Perhaps they were just observing the holiday by also getting stinky dead marine life all over the place bsky.app/profile/ceph...

"Florence celebrates Exploding Whale Day annually at Exploding Whale Memorial Park. In 2024, the public was invited to build an altar for the exploded whale.[20]"

I love this part

Barring certain exceptions (language classes, and my undergrad law stuff) I get much more out of class by sitting and knitting than I do by taking notes. So that's what I do.

Before I got my first phone, there were a few years my dad kept his economist subscription just so I could read it! I think you’re on to something ngl

I've talked about this before, but A People's History of the United States. I was ~12 and here was a book that said "adults can lie, ask more questions, and history is told with an agenda." regardless of the book's actual conclusions (I don't remember well so can't say), a life-changing message

As someone who's been personally fucked over by the supreme court in the past week (X passport holder in the middle of a name change)-reasonable reporting on this was important! things are bad enough we don't need to make up things to be afraid of