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Anybody who’s interested in this:

To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Stasiland by Anna Funder

King Leopold’s Ghost/Devil in the White City/Dead Wake by Erik Larson

are some of my favorites.

Stasiland by Anna Funder

A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

To End All Wars by Adam Hoschild.

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

My kingdom for broadcasts of sports that don't have Biz or Pat McAfee on them

the human urge to make utilitarian objects beautiful--same force that turned medieval drain spouts into fabulous gargoyles

“If you have an army during peacetime, the thinking is its only use is to turn on poor, innocent subjects.” — Serena Zabin
#AmericanRevolution

Also helps to know that the colonies feared that parliament’s taxes would be to create an “American Establishment” of the British Army, paid for by the Americans - they saw what this did to Ireland and did NOT want to become Ireland

Love me some Stamp Act Riots

When the lt gov of Massachusetts demanded to call out the militia, he was told the militia was already out - they were the ones carrying clubs and torches

Also, most of the ruling class disliked the Stamp Act and turned a blind eye to riots - to a point

The humanities get attacked because they make you and the system uncomfortable. They make you think about power, history, and yourself in ways profit-driven tech can’t.

Feel like soccer is lagging behind on this emerging art form

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

Michael Shannon as James Garfield in Death By Lightning

James you have to stop. Your Speech Too Good. Your Heart Too Pure. Your Civil Service Reform Too Incorruptible. They’ll Kill You.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

I want to stay in the country so I can fight authoritarianism with all my strength. I want to flee the country so I don't have to do it with the Democrats

Didn’t impact play. Ridiculous to call that off.

Well ball don’t lie lmao

Never, ever, ever a penalty lmao. Absolutely ridiculous.

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“If we do not act,” the statement concludes, “we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI . . . AI-generated content is submitted by an agentic AI on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.” +

i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.

Yes, and the French strongly supported the Americans financially and otherwise. But to say they did 100% of the heavy lifting is, as I said, ahistorical nonsense.

I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.

i bet a lot of these players have been playing baseball since they were kids. that’s probably a big reason why they’re so good. if you learn this kind of stuff when you’re young it gives you a big head start

Bo Bichette hits a 3 run HR

This game has Liverpool 1-3 Aston Villa written all over it

Look I get what you’re going for but that’s totally ahistorical nonsense

The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.

Nah, but it’s really neither here nor there. Deserve to lose this game. Brentford have been great.

I heard that too. Our European adventure is not off to that great a start either! We’ll see.

The title is lost. Which imo is fine for this season. A ton of upheaval, not to mention the passing of a teammate. It’s understandable really. Everyone needs to get comfortable with Arsenal winning the title and a fight for top 4. Nothing wrong with that.