Mummies with golden tongues, and a piece of Homer tucked inside one of them. That’s what archaeologists just pulled out of a Roman-era tomb at Al-Bahnasa in Egypt, the ancient city once called Oxyrhynchus. Four of them had metal tongues placed in their mouths. The idea was that the dead would need them to speak in the afterlife. Inside one mummy’s wrappings, the team found a scrap of papyrus carrying a passage from Book II of Homer’s Iliad. Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-a-papyrus-fragment-from-the-iliad-tucked-inside-the-wrappings-of-a-1600-year-old-egyptian-mummy-180988603/
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The thing we actually need to get off github is not for more people to tell people to get off github, its for some of you with the technical expertise and tech company salary to pay for or volunteer to do the work to finish forgejo's federation so it's actually possible to compete with the kind of network and reputation effects needed to remain employed that are the actual thing github provides.

For fans of @acarsdrama - it is now regularly receiving and churning through 250,000 raw messages an hour from the skies around the globe. That is insane.

@saramg @Crell I’m also not surprised, but my view of information online is probably similar to yours. I think when we started getting online, there was an implicit consent to share this information because we were choosing to get online. Today, being online is a societal requirement, so no one is able to make this choice; it’s made for them.

@fahrni maybe it was a typo and by modern they meant completely slow memory hogging garbage.?

@unusual_whales what are these people on??

Cis people: normalize introducing yourself with your pronouns.

If only trans and gnc people do it, we're outing ourselves. If we don't, we accept getting misgendered. And when cis people do it, it acclimates other cis people to the practice and makes it safer for trans and gnc people.

@craiggrannell thank you! Exactly!

I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language

https://github.com/navid-m/flightsim

#HackerNews #flightSimulator #programmingLanguage #codingProjects #techInnovation #gameDevelopment

STC🥬

Ovb if you're in a position to donate to your local food bank, you should bask in the agency of doing that (send cash, let them take advantage of bulk discounts) but if you're not?

The food bank is for your community, which means it's for you!

The trouble with struggling and feeling like you have to rely on other people's generosity to survive, is that begging other people to care about you over and over again destroys your sense of agency and self worth.

Being able to go to the food bank and come home with an armful of greens and rice (or whatever they have today) is restorative to that sense of being able to do something about your problems.

Saturday's calligraphy is full of tit (just one).

A5 size on Carlson off-white heavyweight paper.

For Sale! £30 GBP, shipping is £3 UK, £4 Eur, £6 elsewhere.

Message me to adopt this piece of original art!

#Calligraphy #MastoArt #CreativeToots #Illumination #ArtForSale #OriginalArt #FediGiftShop

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@max_bank/116526957684595481

But even more scandalous is that she can!

a major public interest project has been developed to expose & keep tabs on reform councillors across the UK. it aims to build a dossier on each one & make the public aware to hold them to account.
if you have reform councillors in your area, you can help by contributing information to the database.
https://informuk.org
#ukpol #reform #database #racism #corruption

Anyone in #Sacramento, my friend Kiefer is part of an #indieGames showcase in person today, with an attached #games feature you can support from anywhere by wishlisting:

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45795899/sale/CCS2026

Goat morning

My boss telling me it’s time to stop work and start giving him scritch.

#BirdsOfMastodon