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But what was the reason for Henry’s condemnation by the University to five and a half centuries of infamy? It was a murder. In 1242 he and a number of other men of the town of Oxford were found guilty of murdering a student of the University. Henry and his accomplices were fined £80 by King Henry III in May 1242 and were made to leave Oxford as a result, forced to stay away (and allowed no closer than Northampton) at least until the King returned from abroad.

Further research is needed to discover the exact details of what happened here but it seems that Henry Symeonis had bought the King’s pardon and his permission to return to Oxford. The King was willing to allow his return if the University agreed to it. But the University refused and chose to ignore the King’s order of 25 March 1264, resuming its hostility to Henry Symeonis. In fact, it felt so strongly about it, that it gave Henry Symeonis the unique honour of being named in its own statutes, making the University’s dislike of him official and perpetual.

Same here basically, cross-eyed viewing is super easy for me but I have to work for minutes to perform wall-eyed viewing. I was really excited to see a post with cross-eyed stereograms.

I AM THE PARK!

Thank you for loving her.

Did you all hear the recent announcement that they’re making a Spaceballs 2? It’s scheduled for 2027. Bill Pullman (Lone Starr), Daphne Zuniga (Vespa), Rick Moranis (Dark Helmet) and Mel Brooks (Yogurt) are all returning, alongside new characters played by Lewis Pullman (Bill’s real son), Josh Gad and Keke Palmer. I’m not even joking.

https://deadline.com/2025/06/spaceballs-2-casts-rick-moranis-bill-pullman-keke-palmer-1236431204/

But if they were just re-using old recordings of her as Peach saying “Yeah!”, there’s every chance she wouldn’t get a call for that at all. Not getting a call back for the new Mario Kart doesn’t immediately mean “I’m not Peach any more,” until the game comes out and it becomes clear they haven’t used archive recordings and somebody else is Peach in it.

On the day before launch, she was basically Schrodinger’s Peach: “I haven’t recorded any new lines for this one, so I’m either in this game via archive recordings or I’ve been replaced.” She doesn’t need a phone call for either of those to be true.

I feel like Mario Kart is a bit ambiguous, there’s always the potential they could just re-use voice work from a previous entry rather than bringing all the actors in to go “Whoa! Ha-ha-ha. Luigi number one!” I don’t know if they still do this, but in the N64 era a lot of the same samples were used for Mario Kart, Mario Party, maybe other stuff, so the actors wouldn’t have been involved after the original recording sessions.

I guess the upside of dedicated communities like this is not having to explicitly tell people “If you don’t fall into this specific group, go die in a fire, I don’t want your input.” Which, as far as I know, is the most polite way you can phrase that.

*pushes up glasses, engages nasal voice* Technically, the Beach Boys had an Electro-Theremin, which produces a similar sound but with less hand-waving. The Electro-Theremin used a pitch slider and a volume knob to control its output.

Well, have you tried bending over in skinny jeans?

I’m not the president of genetics, but dire wolves are apparently super different to present-day wolves. They’re not even in the Canis genus. Regular grey wolves are Canis lupus and dire wolves are Aenocyon dirus. Canis and Aenocyon split off from a common ancestor 5.7 million years ago.

To create these new dire wolves, scientists modified 14 genes to express traits they considered to simulate the appearance of dire wolves–I specifically say simulate because in at least one case (the white coat), they took a gene from regular ass-dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) rather than replicating the original dire wolf coat.

I’m guessing, but there’s probably more than 14 genes that changed since these two species diverged almost 6 million years ago. These wolves are almost certainly much, much closer to Canis lupus than Aenocyon dirus.

Sources:

• Dire wolf, subsection DNA evidence - Wikipedia
• Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi - Wikipedia

And welcome to the jam.

Now we know who dropped the bombs.

We’ll just tell your mother that we ate it all.

The impression of legitimacy enjoyed by chiropractic is too damn high. I was well into my 20s before I ever heard a single word about it being pseudoscience. Walking around (usually on people’s fucking spines) calling themselves doctors, I absolutely believed it was just some sub-variety of physiotherapy, which I guess is the point. In the whole universe of alternative medicine, I think that has to be the practice which has most effectively disguised itself as conventional medicine. It’s gross.

My guess is that there’s a bot (or very bored person) monitoring a few major communities and they just DM everybody who posts there. I took a bit of a break from social media a while ago and the first time I commented after that, two fediverse chick DMs. Seems like they are responding to activity.

How many have you been in now?

More snow.

So it’s awkward to make the distinction (“I think not being racist is the new racism”), but based on that article, it does seem to be the first romantic kiss–I know it’s mind control in the episode, stop picking at me mid-sentence–on US television between black and white people specifically. The previous examples were arguably less taboo for their time, being between Hispanic and white and Asian and white partners. They each represent their own milestones.

I think part of the confusion probably comes from the fact that “interracial” is sometimes used specifically to refer to black and white pairings, so when people say it’s the “first interracial kiss”, that is what they mean. This is an incorrect usage and dismissive of other interracial pairings, but I don’t know if there’s a more specific word for different pairings and you sound like a creep drilling down into the subject this much, as you can see from this comment right now.

I know not everybody contemplates the messages found in their preferred media, but it’s hard to imagine someone who thinks like that finding anything to like about Star Trek.