Say no to socialism, pragmatism, empiricism, altruism, and especially that filthy foreign devil, metabolism.

Took me a while to find the origin of the art, so I thought I’d share it. It’s a copy of an 11th Century mural in the Palace of Westminster, in a room full of biblical illustrations, kind of like an earlier Sistine Chapel. It was whitewashed over, restored, damaged by fire, and later the whole thing was demolished. Nice.

The image is of the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II looting Jerusalem (under the reign of Zedekiah, the “last king of Judah”), circa 586 BCE. Note the guys on the left carrying a chest and candlesticks, and the guys on the right with their hands tied and huddled together.

“Incharge” (typically without a space) can apparently be used as a noun to mean a person who holds responsibility. I’ve not personally come across this and most definitions on the web suggest it’s peculiar to Indian English, though, which is odd because the FfRF is US-based.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the movie, but I still don’t understand the bit where Frodo and Sam meet Sauron’s entire army in battle, facing tens of thousands of orcs, Haradrim and Easterlings, trolls, and the Nazgûl themselves, and somehow winning, only to have a volcano fall on them at the last minute.

weird white sugar stick with almost no flavor and a red tip

Exactly right!

I think you’re thinking of a different product - these were white candy sticks made from corn starch and sugar/syrup. Your comment on the behavior is dead on, though!

Yus - the traditional cake in Latin America and the Balkans is a descendant of things like trifle or bread pudding usually called tres leches or trileçe (“three milk”) and uses condensed milk, evaporated milk, and whole milk. I think seis leches is a joking extension of that.

It’s actually a month newer (Twitter link warning) than the quote pictured.

This is from the excellent Dan Sheehan:

I’m ignorant about this – AMAB people who’ve undergone HRT experience the same hormonal flux as people with uteruses? Does that come with cramps, sickness, libido changes, etc? I guess it can vary from person to person and/or what age someone underwent HRT?

Please correct me if I’m misusing terms! Totally honest questions.

Just don’t miss out on the spoils.

• Bluesky+ profile badge
• Custom app icons
• Profile customizations
• Higher video upload limits
• High quality video resolution
• Inline post translations (coming soon)
• Post analytics (coming soon)
• Bookmark folders (coming soon)

These seem fair ideas? They’re not paywalling critical functionality and you can’t run a massive social network for free. It’s not the same attitude as the wider Fediverse, and I understand why that rubs people the wrong way, but it’s hardly outrageous.

Chill. The graphic wasn’t made for this specific discussion. It’s a widely accepted way to group users of a service. In this case, the bell curve represents the adoption of something other than Twitter by Twitter users, and the driver isn’t “new thing to try” (in as much as neither federated or newer centralized microblogging platforms have much new to offer), it’s the slowly-heating pot of water that the frog is in.

WhatsApp has channels (public feeds centered around topics, a bit like microblogging), communities (groups about a subject, much like Facebook Groups), and updates (temporal video/photo statuses to share with your friends). You might only use it for DM, but it has much bigger aspirations.

I’m going to assume you’re being wilfully ignorant but not trying to be an ass. “Gay” is more often used of men than women, and it’s perhaps more common for people to use “lesbian” for gay women, but it just means homosexual (or sometimes more generally not heterosexual), regardless of sex or gender.

Cambridge: “sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same gender or sex”

Merriam-Webster: “of, relating to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one’s same sex”

Oxford: “sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same sex”

Brittanica: “sexually or romantically attracted to someone who is the same sex”

Wiktionary: “Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.”

JWST is the 2021 James Webb Space Telescope, if, like me, you’re not plugged into this stuff.

Excerpt:

It’s looking more and more like the universal expansion was different when it was young than it is now. When it was young it was denser, galaxies were closer together, and conditions were just different. We know that dark energy plays a huge role here, causing the expansion to speed up, but how it does that isn’t clear.

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be bold, start cold

…and if you’re able, warm up before you step outside. Jog on the spot, do some stretches or light bodyweight exercise, bring your extremity temperature up a bit.

We’re excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!

I don’t see why my headphones need a sp-

Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

Okay, but that’s not wh-

We’re proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.

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Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don’t ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.

I’m weeping at the damage to those floorboards. Could they not have been lifted first?