I can't believe they bergentrückunged Napoleon

Emperor Napoleon Is Still Alive For many years following the death of Emperor Napoleon it was believed in Strasbourg, and indeed throughout Alsace, that he had not died in St. Helena -- that this was a dishonest fabrication of his enemies. The people say that he is still alive and will return with the Moors and the Turks and then in new splendor and with new power ascend to his throne and rule the world. Source (books.google.com): August Stöber, "Kaiser Napoleon lebt noch," Die Sagen des Elsasses, nach der Volksüberlieferung und den Chroniken (St. Gallen: Druck und Verlag von Scheitlin & Zollikofer, 1851), no. 326, p. 441. Source (Internet Archive): August Stöber, "Kaiser Napoleon lebt noch," Die Sagen des Elsasses, nach der Volksüberlieferung und den Chroniken (St. Gallen: Druck und Verlag von Scheitlin & Zollikofer, 1851), no. 326, p. 441.

(from Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts)

Stop✋️ using🤳 anti-self❌️🙋 language 🗣

Saw this on twitter honestly loosing my mind over it.

https://x.com/mekklord/status/1778678608543752285

While the name might lead you to believe otherwise, the Thermidorian Reaction actually consumed energy.

software engineering is cute because if you apply principles you learn from any other kind of engineering you get a functioning airplane or a distillation column or something. but if you try to apply the bleeding-edge software engineering techniques you learned in school in the real world you just get into fights with other people

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Writing is not about 'telling an epic story' or 'making something that will outlive you'. Writing is about going "You know what would be fucking awesome?" and then committing word crimes

— Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack

I'm very happy to report that the traditional seafarer's ballad "Oh Cruel" now has a great Kate Rusby recording on Spotify!

I learned about this song when Marryat included some of the lyrics in Poor Jack, quoted above. I like Rusby's slightly different lyrics, singing "Haul away, boys, haul away" and not "tura-la, tura-la, tura-lara ley." This needs to go on every classic sea songs and shanties playlist!

Marryat's taste in music is generally good, and he was also credited with helping to revive the song "Spanish Ladies" when he included the lyrics in a popular novel.

i feel like. hmm. look. i'm a purely hobbyist, with no education or professional training in the field, so i might be talking out of my ass. but the fact that running python programs is extraordinarily sensitive to the specific installation of python you have, to the point where it now makes sense more often than not to create bespoke environments for each python program you want to run represents some kind of structural or conceptual failure. like. certainly the strength of python is the ability to create and easily use various modules/packages/whatever. but the fact that python scripts will cry and shit the bed and fail to work unless you have exactly the right little walled garden for them to frolick in seems like a problem. a fundamental failure of what is supposed to be a highly portable language. do other programming languages have this problem and i'm just not aware of it? or does it all come down to the fact that python isn't a compiled language like c++?

im tired of online discourse. look at this family of quails

But if your favorite character isn't on the floor panting and dying and in horrible pain in a terrible situation then what's even the point

I have a huge dump of napoleonic doodles inspired by actual and RP events (can you tell which?). Some of these are really old (before hiatus) but I’ll just put them here since I don’t think I’ll ever be able to properly color them all😢

Also bonus Soult’s brain frying: