Ben Taylor @VoxDei@social.cleverlibre.org

Designer: if you want the head that size, you should really consider knuckle walking so the pelvis can actually get the baby out
Client: NO!!!! REDESIGN THE BABY HEAD SO IT'S SQUASHY

#Medieval Saharan #Trade #Routes. #Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #Africa #Histodon #Histodons #Image #Cartography @histodon @histodons

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niger_saharan_medieval_trade_routes.PNG

Attribution: T L Miles, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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PC-815. Built as a cheap submarine chaser, it spent 68 hours bravely fighting a known magnetic anomaly, declared war on neutral Mexico, arguably inspired Scientology, and finally ended an all round superb career of uselessness by ramming a friendly destroyer and sinking itself. Sterling stuff.

#FailureFriday

Liquid Gold sunrise, taken from Glastonbury Tor this morning.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #sunrise #sunrisephotography #landscapephotography #somersetlevels

@bojacobs @sts @histodons This is a popular myth but it’s not true at all. This stuff will last 10,000 years at most. The really nasty stuff will last about 300 years.

There are other things we produce that will actually last forever. Arsenic, for example, which is both a byproduct of burning coal and of certain industrial processes. Unlike radioactive material it does not become less harmful over time. That’s with us forever. 1/?

Well I guess I could stop eating and pose for you😂Taken this morning in Glastonbury.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #ponies #poniesofinstagram #sunrise #sunrisephotography

Please read this. The Post Office scandal is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in history, but it is being almost completely ignored and the people responsible for it will almost certainly walk away entirely unscathed. Marina Hyde is rarely serious, but in this piece she is as serious as a heart attack.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/post-office-scandal-cover-up-justice

Rabbit hunting. #medieval @medievodons

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Mathematics academics (or people with a PhD in a maths-y subject), I have just been told about a great toy: Mathematics Genealogy. You can type in any academic's name and find who their PhD supervisor was and who they supervised. It goes all the way back to Newton (and back even before that). Someone I met today can trace their supervisor chain all the way back to Newton himself...

https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/index.php

#maths #PhD

"One thing I don't think people realize is that in arguments about human rights, it's not about trying to persuade the other party. It's not about them at all. They've already made up their mind.

It's about persuading the audience.

If I call out my teacher on being homophobic I'm not trying to change his opinion. I'm trying to convince any closeted kids in the room that they're not the monsters he's made them out to be.

If I argue with my aunt about how racist she's being it's not because I expect her to change her mind. It's because I'm hoping to god my cousin's kids hear and learn that maybe skin color doesn't mean what she says it means.

People will try to hush you and say 'they're not going to change their minds, don't bother' but it's not about them. It was never about them."

-sepulchritude

Pls boost so I can show my wife how a toot can go round the world

(we are boarding a long haul flight and will be on the other side of the world when I turn my phone back on, so even with 0 boosts I think this will be a sound demonstration)

About 109 billion people have lived & died. Each grain of sand represents 10 million.

This stunning data visualization of human life by Max Roser was published in 2022.

Today there would be 805 green grains representing 8.05 billion people living on Earth. #science #art

Golden rays of Avalon this morning. Taken just after sunrise on Glastonbury Tor this morning.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #sunrise #sunrisephotography #archway #golden

#StarTrek
#Clint