Bron Larner
@numabiena.bsky.social
Retired curator. Pragmatic idealist. Art, architecture, politics, environment, urban planning.
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It's Monday! Let's start week off with a map & some eels!
Here is John Speed's 1611 map, "The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland." There are Dutch eel ships on this map. Can you find them? (the answer is at the end of the thread)
Wait, you ask...WTF is an eel ship? 1/5
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Here is John Speed's 1611 map, "The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland." There are Dutch eel ships on this map. Can you find them? (the answer is at the end of the thread)
Wait, you ask...WTF is an eel ship? 1/5
🗃️🧪
September 28, 2026 at 3:36 PM
It's Monday! Let's start week off with a map & some eels!
Here is John Speed's 1611 map, "The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland." There are Dutch eel ships on this map. Can you find them? (the answer is at the end of the thread)
Wait, you ask...WTF is an eel ship? 1/5
🗃️🧪
Here is John Speed's 1611 map, "The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland." There are Dutch eel ships on this map. Can you find them? (the answer is at the end of the thread)
Wait, you ask...WTF is an eel ship? 1/5
🗃️🧪
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#OTD in 1944, Thomas Akio Hoshino is fined and sentenced to three years and three months in federal prison for failing to report to induction into the Army. Hoshino and 33 other Nisei men from Minidoka were convicted for draft evasion.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
September 28, 2026 at 7:11 PM
#OTD in 1944, Thomas Akio Hoshino is fined and sentenced to three years and three months in federal prison for failing to report to induction into the Army. Hoshino and 33 other Nisei men from Minidoka were convicted for draft evasion.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
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110 years ago, on the 29th of September 1916, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller became the first American billionaire. This happened five years after the Supreme Court had ruled that Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company company had illegally monopolized the oil industry. #otd #history 🗃️
September 29, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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You (we all) should care for eels because one of the most fascinating animals on Earth will disappear simply because a luxury market, dressed-up in tradition, does not care about extinction and society is unable to stop the rich destructive whims
Please, do care
theconversation.com/eels-have-fa...
Please, do care
theconversation.com/eels-have-fa...
Eels have fascinated us for ages - now we need to stop eating them
No one would think of eating an endangered animal like the Iberian lynx. So why do we still eat eels?
theconversation.com
September 29, 2026 at 4:03 PM
You (we all) should care for eels because one of the most fascinating animals on Earth will disappear simply because a luxury market, dressed-up in tradition, does not care about extinction and society is unable to stop the rich destructive whims
Please, do care
theconversation.com/eels-have-fa...
Please, do care
theconversation.com/eels-have-fa...
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Thanks @crikey.com.au for publishing this great, but sobering, piece by Jason Chatfield.
Opinion | Political cartoonists are a dying breed, with publications slowly waiting for them to leave before bricking up the door behind them, writes New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/c...
www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/c...
We cartoonists are a dying breed. It's a canary in the coalmine for a dysfunctional democracy
As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they…
www.crikey.com.au
September 29, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Thanks @crikey.com.au for publishing this great, but sobering, piece by Jason Chatfield.
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Have a cold in 1896? Parke, Davis & Co. has an Rx for you--opium, strichnine, and nightshade 👀 🗃️
September 23, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Have a cold in 1896? Parke, Davis & Co. has an Rx for you--opium, strichnine, and nightshade 👀 🗃️
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It wasn’t enough that a targeted campaign was used to defame and damage me by deliberately mischaracterising one cartoon. Now those same obsessive bullies are using other people’s posts about that cartoon to destroy their careers. Are we living under the Stasi now?
September 9, 2026 at 7:42 PM
It wasn’t enough that a targeted campaign was used to defame and damage me by deliberately mischaracterising one cartoon. Now those same obsessive bullies are using other people’s posts about that cartoon to destroy their careers. Are we living under the Stasi now?
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The best piece of news, after a relentless and brutal attempt to destroy a decent person and make an example of her, to scare others to silence.
No thanks to the mainstream, which said and did nothing to defend the principle of press freedom and her right to report fact and express an opinion.
No thanks to the mainstream, which said and did nothing to defend the principle of press freedom and her right to report fact and express an opinion.
The Israel lobby has dropped its vexatious lawsuit against @marykostakidis.bsky.social whose bravery and integrity is a light for us all
Andrew Brown #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/mary-kostaki...
Andrew Brown #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/mary-kostaki...
Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby, and courage won - Michael West
The Zionist Federation of Australia expected fear, expense and exhaustion to silence Mary Kostakidis. She stood her ground
michaelwest.com.au
September 11, 2026 at 8:34 AM
The best piece of news, after a relentless and brutal attempt to destroy a decent person and make an example of her, to scare others to silence.
No thanks to the mainstream, which said and did nothing to defend the principle of press freedom and her right to report fact and express an opinion.
No thanks to the mainstream, which said and did nothing to defend the principle of press freedom and her right to report fact and express an opinion.
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Rochester, NY, has a monument at the place where Susan B. Anthony cast a vote in the 1872 presidential election. Although she’d talked a registrar into adding her to the voter list, she was convicted of voting illegally and fined $100. 🗃️
September 19, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Rochester, NY, has a monument at the place where Susan B. Anthony cast a vote in the 1872 presidential election. Although she’d talked a registrar into adding her to the voter list, she was convicted of voting illegally and fined $100. 🗃️
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It's 1100. You're a peasant in Harmston, England. Congrats! It's a fine place to live. But at what cost?
Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.*
Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net.
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Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.*
Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net.
🗃️🧪
September 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
It's 1100. You're a peasant in Harmston, England. Congrats! It's a fine place to live. But at what cost?
Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.*
Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net.
🗃️🧪
Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.*
Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net.
🗃️🧪
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French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
www.lemonde.fr
September 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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God/Jesus: "Flatter me and I will save you."
Human: "Save me from what?"
God/Jesus: "Me."
Human: "Save me from what?"
God/Jesus: "Me."
September 8, 2026 at 12:08 PM
God/Jesus: "Flatter me and I will save you."
Human: "Save me from what?"
God/Jesus: "Me."
Human: "Save me from what?"
God/Jesus: "Me."
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"The .. market has gone to private equity". Claudia Weisenberger investigates the insiders cashing in on the NDIS while govt swings the axe at the disabled
#auspol #NDIS
michaelwest.com.au/inside-job-h...
#auspol #NDIS
michaelwest.com.au/inside-job-h...
Inside Job. How former insiders and corporateers are cashing in on the NDIS - Michael West
Government has swung the axe at the NDIS but corporations are cashing in. Claudia Weisenberger investigates the revolving doors
michaelwest.com.au
September 9, 2026 at 2:31 AM
"The .. market has gone to private equity". Claudia Weisenberger investigates the insiders cashing in on the NDIS while govt swings the axe at the disabled
#auspol #NDIS
michaelwest.com.au/inside-job-h...
#auspol #NDIS
michaelwest.com.au/inside-job-h...
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For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored.
That ends today.
nyc.gov/sept11docs
That ends today.
nyc.gov/sept11docs
September 11 Docs
nyc.gov
September 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored.
That ends today.
nyc.gov/sept11docs
That ends today.
nyc.gov/sept11docs
WARNING. HORRENDOUS BEHAVIOUR. x.com/academic_la/...
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la) on X
A horrific expose on the murder of Palestinian prisoner Tha'er Abu Assab, a Palestinian prisoner at Ketziot prison by guards in November 2023 appeared in Haaretz today. Among the most damning evidence in the case are the texts of one warden, Oshrit Aliga, who as you can see in the video inlcuded …
x.com
September 9, 2026 at 9:31 AM
WARNING. HORRENDOUS BEHAVIOUR. x.com/academic_la/...
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There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
September 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one