there’s indigo and another plant that grows in europe and also makes indigo but less, so you can just farm this thing, unlike purple dye that requires tons of work, and depending on period it was used by commoners (before 1200 or so, in western europe)

it’s a bit funny to look at this today, but woad (that euro indigo) trade was a big deal, it got protected by tariffs and blockades and diplomacy, and all for nothing, ultimately both woad and indigo farming was completely destroyed by synthetic indigo production. indigo wasn’t first/easiest dye to make, but it’s far from the most complex thing you can cook, even in 1900s. prussian blue is much cheaper than synthetic indigo anyway

blue leds may fuck up your circadian rhytm but won’t give you ballsack cancer (probably)

i heard it’s because leds get brighter per mA but circuits don’t get updated and leds are fed the same current as 5, 10 years ago

waltuh

put down your guitar away waltuh

fedi is always broken, and if it’s not broken enough it’s a sign to start new software so that if lemmy federation is fixed you can have new and exciting problems with mbin/piefed/lemmy interactions

even worse if admin of remote instance with open signups is awol

there is an ukrainian soldier who shared footage from his raids and became sort of internet nanocelebrity on reddit because of it. at one point somebody made anime girl character based on him, and asked about opinion he said something to the effect of “i feel secure enough in my masculinity to jack off to this”