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Economic Historian at Università di Torino. I aspire to a Plinian mind. From Palermo, Sicily. Substack: https://andreamatranga.substack.com

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The second casualty was the English language

06.03.2026 18:08 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

this was my first my first time seeing seeing one of Dianna’s videos, but even with her being stuck in bed with long covid, it was an ab-so-lute joy to watch.

06.03.2026 14:10 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In a room full of notebooks and laser light,
She’s back with the questions that keep us up at night.
Through the quiet months when the signals were low,
Now the spark’s returning and the circuits glow.

Doppler Diannnnaaaaaaa

06.03.2026 13:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am soooooo Happy that Dianna managed to start back making video. Her smile when speaking about physics is a gift.

For those who don't know her, she is a wonderfull physics communicator who suffered violent post-COVID, that got her in bed . During. 3 . years.

06.03.2026 12:49 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe like getting really invested in the façade choices for the new community center. Targeting bot networks to favor the pro neoclassical candidate

05.03.2026 22:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My first science video in 3 years
My first science video in 3 years YouTube video by Physics Girl

Super happy about this video! youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc?...

05.03.2026 19:45 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

It's like they run things to specifically piss off Sarah Paine

05.03.2026 18:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My theory is that telling bullshit evolutionary just-so stories evolved because young males needed to competete for women's interest by telling bullshit stories by the campfire, because the human female prizes a mate that can make up stories for her children.

05.03.2026 18:09 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

If either Azerbaijan or Georgia close their airspace a whole lot of Europe/Asia flights are going to need a refueling stop in Addis

05.03.2026 16:03 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Preview
You, Strawberry, Hit a Homerun YouTube video by Timothy Quinlan

youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=Nv-FcxlEMaw&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dscore%2Ba%2Bstrike%2Bstrwaberry%2Bsimpsons%26sca_esv%3Dce1d9c6da6b8c5e1%26rlz%3D1C5CHFA_enUS999US1004%26sxsrf%3DANbL&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY me giving nuanced prompts

05.03.2026 12:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At this point Pearl Harbor is a day that will live on in nornalcy

05.03.2026 07:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Though I suppose another way of seeing this is that people would have been much more distrustful of anybody who wasn't from the immediate area.

04.03.2026 21:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In middle ages there was this hue and cry thing where basically people would try to keep continuously shouting that the guy had committed the crime as he moved around until he was caught, like a distributed surveillance thing. I don't think it worked too well

04.03.2026 21:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
That Mitchell and Webb Look - The caveman police
That Mitchell and Webb Look - The caveman police YouTube video by 48bytes

youtu.be/Vv5E5H9VMDY?...

04.03.2026 21:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Uhhhh thanks!

04.03.2026 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I couldn't get into it for some reason

04.03.2026 17:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I guess three day of the condor has a similar vibe. But what else

04.03.2026 17:35 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

I just rewatched Day of the Jackal 1973 and i love the old police procedural, before everything is the security camera footage, the DNA, and the cell phone record

04.03.2026 16:55 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

well i mean, if you're selling oranges, not much sense asking how good a cider they make

04.03.2026 00:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent

03.03.2026 11:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

can you point me to it, when i search for it i get a bunch of actual entreprenur pages and it's really hard to distinguish the parody from the real ones

03.03.2026 10:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Blackadder   How did World War I Begin
Blackadder How did World War I Begin YouTube video by 63CAMART

youtu.be/tGxAYeeyoIc?...

03.03.2026 08:24 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Eros Brousson: French Influencer Ditching High Taxes for Texas Entrepreneurship | Sweet Tea Series
Eros Brousson: French Influencer Ditching High Taxes for Texas Entrepreneurship | Sweet Tea Series YouTube video by Texas Public Policy Foundation

youtu.be/e__qvc3b11s?... I saw this interview where the guy said "oh in France people resent you if you make money" and I mean do they though. Or do they just find it uninteresting and you keep bringing it up

03.03.2026 07:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Hey but it scales

03.03.2026 07:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's the whole thing. His confidence in the fact he's imparting wisdom. "Is there an art to placing vending machines?"

03.03.2026 07:24 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe it's only funny with my twisted sense of humor

03.03.2026 06:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Friend Makes 7 Figures Yearly With Vending Machines! #shorts
Friend Makes 7 Figures Yearly With Vending Machines! #shorts YouTube video by MARVS JUMANOY

This is possibly the funniest clip ever. You have to watch it at least three times back to back, focusing, to find the humor, but when it becomes funny it's like those 3d things where you need to cross your eyes youtube.com/shorts/3LrBn...

03.03.2026 06:39 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

I have a weakness. And my weakness is that when I see somebody post a dumbass take, even though I know they're just engagement farming, a part of me keeps thinking they're a dumbass.

02.03.2026 17:40 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Social media erodes and threatens democracy worldwide, and it also gives us a venue for beautiful, amazing stuff like this:

01.03.2026 16:01 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

“If you're not going to be part of the solution, you're going to be part of the precipitate.”

Threads like this are so good:

01.03.2026 16:13 👍 66 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1