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Lying Liars

Last night, two earthquakes hit the city of Caracas in Venezuela. So far, reports show a death toll of 164 people, with nearly a thousand injured. Multiple hospitals and health centers have begun taking in patients and continue to expand their capacity to serve everyone in the area, and Interim President Delcy Rodríguez has declared a State of Emergency.

The death toll has risen to 589 dead and over 3,000 injured with hundreds of people still missing.

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

The MET Gala is a fundraiser for The Met. Putting on the fashion exhibition is VERY costly. Has the politics, inflation, and bullshit gotten out of hand? Yeah. To give you an idea of how much this can cost, the collection I work for has 2 gowns from 1798 & 1809 currently being conserved and had mounts made for them so displaying them wouldn’t cause further damage. They were already in a solid B shape and cost more than 50k to conserve so the public can view them for 5 months each. They will then be reboxed (archival tissue and box) for a minimum of 10 years before they’re considered to be seen again. Oh, and archival material only lasts 10 years before it has to be replaced, whether or not it’s being considered for display.

Hey I don't know if this is too promotion-ish, but a friend of mine is publishing an *incredibly* academic-minded fantasy novel complete with an absurd number of footnotes, essays on physical historical artifacts, an entire in-universe bibliography, all heavily inspired by the real-life story of the ancient Roman emperor Hadrian and his lover Antinous. It's written as an academic thesis by a young, fantasy-present-day historian who uncovers a manuscript answering a millenia-old mystery of where the Emperor disappeared to for five years, only to return a shell of a man who would speak nothing of his journey.

omg wow this is like meeting a celebrity. hello @jstor wow wow wow