Justin Lay
@justinlay.bsky.social
Once a defender of Stanley Lord, now a staunch opponent.
It was in a book I read a year ago (I think Alan Taylor) where I was wowed by the fact that Charleston and what became South Carolina was originally colonized by whites, not from England but from the plantations of Barbados where they were crowded out. Wowed but also yeah, totally makes sense.
I'm writing a Past Lives episode on the Indian slave trade in Colonial America and I didn't realize that Charleston was the entrepot for exporting tens of thousands of enslaved indigenous people everywhere from Boston to Barbados, not just importing enslaved Africans
February 8, 2026 at 1:28 AM
It was in a book I read a year ago (I think Alan Taylor) where I was wowed by the fact that Charleston and what became South Carolina was originally colonized by whites, not from England but from the plantations of Barbados where they were crowded out. Wowed but also yeah, totally makes sense.
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January 31, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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There was no legislation to vote for; Goering as Prussian police chief reshuffled existing agencies into something he called the Gestapo. And anyway by then the German parliament had already transferred full legislative and funding powers to Hitler, thus rendering itself totally irrelevant.
I don’t know which conservative Democrats need to hear this history lesson, but the German elected officials who voted to fund the Gestapo were considered Nazi collaborators.
History is watching.
History is watching.
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 AM
There was no legislation to vote for; Goering as Prussian police chief reshuffled existing agencies into something he called the Gestapo. And anyway by then the German parliament had already transferred full legislative and funding powers to Hitler, thus rendering itself totally irrelevant.
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It’s ravioli night, my dudes.
January 8, 2026 at 3:33 AM
It’s ravioli night, my dudes.
Dial-up internet connection
Cable internet connection
Uh
New England Republicans
and
oh
Southern Democrats
Cable internet connection
Uh
New England Republicans
and
oh
Southern Democrats
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Dial-up internet connection
Cable internet connection
Uh
New England Republicans
and
oh
Southern Democrats
Cable internet connection
Uh
New England Republicans
and
oh
Southern Democrats
It’s ravioli night, my dudes.
January 8, 2026 at 3:33 AM
It’s ravioli night, my dudes.
Then, Donkey Kong Country 3 or Command and Conquer Red Alert.
Now, Command and Conquer Red Alert or Donkey Kong Country 3.
Now, Command and Conquer Red Alert or Donkey Kong Country 3.
Now we come to the furthest back I'll go, the year of my birth
Quote this with your favourite game from 1996 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Quote this with your favourite game from 1996 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Then, Donkey Kong Country 3 or Command and Conquer Red Alert.
Now, Command and Conquer Red Alert or Donkey Kong Country 3.
Now, Command and Conquer Red Alert or Donkey Kong Country 3.
Then, either Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings or Red Alert 2.
Now, SimCity 3000.
Now, SimCity 3000.
Quote this with your favourite game from 2000 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 4, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Then, either Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings or Red Alert 2.
Now, SimCity 3000.
Now, SimCity 3000.
Just checked and Paul Bremer is still here in case they need someone with civilian proconsul experience.
January 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Just checked and Paul Bremer is still here in case they need someone with civilian proconsul experience.
Neville Chamberlain i think it was mistook him for the doorman at the Berghof.
otoh imagine hearing all the stuff about 'the Fuhrer' in historical drama and then seeing Hitler and being like "Him? That guy?"
Starting an adult with Andor is crazy. Imagine hearing about the Emperor in meetings and then three or four movies later you find out he looks a thousand years old and shoots lightning out of his little T Rex arms.
January 2, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Neville Chamberlain i think it was mistook him for the doorman at the Berghof.
This is so obviously James May, do not even deny it
Adults who spend fortunes on Lego are gullible fools. For a mere pittance in comparison, nothing can beat the joy of interpreting the instructions, building, painting and completing a good plastic model kit
December 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is so obviously James May, do not even deny it
Given that today is Sunday December 7th
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Given that today is Sunday December 7th
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
53 days in a period described as the ‘Thousand Year Reich’. A beach pebble in the Great Lakes-level stretch of time.
Hitler was appointed - not elected - Chancellor in January 1933. The Enabling Act, allowing laws to be put in place without the legislature, was pushed through in March.
53 days.
So, yeah, pretty much overnight.
53 days.
So, yeah, pretty much overnight.
No it didn’t lol they didn’t just wake up one day & say we’re going to have a third Reich & by the next day it was there ffs
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
53 days in a period described as the ‘Thousand Year Reich’. A beach pebble in the Great Lakes-level stretch of time.
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The Man With the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton, Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, 1974)
It's wild that from 1962 until 1987 there was only one good Bond movie
October 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Man With the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton, Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, 1974)
Not sure the Night of the Long Knives is the right comparison here. And the Beer Hall Putsch definitely isn’t.
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Not sure the Night of the Long Knives is the right comparison here. And the Beer Hall Putsch definitely isn’t.
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This will lose Cuomo votes. I'm not kidding.
Breaking News: Mayor Eric Adams will endorse Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City to try to stop the momentum of Zohran Mamdani. nyti.ms/4nfliHv
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This will lose Cuomo votes. I'm not kidding.
President Nixon.
Jesus.
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
President Nixon.
Had forgotten how utterly addicting Mini Metro is.
October 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Had forgotten how utterly addicting Mini Metro is.
The Treaty of Versailles (28th June 1919, colorized)
It's not that Stephen Miller was bullied. He wasn't bullied enough. There is probably a curve there where minimal bullying creates a worse outcome than more stringent bullying.
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The Treaty of Versailles (28th June 1919, colorized)
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TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!
Eric Finch is the protagonist and the main hero of V For Vendetta. Not Evey, definitely not V.
Eric.
Eric.
The moment in V FOR VENDETTA when Finch figures out that V has already successfully systematically anyone who could identify him is some good shit
September 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Eric Finch is the protagonist and the main hero of V For Vendetta. Not Evey, definitely not V.
Eric.
Eric.
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Read theory
September 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Read theory
Why is it always the bus I’m waiting for the one that’s late? Nobody else’s, just mine.
September 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Why is it always the bus I’m waiting for the one that’s late? Nobody else’s, just mine.