"The gay Scene was Fairy-Land, and Cheſter Lilliput."
Thomas Baldwin created the world's first map based on direct aerial observation in his balloon exploration book Airopaidia, 1785
#cartography #maps #history #balloons via my Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/willigula
People should use safewords in more contexts.
- feeling hangry? "Rutabaga."
- want to leave the party early? "Discombobulate."
- need a hug? "Pangolin."
On this day in 2015 I took the most LA photo of all time.
Profitable employers who lay off people should be forced to pay their full wages for a year.
People with "founder" in their bio calling everyone who questions VC culture a communist is my favorite development of 2023. "The problem isn't us, it's all of you."
Replace "transgenderism" with "Jews" or any other minority in this Michael Knowles quote to see just how evil it is: "For the good of society… transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level."
Winter light in Seattle
My dad, trying to convince me that Basque is not an isolate language, but Occitan with borrowed words from a pre Indo-European substrate, and not the other way around. He's clearly wrong but how can you disagree when he's wearing that jaunty hat?
I say we test this empirically. It's the only way to be sure.
This is a true story
https://www.maine.gov/ifw/blogs/mdifw-blog/bald-eagle-shot-through-heart-loon
Those crazy mfs actually did it. PANTONE PANETTONE
Me: I bought arthropodic shoes
Her: don't you mean "orthopedic?"
Me:
Map of Modern Day Westros by James Shadrach
http://shad-schoenke-88dv.squarespace.com/#/westeros/
Giving police the ability to kill civilians with robots is totally normal & cool and it will absolutely not be expanded and abused in the future.
Marie Tharp’s 1953 map of the Atlantic seafloor helped prove the theory of continental drift, but the male geologist she collaborated with took the credit.
Read more about her at The Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seeing-believing-how-marie-tharp-changed-geology-forever-180960192/
