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no, it's either a screenshot from - or an AI replication of - the 1996 movie "The Rock" starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage in which the depicted item is a dirty bomb / chemical weapon poised to wipe out San Francisco using Alcatraz as a base of operations.

bad day to practice my shadow puppetry

ah that's something known as the Sunk Cost Guarantee of Success

this made me realize I've only ever been to conferences (in either supply chain or data) because a job made me and I've only ever seen it as a chore. Even attending talks is only to be able to take notes, type notes and send them to colleagues as part of work.

Can confirm in the 1940s you could've gossiped that Tierney twosomed Feldmen the packager against Jackie-look Cassini and be perfectly understood.

ah the old sexy slimy thigh and three-foot-long boob

People's memories of school are unreliable and I'm seeing a few comments about how we were "only" taught a couple of things in school.

Here is the current UK history lesson curriculum, summarized

key stage 1

changes within living memory – where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life

events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally for example, the Great Fire of London, the first aeroplane flight or events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries

the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements, some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods for example, Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong, William Caxton and Tim Berners-Lee, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and LS Lowry, Rosa Parks and Emily Davison, Mary Seacole and/or Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell

key stage 2

iron age

Romans

anglo-saxons / Scots

Vikings

Edward the confessor

a local history study of an event after 1066, but can include influence from before e.g. the impact of greco-Roman culture on the medieval period

early civilization (usually egypt)

ancient Greece

ancient non-european culture (usally Islam, Benin or Mayan)

key stage 3

British history in the following epochs:

years 1066 thru 1509

1509 thru 1745

1745 thru 1901

1901 thru modern day

plus at least one non-european study and it's interconnections to world history

having ptsd flashbacks about ordering frites bouclé instead of frites frisées 😔

four candles please

on a horse made of crystal he patrolled the land

with his Mason ring and Schnauzer and his perfect hands

I'm 5'6, bisexual, and have done very well across the spectrum of gender. Height - like weight, hair color, skin color... -doesn't particularly denote attractiveness.

we know he stole the value of people's labor.

Portland OR was named after Portland ME because a guy won a coin toss and named it after his home town. The other guy wanted to name it "Boston."

Before that it was known as "The Clearing".

it's OK it's gonna be put down

Teachers are having trouble with boys as young as 8 not listening to them because the manosphere tells them they shouldn't respect women.

Pretty much everyone went to school with some Young Conservative type who was weirdly into politics at a young age.

This is amazing, where's it from?

no one cares for the classics any more 🥲