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that Patriarch Mar Awa III of the Assyrian Church of the East is born in Chicago and is a fan of the Chicago Cubs. In a bit of good-natured trolling while visiting the Vatican last October, he gifted Pope Leo XIV with a custom Cubs jersey with “Leo” and “14” on the back. The Pope is a noted fan of the rival Chicago White Sox. ⚾️

https://ewtnvatican.com/articles/pope-leo-cubs-jersey-mar-awa

that West Africa had groundnuts before the peanut arrived from the Americas. They are still cultivated. "An underutilized crop, farmed mostly by women." says the search result summary. Thanks Gemini. I'm sure you think you're being helpful.

Reminds me of a physical anthropology observation that US Southern agricultural field workers had better diets during an economic downturn when they ate from garden plots rather than from industrially milled grain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna_subterranea

Omgggg I've been wondering if there's a way to search through my own posts and I just saw a tip today on how to do it.

Just type from:@[your full user id] and then your search term.

Holy carp.

Toot, the terminal client for Mastodon / Fediverse

No, I don't want dubbed English, , so I am posting an Invidio.us link. Not that understand German, but with this video, the text make it clear. That and Youtube dubbing is just distracting for my brain.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=x_V9rMyO9KM

about Renfrew Christie - a South African scholar who worked undercover to discover their budding nuclear program. He was caught and conivcted on terrorism charges. After being tortured, he used his forced confession to relay to the ANC how to sabatoge the program - and it worked, key infrastructure was bombed while he was still in prison.

> Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/world/africa/renfrew-christie-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.l_uO.quxTSV0lHbGV&smid=url-share

I learned a fun new French saying today: "ne pas casser trois pattes à un canard" (to not break three feet of a duck), meaning to be nothing out of the ordinary.

So random. It in fact breaks three feet of a duck 🤣

Although I don't know why anyone would want to break any ducks' legs! Leave the ducks and their legs alone, you monsters 😭