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WMweirdmedieval.bsky.socialFeb 18, 2024 6:14pm

just found out there was a medieval italian guy called bartolomeo coglioni which means "bartholomew balls" and his coat of arms was three pairs of balls and his war cry was "coglia! coglia! coglia!" which means "balls! balls! balls!"

Not a bad guess. Maybe in 2050 and with wireless connections

OCopenculture.bsky.socialFeb 27, 2024 6:10pm

How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned What Life Would Look Like in the Year 2000 www.openculture.com/2024/02/how-...

I strongly recommend this true crime podcast about the whole Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre controversy pca.st/podcast/33d0...

Death of an Artist

Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? For over 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples. T...

America Ferrera will star as the late Ana Mendieta in a new television series that she is also executive producing.America Ferrera will star as the late Ana Mendieta in a new television series that she is also executive producing.

America Ferrera to Play Cuban Artist Ana Mendieta in New Series

The show is an adaptation of Naked by the Window, the 1990 book about Mendieta's career and Carl Andre’s suspected role in her death.

🇳🇱 🎨 The Dam in Amsterdam - a painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde from 1668. The same spot nowadays: www.google.com/maps/@52.372...#Europe#Netherlands#Holland#Dutch#painting#art#cityscape#Amsterdam#FascinatingEurope#architecture#DutchGoldenAge#city#Europa

What a great movie, The Shawshank Redemption. High-caliber storytelling. You love and hate the characters, no more and no less, at the right moment. And while the film tells a dark story, it leaves you with an unexpected happy ending. #filmsky#letterboxdboxd.it/2aHi

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an…

Are you connected to 1Password? I love the app, I've been using it for many years. I do miss more options to manage tags. So if you happen to know them, please pass the message!

This is another very interesting piece of speculative storytelling, on "inverted computer culture" #Philtechviznut.fi/texts-en/inv...

I am leaving this post as a bookmark for a fascinating yet low-profile blog by @viznut.bsky.social#Philtechviznut.fi/texts-en/per...

I was trying to explain Perplexity.ai that KIPPA was a Dutch photo agency. But even though I show a Wikipedia link to prove it, it keeps telling me I am wrong. Luckily I was searching about something I sort of knew!