Rustbucket G. Biv
Rustbucket G. Biv
@placebomoon.bsky.social
midwestern old maid. sharp tongues, full hearts, can't lose.
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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
This attitude keeps popping up in local FB groups… and getting THOUROUGHLY dunked on. I don’t know who’s agitating this but even the cranks and olds Are Not Having It.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
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One of the things that really stuck with me from Charles C. Mann’s 1491 is that while the Europeans were appalled at the Aztecs’ “human sacrifices” — at the same moment in history, a greater number of people were “publically executed” in Europe.
This is a brilliant thread. While there was a lot of violence in the Middle Ages, it is crucial to acknowledge that our contemporary attitudes - in their myriad varieties - are all born out of our own historical context. The abhorrent ones are not relict medieval sentiments, but equally modern.
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This is really cool! I did not know the Korean alphabet was superphonetics!
Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
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This is the type of political scandal growing up in the Clinton era conditioned me to think is important
🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”
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