Martial’s advice on #Saturnalia gifts continues in his epigrams 13.9: “Receive these Egyptian lentils, a gift from Pelusium; if they are not so good as barley, they are better than beans.” Sounds a little unfair to barley and beans but we’ll definitely accept lentils.

#AncientRome #AncientBluesky🏺

Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

Funny because true.

There IS a left-wing agenda, and it’s to prioritize compassion over greed. Kindness isn't a limited resource.

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

WTF is going on here at Blue Sky? People are civil to each other. People having intelligent discussions. People are spelling things correctly. I haven’t seen any racism or sexism.

I’m confused.