Alex

PhD candidate of History at Mississippi State University. Historian of Modern Grassroots Environmental Justice Organizations. HSS GEEC diversity officer.

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

NEW: The Texas State Board of Education just overhauled public school curricula to focus on Texas "exceptionalism," require Bible readings and whitewash racism. Its the culmination of a decadeslong push by Christian nationalists. #txlege
https://t.co/wn4c1sNmTH

[tern @1goodtern]

This always strikes me.

The summer of 1976 compared with the summer of 2025.

The difference between local and global.

[H̀͠T̶TP ́̕L̨͡o̡͠v̕ec̢̀͜ra̛͞f̕ť @HTTP_Lovecraft]

It was 50%, then 60%, 75%. I'm sure this trend can continue forever with no negative repurcussions.

[Imperator Cat @CatImperator]

No it is not - it gets everything wrong!

Streets were not permanently muddy wastelands. While not Constantinople, London had paved streets, street-cleaning, and even pollution regulations.

People did not all wear brown rags. Tudor clothing was often colourful.

Beds were not just loose straw. There were sheets.

Lighting was not endless cheap candles; and rooms were often painted.

Executioners did not wear masks all the times.

There were strict laws about animals walking around freely, especially pigs. Who also looked differently back then.

And most glaringly, there should be children everywhere. This was a period of high mortality, but also high fertility.

This is not historical reconstruction. It is ai slop, made by someone who used ai slop instead of books. - “Tudor grimecore”.

The only correct thing is that "Chloe" is an influencer, and they are not particularly bright people.

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@TomFornelli Yeah but all the flags would be a big plus though

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@DamariusH Well hes been nursing achillies tendonopothy

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@timstillman_ I assume the BBC has their own commentators? Or do yall have to listen to the Fox broadcast?

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@janecoaston Which really screwed them up because then England denied the Russian ships access to the Med and the Suez and made them go all around the Horn making the ships so befouled by the time they got to East Asia they were useless.

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@brianhadad @bmarcello TT read the lawsuit and the mounting number of cancelled games and said "you know what Brendan, maybe ply your trade elsewhere."

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

NEW: Texas middle schoolers could be taught about a Christian revolutionary war movement that never existed. The so-called “Black Robe Regiment” is a favorite myth of Christian nationalists such as David Barton, who is advising a massive curricula overhaul https://t.co/5eS4YrGZEk

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@VanLathan Other like that George Lucas, there aren't a lot of ethical billionaires running around.

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@TheImmortalKop Arsenal had the highest defensive line in the league last year. Sorry the facts dont care about your feelings.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950.

Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect.

Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default.

That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture.

The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins.

College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@YankeeGunner Its been a bad year for the English media.

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@DamariusH Nah this team is different. Our attackers actually play in European leagues.

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@YankeeGunner That second goal really Floood into the top corner!

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@the_glove10 Lalas being there is like me being in the NBA all-star game.

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@StavvyDamson @larssivertsen There were drink breaks during Qatar too

[Alex @A_Cagle1]

@mikegolicjr How is she going to date Leandro Trossard and Karl Anthony Towns at the same time?

[Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan]

I think a giant imperial military blob with an unwieldy and overfunded warfare state making catastrophic tactical decisions by misusing expensive equipment in unsuitable conditions is among the most believable things in that entire movie