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SensitiveSyl
Anemone Nemorosa @SensitiveSyl@beige.party · 3d ago
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Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum) But who is Joe Pye? It seems to be the anglophone name of a very interesting Mohican, Joseph Shauquethqueat, living at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, in Massachusetts and New York. Not clear he had anything to do with the plant, maybe only by association. A scholarly article about botany, history and First Nations, with Latin names and a critical eye. Perfect 🤓 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/joe-pye-joe-pyes-law-and-joe-pye-weed-the-history.pdf?c=mbot;idno=0497763.0056.303;format=pdf #flowers #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #wildflowers #botany #history #firstnations #photography
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YakyuNightOwl
Yakyu Night Owl @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world · 3d ago
White Christians in 2026: "Being woke is bad!" White Christians in 1599: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachet_auf,_ruft_uns_die_Stimme These are not serious people. #History #Music #Faith #Christian
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wendythedruid
Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · 3d ago
In 1993 Brenda and Wanda Henson bought land outside Ovett, Mississippi, and opened a feminist, lesbian-run retreat and food bank in a county that made its feelings clear immediately. Somebody left a dead dog on their mailbox. They didn't leave. They ran the pantry. They kept the gate open, and over years the temperature around them changed — which is the least dramatic and most difficult kind of victory there is. Nobody photographs the long middle. That's the part where the root goes down. This runs on readers, not an ad network — no oligarch upstairs getting nervous about a sentence. If it's worth a morning to you: https://thistleandmoss.com/upgrade?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS #QueerHistory #LesbianHistory #Mississippi #MutualAid #LGBTQ #QueerNews #History #Solidarity #TransRights #Feminism #Photography #DailyGathering
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monotremata @monotremata@lemmy.ca · Aug 04, 2026
Replying to @piecat@lemmy.world
I mean, I don’t have the encyclopedia anymore, so I guess I can’t really prove it to you. But it was sort of my introduction to the idea that not everything in an encyclopedia is necessarily true, so it’s pretty memorable for me. I recognize the irony of using another encyclopedia here, but Wikipedia mentions in the History section of its Pain in Animals article, “Researchers remained unsure into the 1980s as to whether animals experience pain.” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_animals#History ) I obviously don’t know the story about how the line ended up in World Book, but I know they employ fact checkers for every line in the book, so presumably in the 50’s the line reflected some kind of scientific consensus, as bizarre as that sounds now.
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ObsidianUrbex
Obsidian Urbex Photography @ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social · 3d ago
🇫🇷 A grand staircase inside an abandoned chateau. Somewhere in France. What detail caught your eye? #France #Photography #Chateau #Abandoned #LostPlaces #History
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horrormovies
Horror Movies @horrormovies@bots.ambience.sk · 3d ago
The Rape After (淫種) Release date: 1984-05-10 The figure of an evil genie is stolen by a photographer. At night the genie comes to life and rapes his girlfriend while both of them are drunk. https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/97812 #film #films #movie #movies #poster #posters #history #design #typography #horror #horrormovies
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The Athletic @nyt_sports@robot.villas · 3d ago
What makes a tennis player immortal? Book excerpt from 'Immortals of American Tennis' by Steve Flink https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7468754/2026/08/11/tennis-most-famous-players-immortals-american-book-steve-flink/ #Tennis #Sports #History
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drinksnomore
Drinks No More @drinksnomore@bots.ambience.sk · 3d ago
DnL Flavor: Citrus Color: Green       Years available: Middle 2002 - Late 2005 dnL was a 7 Up flavor that was officially released in stores on June 2nd, 2002, and until the discontinuation on December 31st, 2005. It was Keurig Dr Pepper's attempt to extend soft drink brand names with new iterations, including PepsiCo's Pepsi Blue, Keurig Dr Pepper's Dr Pepper Red Fusion, and Coca-Cola's Vanilla Coke. https://the-soda.fandom.com/wiki/DnL #drinks #drink #soda #flavor #color #discontinued #history #softdrink #softdrinks #retro #nostalgia
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mrundkvist
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist@archaeo.social · 3d ago

Here's how we bought Depeche Mode gig tickets in 1986.

  1. Call booking on home phone, reserve tickets under your name.

  2. Ride public transport to the Svala och Söderlund stationery shop in Hötorget Square. I wonder now if they had this service because they were next to Concert Hall? dM didn't play there.

  3. State name at ticket window, pay for tickets with cash allowance that Mom had gotten from one of the new cash machines.

#history #music

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janettespeyer
JanetteSpeyer @janettespeyer@flipboard.social · 4d ago
Would you eat a burger without knowing what’s in the “beef”? What’s really on your plate? What if your morning coffee once contained sawdust? The history of food fraud reveals the dark truth behind what we eat. #FoodHistory #history Feed your curiosity https://foodculturebites.com/a-history-of-food-fraud-and-crime/ #foodculturebites
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anlomedad
anlomedad @anlomedad@fedifreu.de · 4d ago
1:45h for an evening off this week, getting informed and entertained? Didn't know host Aaron Bastani, nor that political journalists can be this climate-savvy. He and Kevin Anderson leave the watered-down, at best half-true phrase soups in traditional media behind to cook a nourishing climate potluck. Here's where our debate begins. Really begins to matter. Kevin's typical meta level bits also show up ( eg, global -8% per year CO2 emissions, countries like UK -13%/a for keeping within a WellBelow2-budget) but he also forages in many more corners, political, historical, sociological, psychological. 1.45h, enjoyable, thought-seeding climate-entertainment. If a Green Growther doesn't know Kevin's work, this is the introduction I'd hope they'd listen to closely. I'm familiar with Anderson's brilliant mind. And was impressed by the host. Aaron was able to open a space for Kevin's mind to shine. Almost didn't watch it. Assumed I already know all that Kevin is able to say in an interview. But it's surprisingly different when a climate-savvy "political commentator" sets the goal posts. And it differs from what Kevin's brilliant mind on its own would choose to feed an assumed audience in 1:45h. Summary, not my interpretations but what was really said: In 5 years time, it'll be "2C is dead", and certain civilisation collapse, unless we reclaim the power to put things right. The great unknown in this equation Kevin sees in societal dynamics. And because he can't claim to foresee what will happen in that area, he chooses to continue to inform whoever is willing to listen of the requirements and of the obstacles. The true requirements. And the true obstacles. The true requirements are not what the UK's CCC and most experts are letting on, and also not what the traditional media puts in their phrase soups. Traditional media and their chosen framings are indeed one of the true obstacles Kevin identifies. I didn't know that the Greek-speaking world of the Bronze Age stopped writing after the civilisation collapsed. No written testimony exists for 500 years after the collapse, did you know that? 500 years… That collapse was also caused by a climate change. [my addition: A Milankovic-driven climate change.] Caused by climate change and a leading elite too arrogant to see their own demise as realistic prognosis and too arrogant to decide to make changes for changing that outlook. At one moment, I recall Kevin equating today's economists with the arrogant astrologist priests of civilisations past 😁 Does the scope of the 1:45h interview become apparent from this summary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFos_T7cT0 #KevinAnderson #ClimateChange #Civilisation #history #CO2budget #TechHopium #CCS
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army_talk_fascism
Army Talk 64: Fascism @army_talk_fascism@mastodon.social · 4d ago
...could fascism rise in the United States after it's been crushed abroad? What can we do to prevent it? #fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
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BigHeadMode
BigHeadMode @BigHeadMode@social.linux.pizza · Jun 15, 2026
Thread of #history comparisons.
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BigHeadMode
BigHeadMode @BigHeadMode@social.linux.pizza · Jun 15, 2026
Replying to @BigHeadMode@social.linux.pizza
Led Zeppelin I was released in 1969. The iconic band's iconic cover depicts the infamous Hindenburg disaster (1936), "one of the most famous disasters in aviation history." The disaster killed 36 people. 32 years ago was just 1994. Led Zeppelin was making light of a famous event in living memory. A possible reason they used this cover is all of the members of the band were born 10ish years after the disaster. They recorded and released their smash-hit album when they were in their mid-20s. The rock-and-roll musicians were probably not too interested in social norms either. If Led Zeppelin I were released today, it might have a photo of TWA Flight 800 (1996), a gruesome midair explosion that killed 230 people. Yet not many disasters have captured the public imagination the way the Hindenburg did. A better comparison may be Chernobyl (1986) - farther back in time, but larger in our minds. Chernobyl killed about 45 quickly, and some argue it killed about 10,000 more over time due to radiation. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/aftermath-hindenburg #history #ledzeppelin #music #disaster #popculture
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