“A Victorian chatelaine is essentially a tool belt of a highly personal nature. Picture a Swiss Army knife crossed with a charm bracelet and you’ll start to get the idea. Nineteenth-century chatelaines are highly customized to suit the needs of their individual owners; the two elements they all share are the clip, which hangs them from their owner’s waist, and a series of chains hanging from that clip to tether various accessory tools.”
—Excerpted from This Victorian Life, by Sarah A. Chrisman, Skyhorse Publishing, 2015.
(via Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight)
Elon Musk:
richest man in the world in an era of unprecedented wealth disparity
child slaves working in mines
trying to overthrow a democratically-elected Socialist government in the global south
buying the most powerful communication tool of his era and using it to enforce his agenda
doesn’t pay any fucking taxes
yeah no one else will ever top that for being on-theme
Alien trading cards, 1979
A tribute to the yummiest controllers of all time.
I think about this every hour of every day of every month by the way
we teach girls to shrink themselves, to fit themselves more compactly in a transistor. we expect girls to double in processing efficiency every two years. we say to sufficiently advanced girls, you are indistinguishable from magic
He waited 14 hours for the squirrel to start his Rube Goldberg machine