@TychoBrahe You will probably get sent this a few times. It is some very funny writing, CSS goodness and a bit of how we lost the "old internet".
https://t.co/Og2BSPVadC
Whan that Cipangu with hyr bestes sondrie
A ratte birthes, what in Engelond might be
Grei and foul and full of humours dour,
From Cipangu is yelwen as daisy-flour.
In Oriyent yclept Pika-chu is this ratten,
And frend he yis to a boie with an hatten.
Last night: 13!? 13 MPs for Reform!?
This morning: Oh. Well I guess 4 is better than 13.
Nah. Zero is the perfect number. Don’t be fooled by the (mild) feeling of relief.
I drove over a bridge near Oxford and paid a man the 5p (6.4¢) toll.
Min wage in the UK is £11.44; to break even they’d need 458 cars/hour to cross (2 tollmen).
The bridge is a tax haven- privately owned, George III decree’d it tax free indefinitely in 1769.
On an eccentric island, the prime minister tells voters that he will hold an election on one weekday in the next eight months but that the election will be a surprise to the voters.
Having reflected on this, the PM draws the conclusion that he will escape the election because—
When Hitler rose to power as German chancellor in 1933, he enacted policies to rid the country of Lebensunwertes Leben, or “lives unworthy of living.” His targets included Jews, Roma people, disabled people and communists—but also specifically homosexuals and transsexuals.
While many are familiar with haunting images of the first book burnings in Germany, which took place in May of 1933, most aren’t fully aware of their origin story.
The books and texts that provided the fuel for that first bonfire came from the library of the Institute for Sexual Research, founded in 1919 by Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay, Jewish doctor. As Scientific American notes, the Institute was “full of life everywhere” and provided incredible and groundbreaking gender affirmation care to trans individuals. Its mission was to provide a center for “research, teaching, healing and refuge” that could “free the individual from physical ailments, psychological afflictions and social deprivation.”
In other words, the first book burning in Germany, which led to copycat bonfires around the country, was an attack on a trans care institution. There are echoes of this today: The far-right has specifically chosen to target trans care centers in America, including repeated bomb threats to Boston Children’s Hospital, for providing gender affirming medical care.