hadn't come across this theory about why so many myths about the pleiades mention there being seven sisters when only six are visible: because the root story may be 100,000 years old theconversation.com/the-worlds-o...
Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation āseven sistersā, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago
Is bluesky an echo chamber? Yeah, probably - but, we've seen the alternative, and it's not better. Ideally we would live in a society that gives us time and space to interact with new people, but if we have to live with engagement-driven social networks, a echo chamber isn't necessarily all that bad
watching breaking bad on netflix, and they censored hank saying "bullshit" thank god, you know it's insane how kids these days can't watch drugrunners kill each other anymore without being subjected to *c-ssing* š
finally deactivated my twitter account - a bit miffed that they didn't let you specify why you were leaving š
The story in Lebanon is crazy - how the fuck do you just detonate thousands of pagers?? That whole thing in Watch Dogs where you can just hack into a device and have it explode, are you telling me that was real??
Not a very impressive number, but it is impressive that I only joined in February and the user base has more than doubled since š±