"Every morning, my day begins by plugging in the toaster. Every day the same." [Hank lets out a deep sigh] "But one day, my day will end with plugging in the toaster." [Hank looks longingly at the bathtub]
E-trikes are so cool
Oh cool, we can now use and edit the alt text suggestions when choosing a gif!
Finally!
The whole interview is interesting but this was new to me: > The words “month,” “measure,” and “menstruation” are all derived from the word moon in Proto-Indo-European: “mehns”...
An interview with renowned economic historian Michael Hudson on where our calendar comes from, his collaborations with the late intellectual David Graeber, and the long-lost practice of forgiving debt...
> Mountainous regions have enhanced biodiversity because the changes in elevation result in shifts of the climate, providing a range of environmental conditions under which different plant and animal species can thrive.
A new study published in the journal Science Advances [1] by researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea shows that the patchwork of different ...
> The Hebrew Bible claims that the "the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp" (2 Kings 19:35), while Assyrian records claim that Hezekiah paid a vast amount of tribute so the Assyrians would leave Jerusalem alone. 🤣
The discovery of a building that the Assyrians likely tore down in the eighth century B.C. reveals the political dynamics of that age in Jerusalem.
> The word Matar means ‘mother’ in the ancient Phrygian language. She was the most important divinity in the ancient Phrygian religion. She represented hunting, war, and prosperity and was symbolized by the lion and hawk that accompanied her. 😎 Cool 💪
Archeologists unearthed ancient ovens and hearths, thought to be belonging to Phrygian who inhabited the region around the seventh century...
the unheralded best feature of bluesky over twitter is that I don't get notifications on someone liking or reskeeting something I reskeeted. I don't give a shit what others are doing lol
I overheard a customer talking about how she had a bad time in math as a kid but that she was learning to love math now and I almost started crying because it was so beautiful.