THE HEINRICHS OF REUSS ARE BACK, BABY

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1600397711483801602

to be clear (fix this, BBC) Germany no longer has "minor aristocrats" or any aristocrats at all, they abolished all the titles decades ago and anyone still using them is - as you can see - a bizarre and somewhat scary relic

i have discovered the emblems of the various units of the US Space Force and this knowledge has changed me previous one was the Peterson-Schriever Garrison. this is the 533rd Training Squadron.

the building you keep seeing behind Zelenskiy is fucking insane, btw. it's called the House with Chimeras and it's just an inexplicable surrealist nouveau mansion that happens to be right opposite the President's office. the entablature has rhinos. Władysław Horodecki, 1902. *pounding clipboard* FROG BATTLEMENTS! FROG BATTLEMENTS!

(all pictures via wikimedia commons)

north carolina!? i hardly know 'er! can you believe this is still happening? could your grin be any more fixed, your eyes any more glazed over, your tolerance for repititive jokes about round barns any more exhausted? nevertheless!

rot in hell, etc, obviously, but fwiw i always thought the "known unknowns" thing was a sensible, elegant, quite useful idea "There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."

this is true, and well put, and useful

*frenching the mic* nice

https://twitter.com/lukemcgee/status/1410176905089896457

realistically though Burnham isn't gonna do it, is he? Labour will lose Batley tomorrow but any possibility of a challenge is going to fizzle out because there isn't going to be a challenger

COUNTRY ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADS, TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOOOOME it's West Virginia! like Virginia, but West. or, possibly, not like Virginia at all, since Virginia was all mansions and slavery and West Virginia has been historically incredibly poor and split off from Original Flavour Virginia over slavery during the Civil War. We'll find out!

working on a grand unified theory of pride discourse, bella poarch, viral food videos and gen z reactionary politics oh you thought i was joking? buckle the fuck up

a Soviet Bus Stops/Yugoslav Memorials-style coffee table book of shitty Millennium municipal features in British towns and villages please submit your examples of this uniquely terrible moment in British taste

devastated to learn that Alfons Mucha's batshit painting cycle THE SLAV EPIC is not presently on public display. here they are in a thread tho, with authentic batshit full titles

1: The Slavs in their Original Homeland: Between the Turanian Whip and the Sword of the Goths Mucha spent almost 20 years on these and considered them his masterpiece, but they've sort of fall out of his legacy as we now understand it, which is...a shame

2: The Celebration of Svantovit: When Gods Are at War, Salvation is in the Arts

i will never learn how to spell massachusetts massacheusetts? massachewsetts? massachusitts? massachusets? massachussets? massuchussets? massucheezits? there's literally no way to know

IT HAS ARRIVED he gave his life that this report might live

NY thread cont.: a l b e r t u s v a n l o o n

new york, new york YES i am BACK this is HAPPENING i APOLOGISE for the long WAIT to ALL of my SEVEN fans

also yes this is the one where i die