When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc. I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant" People got SUPER mad with it. Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

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listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

If y'all don't know the legend of Ben's anus.

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

Coyotes have adorable scrunchies, ngl 🥺💜💜💜

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.

13) This isn't news to me, but the manosphere complaint that "you can't compliment anyone anymore!" is bullshit. I compliment people constantly, all day, and get warm smiles and heartfelt thanks and watch people walk away in a better mood. The secret is not being a gross creep about it.

FATTY MEAT AND STRONG ASS WINE HIT WITH PERSIAN SPEAR BUT FINE STRONG ASS WINE AND FATTY MEAT ANCIENT PERSIAN SPEAR DEFEAT

explain your username: yea these many years ago I made a twitter to follow Chaucer Doth Tweet and I had no ready-to-use usernames left in my soul

I've been working through the Very Short Introductions this year, for reasons well, I hit the one on [Formal] Logic switched to the audio because I was looking at the page and absorbing nothing so now I am hearing all the words but still absorbing nothing (not the author's fault, it's Math)

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

This is true for students too. Yes there are many factors impacting student reading, but working 30+ hours a week to be able to afford college is definitely one of them.

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The five Nazgûl advance slowly on the camp. Their terror compels Frodo to put on the Ring—making him suddenly visible to them. Even as he calls upon Elbereth, a Nazgûl rushes forward and stabs him in the shoulder with a Morgul-knife. He removes the Ring and collapses.

Dante's seven factors of authentication

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul. “Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

Tonight is the full moon. Take this advice.

I was just commiserating with my 11th graders how the narrator of Beowulf keeps doing this. "As the dragon roared, then Wiglaf son of Weohstan, kin to the king, drew his sword... [pauses combat to describe the history of that sword for half a page]..." I guess Tolkien came by it honestly.

Oh I've read the Lord of the Rings! People say it is just a lot of walking but really its more about the songs and poems and historical digressions. Tolkien views plot and plot action as a tiresome necessity to get to the world building he truly loves.

good morning and welcome to the library where there are two (2) books with the same isbn

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Happy Mid Autumn Festival! Mooncakes with Earendil, Idril, and Luthien’s heraldic devices. 🥮 #Tolkien #art

Merry asks who made this path along the hills. Strider’s answer reminds Sam of one of Bilbo’s old songs, and he sings the first few lines: ‘Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea…’

Oh boy, on Oct 16, @leoba.bsky.social is showing Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1004/29, a mid-14thC physician's belt w/ calendar, tables of solar & lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, & urine wheel. A 🦇 book, b/c it unfolds like a pair of 🦇 wings. libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/14872116

Can I offer you some nice gourds in these trying times?

READER: Did you know you’re on the SATs? HEROINE: Say again? READER: *presents phone* HEROINE: …I’ll be damned. READER: Thought you might like to know! HEROINE: I don’t even know what to do with this in my brain!

The two types of museum on any of the Great Lakes: - Lighthouse Museum (featuring Shipwrecks) - Shipwreck Museum (featuring Lighthouses)

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

Take me, corn

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

i don't really follow sports, but i LOVE sports posting. I love when you all do this: @nameshiv.bsky.social

Do you have a favorite example of learning about high culture from low culture? Mine is the episode of Gilligan's Island where the castaways stage a musical adaptation of Hamlet set to the tune of Carmen (70s TV was wild) <1/n>

today's moment of package-related freakout brought to you by Ontario, California, "not to be confused with the Canadian province of Ontario, which is also typically shortened to "Ontario, CA"

I really really wish people in other countries who paternalistically lecture the US about how a general strike will fix everything wrong here will make even the smallest, tiniest effort to read up the scourge of health insurance tied to at-will employment.

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me. I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

normal problems: had to stop mid-clean to look up the steps for one of my cleaning playlist dance tunes

Icchy, the mascot of Tokai TV, is neither a bear nor a dog, but is “a fairy that came from a flower garden.”

#NationalPoetryDay ✒️ Roses are red, Water comes in litres, Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres. #Wales

how it feels to wear a sport coat in modern society

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

SENATOR: And you know—you know—they have never forgiven Germany. WOMAN: For the Holocaust? SENATOR: THE GERMANS STOLE THEIR BICYCLES *dead silence at the table* SENATOR: I am telling you, they ride bicycles everywhere! They got, like…these sinewy legs and tight asses. From bicycles!

HOT WOMEN in YOUR AREA are waiting til you've left the stairwell before they leave their flat because they don't want to have to make small talk while going out to get some fucking groceries for chrissakes