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Sometime writer and (mostly) analog photography | Award winning chili maker | Baltimore via Jersey City, Kurdzhali, Bulgaria, and Ohio | Friend to cats | He/him

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Smdh

10.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What did he think was going to happen?

10.03.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Man this is humiliating shit

10.03.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"I SPIL MY JICE"

10.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is correct

10.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Should of specified no poison fruit, that's on me

10.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fact Check: TRUE

10.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Square rigged sails, but that took centuries to catch on despite being clearly superior. Path dependency!

10.03.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I think about that a lot as well. We are barely keeping our feet under us.

10.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The only reason "don't try and contest control of the Strait of Hormuz" doesn't rank up there with "don't fight a land war in Asia" is because no one has been dumb enough to try before.

10.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Yes, Trump doesn't know what he's doing, what he's trying to accomplish, or what he'd accept, but have you considered that he's also managed to get the Strait of Hormuz mined

10.03.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's Over Bros, it's more over than it's ever been

10.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Even moving firmly into the common era, Jesus: almost certainly was a real guy for some value of real, maybe the most important person-shaped object ever born, and what we know can be read in a couple hours and most of it is drawing on lost sources.

10.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

King Cnute: probably was a real guy, but we'll never know his position re: the tide

10.03.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hear me out: Dyson sphere

10.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like that view has gotten somewhat less common, but man does it annoy me.

10.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
10.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a truly haunting thought.

10.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think about this whenever I see people talking about "returning" to the past. We don't know what the past even means!

10.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

99% of the past and all we have are a handful of sites and burials for all the millions who were born and died, wrote songs and played games, loved each other, and died. We'll never know what they called their grandmother, or their first child.

10.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We have some of their material culture left from burials, and from the vast trade network across North America that they engaged in, but we don't know what they called themselves, where they came from, or what happened to them. That's just lost.

10.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks - Hopewell Culture National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Starting around 2,000 years ago, where I would eventually be born, a group of people created huge earthworks of unknown but purpose, but which are staggeringly precise, tracking the movements of the moon over a decade long lunar cycle.

10.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neanderthal child’s skeleton buried 41,000 years ago may solve mystery | CNN Is burying the dead a practice unique to Homo sapiens? A child’s skeleton buried 41,000 years ago and evidence of funerary behavior could shed light on the cognitive abilities and social customs of Ne...

Well, not *nothing.* we have tantalizing glimpses of what they did to their landscape and the remains they left behind. 41,000 years ago, someone buried a 2 year old neaderthal child. So that scavengers wouldn't get at them? We'll never know. But it suggests some level of care.

10.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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An army wielding fearsome weapons invaded the German northlands 3200 years ago Battlefield evidence suggests large-scale conflict was commonplace in Europe in the Bronze Age

I don't think people think enough about the fact that by far the vast majority of human history is completely or almost completely unknown to us. This battle was 3200 years ago and we know almost nothing. But modern humans emerged like 300,000 years ago. We know nothing about 99% of human history.

10.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4

It's about movement building.

10.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A Cybertruck with a wrap that says Zigma World

A Cybertruck with a wrap that says Zigma World

I cannot be convinced that owning one of these isn't some kind of humiliation fetish.

10.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No, you're posting. They're building a movement.

10.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And if you attack me? You're actually attacking the people's whose suffering I have draped myself with. I hope that makes you feel good.

10.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh you have "leisure time"? That must be nice for you, I spend my time posting about other people suffering. By the way, that's "Doctor Aaron" to you.

10.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, what's absolutely wild is that it's not like we haven't done this *multiple time* in *living memory*

10.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1