The Medieval mason who did this definitely had quite a sense of humor 🫣😃
(Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, France, 1050 AD)
#drthehistories #medieval #masonery #stonemason #religion #history
Christmas tree up? Stockings by the fire? Guys, it’s not even December yet! @thetyee’s Harrison Mooney has a theory on why this year, people seem “desperately festive.” It’s all about control. “If we can’t change the world, we change the world inside our homes,” he writes. “Christmas is perfect for that. Decoration and reorganization reduce stress. Same goes for sugary snacks, or a big glass of eggnog and rum. At Christmas, we look back on happier times and lean into long-held traditions. It’s a way to make the darkest days and darkest timeline bearable.”
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/11/28/Is-It-Christmas-Yet/
#Holidays#Christmas#Lifestyle#Newstodon#NewstodonFriday#FollowFriday
“Between 1946 and 1963, lab scientists knowingly exposed at least 1,073 servicemen, dockworkers, lab employees and others to potentially harmful radiation through war games, decontamination tests and medical studies,” @SFPublicPress says. Their investigations center on the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, but the lab was one of many across the country doing similar research. That makes it a demonstration of “the ways that people have been seen as disposable, to science or to the military,” said Lindsey Dillon, a University of California assistant professor.
#History @histodons#MilitaryHistory#HumanRights#Newstodon#NewstodonFriday#FollowFriday
'Learning from the Best of Text' by Brian Rushton is a freshly released, free ebook on the history of interactive fiction. On a first glance it looks exhaustive and fascinating.
Download it here (try learning.pdf): https://github.com/brirush84/IFTextbook/releases
Missed this yesterday!
"The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the van and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van
via https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/113042496976107440
#arpanet #history #otd #internet#InternetHistory#InternetAge
2016: dan discover mastodon
2017: dan find nobody, alone
2018: dan discover fire ( @pixelfed)
2019: dan still lone
2020: dan invent https://fediverse.info/explore/people
2020: dan say #fedi22
2023: dan meet other dans
2024: dan have dan party
2017: dan find nobody, alone
2018: dan discover fire ( @pixelfed)
2019: dan still lone
2020: dan invent https://fediverse.info/explore/people
2020: dan say #fedi22
2023: dan meet other dans
2024: dan have dan party
#KamalaHarris Scores #TIME #Magazine#Cover: ‘The Swiftest #VibeShift in #Modern#Political#History’
“The #ReintroductionofKamalaHarris” was #published on Monday and led with a #description of the scene last week in #Philadelphia when #VicePresident Kamala Harris introduced her #runningmate, #Minnesota#Gov. #TimWalz (D)
"On August 6, 1991 [33 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee."
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Happy birthday, web!
#WorldWideWeb#WWW#TheWeb #indieweb#FirstWebsite #internet #history#OTD
"You are going to see your candidate subjected to the most blistering, vile & specious personal attacks based on her #race & #gender. The effort, to be sure, is aimed at villainizing her with those who are undecided. But it’s also intended to tear her down in your eyes; to distract & demoralize you; to dampen the high spirits that are driving you toward the one goal that is above all this presidential #election year — winning — which depends on #voting"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/26/kamala-harris-trump-racism-history/
"To call a #Black woman a “Jezebel” hearkens back to America’s #racist & #misogynistic #history of casting Black women as insatiably sexual, which served to justify slaveholding men’s systematic sexual #assault of enslaved #women. But for right-wing white #Christians... to say a woman has a “Jezebel spirit” is also to say she is a danger to them, a barely human being hell-bent on seducing men to their destruction"
https://newrepublic.com/article/184213/jezebel-attacks-kamala-harris-christian
https://newrepublic.com/article/184213/jezebel-attacks-kamala-harris-christian
