family in Florence can easily be seen as a story about the super-rich members of a republican polity acquiring the control of the local institutions and the government, and thereafter being able to maintain such control over time until all vestiges of real republicanism disappear, all while their country begins experiencing secular stagnation. This historical example, then, speaks directly against the idea that we can expect the super-rich in power to provide for everybody – in fact, the Medici appear to have provided mostly for themselves, and for their immediate clients and associates, in a context of social immobility and growing economic inequality. Quite clearly, the case of the Medici (similar to that of the Venetian and Dutch elites) also serves to exemplify how we can make use of insights from economic history, even from a relatively remote period, to address pressing challenges faced by our own societies. If one also comes to the depressing conclusion that humankind never truly learns from history, we should counter that ignorance of history only makes it easier to repeat the same mistakes, and to believe the same old lies: in the economic arena, as well as in any other area of human activity.
June 29, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Ты либо умираешь молодым, либо доживаешь до момента, когда твои ровесники пишут бумерские стихи о детстве (где вместо голубей с крышами и наташкиной косы - Гайбраш и ЛеЧак, блин) www.facebook.com/alexander.la...
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June 29, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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xmbshwll.bsky.social
бля как же все мельчает, даже боны криптошизы
June 24, 2026 at 9:09 AM
"Depending on how we interpret the historical facts known to us, Solon's constitutional reforms were either a radical anticipation of democratic government, or they merely provided a plutocratic flavour to a stubbornly aristocratic regime, or else the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes"
June 24, 2026 at 7:39 AM
За последние полтора года троих моих близких друзей бросили жёны. И у меня не так уж и много близких друзей! Чё происходит-то? Мне напрячься?
June 22, 2026 at 8:10 PM