Thomas Philologus Ravennas

There's a statue of a bearded man on the façade of the church of San Zulian, above the entrance.

Yet another saint, one presumes, before walking on towards the main sights at St Mark's.

Well, no! That's Tommaso Ravenna, astrologer, physician, patron of the arts and sciences, knighted in several countries, who in the 1500s got rich and famous selling remedies for syphilis.

#histodons #Monuments #Statues #Syphilis #Venezia #Venice

Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/venetians/thomas-philologus-ravennas/

@cheeaun looks amazing

@lerxst I always knew I was going to get Darwined before retirement, anyway.

@lowqualityfacts cute

@jpm This is an intriguing idea.

I saw this on BlueSky.

I don't want to call anybody out, and it's not really important that one person did this as this is going to be a be a general problem going forward.

The increasing popularity of "editing" features in generative AIs is going to lead to a lot of people thinking it is harmless to use it to upscale or contrast-adjust historical media.

#retrocomputing

@ajroach42
Alright John Connor

ashland car free christmas day ramble, watched an American dipper dive into a cascade and pop out in the pool above

Consider: ham AND cheese

@Alice look on the bright side: you at least don’t need to feel guilty if you weren’t saving enough for retirement.

@Samboyy est super contente de ses cadeaux upcyclés fabriqués par l'extraordinaire @WD40 / https://re-cycle-on.fr (merci Steph).

En bonne compagnie avec la bague réalisée l'année dernière par moi-même à partir d'un bout du guidon de mon vélo.

#noel2025 #cadeaux

I have the following four domain names:

• 적독가.com
• 積讀家.com
• 積読家.com
• 积读家.com

… which basically means the same thing: a person who does tsundoku.

We risk losing our collective visual history. It's bad enough that you can't trust any new image made today, now we're also entering an era where we can't trust anything from the past, either, unless we pull it directly from an archival source before 2025.

Ain't that grand.

The comparison is not favorable.

@kzeta 😂

@GeePawHill This works for any of those low-life scum-sucking bottomfeeding cave dwellers:

"Just want to get on the record, [insert person found to have had raped young children [in the Epstein files]] was an unspeakable piece of shit creep racist child-fucker long before [insert claim to fame or medical status]."

Thomas Philologus Ravennas

There's a statue of a bearded man on the façade of the church of San Zulian, above the entrance.

Yet another saint, one presumes, before walking on towards the main sights at St Mark's.

Well, no! That's Tommaso Ravenna, astrologer, physician, patron of the arts and sciences, knighted in several countries, who in the 1500s got rich and famous selling remedies for syphilis.

#histodons #Monuments #Statues #Syphilis #Venezia #Venice

Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/venetians/thomas-philologus-ravennas/

@GeePawHill
Hah! I would say but I couldn't do it with outing myself.
And, besides, I really love the one you just posted.

Any chance there is someone on here planning on traveling between approximately UC Irvine and University of Arizona in the next little while? Might be looking for transportation for a sewing machine between those approximate locations. Nothing unusually large, though a little heavy because it's an older metal one. Compensation in cookies and a fun story connecting people on fedi.

#SoCal #Arizona

🤑🙌🏻*

@Alice

*My honest review was in no way influenced by receiving any products for free.