Crying over Bucky Barnes

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it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be done

The phrase “They don’t want it perfect, they want it Friday” does wonders for my productivity.

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michaelmoonsbookshop:

just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight

family album

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allthecanadianpolitics:

Quebec Premier François Legault resigns ahead of fall provincial elections | CBC

CBC

Quebec Premier François Legault announced his resignation Wednesday morning from the National Assembly.

Legault faced steep competition ahead of fall elections in the province, as his Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) party fell in the polls while the Parti Québécois under Paul St-Pierre Plamondon rose to prominence.

The premier was elected for two majority mandates in 2018 and 2022.

Legault says he will stay in place as premier until the CAQ elects a new leader.

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Recently on Unhelpful File Labels in the Archives:

On-Going Project. Folders were empty.

Well Written Articles, 1999. There were no articles in this folder. There were a lot of budget reports though.

Stuff. You are killing me smalls.

Section 569-055 Knowingly burning or exploding. This was just papers shoved between files, I have a lot of questions and zero answers.

Some previous “winners”

Miscellaneous Old Stuff. *long sigh*

Other Idiocy. Honestly, this one was fitting.

® Man Claws. I have so many questions. Like, SO many

Keep for historical reasons. Neat.

Unprocessed Internal Provenance. Or how I answer the question “so what brings you to therapy?”

•••Possibilities for 2005••• you can really feel the optimism, which almost makes up for the pile of nonsense

Dogs Against Drugs. Ok McGruff.

The Lawsuit. Because in a series of legal files for an org over 100 years old, I am sure there is only one.

Other Crazy. Not to be confused with “other idiocy” which is already in this thread.

Okay but “Unprocessed Internal Provenance” is legit chilling.

Some gems from when I worked in the entomology department of a museum:

Bonus calendar appointment in my Outlook:

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RABBITS! RABBITS! RABBITS!

Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!

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come on guys let’s all go on the wide path that is headed towards hell together

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Are we still talking about Dracula? Cause I need everyone to see this copy of Dracula I found in the back of an antique store in Bavaria

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Discoveries!

Newly published research has revealed a “mysterious mass burial event” in the south of Scotland about 3,300 years ago.

Diarrhea and stomachaches plagued Roman soldiers stationed at Hadrian’s Wall, discovery of microscopic parasites finds

Analysis of latrine sediments at the Roman fort of Vindolanda has revealed that at least three parasites were widespread among Roman soldiers.

Rare 1,300-year-old medallion decorated with menorahs found near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

An excavation at the City of David in Jerusalem unearthed a 1,300-year-old medallion decorated with a seven-branched menorah on each side.

Beachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists

Beachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now been shown to have originated from southern England.

Newly identified early medieval castle site found in Switzerland

Archaeologists in Switzerland’s canton of Thurgau have confirmed the presence of a previously unrecorded castle site dating to the 10th and 11th centuries, after an enthusiast spotted unusual earthworks on a high-resolution LiDAR relief map.

Two of Switzerland’s oldest Celtic gold coins discovered in Arisdorf

Archaeologists in northwestern Switzerland have made a remarkable discovery: two rare Celtic gold coins dating back more than 2,200 years have been unearthed near the village of Arisdorf in the canton of Basel-Landschaft.

More remains uncovered at medieval ‘execution’ site

More than 70 bodies have now been uncovered at a medieval cemetery used for executed criminals, archaeologists say.

Pet monkeys were popular in ancient Rome, burials reveal

A new article in the Journal of Roman Archaeology investigates the discovery of several burials for pet monkeys at the Red Sea port of Berenike on the Egyptian coast. The bones of these domestic pets suggest that some Romans, including soldiers, likely kept exotic pets in their households. But the skeletal remains are also strong indicators of the extensive trade networks that connected the Roman Empire with India via the Indian Ocean.

Ancient Egyptian valley temple excavated — and it’s connected to a massive upper temple dedicated to the sun god, Ra

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a “public calendar” and a roof for astronomical observation.

5,000-year-old dog skeleton and dagger buried together in Swedish bog hint at mysterious Stone Age ritual

Archaeologists have found the skeleton of a dog alongside a bone dagger at the bottom of a bog in Sweden. The remains are thought to be 5,000 years old and may be from a mysterious Stone Age ritual.

Pompeii victims were wearing woolen cloaks in August when they died — but experts are split on what that means

Pompeii may have been unseasonably cold when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed the Roman city in A.D. 79, new research proposes.

Further evidence the eruption happened in October?

1,400 years ago, Nubians tattooed their toddlers. Archaeologists are trying to figure out why.

More than a dozen mummies of kids with facial tattoos were found at an archaeological site in Christian-era Nubia.

Geological surveys in Mongolia uncover 3,000-year-old nomadic khirgisuur burial mounds

Geological surveys at Mongolia’s Oyut Deposit uncovered 3,000-year-old nomadic burial mounds, revealing Bronze Age and medieval khirgisuur graves.

Oldest known evidence of father-daughter incest found in 3,700-year-old bones in Italy

An excavation in Italy has unearthed the oldest and first known evidence of father-daughter incest in the archaeological record, a new genetic study reveals.

Detectorists find Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard that may have been part of a 'ritual killing’

These Anglo-Saxon accessories were recovered from the side of a hill in England and may be from a hoard, a ritual deposit or a collection of stolen items.

Nova Scotia treasure hunter finds 300-year-old Spanish coin

A Nova Scotia treasure hunter made a rare discovery on a rocky beach near Halifax. Drew Wilson, a metal detector hobbyist, found a 300-year-old coin after combing beaches for more than two decades.

Museums

The crisis-hit Louvre museum in Paris was closed on Monday as workers began a strike to demand urgent renovations and staffing increases, and protested against a rise in ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, including British and American tourists.

The Louvre’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year

Paris Louvre museum to remain partially open as strike action over work conditions continues

The Louvre Museum said it would remain partially open to the public on Wednesday, even as employees voted to extend a strike protesting what unions describe as increasingly “untenable conditions” at the world’s most visited museum.

Louvre director grilled in Senate hearing over ‘cult of secrecy’ accused of enabling theft

Louvre president Laurence des Cars faced an fraught Senate hearing on Wednesday as lawmakers pressed her on years of allegedly neglected security warnings preceding the October theft of $102 million in imperial jewels — an interrogation that has intensified calls for her resignation.

UK museum displays thousands of African artefacts it knows almost nothing about

A museum in Britain has opened a gallery displaying thousands of African artefacts it knows very little about, hoping to spark a conversation on colonial-era looting and restitution.

The Manchester Museum in northwest England holds over 40,000 African objects, most kept in storage after being acquired during the British Empire through trade, anthropology, confiscation and looting.

Rare, complete dinosaur skull fossil acquired by Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has added a new, rare fossil to its collection: a dome-shaped skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, a type of dinosaur that lived about 67 million years ago.

Guggenheim scraps Basque Country expansion plan after local protests

Campaigners celebrate defeat of proposal to extend Bilbao institution into areas including nature reserve.

Drinking Bear back at toy museum after restoration

A former Brighton Palace Pier attraction has been restored and returned to a museum of toys.

Dear god, look at this thing

Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens

It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for some

Repatriation

On December 11, the National Museum of Asian Art, an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., announced it was returning three Khmer period sculptures in its collection to the Kingdom of Cambodia. The return was made after research, undertaken in collaboration with Cambodian authorities, determined that the works were likely looted during Cambodia’s civil war (1967–1975).

Stolen Hercules fresco found to belong to ancient Pompeii villa

Archaeologists have found the original location of a fresco fragment that was looted from Pompeii and later repatriated to Italy from the U.S. in 2023. The exciting new discovery could mean that the long-lost treasure is eventually returned to its rightful place.

Manitoba museum repatriates sacred headdress to Long Plain First Nation

A sacred headdress that belonged to generations of leaders of a First Nation in southern Manitoba is being returned.

British Museum launches long-term loan program to former colonies

The British Museum has launched a new scheme that will see it share artifacts in its collection with museums in former British colonies. Loans under the “new model” may last up to three years. They are intended to reach a compromise in response to growing calls for the repatriation of cultural treasures amassed by Western collections in the colonial era.

A reminder that by law the British Museum can not deaccession anything

Heritage at risk

Thailand and Cambodia have been locked in a border dispute for more than a century, which exploded again in the summer of 2025. Peace efforts have had mixed results and fighting continues.

A historical dispute over lines drawn on colonial maps is often used as a pretext for simmering nationalism. The two countries have had what one historian called a “sibling rivalry” for decades, fanned by competing claims to the region’s rich cultural heritage, including ancient temples in disputed areas.

Jacques Prévert: A battle to save the poet’s former apartment from Moulin-Rouge expansion

The Montmartre flat where one of the most important French poets lived is threatened by a project to extend the adjoining Moulin-Rouge cabaret.

Odds and ends

We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload centuries before the modern festive rush.

'It’s a moment of death and rebirth’: The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice

Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun during midwinter’s shortest day. What motivated people to construct these solar-calibrated masterpieces?

In pictures: Druids descend on Stonehenge to mark winter solstice

Thousands of revellers gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire on Sunday morning to welcome the sunrise on the winter solstice - the shortest day of the year.

'As long as it’s in Scotland I’m happy’: The 1950 heist to reclaim the ancient Stone of Destiny

The Stone of Destiny, an ancient symbol of the Scottish kings, was taken by four university students in an audacious Christmas raid 75 years ago. This was more than a prank: they said they were in fact reclaiming a beloved treasure stolen by an English monarch more than six centuries before.

Why people are flocking to experience the Titanic disaster

Immersive shows recreating the ocean liner’s fateful voyage are attracting audiences globally. But are they valuable historical experiences, or cynically turning tragedy into entertainment?

This sounds tacky and gross

New Rome metro stations showcase ancient treasures after years of delays

After years of delays and spiralling costs, Rome inaugurated two new metro stations on Tuesday, including one by the Colosseum, showcasing archaeological discoveries that might become tourist attractions in their own right.

Why we should all be worried about “crusadercore”

This online trend equips young, White men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon — one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry.

Electronic music added to French Intangible Cultural Heritage list

Electronic music enters France’s intangible cultural heritage list, representing a first step towards the integration of French Touch into UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage.

Restorers swap brushes for lasers in the first restoration of an iconic Roman monument in 40 years

High above the rooftops in the heart of Rome, restorers on Thursday used laser beams to clean a marble column in the piazza outside the prime minister’s office, removing layers of dust and grime that had covered the Roman monument for decades.

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'My find in a field connects me to lives long ago’

A metal detectorist who discovered a 1,500-year-old scabbard chape in a field has recalled the “thrill” of a find giving “connection to lives lived centuries ago”.

Thousands of dinosaur footprints discovered in remote Italian Alps

A wildlife photographer who was exploring a remote pocket of the Italian Alps has discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical face of a mountainside.

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Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot

Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.

ExtremeTech

“Microsoft has cut its sales targets for its agentic AI software after struggling to find buyers interested in using it. In some cases, targets have been slashed by up to 50%, suggesting Microsoft overestimated the potential of its new AI tools. Indeed, compared with ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, Copilot is falling behind, raising concerns about Microsoft’s substantial AI investment.

Microsoft was an early investor in many of the latest AI companies. It ended up with a serious stake in OpenAI and benefited from early access to its models, creating Bing Chat and Copilot when Google, Meta, and Anthropic were just getting started. But now its momentum has stalled, and like everyone else, it’s not making much money from its AI products. That’s because no one is buying them, and that is because very few people actually find them useful, The Information reports.”

-via Extreme Tech, December 10, 2025

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Discoveries!

Researchers from a group of U.K.-based institutions—including University College London, Leiden University, and Natural History Museum in London—have analyzed fire-making remains uncovered from clay pits at the Paleolithic site. They include a patch of heated clay, flint hand axes, and two small pieces of iron pyrite. The team’s findings, published this week in Nature, indicate that humans were making fire around 400,000 years ago, some 350,000 years earlier than previously believed.

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Romans made liquid gypsum paste and smeared it over the dead before burial, leaving fingerprints behind, new research finds

Around 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, people preparing bodies for burial created a plaster-like paste and smeared it over the corpses, leaving behind fingerprints that are still visible today, researchers reported in a recent blog post.

Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast

An ancient Egyptian pleasure boat that matches a description by the first-century Greek historian Strabo has been discovered off the coast of Alexandria, to the excitement of archaeologists.

Archaeologists uncover intact section of ancient Jerusalem wall from Hanukkah era

Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring kingdoms.

Brutal lion attack 6,200 years ago severely injured teenager — but somehow he survived, skeleton found in Bulgaria reveals

Extremely rare evidence of a lion attack on a teenage boy’s remains suggests the teenager survived the initial trauma but became severely disabled, requiring support from his community.

Medieval settlement remains found at wind farm dig

The remains of a previously unknown early medieval settlement have been unearthed during works ahead of an offshore wind farm development.

Human-shaped grave stele found in Mugla to go on display after challenging recovery

The remarkable discovery, identified as a Roman-era memorial stone, has drawn attention for its detailed reliefs and inscription, which archaeologists say offer valuable insight into family life and social status in ancient Anatolia.

Archaeologists uncover rare Roman-style ‘Good Shepherd’ fresco near Iznik

The 3rd-century fresco uncovered by Turkish archaeologists is the best-preserved of its kind to date.

Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete.

Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France

French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC.

Blenheim Palace conservators search for writers of century-old graffiti in ceiling

Conservators currently at work restoring paintings in Blenheim Palace said they found the names of 11 people written in the ceiling decades ago, with the oldest dated to 1843.

Little Foot hominin fossil may be new species of human ancestor

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system.

16th-century gallows and dozens of skeletons discovered in France

Archaeologists have identified a 16th-century gallows structure and nearly a dozen mass burial pits in Grenoble, France.

Museums

The CEO of one of Canada’s national museums committed serious code of conduct breaches by yelling, mistreating staff and using inappropriate language including calling a senior leadership team “sluts” publicly, the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner’s investigation found.

Update: National museum CEO leaves role after report alleged she mistreated staff for over a decade

Louvre thieves evaded police with 30 seconds to spare, investigation finds

The thieves who stole crown jewels from the Louvre in October evaded police with just 30 seconds to spare due to avoidable security failures at the Paris museum, a damning investigation has revealed.

Final letter of Mary, Queen of Scots to go on display for first time in almost a decade

Letter written hours before her execution in 1587 will form part of exhibition and programme of events in Perth aiming to bring queen’s story to life.

Japanese American National Museum receives $20 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott

The gift of $20 million is the largest single gift in JANM’s history and, like Scott’s donation of $10 million in 2021, is unrestricted, allowing the Museum to determine the best use of the funds at a pivotal moment for its future.

Anatomical exhibition includes rare Victorian-era drawing of a black body

The work of surgeon and artist Joseph Maclise is the focus of a show at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds.

Roundhouse replica work progressing at speed

Work to rebuild a prehistoric roundhouse destroyed by a fire is expected to be complete by January.

Repatriation

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond has returned 41 terracotta relief fragments valued around $400,000 to Turkey after an investigation led by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The works, acquired by the VMFA in the 1970s, were found to have been illegally taken from a Phrygian temple dating back to the 6th century B.C.E.

San Francisco Asian Art Museum returns stolen ancient sculptures to Thailand

After years of research revealed they had been illegally removed in the 1960s, four ancient bronze sculptures were transferred from San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum to their original home in Thailand as a result of an investigation led by the US Department of Homeland Security.

San Antonio Museum of Art repatriates nine antiquities to Italy

The San Antonio Museum of Art has repatriated nine antiquities to Italy, eight of which were identified through photographs that had been seized from the convicted dealer and smuggler Giacomo Medici.

Heritage at risk

More than 600 artefacts of significant cultural value have been stolen from Bristol Museum’s archive in a high-value raid, police have said.

Military memorabilia, jewellery, natural history pieces and carved ivory, bronze and silver figurines were stolen from the archive in the Cumberland Basin area of the city in the early hours of 25 September.

Water leak in the Louvre damages hundreds of works, museum says

Open valve in heating system affects 300 to 400 items just weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised security concerns

Trump may demolish historic D.C. buildings with priceless murals by Philip Guston, Ben Shahn, and other artists

Earlier this week, a retired General Services Administration official accused the Trump administration of attempting to demolish four historic federal buildings in Washington, D.C., including the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building

White House sued by historic preservation group over ballroom plans

A nonprofit organisation tasked by the US Congress with helping preserve historic sites has sued the White House to stop construction on President Donald Trump’s new ballroom.

Odds and ends

Renaissance Italy was home to some of the most famous and influential artists who ever lived. Less well known, but arguably as influential in their day, were a number of supremely stylish women whose politically savvy fashion choices were often used as an elegant form of soft power during a particularly tumultuous period of Italian history.

Italian cooking awarded UNESCO cultural heritage status

National favourites including pizza are already on UNESCO’s list of “intangible cultural heritage”, but now Italian cooking traditions and the way they are practiced and transmitted have been awarded.

Poland arrests Russian archaeologist wanted in Ukraine

Polish authorities have arrested a prominent Russian academic from St Petersburg’s world-famous Hermitage Museum who is sought by Ukraine for allegedly conducting illegal excavations and partially destroying the ancient city of Myrmekion in Crimea.

‘An entertainment pavilion on bones’: new Russian museum opens in occupied Mariupol

A new museum, described by one Russian official as “a symbol of the city’s liberation from neo-Nazis”, has opened in the city of Mariupol. The Ukrainian city has been occupied by Russian forces since 2022, following a months-long siege.

Chair and well fabled for 'healing powers’ gets protected status

An ancient site steeped in myth in County Tyrone and still believed by some to possess healing powers has been granted protected status.

Shipwrecks, skates and submarines: Protecting England’s unusual heritage

A mysterious shipwreck, a colourful cathedral and a “birthplace of the communication age” are among the remarkable places in England that have been granted special protection this year.

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capnsoapy:

good grief, i cannot recall the today’s date! perhaps yvette nicole brown can help me out,

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sleepwalk-living:

inbabylontheywept:

I am a 27 year old electrical engineer who works in a little secret lab in the middle of buttfuck Egypt. For one two month period, the office supply order changed from normal erasers to these, and I will not lie - every time I thought I was alone, I would sneak one out of my desk and eat it. They looked delicious. Tasted mid, but the appearance was so stunning that my brain just kept thinking, surely, the rest were a fluke, but THIS TIME it will taste like fruit and sugar.

Anyway, eventually the order stopped, and I was very worried that somehow, they’d found out that I was eating their erasers. So I kind of casually brought it up to my manager that I was sad that they swapped the erasers out, and he was like “yeah, but I kept eating them so they couldn’t stay.”

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tahthetrickster:

it’s december 1 where’s the christmas tail kitten bring him to me

i have to do EVERYTHING around here

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