alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

columbo the only police show in which innocent people are more likely to lawyer up than guilty people

@aschmitz augustus had them stop doing leap years for a while until it got back into sync when he noticed.

(obviously, by "important", i mean "funny")

an important thing to know about the ancient romans is that they couldn't fucking count

one could argue that they simply had a different convention by which they counted intervals inclusively (e.g. their 8 day cycle of market days being called "nundinae").

in counterpoint i offer that for the first thirty-six years after Julius Caesar reformed their calendar to have a regular leap day every four years, the priests in charge of the calendar accidentally did it every three years instead.

@Lady @Satsuma @wallhackio the nontrinitarian pentecostals do think that God = Holy Ghost = Jesus Christ. they just don't do the "3 persons" thing.

@Satsuma @wallhackio @Lady pentecostals at least care a lottt about the holy ghost. it's the bit that does the whole pentecost thing

william shatner really does sound just like the way people parodying him make him sound

@wallhackio the credit there should mostly go to mesoamerican humans

reminded that "work-for-hire" in US copyright law is counter-intuitively specific (and sometimes counter-to-some-people's-intuitons-ly broad)

rioplatense spanish is kinda relatively convenient for learning as a native english speaker.

since it saves on having to learn a couple of the not-present-in-english sounds used in many other dialects.

many speakers here don't distinguish /ñ/ from /nj/ (e.g. "cañón" is pronounced as "canion"). and of course, the famous sheísmo/zheísmo means that "ll" and "y" are pronounced with sounds already very familiar to english speakers (the english "sh" for most younger speakers of rioplatense)

little shop of horrors is fun

@wallhackio @Lady what do you have against edging

bridget christie had perhaps the best ever taskmaster task-performing outfit

@aescling but it's wrong :( it should be Ph|D

annoyed at the incorrect word-separating lines on 34 across. Ph.D. is not three words!