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History, Really Random Stuff Posted onOctober 17, 2022

Harry Styles is a college class!

This isn’t a weird fandom worship of Harry Styles.

This is actually a course on how pop-culture can formulate a cult-like mentality, and how that mentality impacts the social mechanics of society.

Cemetery Project, Death, History, My daily life, Really Random Stuff Posted onJune 22, 2022June 22, 2022

Four more headstones rescued from Mother Nature’s clutches

Recap: I clear out overgrown gravestones in my local cemetery. Link: I Fought the Nature, and I Won! Link: Hanging Out in an Old Graveyard […] Read More

Autistic Life, Cemetery Project, Death, History, My daily life, Nature, Really Random Stuff Posted onJune 22, 2022June 22, 2022

Hanging out in an old graveyard

Recap: I go to my local graveyard to clean up overgrown graves. Link: I fought the nature . I’m really loving my graveyard adventures, so […] Read More

Autistic Life, Cemetery Project, Death, History, My daily life, Nature Posted onMay 23, 2022June 22, 2022

I fought the nature, and I won!

I go to my local graveyard to clean up overgrown graves. I thought I’d share my experience with today’s grave cleaning. This is a mixture […] Read More

Death, History, Really Random Stuff Posted onNovember 17, 2021

Extremely unusual causes of death recorded in history

I had a dream that I was a historian, looking through an archive of death certificates from the 1600s. I don’t remember why anymore, but […] Read More

History, Mental Health Posted onNovember 15, 2021

Why some people fake tragedies for attention

This is going to go into attention-seeking behaviors, and cases of lying FOR ATTENTION, not pathological lying in its entirety. That would be too long. […] Read More

History, Really Random Stuff Posted onSeptember 8, 2021October 7, 2021

Delicious Chocolate!!!

I don’t know if meme “dump” is the correct term, but it was easier to format than when I tried “meme album.” The gist: This […] Read More

History, Shipwrecks Posted onAugust 13, 2021February 11, 2022

What could have saved the RMS Titanic? Nothing.

The red lines are the height of the watertight compartments, and the purple line is the height of the top deck. I want to thank […] Read More

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