Kelly Digges

Notice how there’s not even a fig leaf here—not even an attempt to appear as though this helps anyone or keeps anyone safe. This is pure persecution, and it’s what all this anti-trans shit has always been about. Protect trans vs people any way you can, folks.

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

I really hate anti-trans politicians, and I especially hate it because it was a culture war issue where we were clearly winning and then a bunch of nominally liberal people at the Times and the Atlantic decided to reverse that and they did.

Also we uh, we didn’t print them. They came printed. In the Duelist Magazine. 💀

Yeah, absolutely not, lol. When those came out we passed them around, with this sense that… like, that’s what we’d REALLY been doing all along, we just didn’t know it. I do think we learned a little from them and may have consulted them occasionally, but mostly they were a curio

Yep, second this. We weren’t sitting there with the infamous rat-maze diagrams or anything, but we understood when you could respond and when you no longer could.

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ Translated as ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift. The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology

Wikipedia entry for dinkus In typography, a dinkus is a typographic device or convention that typically consists of three spaced asterisks or bullet symbols in a horizontal row, e.g.   ∗ ∗ ∗   or   • • •  . The device has a variety of uses, and it usually denotes an intentional omission or a logical "break" of varying degree in a written work. This latter use is similar to a subsection, and it indicates that the subsequent text should be re-contextualized. Such a dinkus typically appears centrally aligned on a line of its own with vertical spacing before and after the device. The dinkus has been in use in various forms since c. 1850.[1][2] Historically, the dinkus was often represented as an asterism, ⁂, though this has fallen out of favor and is now nearly obsolete.

perennial reminder that this typographic thing:

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is called a "dinkus"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus

Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

The fact that we don’t even see the conversation with Chakotay, just hear about it secondhand, is WILD

Incredibly special bit of Magic history here, up for auction to benefit a great cause

I appreciate that this makes him sound like an urban UK cryptid

How am I one of the people who did not know that about Strefan Maurer

Googled it… what in the hell did I just read

Honestly: I saw the image before I read the text and thought “That’s an interesting riff on Harry.” I would say he’s too close

Me too! I just figured she’d filmed the first part like a year earlier

Oh damn, living that clever memeticist life for real!

Lieutenant Liz LeFevre pfp is such a choice, I love it

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

Rad, thanks!

I saw someone on Reddit claim that the Simpsons riffed on the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film “right after it came out.” That footage was made public in 1967.

My good Gogginses and Goslings, Cumberbatches and Hiddlestons,

hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.

Preach it, dust jackets suck

tweet from a bluesky dev reading: I had claude do cashtags in the background while I was on a zoom call, it took about 15 minutes. I don’t think he could do the same for private accounts

Yeah, I saw this going around and had a “none of these words are in the Bible” moment. Like I know what claude is, I looked up what cashtags are, still had no idea what was going on

It took ten minutes, but I have now deciphered this skeet so I can be properly appalled by it

Oh, is THAT what that skeet meant?? Wowwwww

From the 40kmemes community on Reddit: "Gotta catch em' all " ahh Explore this post and more from the 40kmemes community

Found it! This is great, I’d never seen it before www.reddit.com/r/40kmemes/s...

Wait, HE ALSO WRITES ABOUT WORLD WAR I?? I was wrong, that’s even more up my alley

That could not be more up my alley