watching the VOD of @mavica 's slot for UGBD #ExtraLife between doing things and MAVI PAWBS!
@Anke yep
"Mastodon suspends Assam Police instance; says cops not welcome"
It's actually "account" rather than "instance" and "mastodon.social" not "mastodon" but lol
It's about that time of year when people start wondering things like "hey, why isn't DECEMber the tenth month of the year?"
So it's time for my little lecture on Romans, calendars, and our friend Gaius Julius Caesar.
I'll be posting it as a tootchain replying to this one, but if you're impatient, here's the whole thing: https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/3754e00a37fe81aa43aad3eb9543f3ce
So: “Why isn’t the new year on winter solstice?”
The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.
mckamey manor waiver point-by-point
@vantablack I'm pretty sure that precisely none of that waiver will stand up in court
uspol, trashpost, "public service"
@sydneyfalk I read that as "public canning" for a second there
"I pronounce you guilty of malfeasance in a public office. INTO THE JAR!"
@mavica such a beautiful description, such poetry
they say a picture's worth a thousand words but it's really summed up by that alpha-numeric string
Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
"i never thought someone could be such a watch nerd and yet here you are" ~ @maple