Charles Louis Richter
@richterscale.bsky.social
Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more
will the historian who puts the last fact in order please turn out the lights
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
audiences reacted poorly to the theater being flooded with actual raw sewage for the 'worst toilet in scotland' showstopper
Rolling Stone UK@rollingstoneuk.bsky.social · yesterday“The current economic climate has resulted in lower than expected ticket sales” www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/trains...
Opinion: I bet USA Today has never considered how insurance works
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
which one of you will welcome these kittens into your home in a month???
when the hotel screws up the airport shuttle so bad that it takes you ten years to get to the front desk and they offer you 15% off your next stay
Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"
from last night: pappardelle with pea shoots in a saffron-spice butter, with baby king oyster mushrooms, pine nuts, and herbs
Seventeen Seconds Faith Pornography although the Cure also did all right with Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Disintegration Wish
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
i'm a reporter at the wall street journal; my job is to take direction from the worst people in the world and translate their venom into respectable prose. i have no sense of dignity or honor; other people are merely pieces in a game i play in my mind
Scientists of the Nautilus research ship capture a Big Fin Squid on camera, at 5454m (17’800 ft) depth. This was their live reaction: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
you people couldn't EVEN handle what Emily Wilson thinks of the Honda Odyssey
coming this summer from Pixar: MOUSERÉRE MEI
Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 5d agoHear me out: a Pope who is being controlled by a little mouse under his zucchetto. The mouse had a calling to the priesthood (but the Catholic Church won't ordain rodents), and he met the Pope when he was a bored teenage altar server who wanted to make his religious mum happy, so they struck a deal
hey @actualkatherine.bsky.social. have you seen this local Frederick Douglass news?
Reps. Mfume, Smith form new Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Protection and Prevention Caucus in the House of Representatives
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Reps. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) announced that they will be co-chairing the new, bipartisan Frederick Dougla...
mfume.house.gov
Downplay a book or movie: Back Soon Girl
Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez@eruptions.site · 5d agoDownplay a book or movie: Moderate Fidelity
a struggling alien punk band finds the voyager gold record and releases brandenburg concerto no. 2 as their own work and it becomes a huge planetary hit with disaffected alien teens
pedophiles escaping prosecution by paying SpaceX to send their hard drives into deep space to be encountered by alien civilizations like Voyager's gold record
this episode aired less than five months after cobain's death!
Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · 6d agoholy shit, X-Files, this is dark
Downplay a book or movie: The Local Book Encyclopedia
Making Plans for Wooloo@mockwooloo.bsky.social · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: Some Of Us Are Going To The County Fair
Downplay a book or movie: The Count of Ham & Cheese
Lisa Haushofer@haushoferl.bsky.social · 5d agoDownplay a book or movie: The Average Gatsby
Downplay a book or movie: We Need to Talk About Kevin's Birthday Present
Ross Thompson@wintermute115.bsky.social · 5d agoDownplay a book or movie: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Probably Not.
Downplay a book or movie: Pretty Normal Activity
🏳️⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her]@alexandraerin.com · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: We Have Sometimes Lived in a Castle