szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

W nowej wersji #mObywatel użyli tych samych ludzików ze stocka co ja w swoim pierwszym większym projekcie strony internetowej rok temu. 🥲

TIL that there are a lot of English words that have been borrowed into German. Especially in advertising and product names, it seems. The transition is not always a smooth one, however.

Bane byłby dumny.

From 1940s-1980, the wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax rates. Zero of them went broke from taxation. Zero of them left the USA. All remained exceedingly wealthy, manufacturing boomed, AND we had the strongest middle class growth in US History.

Let's do that again. #TaxTheRich

Your occasional reminder that Gary Numan is two weeks older than Gary Oldman.

Our puppies, #IdąPsięta, tested their teeth on that watering can. Now it got fixed – with a zip tie.

#fixing #repair #garden

This one cuts deep:
The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.

When I was young and had all the time in the world, a fantasy novel was 160 pages. Now, when I have dozens of demands on my time, they’re 500 pages. #Fantasy

Sorry, I had to https://mastodonapp.uk/@andyleader/110695471933146750

@HeavenlyPossum > ProPublica helpfully supplies the answer: a firm called RealPage, which provides software called YieldStar, which allows landlords across the country to coordinate price increases en masse:

You know, this sounds like collusion and price-fixing as a service.

Important pulsar fact!

The cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" was adapted from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.