“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War.”
—Hunter S. Thompson
Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:
Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.
Today is national Bikini Day and is the anniversary of the invention of the bikini in 1946 by a Parisian fashion designer Louis Reard.
I have to inform you that the ancient Romans had Bikini's from Villa Romana del Casale in Scilly. Is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
On 4th July 1862, Lewis Carroll records in his diary the now-famous boat trip up the Thames -- "On which occasion I told them the fairy-tale of "Alice's Adventures Under Ground", which I undertook ton write out for Alice" - Happy #AliceDay! https://t.co/ULIqjSaVQD
The idea that men hunt while women stay at home is at the root of many gendered assumptions about the way societies operate, but a review of the data shows this is wrong. https://t.co/82h7DSpk7B
A library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine, one that's become more popular on campuses around the country. https://t.co/cp1AFqg7SR