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Glaswegian. Autistic. SPD. EDS. ADHD. Capaldian. Whovian. Browncoat. For Scottish Independence.
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today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.

His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing

so basically the five people who wanted to uphold his exile were in the right

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"No climate justice on occupied land"

They switched up from golf clapping to police brutality real quick when she started talking about their racism.

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teaboot

Hi!! Wrist locks are incredible painful and pose high risk of damaging the wrist even between consenting sparring partners who can tap out at any time!

In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, it is illegal to wrist lock anyone below blue belt and anyone in the juvenile division!

We need to be pissed about this

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Ngl this is kinda hilarious

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tumakhunter

Makes sense. I mean, a passenger of a cruise line isn't called a sailor, right? Astronaut literally means "star sailor."

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graymooncult

OP how could you not include the first paragraph of the article

Huge oversight on my part you're absolutely right

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lrgcarter

I also like how in the photo it looks like Richard Branson is casually carrying a severed head under his arm.

Oh, also,

More like astro-naughts, amiright?

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rhube

If that's Richard Branson then the rich really have found the secret of eternal youth.

Agree about the severed heard, tho.

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heartofaspen

twelve really is the best doctor... he plays electric guitar. loses his sonic screwdriver so logically the next best thing is sonic sunglasses. in season eight after clara gives a beautiful emotional monologue about life in the stars with him and why she has to give it up he says "ok can i talk about planets now." clara wrote cards to help him be more sympathetic towards people during their adventures. in season nine he starts calling himself doctor disco for no discernible reason. he becomes a professor and he's so brilliant that the university just lets him lecture about whatever the fuck he wants. iconic. showstopping. who is he

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neil-gaiman

Hi Mr Gaiman!

What’s your opinion on people saying someone is only a real fan of something if they consumed all of the available media of that thing? (e.g. “you aren’t a real fan of sandman if you only watched the netflix series”)

I feel like more and more people do this to sort of gate keep otherwise amazing fandoms and personally i think it’s quite sad to see.

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As I posted on a more or less dead site a couple of years ago:

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coppicegate

Ah Neil said something about real fans way back in 2014, that has stayed with me all these years

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