coruth ᚛ᚉᚑᚏᚒᚈᚆ᚜

🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 // PhD student// interests: US pol, Gaeilge // pragmatic progressive //'Our demands are most moderate; we only want the earth'

[mothberg 500 @GodsLibtard]

Something that always strikes me about 90s 3d is how unbelievably ass the tools were. They made this entire movie by adjusting the model pose with SLIDERS. Didn't even see what he did for a few seconds. Unbelievable amount of trial and error here. Quake is also like this

[Micheál Ganley @GanleyMicheal]

Annual reminder: Bethlehem Steel was able to build a ship a day during WW2.

[Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler]

Here are six settings you can/should change immediately on Revolut

- transfer limit
- anti-theft 'street mode'
- disposable card
- spending limits for cards
- payment notifications
- 'trusted merchants' check

More detail: https://t.co/W9TThpBdky

[Lumpen Literati 🌺 @Thuggin1t0ut]

#Fairs #BoringAssMeeting

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I had not realised before that the Bronze Age Collapse was literally *caused* by iron.

Bronze age powers like the Egyptians, Hittites and Babylonians used bronze weapons, made by combining copper and tin. Tin was so scarce that only the richest and most powerful groups could access it and the bronze weapons it allowed. (Tin was so rare that it was being transported from Cornwall to the Middle East more than 1000 years BC.) The scarcity of tin gave these empires a near-monopoly on violence.

Iron weapons are not actually any better than bronze ones – they're not stronger or easier to work with, as I'd assumed. They're just much, much easier to mass produce once you have bloomeries, which are the first furnaces that were hot enough to melt iron in a way that made them useable for weapons.

Bloomeries meant that iron ore, which was widespread, could be used to make weapons anywhere. That led to warlords, bandits and city-states rising in a massive decentralization of military power, which the Bronze Age empires were unable to resist.

After the invention of the bloomery, skeletons show a measurable increase in weapon-inflicted injuries. 'Destruction layers' with bones and signs of burning have been found from this time at archaeological sites including Troy. Ancient writers – including Herodotus, Ovid, and the writers of the Old Testament – believed the invention of iron had unleashed a new age of violence.

New at Works in Progress, WEAPONS OF MASS DECENTRALIZATION: how iron itself brought about the Bronze Age Collapse. And what technologies could do the same today?

https://t.co/Ni4DfPYBhr

[ari @technicoluor]

me when my roommate uses the kerrygold butter without asking

[Joseph Gellman @joseph_gellman]

My worst nightmare is going on Newsnight, losing a debate, then turning round to see Rory Stewart like this

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

IMPORT IRELAND

BECOME IRELAND

[Abier @abierkhatib]

That’s a huge crowd… 77 delegations reportedly walked out when Netanyahu started his speech.

Arab countries 18

Syria
Palestine
Jordan
Lebanon
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Kuwait
Oman
Yemen
Egypt
Sudan
Tunisia
Algeria
Libya
Mauritania
Somalia
Comoros

Asia — 14

Türkiye
Iran
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Indonesia
Malaysia
Brunei
Maldives
Myanmar
North Korea
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan

Africa — 20

South Africa
Senegal
Djibouti
Angola
Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Liberia
Eritrea
Chad
Central African Republic
Madagascar
Niger
Botswana
Uganda
Lesotho
Eswatini
Equatorial Guinea
Mozambique
Namibia
Kenya

Latin America & Caribbean- 17

Suriname
Panama
Venezuela
Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
Barbados
Colombia
Dominica
Nicaragua
Peru
Saint Lucia
Bahamas
Bolivia
Cuba
Guyana
Brazil
Chile

Europe-6

North Macedonia
San Marino
Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Spain
Ireland

Pacific-2

Tuvalu
Tonga

Total: 77 delegations.

[Stuart Benson @LeftHandStu]

PM Carney, in May, on his meeting with Xi Jinping: "I raised with him the Thucydides Trap."

[Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos]

NI useful as ever to remind us that ethnic and national identities both exist, and are in certain circumstances conditional and mutable:

[Dubs life @dubslife1]

New Costa coffee drive thru in nutGrove 🫣

[FEMA Camp Counselor @DasSchinkenbrot]

The western Massachusetts COVID-conscious lesbian bar story keeps reminding me of this document from the early CIA

[Zito @_Zeets]

Just randomly remembered this

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

[Lesbian bar co-owner looking despondently into her drink, fiddling with the toothpick] "sometimes I just" [sees a clown rolling down the street on a unicycle] "I just think there's something more out there."

[RednBlackSalamander @9mmballpoint]

Every time someone tries to blame this sort of thing on "social media," I think back to Richard Wright's essay about trying to join the Chicago communist party in 1933 where all they did was sit around in a dingy basement accusing each other of being intellectuals and Trots

[duncan b-梁 🦦🇵🇸 @dunksdeux]

have you ever watched an all-time great in action, on the field or on the ice, and despite understanding *what* they did, know you could never even attempt it yourself? that’s what this is for posting

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

MetroLink bosses have been “going around Europe for the last year” on the hunt for workers and engineers on the multibillion euro project.

It comes as transport chiefs warn of a "brain drain" across the public sector that will impact major works.
https://t.co/iDv2eoz1HE

[Karen McGee @karenmotherof2]

You just don’t get days like these off of this app. Like yeah like 95% of the time this app is a hellscape but you don’t see the lesbian bar story transform into “ethnically Irish people are the only people who should be drinking milk” in real time anywhere else