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CarveHerName, to history
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, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.

She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.

kolya,
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@fedithom @CarveHerName
Switzer wasn't the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon. She wasn't even the only woman in the 1967 run. Bobbi Gibb was in fact an hour faster than Switzer. And she had completed the same Marathon before. Gibb however ran as an unregistered runner without a number both times.
http://runningpast.com/gibb_story.htm

kolya,
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@fedithom @CarveHerName
During her run, the race manager Jock Semple assaulted Switzer, trying to grab her bib number and thereby remove her from official competition. After knocking down Switzer's trainer and fellow runner, Arnie Briggs, when he tried to protect her, Semple was shoved to the ground by Switzer's boyfriend, Thomas Miller, who was running with her, and she completed the race.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathrine_Switzer#:~:text=During%20her%20run,completed%20the%20race.

Richard_Littler, to Starwars
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After god knows how many years of work, the people behind the 4K project have released the final installment. For those who don't know: a group of dedicated restorers, unhappy with the reworked Special Editions, hunted down, scanned and restored the original 35mm theatrical prints of the first Star Wars trilogy in Ultra High Definition. They're better than the official blurays. Incredible work, not only in terms of authentic content but even the picture quality is superior.

Empire Strikes Back BBFC certificate
Return of the Jedi BBFC certificate
Screenshot comparison of Star Wars Bluray vs Project 4K

kolya,
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@jan @Richard_Littler Being a fan project they can't sell it. You can get it either at alt.binaries.Starwars or at any good torrent site. https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/#:~:text=Where%20can%20I%20download%20this%3F!

ElleGray, to random
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incredible book cover

kolya,
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@ElleGray created by Exeter Bookbinders who only got a Facebook page now
https://www.facebook.com/www.exeterbookbinders.co.uk/

mudboot, to random
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browsing mastodon
ok time to find a new source of entertainment
closes mastodon
opens mastodon

kolya,
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@mudboot when mastodon gets boring you can always check out what small mastodon on your phone is up to!

LeftistLawyer, (edited ) to climate
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Can someone please explain why, on a planet with 5 billion too many people and , declining birthrates are a problem?

I'm at a loss.

kolya,
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@LeftistLawyer You are comparing 5 billion globally to locally declining birth rates. But the global birth rates are still rising and according to the latest stats will continue to do so much longer than anticipated, ie 10 billion won't be the limit we thought it'd be.

TiciaVerveer, to random Dutch
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A team of scholars spent five years studying magical texts from Egypt that were written written in Coptic script and language on papyrus, parchment, paper and shards of clay and date from the period between the 4th and 12th centuries AD.
They have now been collected and scientifically annotated for the first time in a 600-page book.
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-ancient-anthology-magical-texts-published.html

kolya,
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@Ooze @TiciaVerveer
I too was hoping this post would end with: "They have now acquired abilities beyond our understanding."

lauren, to random
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It's fascinating that the experience of using computer CLIs (Command Line Interfaces) has essentially changed not at all since the early days of interactive computing and timesharing. In fact, for those of us using Linux systems, the experience is pretty much identical to what it was on the earliest UNIX systems of the 1970s, and in fact we still commonly use the same commands, utilities, and other command line tools. So about half a century. That's either amazing or terrifying depending on your point of view. Or more likely, both.

kolya,
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@lauren Well it's an interface that mimics natural language. Everything that can change about it, has changed. But yeah, it's still text input.

kolya, to random
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a winter walk

some stairs lead down to a wooden bridge over a small river, in the background are green meadows and then more forest. the picture has a decidedly brown tint and strong lens flare effects because I aimed the camera through my sunglasses.
frozen moss grown over the edge of a tree stump, glistening in the sun
close-up of the sun shining through wet moss on a winter day

kolya, to random German
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Hab mal 'ne Weile in gelebt und da dieses Foto/Poster gemacht.

kolya, to random German
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Das ist der Monty. Monty ist einer von diesen Lebenskünstlern im Viertel, die den ganzen Tag nichts zu tun zu haben scheinen, als auf der Straße den Leuten zuzuschauen. Er wohnt in einem Künstler-Atelier im Souterrain und macht da irgendwas mit Grafik. Ich hab Monty nie mit Geld gesehen, aber es scheint ihm trotzdem gut zu gehen. Wahrscheinlich geerbt.

kolya, to random
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Jacqueline du Pré playing Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor in 1967. (Frisson@2:42)

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kolya, to random German
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"Forschende aus Kalifornien haben bei Grauhörnchen nachweisen können, dass das Gehirn der Hörnchen im Herbst an Volumen gewinnt. Man geht davon aus, dass sie so viel über Nüsse und deren Versteck nachdenken, dass ihr Gehirn wächst." https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000203855/rot-oder-schwarz-welches-eichhoernchen-das-heimische-ist?ref=mastodon

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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I'm starting

Dead Kennedys, heard and I had the music that accompanied me my whole life

kolya,
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@historyofpunkrock I guess my first punk band was Talking Heads, later NOFX, No Use for a Name, Lagwagon and even later Jonathan Richman.
I REGRET NOTHING!! :headshot:

kolya, to random
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I started reading by . It's about an oil company that wants to buy up farmland in Mexico. The indigenous farm owner however argues that the farm has fed his kin for many generations and that he owes it to future generations to keep it that way. That book is 94 years old and constantly drops arguments about sustainability, corporate expansionism, the environment vs fossile oil.
I'm thinking about ways to post the book here as a continuing story like @samuelpepys's diaries.

first pages of "Die Weiße Rose" by B. Traven, 1929

mikemathia, to random
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I'm confused. What day of the month is the 3th.

kolya,
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@mikemathia the day between the 2rd and the 4st.

mikemathia, to random
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Plus that iPod stunt.

kolya,
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@mikemathia That's an actual political theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence

mikemathia, to random
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kolya,
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@mikemathia Better quality, without "It's a joke!"-disclaimer and without autogenerated wrong subtitles: https://youtu.be/CIaWo-BlBjs

mikemathia, to random
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at the day gig

kolya,
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@mikemathia if a guy comes in with a clipboard eat your passwords.

kolya, to random
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Calamoidea of the Rattan palm subfamily
In Brazil, Salgado, on the Rio São Francisco
From the book: "Historia Naturalis Palmarum" (1823 - 1850) by German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_naturalis_palmarum
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9917#page/243/mode/1up

kolya,
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Arecoidea of the betelnut subfamily, Brazil
From: "Historia Naturalis Palmarum" (1823 - 1850) by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

18+ Ttubretep, to random
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Lana Wood

kolya,
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@Ttubretep

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mikemathia, to random
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The front fell off. 🤣

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kolya,
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@mikemathia @adriano @peter
It's a bit from Clarke and Dawe and at least 27 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_and_Dawe#:~:text=One%20of%20their,to%20debunk%20it.

kolya, to random German
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my favourite western movie Young Guns II again last night. As is customary I did some Wikipedia reading on the Regulators of the Lincoln county war afterwards.

And so I learned that the first film about Billy the Kid, a silent movie made in 1911, depicted Billy as a girl brought up as a cowboy and later impersonating a boy. Sounds like an interesting twist to me. Unfortunately the 1911 film is considered lost.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Kid_(1911_film)

kolya,
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kolya,
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@elaterite Yes, that clip is from the beginning of Young Guns II. (You don't need to have seen the first one btw.)
I never heard of Old Henry but I'm looking into it now. Thanks!

18+ Ttubretep, to random
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Reverse image search has failed me.

kolya,
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@12pt9
That's who I also came up with.
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