A liminal artefact, ephemeral by design; the instar of a satellite or a warhead

Colonisers will go for your most treasured cultural artefact and destroy it to destroy you.

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Starting in 1950, the dog breed suffered a significant decline due to killings by the RCMP. Stating that the dog killings were being done to remove sick and dangerous dogs, the RCMP often did not follow ordinances to capture and notify owners before killing dogs. 🧵7/13

TIL, via Rachel Maddow, about Curtis Yarvin – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin – another bizarrely unhinged character, along with JD Vance, who is in the orbit of Peter Thiel. The intersection of “mathematically precocious” and dangerously sociopathic seems to be a weird artefact of […]

The list I’m working from is contorting and twisting as I go taking in films, television, books, comics and music but I’ll be steering clear of a few of the more obvious folk horror artefact including the unholy trinity. Taking suggestions for P (not Penda’s Fen), X and Z…

Ok, less catalogue, more one page very flimsy paper sheet. But still, an artefact from a simpler time

On the way to & from the IMAX at the Science Museum in London, you walk past the largest remaining artefact from this. The Command Service Module of 1 of the 3 Apollo missions that went to the Moon without landing. That's quite something. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10

Apollo 10 - Wikipedia

Elle s'asseoit sur elle comme mes chats quand je suis dans mon canapé et qu'ils décident que JE suis le canapé. (quand je suis pas dedans le canapé n'est qu'un étrange artefact à l'odeur de vieux cul)

#LGBTQWriteAThon 29: Ten chapters in, my favourite line is a scene that everyone who read it liked too ("everyone" being, like, two people lol). I like it so much that I used it as inspiration for my first attempt at a comic page - Ashrah and Datusha meet-cute x)

The current iteration of GenAI strikes me as a near-perfect artefact of a post-truth society. It doesn't know anything about the truth, merely what seems to resemble what has been written somewhere. GenAI is the "Many people are saying" of tech. More and more of our lives are becoming subject […]

*takes a deep breath* Next episode is an archaeology one & they tend to be quite....painfully unhistorical. This is another race to find a tomb/artefact. *braces self* Let's see how they manage. 🤨