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A League of Their Own ends with the Peaches losing because Penny Marshall could not allow a Staten Islander (Doris's/Rosie O'Donnell's dad) to be happy.

She did it specifically to spite Staten Island. Because it's a bad place, and does not deserve happiness.

History's not built by great men, but fuck King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

1492 history 

also, around the same time, the Spanish royalty issued the Alhambra decree, officially expelling all of the Jews from Spain, after centuries of pogroms and forced conversions as part of the campaign against al-Andalus, where Jews were relatively tolerated and had built up a prosperous community. This included setting up Inquisitions to make sure that *really* converted.

The Jews expelled from Spain are the ancestors of today's Sephardic Jews, from Hebrew "sefarad", meaning Spain.

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1492 history 

a fun fact in honor of Indigenous People's Day: Columbus was sent on his voyage essentially as a celebration of the Reconquista. Spain wanted to flex its muscles in new ways now that they had finished killing, expelling, or converting the remains of al-Andalus, and Columbus was a beneficiary of that.

a quote from jim davis: "By virtue of being a cat, Garfield's not black, white, male or female, young, or old or a particular nationality."

this just in: jim davis thinks all cats are nonbinary, but more importantly, garfield is canonically nonbinary

hey if you're running linux and have the full mono runtime installed, check to make sure 127.0.0.1:8084/ isn't an http server, for some reason the full mono runtime includes an at-boot web server

imagine a race where, once you got far enough ahead of the competition, you were allowed to stop for a moment and litter the road with bear traps

that's what competition in the free market is in reality

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"Little Shop of Horrors" remake where Audrey II teaches Seymour to love himself (and thereby gain the confidence to murder his oppressors by feeding them to a giant plant)

Live-action Muppet movie, with Tom Hanks as Kermit, Adam Sandler as Fozzie, Nicholas Cage as Gonzo, and Lady Gaga as Miss Piggy

Switching from Atom to VS Code, because this laptop doesn't have a lot of RAM and Atom is slow to load

How do you remove a directory in Linux?

[types "rm dir" into Google search]

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Snow Crash, Starcrash...scifi nerds are always crashing into things

I feel uncomfortable with queer proms because part of my identity as a queer person is not going to prom.

RT @damianholbrook@twitter.com

The only cosplay that made me stop at #NYCC today. #RussianDoll @nlyonne@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/damianholbrook/sta

I would be 100% more interested in The Joker if it was not DC and called "Pagliacci" instead.

There are teenagers right now discovering Sublime, Red Hot Chili Peppers and 311 and starting bands and we're gonna have to put up with that shit

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