I’m leaving this up, because it’s relevant to the community. But this is not a unique occurrence. Wikimedia is under litigation regularly, and this shines a light on the most recent attack.

Two instances of the use of “cock” in the works of William Shakespeare are thought to be double entendres for the phallic sense, one being in the 1594 play The Taming of the Shrew, where Petruchio describes his crest as “a combless cock”, and another in the 1599 play, Henry VI, Part 2, where a character named “Pistol” declares, “Pistol’s cock is up”.

No. The freaky glass and bone eyes in a bronze caught my attention, and I went down a rabbit hole of lost wax casting and Hellenistic art on the bus home. I just thought it was neat.

I didn’t know that gum existed, but I definitely want to eat it now.

Hello, tofu

Oi Oi Oi! I’d love to visit one day.

My favorite lizard is an ophiolite complex.

I still haven’t beaten my first post for number of upvotes. Beginners luck, I guess.

Boston is celebrating in a Bostony fashion

If her youngest sons with permanent lead exposure injuries were 14 and 17 in 2023, and the lead exposure event took place in 2005, when her older children were young, some of the math isn’t mathing for me.

Absolutely fucking not.

https://www.mobilize.us/

The map viewer is a lovely way to find out about events in your area.

Giant Meteor for President 2032

Voyager as well.

When she swam from Bermuda to Portugal, I gave up on trying to enjoy the show. That was… much too much.

Is bean.

😭

Thank you for this. I needed a wall of bugs today.

I don’t think OP wants 5,000 ladybugs in their house.

I did this to myself a couple days ago. Selecting English fixed it.

It’s the shingles shot again.

this week delivered one of the brightest spots in an otherwise dark field. According to a study that followed more than 280,000 people in Wales, older adults who received a vaccine against shingles were 20 percent less likely to develop dementia in the seven years that followed vaccination than those who did not receive the vaccine.

This could be a big deal. There are very few, if any, treatments that can prevent or slow down dementia, beyond good lifestyle habits like getting enough sleep and exercise. The possibility that a known, inexpensive vaccine could offer real protection is enormously meaningful. We have good reason to be confident in the findings: While this study is perhaps the most prominent to show the protective effects of the shingles vaccine, other studies of the vaccine have come to similar conclusions.