@hannah I mean, they are sort of librarians, so they want you to know everything!

@hannah Treasury Bill (guy named William who's a finance bro)

@emily he’s just really into treasure. Like doubloons and shit

@hannah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_of_England sounds cool though, i would have liked to meet him

@emily @hannah Oh no there's a whole chain of succession to look through

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(chief_mouser)

@zompus @hannah i am now reading through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_cats and it is great

Youtube presented me a video of a policeman knocking on the door to get a cat let into Number 10 Downing St and then I fell into a hole reading about Larry and all of the other 'cats of British Government'.

@hannah thankfully, with my current ADHD meds, I can now just "open in new tab" on the cat and read it when I get a moment later.

@psymar @hannah SHUT UP. Nobody can just do that, can they? 🤯

@hannah I got to add the one on Mark Zuckerberg!

@hannah image for posterity

@hannah I also wrote the article about the lawyer!

@hannah works every time.

@hannah I typed in Rufus of England and just got some bullshit king. Give me the cat Wikipedia!

@hannah

wikipedia rabbit holes are cool. ideally fueled by caffeine

but you wind up some time later learning about shadow-traders

buildings required a human soul in the foundation

murder was out of style so this profession involved measuring stranger's shadows- the stranger was unaware of this. you sell the measurements to an architect, who would bury the measurements in a building's foundation. it was believed the stranger would soon die

then you close wikipedia

😳

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone#History

@benroyce @hannah
That’s a book idea right there.

@anguinea @hannah

it is. it's so fucking creepy

😬

@benroyce @hannah we should restore this tradition for software projects...I like the idea of adding the details of someone's shadow as a comment in the source in the hope that it'll improve quality and delivery deadlines

@stevel @hannah

the original idea, shadow or sacrifice, was that the ghost would haunt the building and protect it

you're saying we need... a ghost in the machine

@hannah I've loved this one since i stumbled across it a few months ago

@ojensen @hannah

"not to be confused with 'quesadilla.'"

i almost laugh-coughed my adams apple out!

quesadillas should be required to be cut into the shape of a k-cedilla.

@DubiousMaster I've never seen this letter before ​​

@hannah I def did this one on purpose, lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_v._Allen

@hannah Yeah, I'm not sure what I was doing 3 seconds ago, but I'm searching that now.