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There's a bit near the end of Around the World in Eighty Days when Phineas Fogg starts burning his ship to feed its steam engine. That's how I see modern political parties acting. They are combusting the legacy of 100 years of democratic infrastructure in order to steam ahead for a little longer.

A suit of armour like this is about as 'medieval' as Captain Jack Sparrow.

*looks inside so-called medieval fantasy* *Actually early modern fantasy*

Someone please write the full song.

För att förtydliga är det här en förklaring för hur sjukvården påverkas även om sjukvården enligt lagen ska vara undantagen från angiverikravet.

Currently giving my children a crash course on the Falklands War in advance of the football match.

Marvin the Paranoid Android said what

Is July 12th, 1971 When the Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time. Burnum Burnum planting the Aboriginal flag on the cliffs of Dover and claiming Britain for the Indigenous people of Australia

Part 118 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg 10th century CE pocket sundial. The pin, known as a gnomon, was placed in the hole for the relevant month. When the sundial was suspended from the chain, it used the altitude of the sun to calculate 3 separate times of the day

It's worrying that fascist politicians are so powerful right now, but it's even more worrying that non-fascist politicians are pursuing a policy of appeasement. Because this is how you get fascist national policy without fascist having a national majority.

In a hole in the ground there lived a discourse. It was a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, and somehow also a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a discourse-hole, and that means FUCK THIS

every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act

Some years ago, I wrote "friction is texture." But as AI-extruded homogenized slop takes over social media and blogs, I am coming to realize that friction is also *flavor*. When content is optimized for consumption, the words feel like someone has already chewed and digested them on my behalf.

Just noticed one of my neighbours is flying a Furry Pride flag. I live in a BlueSky neighborhood.

I often question the point and the value of my presence as an Iraqi person whose day-to-day language is not English on such a West-centric, English-speaking platform like Bluesky, but on days like today I urge you all to remember that victims of American oppression are real people with real lives.

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

I want to live in such a way that if and when I die, the world will not gloat. Instead, I want them to go all, "Are you suuure that wasn't a clone like the time before?" and "Yeah, but remember the fakeout with the volcano?" and "Nah, The Overlord has survived worse than that. That's fake news!"

Oral rehydration should be with an electrolyte solution, not just water, juice or soda. Pedialyte is optimized. Gatorade is okay. Both can be expensive. You can also make it at home - 1L water, 1 tsp sugar, 1 pinch salt, squeeze of citrus if you have it. This optimizes absorption. 2/

Around 165 people on the Titanic were Libano-Syrians. Out of 2225 That’s way more than I thought Unless I’m mistaken, judging from the names on that list, they would be the largest non-Western population of the Titanic aljadid.com/node/2618

The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month.

I’ve never forgotten the editor who scrawled “smelt is for metals!!” on a piece of my work. It wasn’t very good work, and many of her other comments were valid. But that one was stupid.

Chromosomes are biological. Hormones are biological. Anatomy is biological. Behaviour is biological. Reifying one of the many aspects of sex as the only true definition of ‘biological sex’ is a political statement that I refuse to endorse.

Some people don’t seem to have a good understanding of climate change, so here is a refresher: The creature in the sky got sucked in a hole Now there’s a hole in the sky And the grounds aren’t cold And if the grounds aren’t cold Everything is gonna burn We’ll all take turns I’ll get mine too

England are the Arsenal of the world! Or at least I think that's what I heard my neighbours saying.

Looking forward to Argentina vs. Switzerland: Who Holds More Nazi Gold?

Why Democrats should select Count Binface as their Senate nominee in Maine.

Me: AHAHAHAHAHAH FUCK THE ENGLISH Yanks: AHAHAHAHAHAH FUCK THE ENGLISH Me:

Charlotte Kalla säger också nej. Hjältar.

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to VAR"

This isn't Maldon 991 you know

People often scoff at "don't believe in yourself, believe in the me who believes in you" but it's superb advice; when in a depressive state, you can't believe in yourself, but a strategy to get around that is to trust that the people who love you are not lying and they truly see value in you

This is what happens when Norway go back to the dressing room. They relax into their natural state as pencil sketch animations

Haarland just picking up the other players and snapping them across his knee like Bane

POV your monastery is cooked

Hvordan har dere det, mine norske landsmenn

The epitome of elegance and grace, a sleek hunter of the night

Booo to Abu Dhabi in the fjords booo!

“AI IS NOT A PEDAGOGICAL CRISIS, IT’S A LABOR CRISIS.” I want to tattoo this on my forehead.

🤔 If I received like $40 I could do a small grocery run #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest

Four-word replies to big accounts! That's how you move engagement on BlueSky!

Thank you for your service keeping out the gentrifiers

Look, people say that BlueSky has abandoned its roots but when you search any random word the top 50 results are all still furry porn 🫡

Sorry Count Binhead but I met the real Dark Lord of Garbage in Stockholm today.

This is @glutelord.bsky.social and he's completely fucking correct. The fundamental tension at the heart of all incel culture is that these guys HATE women and refuse to appeal to them but desperately want to get laid anyway, and this contradiction can only really be resolved through violence