For thousands of years, fermenting beer was considered a household task for #women.

By the Middle Ages, some sold beer at English markets. Female brewers wore tall, pointy hats to be easily spotted. They stood by cauldrons & often had cats to keep mice away.

Sound familiar? It should.

You see, when male brewers felt threatened, they accused the women of witchcraft. These rumors may have led to some witch iconography we still recognize today.

https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-dominate-the-beer-industry-until-the-witch-accusations-started-pouring-in-155940 #history #HistoryRemix

Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

BIG MOMENT: The House has passed the Puerto Rico Status Act, which would end the colonization of Puerto Rico.

The people of PR should be in command of their political destiny. I proudly voted for it and will continue to be a voice for PR in Congress.

RT from Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter)

Sources: Jets doctors will not clear QB Mike White for contact before Sunday’s game vs. Detroit and thus Zach Wilson will start against the Lions. White wanted to play and has practiced but Jets doctors are not signing off. Thus, Wilson is back as the Jets’ starting QB.

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

Elon Musk is whining about how his private jet is being tracked and banning journalists who cover it, claiming they're evading his no doxxing rule.

Musk claims it's about protecting private information.

But this past weekend, he met with fringe epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and the Hoover Institution, who tweeted out my phone number to his hundreds of thousands of followers. Musk apparently promised him "access" to Twiter...

What a charlatan.

Kino Lorber Puts Online 50 Free Films

Watch Classics by Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Taika Waititi & Other Major Filmmakers

https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/kino-lorber-puts-online-50-free-films.html