Yeah, did that. Everyday, and twice on Sundays. No big deal. (đź‘€)
“It isn’t that much of a stretch to go from the silencing of a cartoonist through threats or legal actions, to a broader censoring of free speech. Maybe you and your friends are just sitting around having coffee, talking about politics. Maybe you tell a joke about the president or prime minister, or even just about a local politician. Maybe someone reports you…which results in you having to answer questions from the authorities about your political beliefs. And the next time you don’t tell that joke or talk freely in a public setting.” (from Ann Telnaes’ Press Freedom lecture in the Netherlands. Click through to read her whole speech. It’s worth it.)
Imaginative illustrations of lines from classic works from Obvious State. I am seriously pleased. Click through to see their whole gallery. (Now where on my walls could I hang how many of these? They illustrate books, too.)
Quote: “A team of over 100 scientists achieved what was once declared “impossible,” mapping 200,000 brain cells and 523 million connections within a cubic millimeter of mouse brain. This study is absolutely extraordinary – the level of detail defies belief. Brains are COMPLICATED.” NYT gift link (via Fix the News)
“Lufthansa Group’s Airlines Have Accidentally Rebuilt The Holy Roman Empire.” Heh. (from Brilliant Maps)
Quote for the day:
Not that the majority of Renaissance cardinals were particularly well-suited to the priesthood, but Cesare was extra-badly-suited to it. He was a manipulative, violent, self-centered little shit whose greatest ambition in life was to get up on a horse, brandish a sword, and stab as many people as possible. And now he was trapped inside the Vatican in a velvet bathrobe speaking Latin and pretending to pray while his shithead little brother Juan got to live out Cesare’s dream of stabbing everybody.–Allison Epstein
From Dirtbags Through the Ages. (h/t BarbaraP)
Outro…
Chatter Lagniappe Sunday ann telnaes Daulton Varsho dirtbags through the ages literary art prints mapping mouse brains maps Obvious State