seen Liberty in City

Quarantine: when food service workers weren’t allowed to call in sick because they were “essential” …

specifically, fried chicken is near universal

• they might turn into communists, they might burn everything down
• Republicans in the US are already fascists, they are already burning everything down

unpaid

“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)

just make sure you’re in the right mindset when you watch Grave of the Fireflies – great movie BUT it is an emotional gut-punch

solve your bad breath with a floor cleaner and gonorrhea cure!

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

—Stephen Jay Gould, “Wide Hats and Narrow Minds” (1979)

Haiti paying reparations to France

ED-209 or Ed25519, I’m sure they work the same

Espresso, cappuccino lower prostate cancer risk

it’ll pass … like a kidney stone

when you want Scheme but your boss wants Java

Closet Land (1991)

For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.

—Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)

Estonia – yes, I’d have a hell of a time with the language, but EU citizenship and politics that don’t sound completely fucked are really appealing

as long as prompts are cheaper than therapy …

TIL: there are people who don’t sort by “New”

(paraphrased) “The user of the illegal service may fund the activities of criminal organisations, says Executive Director Jaana Pihkala from the copyright organisation TTVK.”

as opposed to paying the even more criminal publishers scalping the rights and screwing the creators