It’s a legend, but a fun one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan#Legends

Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a so-called sedia stercoraria or ‘dung chair’ containing a hole, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles before announcing “Duos habet et bene pendentes” (“He has two and they dangle nicely”),[17] or “habet” (“he has them”) for short.[18]

@tias@discuss.tchncs.de ☝ the chair

I shit you not, it took the Catholic Church until the 1800’s to finally accept that the Earth revolves around the fucking Sun. Maybe the 1750’s if someone’s feeling generous, but they were still censoring Galileo’s and Copernicus’s books at that time.

Narrow, old, and irrational!

Neat buuUUUuuut.

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As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.

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It’s basically a bunch of islands.

Don’t poop for 3 days

I give it a 5/10. No mention of beans, unix socks, or tankies.

Primer because Primer. (Video warning and some spoilers for a bunch of different films.)

I don’t know if I would subscribe to it, but it is one of the more interesting ideas for time travel.

I was hoping that would go away when covid stuck around. People still want to shake hands!

shakes head

Mel Brooks. He turned 98 this year.

Found the article where the screenshot came from, and wow it’s even more infuriating! The VideoLAN folks tried to work with them for months, and Unity seems to have cranial rectal inversion.

There is an actual product called the Hurry Cane. It was one of those “As Seen on TV” products.