I’m a fan of Botany in a Day. Rather than drilling down on all of the details of any particular species, the author covers the properties of a handful of families that make up almost everything we think of as plants. I.e. what is true of everything in the mint family, or the rose family.

No, that’s a person who always believes they’re sick. You’re thinking of hemophiliac.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate

Just like within actual government there’s supposed to be balance of power between different branches or houses, there’s this idea that the role of the press is to hold governments accountable.

(More of an ELI12, but that’s the gist of the idea)

I’ve been running opensuse for years now. It’s great. Welcome aboard

It Could Happen Here is often talking about what’s going on that week in the world. I wouldn’t try to listen to their whole backlog, but I usually catch an episode or two a week.

Behind the Bastards is great. Since I found it (Summer 2020, I’d reckon), I’ve listened to most of what has come out since.

Cool People who did Cool Stuff is a sort of spin off of btb. Deep dives on people and movements who were resisting the bastards. It’s only been going on a couple of years, so the backlog is more manageable if that’s your thing.

I listen to Past Times on the Dollop feed most weeks. The Dollop is another deep dive history podcast. On Past Times, they read headlines and articles from different newspaper every week. Usually from the late 19th through early 20th century, but they’ve gone as far back as the 1600s.

Anything by Jamie Loftus is great. She’s mostly done short run things on a single topic. She’s on the Bechdel cast, too which I listen to occasionally.

You might enjoy The Deprogram, which has a less daunting backlog.

Dime Store Adventures recently did a video on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NCGASYMJhI

Before covid lockdown I made my living as a street performer, doing magic shows for crowds of strangers. In that very niche community, “Fat hats!” is a common farewell or replacement for “good luck”. In this case “hat” refers to the donations in the hat rather than the actual hat.

Sounds like they have been.

On your phone? As someone who lives in emacs and has done aoc in the past, I’m impressed

I spread pesto inside my grilled cheese sandwiches

There’s not a complete sentence after the period, so no.

Did this week’s Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff lead you to this?

As someone not from Australia, is that an old gum tree?

Don’t forget to try them with nut meats

I hadn’t seen the spam myself, but I think it’s to do with this.

Oh, you’re invoking the maritime conveyance spell?

I’ve heard that the issue for some cats isn’t that they can see the bottom, but that their whiskers hit the side of the bowl and that’s uncomfortable.

I had the same question, and decided that the pour over is the closest in the image. I’ve been an anarchist a long time anyway.

Hasbro was founded in 1923 and has a history of over a hundred years.

Yep, that’s how years work.

He wrote a decent number of books aimed at kids. There are the Tiffany Aching books in Discworld for a start, as well as non discworld books like Only You Can Save Mankind or the Bromeliad books.

I wouldn’t stop a 10yo from reading any of the discworld books if they’re enjoying them, mind. There’s lots to find funny anyway, and we all had to start building our “reference vocabulary” somewhere.