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How did alphabet books deal with the letter X before the rise of x-rays and xylophones? Here's some highlights: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/x-is-for

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#WyrdWednesday One of our favourite transgressive pop culture icons is Eartha Kitt. 🖤 Elegant, charming, mischievous, if you've never heard, "I Want To Be Evil" then check it out! She was also a black Catwoman, and, though American, loved England's folk culture. What a woman. #EarthaKitt

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From a Report of the Senckenberg Society for Natural Sciences, Frankfurt, 1914.

Young Foxes in a Hollow Tree, Samuel John Carter, 1873.

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Yeah, this is the problem with any “golden age” stuff. And why “this is what we want the country to be about going forward” is way more powerful (and doesn’t require closing both eyes at the same time to ignore uncomfortable truths). Any country can look forward instead of backward if they want to

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Svitlana Tsikhanouskaya's husband, Siarhei has been released from a Belarusian prison She entered politics after his arrest She had no contact with him for several years x.com/Tsihanouskay...

It doesn't matter what type of people they are, what opinions they hold, if I have any positions with them in common, if they are my friends, enemies or neither - the moment we accept that people can be picked up arbitrarily without due process is the moment we intentionally collapse all safeguards

Latin grammars of Hebrew apparently have a bunch of nice new verbs: hhatephpathahhatur ... segolatur ... pathahhatur ... dageschatur ... Of course, there's also schevatur 'is shwaified'. 🤓 (pics < 1679 Summarium linguae sanctae @ books.google.de/books?id=wOh...)

Slavic Kupala Night takes place over St. John's Eve and the solstice itself, a water festival of light, of cleanliness, and of bonfires in the depths of the shortest night. People are adorned with greenery and wreaths mark life coming full circle. #FolkyFriday 🖼️: S. Kozhin

damn dude

The video is hilarious. And I would have trouble spotting it’s generated tbh, because background signs is not something I’d pay attention here.

This amusing, but AI generated, video is dong the rounds. It's pretty convincing at first glance, but there's lots of details that are off in the background, especially the shop brands being wrong. Greggs jumped out at me, but that's possibly just me.

No court can erase the history of trans people existing. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)

Those are the right words and quite a good article by the person I respect a lot. I wish our peoples would be friends not foes, and it pains me to see the devastation brought by Israel to Iran’s civilians.

Made to write social media posts...would rather be feeding an apple to a horse. Disclaimer - do not feed an apple to this particular horse. His name is Romeo, he will have all of your fingers off, we would 100% forgive him because he is 1) awesome 2) coming to our WW1 horses event this August.

Meta's promise "that it’s adding ads to WhatsApp with privacy in mind does not make me trust this new feature,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @fastcompany.com. “Ads that are targeted based on your personal data are a privacy nightmare, no matter what app they’re on.”

We may differ in observance levels, or the level of deep knowledge of Jewish culture (not in my favour duh), but his takes on the conflict and ongoing crisis are something that I consistently agree with, without fallihh my in multiple dumb inhumane camps. Rare sight nowadays

The number of people arguing with this number because “Alt National Park Service said it was 11 million” is kind of staggering to me. Folks, Alt NPS is not real, okay? None of the “alt” accounts are. They don’t have special knowledge. They pulled that number out of thin air/their ass

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Fuck the war and those who take decisions leading to the horrors like below. Fuck Bibi, Ayatollah and enablers of them both.

“At least 60 people, including 20 children, were killed after an Israeli airstrike hit the Shahid Chamran Nobonyad Complex, a housing development linked to Iran’s Ministry of Defense, in northeast Tehran.” www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20....

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Renewing my #PrideMonth greetings 👋 🫡 🦅 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men

163.625 MHz: Often cited as a Nationwide primary channel for some federal law enforcement. 163.700 MHz, 163.725 MHz, 163.775 MHz: Tactical channels. 168.5875 MHz: Another common tactical channel. 171.250 MHz (R) / 162.9125 MHz (T): A repeater pair used by ICE.

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian