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Ian Gregory Bishop (born 13 November 1962) is a British Anglican bishop. Since September 2023, he has been Bishop of Thetford, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England’s Diocese of Norwich.

2023 looked like a killer year to go.

2023 looked like a killer year to go.

The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia, situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

Shoofly pie is a type of American pie made with molasses associated with Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. While shoo-fly pie has been a staple of Moravian, Mennonite, and Amish foodways, there is scant evidence concerning its origins, and most of the folktales concerning the pie are apocryphal, including the persistent legend that the name comes from flies being attracted to the sweet filling.[1]

Thomas Andrew Lehrer (April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater. He recorded pithy and humorous, often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs often parodied popular musical forms, though they usually had original melodies. An exception is “The Elements”, in which he set the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the “Major-General’s Song” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance.

TL;DR: India, China, US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil. Aggregated percent of total: 50.4

As a film it’s ok, but as a think piece it’s excellent.

great wikihole to go down!

Tankettes were light, armoured vehicles that always looked a bit odd to me for practical use.

Early voting for the primary election for 2025 Georgia Public Service Commission special election is underway. Make sure you vote and make your voice heard.

In my opinion, the Hofling hospital experiment is the strangest thing I’ve ever read about.

An early example of a non-binary person!

An early sex education pamphlet that caused the person to have to flee the US.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world

This is a highly impactful film following a grandfather and grand daughter struggle with poverty in south Korea. It makes me cry every time I watch it.

What a wild film, real nightmare fuel for children. Yet family friendly and accessible.

72 countries from various regions of the world still have military conscription. Of them, only 23 conscript women; all 72 conscript men.

Green Coffee Production - 2021

A baby tower, also known as an abandoned infant tower or baby girl tower, is an architectural structure found in various places in ancient China.[1] They would typically take the form of a small stone or brick tower with an opening on the top. Dead, disabled, female, and unwanted infants could be thrown inside and abandoned. The baby tower is described as a donation from wealthy people in the countryside, as a more humane alternative to drowning babies in a river, common at the time.[citation needed] The pagoda architectural style is intended to suppress the spirit of the children, to prevent them from being reincarnated.[2]

Wiki article on the UAPDA made yesterday.

Jury’s still out about being a real worm, though.

Media Player Classic (MPC), Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) are a family of free and open-source, compact, lightweight, and customizable media players for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The original MPC, along with the MPC-HC fork, mimic the simplistic look and feel of Windows Media Player 6.4, but provide most options and features available in modern media players. Variations of the original MPC and its forks are standard media players in the K-Lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack.

and https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki and …

What does “honor” mean to you?

Little of the soil of planet Earth is older than the Pleistocene and none is older than the Cenozoic, although fossilized soils are preserved from as far back as the Archean.

Happened on this 1998 game by sheer chance and I’m really digging it! As far as I can tell it was never popular. It’s a mixture of an RTS and a “god game” where one unit (your shaman) is very powerful & special (chess analogy: sort of like mixing the central role of the king & with the power of the queen).

Henry Miller https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rosy_Crucifixion

The phrase “under God” was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance on June 14, 1954, 70 years ago today.

En värdefull resurs i kampen mot fascism. Mark Bray forskar på rörelser från 20-30 talet och drar paralleller till idag.

The Wikipedia entry has weird west in it, so I guess so.

Maybe a little lighter on the “west” side of things and a little heavier on the “weird” side of things. Nevertheless there is a lot of “western” here to justify it! This is one of my favorite graphic novels

Frugan, svågern och jag spelade brädspelet/rollspelet Alice is missing igår.

Its name dates back at least 1000 years and means “farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer”

Cobot: Coworker Robot. How do you think we will fare when the ‘new guy’ at work is a machine? As these machines become increasingly intelligent and closer to sentience, how will we share the spoils of our labour? Will we have the same rights in the workplace?

This drug looks really interesting. I hear lots of people have success reducing their appetite with it. I was wondering if anybody had experiences to share?

As the start of this community, why not learn about the group including all extant crocodiles ?

Would come as surprise to many of the readers just like me. Personally I didn’t even know that was a thing!

Winter sucks anyway.

I’m gonna try to post about research that I read here, mostly because I need more incentives to read papers. But if people want to post pictures of pretty microbes, or the other stuff that tends to be popular on Reddit, I’m down with that too

As many Commodore technical staff had moved to Atari, Commodore was left with no workable path to design their own next-generation computer. The company approached Amiga offering to fund development as a home computer system. They quickly arranged to repay the Atari loan, ending that threat. The two companies were initially arranging a $4 million license agreement before Commodore offered $24 million to purchase Amiga outright.