What’s a pdf that most surprised you?

I remember it felt super difficult

That’s a neat trick, thanks for sharing

A few years ago, I read about how Mary Molony was an Irish Suffragette who disrupted a speech Winston Churchill was giving in Dundee by ringing a bell every time he tried to speak. She wanted him to apologise for remarks he had made about the women’s suffrage movement.

I remember when I read this, it reeked of something awesome that you find online that’s actually false (the story was shared on social media via a captioned photo with no sources), so I went digging for a proper source to check. I found some newspaper articles from 1908 and I learned that this event did happen, but also that people fucking hated Molony for this. There was a lot of “see, this is why everyone hates the Suffragettes”. (Sorry for saying this and then not sourcing)

It makes sense that people would be salty - Churchill was an asshole, but also a great orator, so I can see why one might be disappointed in missing the chance to see him speak, but I was shocked at the level of vitriol aimed at Molony and other Suffragettes from the time. Until this I hadn’t realised just how unpopular they were at the time. It’s drastically changed my perspective on protests and public perception.

I’m glad you asked this question, I’ve stagnated on my music discovery lately.

I’ve been a broken blob since a few months before COVID, and it’s been hard to get back to being myself, but I used to discover things through the live music scene. This isn’t practical advice though, because I was aware of what was going on because I was a drummer without a band, but a willingness to sub in whenever it was convenient. So many bands are desperate for a drummer that they’ll even take a mediocre one like me. It meant I got to play alongside and hang out with some really good bands (as well as some shit ones, but the live scene do be like that)