MI6 officer in Moscow tells of “arguing with his wife about where they’d agreed to…picnic that weekend. Pettily, he decided to address the ceiling & say, “Well, where did we agree?” To his amazement, a note shortly appeared under the door confirming they’d agreed on Kuskovo”

Still trying to grasp that the city government of Mannheim offers a list of suggested first names for children, of which the first for N…

Rescue Kamala from this hostage situation Naval Special Warfare

Greeting the neighbours after work

Be as kind, meek, humble, and simple as possible with all, considering yourself not hypocritically inferior to all in respect to your spiritual condition, that is, more sinful and weaker than all. Say to yourself, `Of all sinners I am the first.'  - St. John of Kronstadt

Nature is corrupt. Without Christ man can only be vicious and wretched. With Christ man is free from vice and wretchedness. In him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from him there is only vice, wretchedness, error, darkness, death, despair.

-Blaise Pascal

Egyptian hieroglyphs - 02
mrr.i tw “I love you”

The Stasi collected samples of people’s scents - usually taken from their underwear - in case they ever needed to use sniffer dogs to hunt them down:

The Spectator's theatre critic wrote an article detailing his experience of becoming so aroused at a talk given by an academic (named) that he popped down the road to solicit sex from a prostitute (named). This man should be publicly flogged. How on earth was this published?

The USS pension has an additional contributions scheme called 'The Match' which, amazingly, your employer does not match. I'm considering feigning ignorance and doing a WASPI three decades down the line

Recent weekends

David’s watching me shitpost on a live chess tournament stream and calling me the autistic man’s crumpet

Friday evening. Time to unwind

It is literally impossible not to make it in America:

My latest for Holy Week.

On the Teaching Philosophy fb group, someone offered their students an amnesty if they admitted to using ChatGPT in their assignments, and 23/25 students replied...

Benjamin Disraeli referred to Napoleon III’s son, the Prince Imperial, as ‘that little abortion’.

Chinese history in one screenshot

Anthropomorphic Carved Walrus Ivory Figure of a Polar Bear with its Cub (1800 CE); from Alaska.

MET Museum

#archaeohistories