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Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The awesome Taylor Lorenz reports this on Mastadon. Highly recommend to follow her if you like these updates about what's going on.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Queen Cleopatra is a very recent example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_race_controversy Her race is actually heavily debated by historians, so that's not a very clear cut example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From the article you linked it seems that historians by and large agree she was of Greek descent with a bit of Persian ancestry, and a bunch of laypeople are heavily debating them on it.