I saw a 1837 obituary say that a woman left behind “two interesting children” am wondering if that was an insult to her kids or they were genuinely cool
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I saw a 1837 obituary say that a woman left behind “two interesting children” am wondering if that was an insult to her kids or they were genuinely cool

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nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.
So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"
Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here
So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work
The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh
Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second
Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.
There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.
And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.
People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.
Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.
When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.
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Reading a couple of other Yume Kitasei books since I quite enjoyed Saltcrop but am not enjoying them as much, in part because I don’t think she gets how nicknames work. In Saltcrop there were two which did make sense, one character being nicknamed Skipper by her sister because she couldn’t stop talking about her boat, and another character who would affectionately address letters to her sisters as “Dear Sizzles.” In the earlier The Deep Sky, the protagonist is named Asuka and many other characters, who have all known her for years, keep calling her Susie. She has never asked anyone to call her Susie. Her friends don’t call her that. I can’t recall any mention of who started it or whether they seemed to do it maliciously or in an “I can’t pronounce your name so I’m going to unilaterally rename you something I find easier” way. Nor do I think “Susie” a natural or obvious nickname to form from “Asuka” just because there’s a “su” in the middle.
Even worse is another character being nicknamed Tony. Her actual name is Becky, which is already short for Rebecca. We’re told it’s short for automaton, because of how regularly and tirelessly she trains. And her friends call her this. The “ton” in automaton doesn’t even sound like the “ton” in Tony, they’re different vowel sounds! And if her friends wanted an even more nicknamey name for her than Becky, why not Bex, or something based on her last name? It’s so artificial.
Worse again, in the book I’m now on, The Stardust Grail, there are robots, and people call them “robs” for short. First, unless it’s pronounced “robes,” that’s also the wrong vowel sound! You don’t normally change vowel sounds when you shorten words or names! Second, what happened to “bots”? It comes off as different for the sake of difference, with nothing else achieved by it.
So perhaps after these two books and before Saltcrop the author levelled up in nicknames, because I find Skipper and Sizzles quite acceptable, but it’s slightly grinding my gears as I read Grail. Fortunately no one seems to have given the protagonist of this one, Maya, any nicknames. She’s just met a woman called Wil, though, so I’m bracing myself to be told it’s “short for ‘wily’” or something like that.
i hate when a book describes a pause as pregnant. get your dick out of the pause
terry pratchett is the only person who actually knew how to use a pregnant pause
Why do kiwis have such massive fucking eggs “it’s because they are related to ostriches and-“ yeah ok but like why didn’t they evolve smaller eggs if I was in charge I would do that shit pronto. Thoughts?
their big eggs are actually that size for a similar reason to human babies having massive heads!! being bigger at birth can be important.
kiwi are trying SO HARD to become mammals. fur-like feathers, whisker-like feathers, little beady eyes, nocturnal, great sense of smell.... that's basically a mammal!! they're well suited for life on the forest floor.
their big eggs work alongside these adaptations to give them a leg up in the bird world. their young hatch already feathered! they're precocial, which means they're born with the ability to open their eyes and move around. like foals.
big egg = more powerful offspring from the get-go. babies don't need to spend precious time vulnerable while they develop on the ground when they've already done all that in the egg!
(unfortunately, with the introduction of mammals to aotearoa, these adaptations are a little less useful...)
Important addition: baby kiwi come out of the egg looking like they've come out of a shower with a hangover
They look like one of the downsides of emerging from an egg fully formed is how aware you are off just having come out on egg. First minute alive, already dealing with some fucking experience.

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The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering
Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts
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Ok I guess if you want to get really absolutely technical about it, I guess Martin Luther's 95 Theses were a zine. I guess. I suppose.

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Location of the bridge toilet on the Enterprise-D, from the set recreation for Star Trek: Picard season 3.
From Liz Kloczkowski on Twitter
This is also visible on the 1994 star trek TNG tech manual cd rom.