Stuart Presnell

1877: Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premieres

England and Australia play the first Test cricket match

The first Wimbledon tennis championship is held

American astronomer Asaph Hall discovers Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars

Britain annexes the Boer South African Republic

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Not much chance of a comeback after getting 12/10,000 points in the first round

"Fess up or I'll write you a sternly-worded letter grade"

1876: Robert Koch finds the bacterium that causes anthrax

Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call

Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

In Japan, samurai are banned from carrying swords

The Northern Chinese Famine begins, which will kill 10 million people

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I'm sure what you wrote is wise and insightful, but unfortunately I just read the words "I think someone should patent a law" and my brain is refusing to process writing

"Hah, look at them getting on just fine. They don't even realise that Dan's a vegan and Becky's a cannibal"

1875: The International Bureau of Weights and Measures is founded to establish the units of the metric system

Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre and Bizet's Carmen premiere

Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel

Britain buys Egypt's 44% share in the Suez Canal

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This is the only lab Ubu I care about

They should put Maguire in CERN and see if any new fundamental similes come out

1874: Sofya Kovalevskaya is the first woman to get a PhD in mathematics

The first QWERTY keyboard typewriter is sold

Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first incandescent electric light bulb

Gertrude Stein, Harry Houdini, Guglielmo Marconi, and Winston Churchill are born

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1873: The US, the German Empire, and many other European nations fix their currencies to the gold standard

The cities of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest are unified to form Budapest

Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff is born

Political philosopher John Stuart Mill dies, aged 66

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To make something useful at book length it would have to be something like a cross between a Choose Your Own Adventure book, a Cosmo quiz, and the I Ching: a sequence of diagnostic scenarios that pinpoint precisely what kind of broken you are, followed by 64 carefully specialised pieces of advice

1872: George Smith presents the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh

Susan B. Anthony votes, in defiance of the law

The Mary Celeste is found deserted in the Atlantic

Piet Mondrian, Bertrand Russell, and Roald Amundsen are born

Scottish scientist Mary Somerville dies, aged 91

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Missed Connection:

I was on the train. You were running for the train. Our eyes met. You reached out to me as the doors were closing, but the train pulled away. Please contact me. I have your left hand.

Things Elan Reacquainted Himself with After Being Broken Out of His Single-Day Time Loop 1. The colour ochre, painted by the city mageguard around his front door as a warning: do not enter, premises unsafe.2. His parents’ address, which is where he tells the mageguard captain to find h…

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🍎🧪🎢🧬 Any excuse to share this masterpiece: Mustached Bats Vs The Doppler Effect

Congratulations Tom!

1871: The German Empire is founded, ruled by Wilhelm I and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

The Paris Commune seizes power, until it is overthrown by government troops who kill over 15,000 people

Verdi's opera Aida premieres

Marcel Proust, Rosa Luxemburg, and Ernest Rutherford are born

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And people are determined not to understand the difference between debunking disinformation and taking a side

"I can't believe you're standing up for them! They said [awful thing]"
"I don't think they did say that. Look here's the transcript..."
"I can't believe you're standing up for them! ..."

1870: France declares war on Prussia. Napoleon III is captured and deposed. The Siege of Paris begins

The first telegraph submarine cable between Britain and India is completed

Richard Wagner's Die Walküre premieres

Charles Dickens and Alexandre Dumas die

Vladimir Lenin is born

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Of course not, they'll be keeping the contract negotiations private until they agree terms

Useful lifehack for people giving a talk this afternoon that they now realize they've forgotten to write

Q2: "Am I misunderstanding or is there a typo on this slide — shouldn't that 2 be a 3?"

Q7: "Is this an example of the technique you alluded to on slide 4, or is that coming later?"

Q31: "I read an interesting paper last year about Bolivian postage stamps and I'd like to tell you all about it..."

Version of Gary Larson's "What we say to dogs" cartoon In both panels a man is pointing at a dog, talking to it What we say to audiences: "I can answer questions if there's something you urgently don't understand. I'd prefer that you ask questions rather than just sit there being confused" What they hear" "blah blah QUESTIONS blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ASK QUESTIONS blah blah blah blah blah ..."

It is an iron law of academic talks that if a speaker says they're willing to take questions "if there's something you don't understand" then the session will immediately begin to derail into a free-for-all in which everyone feels an urge to express every random thought that pops into their head

BlueSky needs time-limited muting options, so you can mute someone...

🔘 for 1 month
🔘 for 1 week
🔘 until tomorrow
🔘 until the end of this sports match
🔘 until they've got this joke out of their system

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1869: Dmitri Mendeleev presents his periodic table

Norman Lockyer publishes the first issue of the journal Nature

Friedrich Miescher isolates nucleic acid

Leo Tolstoy publishes War and Peace

The Suez Canal opens

Grigori Rasputin, Neville Chamberlain, and Mohandas Gandhi are born

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There's a 2021 draft with the same title on Jason Turner's website, but I don't have access to the published version so I don't know how similar they are

jasonturner.arizona.edu/storage/Ultr...