Sensible Endowment

all these tagline suggestions are too damn long to fit anywhere

Doing some maintenance. -steele

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Tuesday, 8 September 2026

quote [ Nearly a century before the Vietnam War, the United States undertook one of its first military interventions in East Asia. It was not a full-scale campaign, and it lasted only a single day. Its opponent was not a modern army but the indigenous Paiwan people of southern Taiwan. ]

But they don't like that much cause it's called Formosa

[SFW] [history]	[+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT]		[0 comments]

Monday, 7 September 2026

At the Conformation Show: Chasing the Ideal Dog

quote [ The Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Virginia, lies on a few hundred acres of flat land abutted by farms and an amusement park called Kings Dominion. It’s the kind of place where animals and vegetables get sorted out. ]

Unleashing the dogs would be ideal

[SFW] [people]	[+1 WTF]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT]		[0 comments]

Sunday, 6 September 2026

Memory Architecture

quote [ Devotion to a Florida home ]

They'll send us away to a little home in Florida

[SFW] [people]	[+1 Underrated]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT]		[0 comments]

Saturday, 5 September 2026

‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T

quote [ He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight? ]

I ain't Mr. T, nah, I never pity fools

[SFW] [people]	[+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT]		[0 comments]

Friday, 4 September 2026

The Palace That Was Mostly Guessed

quote [ What I found at Knossos was less Bronze Age palace, more one man's very confident guess ]

And I said we’re gonna find some bitches up at Knossos

[SFW] [history]	[+2]
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Thursday, 3 September 2026

Record baby boom brings world’s heaviest parrot back from the brink

quote [ A record 90 chicks have been added to the population count of the kakapo parrot in New Zealand, delighting conservationists. ]

The curiously named Kakapo

[SFW] [environment & nature]	[+2 Good]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT]		[3 comments]

Wednesday, 2 September 2026

For Many Americans, Covid Is Still a Chronic, Disabling Disease. These Scientists Are Working Tirelessly to Bring Them Relief

quote [ Long Covid saps the strength and vitality of patients, who have little recourse to fight it. A team of specialists—including an afflicted researcher working mostly from her bed—is looking for answers ]

I'm doin' what COVID did, they'll never get over it

[SFW] [health]	[+3 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:02amGMT]		[0 comments]

Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Why We Like Things

quote [ What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste. ]

I like shiny things,

[SFW] [people]	[+3 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT]		[0 comments]

Monday, 31 August 2026

Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years – here’s how my team made the discovery

quote [ Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño’s intensifying coincides with global warming. ]

I'm 'bout to go El Niño (yeah)

[SFW] [environment & nature]	[+1 Insightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT]		[0 comments]

Sunday, 30 August 2026

Card Sharks

quote [ American Greetings turned Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears into cartoon stars, proving the greeting card-to-TV pipeline was a hit. ]

cheap greeting cards, hollywood films

[SFW] [history]	[+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT]		[1 comment]

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