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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Tommyknocker.
The tommyknockers were the gnomes of Wisconsin's early Cornish immigrants, who settled in the Driftless Area during Wisconsin's early history in order to work the lead mines.
Tommyknockers were the magical little people who aided the lead miners, warning them of cave ins by tapping on rocks, or leading the miners to rich veins of lead. In exchange, miners would leave some of their pasty crusts in the mines as an offering to the knockers.
Tommyknockers believed in so strongly and were considered so vital to mining by Cornish-Wisconsinites, that it was reported that Cornish miners would refuse to enter a new mine unless they had been assured that there were already tommyknockers down within it.
However, if the miners neglected their mine's tommyknockers, they would cause problems. They could throw stones at the miners, steal helmets, and even tamper with dynamite fuses. So if you're a miner, make sure you leave out a pasty crust or too as an offering!
The tommyknockers were the gnomes of Wisconsin's early Cornish immigrants, who settled in the Driftless Area during Wisconsin's early history in order to work the lead mines.
Tommyknockers were the magical little people who aided the lead miners, warning them of cave ins by tapping on rocks, or leading the miners to rich veins of lead. In exchange, miners would leave some of their pasty crusts in the mines as an offering to the knockers.
Tommyknockers believed in so strongly and were considered so vital to mining by Cornish-Wisconsinites, that it was reported that Cornish miners would refuse to enter a new mine unless they had been assured that there were already tommyknockers down within it.
However, if the miners neglected their mine's tommyknockers, they would cause problems. They could throw stones at the miners, steal helmets, and even tamper with dynamite fuses. So if you're a miner, make sure you leave out a pasty crust or too as an offering!
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"It is tempting to try for the best of both worlds—to restrict the privacy of bad people while protecting that of good, permit governments to collect detailed information about us but only allow it to be used for good purposes. But somebody must decide who are the good people and the bad, what purposes are worthy or unworthy. Whoever that somebody is will have his own agenda, his own purposes. Angels are in short supply."
— David D. Friedman (The Case for Privacy, 2005)
#privacy
— David D. Friedman (The Case for Privacy, 2005)
#privacy
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🇬🇧🇸🇩 The level of hatred required to do this to an innocent man is incomprehensible
Left: Attacker Hadi Alodid, 30
Right: Victim Stephen Ogilvie, 44
(3/4)
But for the trained reasoner to
admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was
to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental
results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power
lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as
his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene
Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
(2/4)
He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and
observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed
himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a
gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer—excellent for
drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions.
(1/4)
And now a test with more than 500 characters.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her
under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her
sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All
emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but
admirably balanced mind.
(1/1)
Testing a vibe coded mastodon client.
I find it very annoying that neither Jolla nor furilabs answer emails.
I wonder if it is a process issue, they are not used to email and customer questions, or if they are so popular they feel they can just avoid annoying questions?
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Interesting link between Calhouns mouse experiments and the decline of the roman empire due to decreasing fertility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=AeTfKDmfMA0
Never heard about the roman angle before, and that it possibly reinforces Calhouns experiments.
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"My daughter always said she preferred dogs. Today we adopted a cat and this happened"
https://x.com/DanRamo07555230/status/2064478004252676257
https://nitter.poast.org/DanRamo07555230/status/2064478004252676257
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Familjen enligt Galenskaparna & After Shave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZqI1WbKT24 .
Briljant boktitel, staten ska ge fan i mina pengar!
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