“It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well.”

Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott

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Too Late for Swanson

Note from 2022 Rachel: This link is dead and I have literally no memory of this, so I still have no idea what this means.

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I’m not sure what it means, but I like it.

Too Late for Swanson!

I always wondered where this came from

cakewalk (plural cakewalks)

1. A contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers
2. (music) The style of music associated with such a contest.
3. The dance, or style of dance associated with such a contest.
4. Something that is easy or simple, or does not present any great challenge.

Etymology

Originally a form of dance that white masters had their slaves perform for them and their audiences as entertainment. The slaveowners considered the spectacle extremely amusing since the dances derived from sophisticated white European aristocracy. As such, slaveowners dressed the slaves in costumes of exaggerated finery, like ridiculously tall tophats and flashy striped pants, and taught the slaves variations of the original dance steps designed as highly comical parodies. Audiences selected their favorites, and the slaves who performed most entertainingly for their masters were rewarded with a piece of cake. [wiktionary.org]

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Note from 2022 Rachel: Why did I like these

I did not get off the Internet.

Starting a new twitter meme. #advicebooks

–Note from 2022 Rachel: This should’ve caught on

Happy “Lisa Gets Married in the Future” Day! via @samreich.

via Popurls

 1983, via reddit.

Evening GPOYW. My shirt is irrelephant.

Top Seven Actors Who Were Briefly Awesome

“Lohan is the only one on this list that took herself out of the equation. She was awesome in Mean Girls, but her habit of showing up three days and coked up late quickly turned her from bankable into tabloid fodder. She’s now in jail, which may be the safest place for her. Certainly safer than making a sequel to I Know Who Killed Me.”

Sonnet, by C. B. Trail

Note from 2022 Rachel: For some reason this makes me remember how old I felt, the summer before law school. I was not.

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This is for the afternoon we lay in the leaves

After it had been winter for half a year,

And I kissed you and unbuttoned your jeans

And touched you and made you smile, my dear.

And of all the good things that love means,

One of them is to touch you there

And make you smile, among the leaves,

And feel your wetness and your sweet short hair,

And kiss your breasts and put my tongue

Into the delirium between your soft pale thighs,

Because the winter has been much too long

And soon will come again, when this love dies.

I will hear sermons preached, and some of them be true,

But I will not regret that afternoon with you.