• schmorp@slrpnk.net
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    16 hours ago

    How did I end up spending part of my Tuesday reading a scientific study about legal handling of sex with animals in early modern Russia? Wonders of the internet, and yes it fits the community.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    17 hours ago

    After the investigation was concluded, Iona was charged with leaving his monastery without permission (pobeg), intricate and inverted miracles (vymyshlennye i zateinye chudesa), fantastic nonsense (svoemudrstvennye bredni), utter insolence and the filthy crime of sex with an animal (pakost’ skotolozhstva)

    “What are you in for?”

    “Fantastic nonsense, silliness, goofin’ around, bein’ a lil’ stinker, and the filthy crime of sex with an animal.”