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one of the Brazilian underscores accounts did an underscores+Lula fancam thing lmao

reading a book about the trial of Petain and it feels like he has to constantly insert jabs against everybody against petain and it's really bizarre. I can't imagine he is a petainist but so many of the jabs are petty nonsense

eg this sentence, which is just one example "His enormous girth reflected his complete identification with the French city most identified with gastronomic excess: Herriot was the provincial Republic made flesh.". wtf? he's fat and therefore decadent and representative of the 3rd Republic???

I can't believe Lula won omg

was at a thing where there was a tree where children put up their wishes and one was "I wish to play rollercoaster Tycoon forever" like I'm so glad it's still a game children love 🥺

OTOH apparently my 4 year old niece wants to be a "ghost spider"

reading a book on the trial of Petain and there's a bit where him and a bunch of other fascist french collaborators have been taken to a rural German castle and a new collaborator "government" has been set up that has 0 power and an audience of just the local exiles

but they're doing stuff like publishing 2 daily newspapers (because of multiple factions) each of which acts like the official voice of France and publishes things as if they're still running it like talking about the operas in Paris etc

discovering people have invented a concept called "millennial optimism" where apparently in the early 2010s everyone was really optimistic and hopeful????

just unfollowed someone who otherwise just posts about transit stuff cause she used the word goyslop and then defended it by claiming she was "diluting" the meaning by supposedly using it non harmfully?? like fuck offff

the extent of gender polarisation in elections where in a lot of places women are voting 10-20 points more for the more left wing parties is fascinating to me cause I think it's a relatively recent phenomenon?

I hate picking up a story and it turning out to be about men being shit and needing women to baby and pamper them but it's not presented as a bad thing just How It Should Be

apparently sticky toffee pudding only has evidence of existing in its present form from the early 1970s, altho there are similar predecessors. real invention of tradition moment

just saw someone with an lljk username in 2026. crazy

yayyy. hopefully going to read a decent chunk more in the next couple of months too

funny computer history thing: all true/opentype fonts have a section that's called the "os/2 table". it was named cause in 1989 that was what Microsoft was working on, but they split a year later and IBMs os/2 didn't even use TrueType. but we're stuck with it typedrawers.com/discussion/5...

oh that's your answer to everything