Okay, I'm occasionally dipping into the senate coverage today, and it's worth it to see Cory Booker chew this scenery even while exhausted. Booker is now on hour 20 or something of this "non-filibuster."

a) We just heard Senator Hirono from Hawaii say, "wtf comes to mind!" Priceless.
b) Today I learned that Cory Booker has a "favorite federalist paper." What a lovely nerd.
#TIL #USPol #USPolitics #CoryBooker

Cory Booker just yielded the floor to discuss M&Ms which were invented in New Jersey.
#TIL

#TIL that the word "transmogrify" has been around since the 1600s. And here I always thought Bill Watterson invented it just for #CalvinAndHobbes.

#transmogrification
#etymology
#EtymologyNerd
#EtymologyForever
#language
#linguistics

#TIL that #WordPad is being discontinued. MS is recommending that my fellow WordPadians migrate to Word, despite its absolute lack of pad. I realize the date, but this is actually real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad #software

#TIL: Der Begriff #Nazi war ursprünglich ein Kosename für Ignatz, was in Süddeutschland und Österreich ein gebräuchlicher Vorname war. Zudem war es auch eine abwertende Bezeichnung im Sinne von dumm, peinlich oder ungeschickt, wie es aktuell Horst ist.

Die #Nationalsozialisten wurden erst mit Naso abgekürzt und erst später von Gegnern als Nazis bezeichnet.

https://www.gespraechswert.de/sprachwandel-nazi-etymologisch/

TIL that #NellyFurtado's famous song Maneater is about Facebook- and Instagram-remorse.

"You wish you never ever Meta at all."

Ktoś tu… @kuba (?) kilka razy zwracał uwagę, że na alledrogo jak kupować na sztuki to wychodzi taniej niż w zestawie.

Dziś w końcu zapamiętałem, żeby sprawdzić przy okazji kociego żarcia.

Taniej nie jest, ale **odkrycie**
Bo w zestawach (jedynej marki akceptowanej przez zwierzę) w kółko tylko cztery „smaki”, a tu się okazuje, że tych smaków jest 8/9 (zależy jak liczyć).
Dlaczego te inne nie pojawiają się w zestawach? Pojęcia nie mam… :>

Aus der #SoLaWi Email:
"Topinambur [ist lecker und] hat [viele] Vorzüge, zum einen sind sie sehr schnellwüchsig und werden binnen kurzer Zeit über 2m hoch. Damit geben sie uns den notwendigen Windschutz, damit die feuchte und Co² gesättigte Luft in Bodennähe erhalten bleibt. [...] Falls Wühlmäuse auftreten, bevorzugen sie Topinambur und lassen alle andern Pflanzen unbeschädigt. Und die späte Blüte macht sie für Bienen und Hummeln so interessant."

Wieder was gelernt.

Well, #TIL the word "rooster" is a euphemism, from "one who roosts," due to the slang use of the proper term "cock."

Similarly, English doesn't have a word for what most would know as a "toilet" that *isn't* a euphemism. The word "toilet" originally referred to a dressing room. John, dunny, latrine, washroom, bathroom, privy, commode, water closet, etc. Every *single* one is a euphemism.

#TIL that the island of Sicily, off the coast of the Italian mainland, was an Islamic emirate between 831 and 107;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Sicily

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Always nice when software developers have thought of the thing you wanted already.

When #git on my laptop wants to talk to my machine at home (usually to continue work on something I left half-finished, append another commit or two, and push it back to my home checkout), it has to use #PuTTY rather than OpenSSH, because only my PuTTY configuration knows how to find its way to that machine. So I have to set either GIT_SSH or core.sshCommand to "plink". Ideally the latter, and only in the context of that one checkout.

What this _really_ needs, I thought, is an option to 'git clone' that will set an arbitrary 'git config' option early enough to affect the actual cloning operation, and then leave it set in the resulting checkout. That'd be perfect. I wonder if the git developers have thought to provide one?

And they have! #TIL 'git clone -c key=value'.

git clone -c core.sshCommand=plink my-home-machine:src/half-finished-thing

#TIL Le mot "mortgage" des anglo-saxons, signifiant hypothèque, est littéralement dérivé d'un terme médiéval, le mort-gage: https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/mort-gage

I've long known that classic Chinese red laquerware was coloured with cinnabar (mercury!).

But #TIL that Chinese yellow laquerware was colour3d with Orpiment (arsenic!).

These pigments were also used by painters through the 19th century.
#pigments #painting

I learnt today that if you type an equation into any text field on an iPhone it auto calculates it! Signal, Telegram, WA, iMessage, Notes. Anything. As soon as you enter the = it auto fills out the answer. #IOSTips #MathsOniPhone #TIL

#TIL about #FediPlays;

"like twitch plays but for peertube"

https://github.com/solidheron/Fedi-plays

I believe this is a project by @solidheron, along with @StreamRadar. Great to see this kind of creativity, building on top of existing fediverse tools.

#TIL about #SunVox from @audiointerface 's latest Forgotten Futures... I have not used this but it is purportedly accessibile on some vector and works across platforms including mobile.

https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/