wild day for overhearing college student conversations on transit one pair talking very passionately about the Bible and whatnot a small group discussing musical theater, including the time one of them was told they “didn’t have the hips for Conrad” (in Bye-Bye Birdie) in 7th grade

when they run a scam that requires you to buy and resell stuff, that’s the MLML4MLMLM

as a 29-year-old, there’s plenty in the world to be grateful for but this particular (true) fact is not one of them

Machiavelli and Leonardo collaborated on a plan to steal the Arno, yes, which is exactly the kind of supervillain scheme you sign up for when the sentence starts “Machiavelli and Leonardo collaborated”

it is the very least that Bibi can do for his truest, staunchest ally

someone on tumblr was running an OSHA account as a bit and, in their words, "committed to the bit so hard that they also committed misdemeanor impersonation of a public official" and, to be clear, that was a pretty harmless account

(dredge player voice): call an ambulance! call an ambulance! … but not for me

"and moments before the 2,000 cavalry left-wing struck Alexander himself in his flank as he advanced."

"would have him slam into the Persian and Medean light infantry and probably break through. But that would be happening at the same time as Antiochus’ massive 4,000-horse, 60-elephant hammer demolished Ptolemaic-Alexander’s left flank ..."

"if you tried to run the Issus or Gaugamela playbook on one of these armies, you’d probably lose. Sure, placing Alexander’s Companion Cavalry between the Ptolemaic thureophoroi and Gallic mercenaries (about where he’d normally go)..."