England has a radical history. Do people know it? Do the identity crowd know it, I wonder
Class struggle is historic, you're contributing to a historic movement, to those that had a go hundreds of years ago
This poem was written in the 17th century by an anonymous poet protesting the enclosure of common land in England
We live at a time when anyone over the age of, say, 20 who has a functional long term memory can tell you it's more than unfortunate weather; it's observable climate change year on year.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"
-George Orwell, 1984
Apparently there's an evolutionary theory that the reason why Africa has so much wild big-ass megafauna while the big-ass megafauna on all the other continents went extinct is because they evolved right beside humans, and knew us well enough to not get hunted into extinction.
So while everything from giant koalas to giant sloths barely had the time to think "what the fuck is that" before getting pierced by a spear and getting their bone marrow gently fed to babies and the toothless elderly, Africa had elephants who had all the time in the world to learn to tell apart human languages and teach the next generations of their herd which human sounds mean that this tribe won't hurt you, but humans who make this kind of sounds are a danger. And hippos learned to conclude "I think I'll fuck up this two-legged weird shit on sight."
That’s true about African Elephants being able to distinguish between human languages, BTW.
The original study they did on this is really cool, and it showed that not only can elephants distinguish languages, they respond differently depending on the general age and gender of the person spekaing. The researchers played recordings of different people speaking either Maasai or Kamba. All the speakers were saying the same thing, "Look, look over there, a group of elephants is coming."
What they found is that when presented with voices speaking Kamba, the elephants were supremely unbothered. The Kamba are mostly farmers, many work for the park services, and they rarely present a danger to elephants.
When presented with the voices of adult men speaking Maasai, the elephants drew close to each other and started investigating. The Maasai are largely cattle herders, and they sometimes come into conflict with elephants over water and grazing lands.
However, the elephants did not seem nervous when presented with the voices of women or young boys speaking Maasai. They were aware that only humans with deep voices were a threat to them.
They also seem to recognize that if humans are talking, they aren't necessarily a threat. Humans pursuing large game like elephants are stealth hunters. If you can hear them coming, they're probably not trying to hurt you.
Anyway, elephants are amazing and one of the creatures high up on my list of "non-humans who are probably people."
Reblogging for those fabulous details.
ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat
this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on
Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer
thinking about this message from me mam that she sent me back when i was in uni. it literally is just a pinprick in the tapestry of life!!
Something funny about a cis man telling a trans woman that she doesn't understand how much it sucks to be a guy
Like, no, I agree, it sucks to be a guy. That's why I stopped. I thought you guys were supposed to like it.
Honestly. I'm fine with a bland color palette. Blues, greys, blacks, tiny bit of white. Cis or not. But I'm enjoying a wider variety of clothes now anyway (3 skirts and a crop top to be specific) since my stupid fragile masculinity is gone
adults of tumblr how on earth do you decide on what mattress you want to order
Go to the store.
Go to the store and lie on it for five minutes.
I know online is cheaper, but go to the store. Online delivery has a send back guarantee, but do you really know yourself capable of and willing to dismantle your bedroom because it didn't work out? No? GO TO THE STORE.
Go to the store and try it out and compare prices and nine out of ten times, they will match the online prices for you, because you're THERE and they can't afford to let you walk out empty handed.
Try it out, figure out the right hardness for you. Make sure you're comfortable.
A good mattress will last you 20-30 years depending on how often you move and how well you commit to taking care of it: vacuum it regularly and flip as per instructions, usually once every six months.
A bad mattress costs about the same as a good mattress, up front, except for the fact it will fuck you up for years and you might end up with chronic pain because of it.
Go to the store. Try it out.
I got a 46% discount and 18 interest free installment payment on mine, just cause I was physically there.
Figure out your budget. Go to the store. Ask to try it out. Make sure it feels good.
You deserve a good mattress and you deserve the money you spend to be worthwhile.
You've got this.
Also a lot of those trendy online-only delivery mattresses are not quality controlled, multiple people have discovered their mattress was stuffed with fiber glass only after it ripped and spewed sharp fibers over literally all of their belongings
This is true I think, everyone just has very normal and even-minded thoughts and opinions about transfeminine sexuality
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Neurodivergent sibling culture is having very conflicting sensory needs.
me, older sibling/brother with adhd: cant handle repetitive noises, loud noises, touching without consent, etc
sibling, autistic: constant repetitive noises, vocal stims, not alot of physical boundaries and screaming all the time etc
mom, adhd: overstimulated and overworked
I need to draw men being obnoxious to their partners and getting In The Way right now immediately.
it is it's nature to Be In The Way.
Just... Pick them up??? Grab a blanket, wrap 'em up, then move them out of the way.
the consequences of doing that:
just needed to make a conclusion to this
Awww
She also never receives residuals
And yet Ubisoft continues to make more AC games whilst not even paying their workers what they’re owed… and using AI. Wow.
Every tabletop system I've ever played was better than D&D
D&Ds cultural niche is to get new people interested in tabletop. It's only upwards from here.
this is true but also D&D sucks as an introduction to tabletop. it's genuinely one of the worst possible games a player could start with. it:
and all these things not only make D&D a bad game, but they make it an actively detrimental introduction to the hobby, because people who start with D&D interalize all this shit as being true about 'TTRPGS' and so either refuse to approach other TTRPGs or, when they do, approach it with the weight of all this hanging on them
I've been on a White People Expedition Diary kick recently. I see why Lovecraft was fucking obsessed with this as a framing device, they are insanely compelling.
July 17th, 1884: "Food supplies are low. The Dutchman has eaten so many dog livers that he is now hallucinating from vitamin A poisoning, which is a thing that can happen apparently."
July 18: "We kicked that faggy Austrian botanist into a ravine. Lmao. Had a lovely bath."
July 19th 1884: "The Dutchman has been confined to the sled. We have sacrificed our belts to restrain his movements, lest we lose another Austrian to his Poop Madness."
July 20th 1884: "The men are demanding I leave behind my bathtub. I will not."
I’ve been doing something similar and I cannot stress enough how sometimes painful it can be to get through the 4th grade level writing of an extremely arrogant british officer who sometimes throws in words of other languages mixed in with the English words at seeming random. Like, the journal of a man who has never and will never question the things he was taught at age 8, whose superiority complex is so deeply rooted he cannot possibly compliment another human without framing it in surprise at their virtues or instantly assigning it as a trait inherent to their “race”.
It is also extremely funny to see who he does and does not address by name. Like he spends two weeks in a cramped wagon next to this man, and then he spends a few days sharing a bed with him. Yet he never addresses him as anything other than “the fat german” and that’s all I know about this person. Surely they must’ve interacted at least once, but he never writes on it. Merely commenting that he’s relieved that people respect his “british prejudice” when he gets a bed alone
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* Here's one (1) very adorable and precious child. *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
I made another thing.
With apologies to Neil Gaiman.
No apologies needed.
