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'a confusing colonial side-show was also required by law, although usually it was given minimal publicity to conceal the fact that, next to the Blitherers, the local people looked absolutely fucking sick.'
Port Royal, another of the string of islands off the coast here, was one of the first places that the Emancipation Proclamation was...proclaimed, to a number of escaped/freed slaves living on the island, many of whom then joined the Union Army.
i hope there's a civil servant somewhere who has been developing increasingly magnificent plans for the robes the judges of the Antarctic Act Tribunal have to wear. showing up to adjudicate disputes regarding the withdrawal of permits for British Antarctic expeditions like
thinking today for some reason about how we would all think about history in general if the history of photography had been just slightly different. the great revolutionary year of 1848 all over Europe is juuuuuust too early for widespread photography so we see it like this.
looking at pinterest's predictions for 2022 and suffering major neurological trauma