It is worth bearing in mind that she became a huge star at 12. So I'm wondering how much this was impacted by labor laws? Anyway I'm glad she didn't spend her teen years working herself to the bone

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. Ursula K. Le Guin

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

Maybe he's just a really dedicated Nolan fanboy

Yes, both Puss in Boots movies were very enjoyable!

Our opinions on current issues in the technosphere:

AI is theft
Diversity encourages innovation
If you won't fix this planet, you don't deserve a new one
There is no such thing as a self-made human
Reject terror
Ignore censors

Remember, you are here:

Majestic guinea pig

TGIF (thank guinea pigs it's Friday)

This is what unity looks like.

True!!

AND Dawson gets totally sauced (see also Robin Hood)

Queer-coded Jafar has NOTHING on Rattigan

constantly speak the truth

Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

What I'm taking away from this is we should all be taking more Tylenol

Hahaha this is so real - I need to be in the right mood to hit that note well 😂 and my neighbors probably know (duplex house)

A map titled United States High Speed Rail System showing a theoretical high speed rail system in the United States. Some lines also connect north to Vancouver or the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, or south to Tijuana or Monterrey. The map is credited to First Cultural Industries AKA Alfred Twu, dated from February 2013, and is downloadable at www.californiarailmap.com

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.

To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.

And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Sunday is really far away. Sounds like time to make yourself a lil treat

Let me know if you are expecting to get raptured so I can feed your cats.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now."

ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

It's not too late

Linked in privacy settings page

PSA: #LinkedIn will soon use your posts to train generative AI unless you opt out.

(Ironic, since I feel like half the content on there is already AI slop.)

You can opt out under Settings > Data Privacy.

Let's stick it to them. 🖕🏼

IT Security PSA: USB drives are becoming a vector for malware again. Avoid cross-contamination. Don’t use a drive on both your work computer and personal computer. Avoid using them in public computers or computers that aren’t yours. Keep your anti-virus up to date.

"Kings are justly called gods for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of divine power upon earth, for if you will consider the attributes to God you shall see how they agree in the person of a king. God hath power to create or destroy, make or unmake, at his pleasure; to give life or send death, tojudge all and to be judged not accountable to none; to raise low things and to make high things low at his pleasure; and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have kings: they make and unmake their subjects; they have power of raising, and casting down; of life, and of death, judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only. They have power to exalt low things, and abase high things, and make of their subjects like men at the chess — a pawn to take a bishop or a knight — and cry up or down any of their subjects, as they do their money. And to the king is due both the affection of the soul and the service of the body of his subjects."

King James I of England sounded like an anime villain:

source: J. P. Kenyon, ed., The Stuart Constitution 1603-1688: Documents and Commentary, 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p12.

Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday one day late as usual

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.