@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:
@ZachMRubin ("Zachary Rubin") wrote:
A Babylonian letter complains: "I wrote that pots needed to be brought over - but instead you sent straw! My lord, why did you send this?" This happened because the cuneiform signs for "pots" and "straw" are almost identical.
