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This is #EuropeanBios entry #59, Peter the Great. A metaphorical and also literal giant of a man, standing 6'8" (the European average at the time was a foot shorter), he

It's been far too long since my last #EuropeanBios thread, but getting married is very distracting! Entry #73 is Ada Lovelace, regarded as the first computer programmer, and I am

It's Sunday night so here's entry #38 in #EuropeanBios: our subject is Isabella of Castille, who was pretty awe-inspiring so I hope to do her justice. She overcame centuries of

Today my therapist asked "what if being wrong didn't automatically mean you are also worse as a person?" and my brain divided by zero and rebooted. A lot of my

There is a cognitive bias called the Focusing Illusion made famous by Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman, it can be summarized as: "Nothing in life is as important as it seems

This is what I'm going to call entry #31 in project #EuropeanBios but I just went and checked and discovered there were two #10s and also two #16s? Whatever, there's

Today I learned that in Brazil the number 24 is considered gay. This is because in Jogo de Bicho, a gambling game, all the numbers are associated with animals and

Our 29th entry in project #EuropeanBios is a short, sweet biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, an unassuming, modest but extremely charismatic man whose determination to be of service to

People talking about the Uighurs in China as if the US isn't in the middle of months and months of protests about the systemic discrimination against, persecution and extrajudicial murder

Pride month is nearly over and I want you, yes you, reading this right now to know: you're not alone. Those confusing feelings you have sometimes, you don't have to

The most-dreaded languages are also a regular rogue's gallery. God, people hate VBA. People still writing Perl in 2020 are probably at least partially to blame for their own suffering.

Just close your damn tabs, people. You're never going to get back to them.https://www.engadget.com/google-chrome-tab-groups-feature-164057759.html I usually have 5-10 tabs open and I close all of them at the end of