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The ‘step’ in words like ‘stepmother’ or ‘stepsister’ has nothing to do with our word ‘step’. It comes from Old English ‘astiepan’ (‘to bereave’), which produced ‘steopcild’ meaning ‘orphan’. So ‘stepmother’ originally meant someone who became mother to an orphan.

Word of the Day: 손맛 (son-mat; Korean) - "hand taste", the unique taste each person making a recipe adds to it, usually used to describe how no one can make food like your mum

Over the course of the Apollo space missions, an estimated 96 bags of human excrement and vomit have been left behind on the Moon.

Bloody oath we don't.

The verb ‘to don’, as in ‘to wear’, is a contraction of ‘to do on’, and the verb ‘to doff’, as in ‘to doff a cap’, is a contraction of ‘to do off’.

In Swedish ‘att glida in på en räkmacka’, literally ‘to slide in on a shrimp sandwich’, refers to someone who didn’t have to work to get where they are.

The metric I use to quickly and roughly determine if automation is good or bad is how they’re marketing the automation. If it’s marketing as a time saving and safety device then it’s probably good. If it’s marketed as a cost saving device compared to human workers then it’s made by the devil.

When I was young, movies like Back to the Future or Indiana Jones felt like historical landmarks deserving national holiday because of multi-level marketing.
Now everything feels like a flash in the pan.

Wonder if It's age (impressionable), the access to multitudes with internet(abundance) or both.

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TinTin comic characters chatting; Capt Haddock says "Whew, what a year, eh?" and TinTin replies "Captain, it's March!"

New Words of Wonder! Dream Words

In the 18th century, ‘to twitter’ meant ‘to sneer or laugh scornfully’.

Image of Albanese and an image of the influencer stealing a baby wombat. Headline: Albanese finally condemns a stupid American

"If the actions of an American hurts this nation, I of course will take a stand against them" claimed the PM

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I don’t know how to fall asleep. It’s something I’ve managed to do almost every night of my life, but I always forget what I did that worked so well the night before.

Cartoon by Dave Whamond

The Wheel of Time just made a fan-favourite pair of characters canonically queer The Wheel of Time season 3 has debuted a new sapphic couple, whose relationship in the original books was never confirmed to be LGBTQ+.

Hit fantasy series Wheel of Time debuts new sapphic couple, in a change from the original books

Area Pagan Dreading Big Family Vernal Equinox Celebration

Area Pagan Dreading Big Family Vernal Equinox Celebration
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YouTube video by CrashCourse What is sex?: Sex Ed #1

As of 2022, only 29 US states required some kind of sex ed in schools—and about half of those didn’t require the information to be medically accurate. Where you live shouldn’t dictate your quality of education.

The first episode of Crash Course Sex Ed is available now!
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a yellow lab puppy sits on a green rug outside. she's looking up at the camera with large, dark puppy eyes and a furrowed brow. in her mouth she's holding a collection of about 4 large brown oak leaves. she's in absolute disbe-leaf that she's only hearing this news now.

This is Lemon. She was just told you aren't supposed to eat the leaves. This would have been good to know 20 leaves ago. Still 13/10

‘Gastronauts’ Renewed for Season 2 at Dropout, New Chef Contestants and Guest Judges Revealed (EXCLUSIVE) Comedic culinary competition "Gastronauts" has been renewed for Season 2 at indie streamer Dropout.

Season 2 incoming... 🚀

Shortly before he died, Terry Pratchett assured me that, if there is an afterlife, he would give me a ring and let me know. That was ten years ago - and still no call. From which, incidentally, I draw no firm conclusions. What if there was an afterlife, but with no phone signal? But of course there is one place where Terry indisputably lives on: in the pages of his books and in the minds of the millions of readers around the world who turn those pages and continue to find them funny and true. For, while his words live on, so does Terry, and that will be the case, no question, not just for this one decade so quickly gone, but for many further decades to come. So let me join Lyn and Rhianna in raising a glass today to the magical persistence of books and to Sir Terry; gone but still so very firmly with us. Rob Wilkins

Lady Gaga hilariously channels inner 57-year-old in SNL 'Little Red Glasses' skit Lady Gaga channeled her inner middle-aged bookstore owner in a hilarious and viral "Little Red Glasses" skit over the weekend.

Watch: Lady Gaga hilariously channels inner 57-year-old in SNL 'Little Red Glasses' skit

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This is Dennis. He was asked to do the same trick over and over again with no compensation. 13/10 justice for Dennis

👾 TONIGHT! A new episode of Um, Actually launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT!

Featuring host @ifycomedy.com, fact checker @briamgilbert.bsky.social, and guests:
🤓 Raph Chestang
🤓 @samreich.bsky.social
🤓 @katiemarovitch.bsky.social

Do feel like we could just start calling this place Twitter. What’s he gonna do about it huh

“Those who don’t study history are bound to repeat it” doesn’t mention what to do when you DID study history and you have to watch all the people who didn’t take charge of everything

Living the life

shoutout to nathan barnatt, the incredible dancer featured on make some noise last week -- a man whose moves and comedic mind i envy equally