SuzanEraslan @SuzanEraslan@octodon.social

@jason Camels are evolution's greatest triumph. I've never heard of an animal more perfectly matched to its environment.

@bicyclewheel Welcome! 🍍

It's not even 9:00 AM and I've seen someone passionately defending the existence of chemtrails on a friend's FB, so I think I'll just share this in depth article about America's obsession with conspiracy theories. (I don't agree with everything in it, but there's some good history here.)

How America Lost its Mind https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/?utm_source=fbb

This is AMAZING. 83,500 vintage sewing patterns have been put online. Break out the sewing machine! http://www.inquisitr.com/4345306/83500-vintage-sewing-patterns-put-on-an-online-database-from-vogue-mccalls-butterick-and-simplicity/

@filkerdave I'm not going west, though, and I'm in New York. Figure going east from here would put me in a solidly better position?

While they may have left some progeny, as Rome pulled out of Britain, they would have left just as the English left any given non-white country they "conquered" during the British Empire. Yet none of these knuckle draggers would dare say that the English had never colonized India just because the vast majority of the population remains non-white. How do they not understand this?

Of course, this has spawned numerous blog posts and tweet threads, but what no one has just said (and I wish they would), was that Black Roman Britains were too upper class (generals, governors, etc., brought in from elsewhere to rule over the Britains) to have stuck around when the empire collapsed. Soldiers would have been needed elsewhere and bureaucrats had to go somewhere where they could be paid.

So, apparently there was a kerfuffle on the birdcage where that knuckle dragging proof of our descent from lesser apes, Prison Planet, got upset about the "rewriting of history" in a BBC cartoon about Roman Britain because it showed a family with a Black father. As multiple historians argued that this wasn't a rewrite, just HISTORY, Nassim Taleb jumps in to say, "NUH UH!" based on a lack of African DNA evidence in contemporary white Britains.

"Why aren't millennials starting investment accounts and 401k accounts and buying houses and preparing in general like there will be a planet left in 50 years when they can start thinking about retiring while continuing to work until they drop dead at their desk?"

*gestures vaguely at the entire world*

If we're going to nuclear war, might as well spend money on art to hang over the couch and plane tickets and fancy dinners.

RAWR
https://octodon.social/media/MkLsUDPLBkQWDqSfRnk
https://octodon.social/media/ZfPhqx-YBQ2fPuJMXac

I had a dream that 3 of the items from Alexander McQueen's Widows of Culloden collection I have coveted for years all went up on eBay at the same time and I didn't have the money for any of them. Maybe this was a dream about pinching my pennies now because something great is coming that I'll want to spend buckets of money on?

@tcql THAT BATTLE THO

@tcql Also, oh my god, I am so sorry I put a comma there and not a period.

@tcql Oh, I know. I just didn't want to risk that the guy had just said, "I just really want to take you to dinner," or something, and then it sounds like I'm trying to steal his girl... and I was on my way to meet a client so didn't have time to explain that when I said "buddy" I meant the dog,

Just passed a panting dog, and his owner was a dude chatting up some girl, and I almost said, "Me, too, buddy," to the dog before I realized the people might think I was talking about them.

@tcql Good pupper.