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It's a funny article, and I'm too late anyway, but I'm inordinately amused that I know enough about fifth-century BCE Athenian democracy specifically to know who was the best choice:

"No ancient Greek would have had any trouble in understanding what happened on the 6th or that it was a serious attempt (albeit an incompetent one) to seize power. Having a leader or a political faction move with a mob (often armed, but not always so) to try to disperse the normal civic assemblies of a Greek polis and occupy their normal meeting place was a standard maneuver to try to seize power during stasis. As Dr. Roel Konijnendijk, an ancient Greek history specialist, noted in this excellent discussion on the r/AskHistorians reddit (where he posts as Iphikrates), “In the Greek world, most attempts to seize power by force tended to take the same form: the seditious party would contrive an opportunity to gather in arms while their opponents were unarmed and off-guard, and seize control of all public spaces.”

"To take merely the examples in Athens... Later in 411, the ‘Four Hundred’ would seize power in exactly the same way, arriving with a mob of armed supporters to disperse the Athenian boule – it’s council (Thuc. 8.69). That’s four examples of this exact tactic from Athens alone."

- Bret Devereaux, https://acoup.blog/2021/01/15/miscellanea-insurrections-ancient-and-modern-and-also-meet-the-academicats/

“I just don’t know enough about fifth-century BCE Athenian democracy to make an informed decision in this election,” said Powers, frantically reading about the Enlightenment to see for himself whether John Locke said anything about Kamala Harris’ record on immigration. 

…Just vote, ffs.

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Victoria 5 day cat help needed

If any of y'all who are in Victoria have space for accommodating 1 cat until November 9th, I can trade you an artwork.

Her name is Twilight, she is well behaved around other animals and is 17 years old. It is a long story that I won't get into detail here for the sake of time reading this, but she is at a boarding facility in Vic and she was paid for until November 4th. November 4-9 costs $250 that I cannot afford.

My car has died, I have a friend who's helping me retrieve her on this Saturday the 9th. I live north island in Courtenay.

I am in good contact with the boarding facility. This was the first picture I've seen of her since I moved in February.

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The top pain scale is super fascinating to me. I've been at 10 (can't move due to my pain) without being at 9 (pain is all I can think about). I spend all my time at 4 (constantly aware of my pain) but it doesn't inhibit any activities. I don't consider myself to be "in chronic pain", and I'm probably doing better than the average obese 40-year-old (my demographic). On the Allie Brosh pain scale, I'd call myself a constant 2.5.

I think that the top scale just isn't a good fit for people with ADHD. I'm just not good at ignoring sensory things, unless I can get deep into a good book (at which point I won't be moving, and therefore setting my joints off, anyway).

(If you're wondering about that "10 without 9", I was giving birth. There's a lot to think about when giving birth!)

My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

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Victoria 5 day cat help needed

If any of y'all who are in Victoria have space for accommodating 1 cat until November 9th, I can trade you an artwork.

Her name is Twilight, she is well behaved around other animals and is 17 years old. It is a long story that I won't get into detail here for the sake of time reading this, but she is at a boarding facility in Vic and she was paid for until November 4th. November 4-9 costs $250 that I cannot afford.

My car has died, I have a friend who's helping me retrieve her on this Saturday the 9th. I live north island in Courtenay.

I am in good contact with the boarding facility. This was the first picture I've seen of her since I moved in February.

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"Show how far your OCs have evolved via their first and latest image" --

Thorn Estragon, 2024 versus 2013!

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Here’s more info on the commission for the GoFund donation I’m raising 🥹🫶If you’re interested please let me know!

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I'm going to carve a pumpkin

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For science!!!!

(Please reblog if you vote! :D )

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The funny part is, "Piano Man" is a true story, and the Piano Man is Billy Joel. I can't find my source (an old record B-track) any more, but this guy on Reddit has done a good job of compiling some other sources.

Of course, this doesn't make the theory not true. It just means it would be really funny if this was how he found out.

you know who’s gay? paul the real estate novelist who never had time for a wife and davey who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life

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its really telling where you learned about lapis lazuli. put yours in the tags

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Oh wow, I didn't expect to ever be prompted to talk about this.

I don't live there any more, but the town there I grew up has Mr. PG.

Mr. PG is not big as far as Big Dumb Things go, but he is unquestionably iconic. He's about two stories tall and made of metal painted to pretend it's wood. He is meant as a symbol of the forest industry, which is what Prince George is all about.

No one in Prince George really... approved of him exactly, but he wasn't hated either. Mostly people seemed to think he was cringeworthy.

I love when a city has a Big Dumb Thing in it.

The quintessential Big Dumb Thing is the St. Louis Arch, which was built to commemorate westward expansion and is almost exclusively there for tourists, but also gives an otherwise kind of mid city a little bit of identity. I have to imagine that as soon as it was built, people started talking about it, which is one of the things I like. When practical considerations dominate how cities are built, it's great to have someone's creative vision writ large on the horizon, even if it's not the most beautiful thing ever constructed.

To qualify as a Big Dumb Thing, the structure in question needs to have no practical purpose for being built how it was, or at least minimal purpose. Most of its shape should be aesthetic, though as buildings involve engineering, I'm willing to give a lot of leeway. Most often, they'll be towers, because those stick out, and you get more bang for your buck with a tower.

Not all landmarks are Big Dumb Things. There are plenty of bridges and buildings that are pretty but functional, and the functionality comes first, because they were built with that function in mind. So the Golden Gate Bridge? Not, in my parlance, a Big Dumb Thing, even if it's nice to go up and look at, and dominates the popular understanding of San Francisco's identity.

But San Francisco also has Coit Tower, which was built because someone wanted it to exist and had the money to make that happen. This very much gets at the heart of why most Big Dumb Things are built, and if not for the Golden Gate Bridge, I think it would have found a more prominent place in the city's cultural identity.

I would like to hear about your local Big Dumb Thing. Something that someone built mostly because they thought that it would be cool to have around, either built by a benefactor or commissioned or just a building made into art. Might be a monument, might be a tower, might be a building, it just needs to be Big and also Dumb (affectionate).

And also include a picture, if you can.

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I think mine was mostly like yours, though there were definitely... incidents. I clearly recall a storyteller team having to gently explain to a new player that "bluebooking" was for potentially plot-relevant things your character was doing between sessions, and should not be used to send in three pages of porn every week, even if it was indeed what their character was spending their time doing.

yes I requested Isolated from the Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines soundtrack to be added to the playlist at my local bdsm dungeon I want to feel like a kindred at The Asylum when I’m getting whipped okay

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i love when an author truly understands a character so well that they can just put said character in any situation and still have them act correctly. like yeah okay hes a cat cafe owner. hes a middle school teacher. hes a dog. and hes acting exactly how he would act if he was a dog.

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"Mirror, mirror, on the wall: who is the fairest of them all?" asked the wicked queen.

The reply was not the one she had received every day for the past ten years. The mirror said, in its usual bored voice, "Moyolehuani is the fairest of them all."

"Who?!" the wicked queen sputtered.

The mirror allowed a tiny note of smugness to creep into its voice. "She is a minor noble in Tenochtitlan, your majesty."

"And where the hell is Ten... is that?" She would not be caught dead mispronouncing anything, even by her mirror.

The voice mocked her with its sheer casualness. "On a continent your people have never heard of, far to the west of Mauretania."

"What the fuck am I supposed to do about that?" the queen snarled.

Her magic mirror had never shown shoulders before, but it manifested them now, just to shrug.

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I lived in Vancouver, and I can confirm it's weird for me too (though probably not as much as for LA folks).

The Stargate establishing shot for Colorado Springs was right where I used to transfer buses on my way to work, and it never stopped freaking me out through all ten seasons (because they went there just infrequently enough for me to forget). Then I would regain my sense of reality, laugh, and marvel about how that bridge had a light rail over it, not a road, and no one knew how wrong it was but my "neighbours" and the people in the real Colorado Springs.

When you go to Tokyo for the first time, everyone always gets so excited for getting to make anime pilgrimages and going to places you've already seen in anime in real life. But in the months that come after, nobody ever prepares you for how surreal it feels when you're casually watching an anime and it just flicks to a shot of a random ass location you've been to in real life

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My understanding is that the only part of this thread that Ryoko Kui would object to is the part where someone calls Senshi hot.

Hello skinny tgirl. Lately you've been complaining that your tits aren't growing. In front of you is a plate of food.