My high school civics teacher struggled to explain this for an entire semester and this guy nails it under an hour @premodernist.bsky.social

I miss the days when Americans pronounced the word "niche" the normal way.

@premodernist.bsky.social thank you for keeping me updated on current events lol

You're "in" a movie, "in" a play, and "in" a video, but you're "on" a TV show. Why is that?

Historically there have been cultures that kept the remains of dead loved ones in the home with them. It will be interesting to see if our culture evolves in that direction except with digital remains. x.com/CalumWorthy/...

This 4K, 8K terminology is confusing. Why can't we call them 2160p and 4320p?

Artist's depiction of Martians, 1906

The Italians may have invented pizza, but the Canadians perfected it.

Saw this in a 1901 magazine and for a moment thought it was AI.

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were in their 30s when they made Raiders of the Lost Ark. If it were made today, it would be created by two millennials and take place in 1980.

Stomp Clap Hey was good, actually

Pluto had it coming.

It's hard to believe Jedi Party came out 12 years ago.

Holy cow. I watch ONE academic lecture about Ancient Egypt on YouTube and suddenly my home tab is flooded with pseudoarchaeology.

In one million hours we will all be dead.

Happy new year! youtu.be/BPsfbV9t8Vw

I wonder what Return of the Jedi would have been like if George Lucas had successfully persuaded David Lynch to direct it.

A sad consequence of the modern era of streaming is that the Princess Switch trilogy will never be released on DVD or Blu-ray.

We are monkey geniuses.

The Piasa flag was simply too sexy for the squares on the flag commission.

Three Rules of Illinois Flag Design: 1) No state outline 2) No silhouette of Lincoln 3) No Chicago star (Chicago is not the whole state)

5 faves / 5 tags Food: Mediterranean 🇬🇷🤝🇹🇷 Season: Pumpkin spice season 🍂 Drink: Jarritos 🥂 Color: Green 💚 Anime: I grew up on Hanna-Barbera. What is this "anime"? 🇺🇸 @embracehistoria.bsky.social @stefanmilo.bsky.social @emperortigerstar.bsky.social @iammrbeat.bsky.social @joescott.bsky.social

Did all the YouTubers just somehow forget how sketchy BetterHelp is?

Am I imagining things, or is everyone on YouTube younger than me?

You know what's weird? Gravity.

Bluesky handles moderation differently than you might be used to. With loads of toggles and settings to change, it can be hard to wrap your mind around it. Here’s how it works.

Be careful buying audiobooks on Google Play (for public domain books, at least). They sell Librivox recordings, which are in the public domain and available for free at librivox.org. They also put a fake name as the reader instead of giving credit to the volunteer who made the recording.

The French word "chauve-souris" is so funny to me. They saw bats and said, "Those look like mice, but there's something different about them. What is it? … Oh, I know! They're bald!"

I want to make a tier list video where I rank other tier list videos.

The 1985 film Weird Science is what a rom-com looks like when the target audience is teen boys.

What a coincidence! I was just complaining about this in the credits of my most recent video. Now if only the French and Spanish courts will make the same judgment.

My favorite comments on my time-travel-to-the-Middle-Ages video are the long, angry screeds insisting that ACKCHYUALLY time travel is not physically possible.

"The first century BC" and "the last century BC" are the same century.

What the... Acheulean Handaxes in Medieval France: An Earlier ‘Modern’ Social History for Palaeolithic Bifaces 🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Investigates the shape, colour and potential flake scarring on a handaxe-like stone object seen in the Melun Diptych painting.

the struggle is real

"Scorpion" might be a better Borg story than "Best of Both Worlds."

The new Patreon logo looks like someone flipped over Barbados.

Good advice for aspiring educational YouTubers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR2F...

New Indo-European language from the Bronze Age has been discovered in an ancient Hittite text: phys.org/news/2023-09...

Re-upping my history and critique of the euphemistic language of "racially tinged." www.bostonreview.net/articles/law...

Mastodon and Bluesky diverged at different points on the evolutionary tree. Mastodon was created in 2016 as a reaction to early-2010s Twitter. It will appeal to people who liked Old Twitter (e.g. chronological feed, lots of hashtags). Bluesky is for people who liked late-stage, algorithmic Twitter.