I recently learned that there was a common "try before you buy" policy for #marriage in the first half of the 19th century. So I checked my #familyHistory data for pregnant brides and found a few: proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2… #history #socialHistory #victorian
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This is the first time I've heard of this concept, and the first example in the wiki article is freeways. I wonder if this is why young men, including myself, enjoy flashy sports cars. We spend half our lives driving at this point. It's a way to stand out and bring color into spaces full of nothing
I so enjoy the protection provided to cyclists from motor vehicles by painted cycle lanes. #Sheffield #Cycling #BikeTooter
They were Roman soldiers who converted to Christianity and were tortured and killed for not bowing before an image of Jupiter. After Sergius was bludgeoned to death, Sergius appeared in a vision to Bacchus on the eve of his execution, saying, "Though I have been taken from you in body, I am still with you in the bond of our union" antinousstars.blogspot.com/202… #october7 #saintsergius #saintbacchus #christianity #ChristianLiving #christianhistory #catholic #lgbtq #history #church #gaymarriage
Never going to get bored of seeing King St in downtown Kitchener get transformed from a road to public space for events (This one is Oktoberfest Willkomen Platz)
I love this thing in the trolly or bus. I don’t know its name. But what a liminal space.
When Buddhists take on the trappings of religion they become just like any other religion, selling superstition for personal gain.
#biketooter, any advice for getting tight tires to snap on the rim bead? I have just installed some Pirelli P-Zeros with TPU tubes and even after inflating to max (8bar) they haven't fully popped on the bead. :( Next step is to deflate and add some soapy water to decrease friction.
Coordinate-free is the way to be — as long as the space of coordinate choices is contractible. To wit: Lazard's theorem says that formal group laws (i.e. formal groups + coordinate choice) have moduli ring L = ℤ[x₁,x₂,…]. The moduli stack of formal groups, though, is not affine.
"It's just that your turn signal has been on this whole time."
This is fascinating. The history of military clothing is so interesting because it inevitably filters into civilian wear and often becomes very cool (see most types of jackets - bomber, flight, biker, and t-shirts).
...and was probably the principal centre of the Aulerci Diablintes, the Gaulish people who lived in much of what is now northern Mayenne. 📷 Lemmy More: megalithic.co.uk/article.php?s…
Witchcraft and witch-hunting at one of the worst places for it in the mid-17c: Manningtree, Essex. Based on archival evidence, centres 3 poor women. 2-guide walk w @robssmith.bsky.social Sat 7 Nov last time for a year. Country & town walking, 1 hr from London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
This can't be emphasized enough! If you're over 40, enroll in a freshman history class at a community College. Ask LOTS of awkward questions like "How were Japanese Americans treated during WWII?" Or, "What was the Tuskegee Experiment?", Or "What is The Trail of Tears and why did it happen?"
Too many car honks recently. Please remember that honks are for: - Alerting people to imminent danger, such as ICE agents in the vicinity. - Expressing your love your bikes. End of list.
Christopher Saunders: Former Australian bishop jailed for sexually abusing young men bbc.com/news/articles/cj62ylxq…
"Doubt" and "dubious": Why uncertainty comes in twos. Both invoke a metaphor of "being of two minds". And those aren't the only words to do it. #etymology #linguistics #language #words #educational
An ABC investigation reveals how online networks such as 764 groom and blackmail children into self-harm and abuse. Mixing satanic imagery with neo-Nazi ideas, members compete for status through escalating cruelty, sometimes coercing victims into targeting others. abc.net.au/news/2026-10-05/aus…
Former school sports team bus, abandoned for years on a vacant lot, more recently turned into a (not entirely code compliant) hangout for some youth arts programs
This is such a fantastic way of looking at the world. Some things are legitimately so cool!
There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance: beneficium: a favor, kindness, service officium: a duty, kindness, service & munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift.
One remark I've seen quite a few people make in conversations about philosophy is that they wish they had been exposed to it or began studying some of the thinkers and texts they're now enjoying much earlier. Here's a new Sadler's Quick Takes about that youtu.be/G26zKc30vFk
I have seen complaints about there not being enough grad school AUs and i am going to hold your hand when i tell you many people don’t even get a bachelor’s degree. i think the universality of high school is what makes those AUs so popular.
It's not every day that someone you have a Lego Mini-figure of passes away. Rest in Peace, Margaret Hamilton en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret…
Montenegro’s Roman City Had a Forum Long Before Diocletian romanempiretimes.com/montenegr… #RomanEmpire #AncientRome #History
At the risk of sounding a bit melodramatic, to me there is like a purity to pure math (it’s in the name) and it feels vulgar in a way to treat it this way and it seems like that’s at least partly the point
Cape Town Carnival. It was an interesting day walking around the Carnival. Not many White, as in race not colour here ha ha, about. Myself included saw 4 that were not policemen or security type . Blacks. I do not think many but cannot tell as some Coloureds are very "African". Not ANY violence that I saw and I spent the whole day. Lot of very drunk people but more happy than fight mode. This person was well worth a pic or two. #travel #socialmedia #Carnival #photography
Today in random, impulsive research… I just learned that the creation of the University of Michigan was originally attempted in Detroit and failed, and was only later successfully created in Ann Arbor. #TIL #IDNKT
🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK ⚟ #japan #cultology #abuse
Latin Book of Common Prayer communion this morning in University Church to mark official start of term. All very 1850s—except the celebrant was a woman. 👍👍 Dignum et justum est.
Treading on death’s threshold: initiation and belief in Apuleius The magic moment that a mortal becomes immortal, from the gift of the goddess Isis. rhakotis.com/2026/10/07/treadi…
Every woman who comes forward and lays her trauma bare for the world to see does so hoping it will lead to a better world for women. It never does. And yet, we keep trying.
Cafh: Mucho se ha discutido y luchado por la libertad de pensamiento, pero esa libertad sería una ilusión si no fuéramos interior¬mente libres como para poder pensar. Much has been debated and fought for the freedom of thought, but that freedom would be an illusion if we were not inwardly free enough to be able to think. #cafhglobal.com #cafh.org #meditation #introspection #spirituality #silence #discernment Image by Orna from Pixabay
This is genuinely fascinating — you can see the outlines of a genuine (though totally fucked-up) world view. Growing up with crazy Eastern Europeans may have affected my view of this.
To Come with Empty Hands Serving God with Empty Hands Serving God with empty hands means offering your willing heart and presence, trusting that God will use what you have — even nothing — to bring His blessing. Biblical examples Scripture is full of stories where God took the smallest, most insignificant offerings and multiplied them for His purposes. The widow in Mark 12:41–44 gave two small copper coins — all she had — and Jesus said she gave more than all the… theezekiel33watchman.report/20…
current discourse has me reminded of my (notably very liberal) high school's sex ed classes where sexualization was portrayed as "the dark underbelly of sexuality" and not just... the social element of desire
TIL that Byron Bay, Australia was named after Lord Byron's grandad, Foul-Weather Jack Byron.
This is a fab thread. My country grammar school in Kent had camel duffel coats as winter uniform in the 70s.
The right font can make all the difference. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #October #Halloween #TrickOrTreat #BricABrac #YardDecor #Kitsch #Kishutim #Tchotchke #Font #Fonts #Fontstodon #Catstodon
Back in my day, we just called it phone sex.
Enjoyed this thread. Have always wanted a duffle coat but have never gotten around to buying one. Gloverall makes a model called the Monty that I've long admired.
Fewer trains stabled at Chester this morning. Hopefully that means unit availability is improving. Currently on a 5 car service from Chester to Manchester which is pretty much full
According to the Yorkshire cobbler I follow on YouTube there are two levels of shoe shining practiced by his customers; none: “Such a shame, they’ve never had any goodness put into them.” and way too much: “I’m begging you, find another hobby.” youtube.com/channel/UC8f4YQ_US…
8 October 1806: British forces under Commodore Edward Owen attacked the French flotilla at Boulogne using Congreve rockets. #History
Just brows... OOOH! I gotta say, these are definitely going on my next AliExpress order... a.aliexpress.com/_mOkJoZ9 #AliExpress
People out here stealing ground beef like it's a Brinks truck. How do you fence something like this with a couple day shelf life?
One peripheral issue with cars is that you can behave this way and not experience social consequences (unless you film it and put it on the internet).
“”” Christianity teaches that, unlike Stoicism, suffering is grievous, unlike Monism, suffering is real; unlike Karma, suffering is often unjust; unlike Secularism, suffering can always be meaningful. ~ T Keller Nyc 1950..2023
