Amphitrite (Αμφιτριτη meaning ‘Encircling Third’) was the goddess queen of the sea, wife of Poseidon (god of the sea), and eldest of the fifty Nereides (sea nymphs) in Greek mythology. When Poseidon first sought Amphitrite’s hand in marriage, she fled his advances, and hid herself away near Atlas in the Ocean stream at the far ends of the earth. Delphin (god of the dolphins) eventually tracked her down and persuaded her to return to wed the sea-king which resulted in the birth of their son Tritôn. Sadly not much else is known about Amphitrite but she does show up in various works of art from the time. In them she wears the robes of a queen, and carries a three-pointed sceptre called a Trident. (Ziad Nakad Spring 2020 Haute Couture Collection)
Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)
dama3
old school hate mail
Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock
Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.
blacktyranitar
Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole
More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.
And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:
- He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.
- The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.
Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).
But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?
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Okay, but imagine from the other guy’s point of view. You send angry letters about how Ea-nasir shipped you half a ton of subpar copper, and then 3800 years later—
History: you are without a doubt the worst business man ive ever heard of
Ea-nasir:
Is…is that Ea-nasir FANFIC?!
Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.
Reblog to save a life?
Reblog to save a life.
libertarirynn
Sharing because it’s actually a verified and sourced thing and not one of those dumbass fake tip posts.
Anonymous asked:
Potential life? A fertalized egg is alive, that's a fact. Whether or not it is moral to artificially terminate that life is the issue. Should we be choosing who lives and who dies by our own desires? And how is that not eugenics? Although the heartbeat bill is a step in the right direction, life begins before the first heartbeat. The law should protect all life, and the unborn are biologically distinct, living human-beings.
i’m going to level with you: you and i inhabit different realities, and we will not convince each other.
but i think this may be useful to whoever else might be reading it. so, step by step:
1. a fertilized egg is alive in the way that your skin cells are alive. being “alive” does not confer autonomy or specific rights. not all fertilized eggs even result in pregnancy: between one-third and one-half never implant in the uterine wall.
1a. embryos are created for IVF, and unused embryos are discarded. you are not allowing it to implant.
there are forms of birth control that prevent implantation, if they fail to prevent fertilization. do you consider that to be the same as abortion? i think that’s a very difficult argument to justify.
2. “whether or not it is moral to artificially terminate that life is the issue” is wrong, man. maybe that’s your issue, but you should listen to pro-choicers when we talk. our issue is “should someone who does not want or cannot safely be pregnant be forced to continue the pregnancy?”
3. abortion is only eugenics if it is coerced to prevent certain groups from having children. i hope that clears things up for you.
forced abortion is as much a horror as forced pregnancy. reproductive violence is all connected. both parts of the serpent comprise the snake.
4. the heartbeat bill is a misnomer. the “heartbeat” activity is electrical activity, a proto-heartbeat at best, because there is not yet a cardiovascular system.
from the link:
“Some of the legislation under consideration doesn’t acknowledge the possibility of a miscarriage after detection of fetal cardiac activity, meaning women who do miscarry could be subject to prosecution—which could deter them from seeking necessary prenatal medical care.”
it’s bad policy. “life” as in biologically distinct human tissue exists before fetal cardiac pole activity, but “life” is not sufficient to qualify for personhood.
5. put this way: the law should protect all people, and existing people should be given precedence over potential people. existing people are not obligated to incubate potential people, and whether or not they are biologically alive is irrelevant. forcing someone to be pregnant when they do not wish to be is torture, and you do not have to endure torture for the sake of anyone else.
read this post.
loganmcowen
Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.
Of fucking course
What sick bastard doesn’t
“You’d be surprised”, said Xaldien, who just lost four followers and received a lovely “men can’t be raped” anon shortly after reblogging this the first time.
loganmcowen
Yowch, disgusting.
samurai-ko
If I don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead.
snowflake-collections
All victims of (sexual) violence should be cared about!
ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosaurus
For clarification ^-^
Ok, so here's my two cents about episode 4. Like many, I had a rash, immediate reaction, but with some cooldown time, I've actually come to really like the episode. Its no Lamentis, but it is necessarily plot-heavy to drive us forward. And I'm actually excited to see where this is headed! Now, obviously this is all my speculation, but until Wednesday proves me wrong, I'm gonna unpack my thoughts right here:
1. Loki and Sylvie are not the Nexus Event. Well, not in the way the show is trying to portray them. I don't ship anyone on the show, nor am I against any of the ships, but there is no way Sylki is the Nexus Event. This is a red herring. Yes, Mobius is correct, falling in love with yourself can certainly break reality, but not from where they are supposedly falling in love. "Nothing matters," remember? Its not just that you can hide in apocalypses, it is actually impossible to create a Nexus Event when everything in the vicinity will be destroyed in the next few minutes. Their actions can literally have no possible effect on the timeline. So no, Mobius is not correct about them and yes, Loki is telling the truth when he says he has no idea what the Nexus Event was.
2. The Time Keepers are still real. This one could go either way, but let me explain. Sylvie said they were mindless androids... So what? They respond intelligently to every conversation, they can't be mindless. What she meant was that they're decoys, probably controlled by the time keepers. We've seen the Time Keepers, or well, we've seen their hands. I think the credit scenes are snippets of the timekeepers. I mean if I were one of three beings in the universe that knows/controls all possible timelines, then I know for a fact that if I create a temple for me and my bros, all that does is flash a neon sign saying "come at me." So, I think the timekeepers are either hiding in plain sight or they are somewhere in the multiverse that no one can possibly reach them.
3. The Time Keepers have a plan we don't know about. The time keepers know all of existence, so nothing that happens should be a surprise to them. They know what the Lokis will do, and they also know that Sylvie is right, the universe wants chaos, it's part of the second law of thermodynamics. So, it stands to reason that they know they cannot continue pruning timelines indefinitely - just as a multiverse can collapse so too can a singular timeline explode from containment. The universe favors entropy. There is a reason that variants are pruned not killed and have their own subrealities... There is a plan we have not seen yet, and the Lokis are part of it.
4. Loki and Sylvie were the Nexus Event. If the Time Keepers are real, if they are omniscient, if they understand the chaos of the multiverse cannot be contained indefinitely, if they have a plan to restore balance, and if the Lokis are an integral part of that plan, then yes, their death on Lamentis would cause a timeline branch steeper than any other. I believe the Lokis' imminent deaths on Lamentis caused the branch, allowing them to be saved by the TVA. Think about it - supposedly there can be no Nexus Event in an apocalypse, and supposedly the branch ended the second they were apprehended by the TVA, so what changed? They were saved. That's it, that's all that changed: they didn't die. So I believe their death was the Nexus Event, and therefore they are part of the "sacred timeline(s)" in a way we just don't yet understand.
A new mode of production arises out of the newly networked masses.
Fanartists:
Thingiverse users:
Royalty free sounds
Flash games
Productivity has always been there
hestianerd1
Because shockingly when people enjoy what they do (you make it enjoyable instead of just hammering on them) people WANT to do things!
thehottestmess
Fanfiction authors!!
Where is the button to shout this from the rooftop?
And how many other things have been montized simply because the creator of those things had to survive in our current economic system that wouldn’t have been otherwise?
Some people think just because they themselves are a selfish asshole that everyone else must be also.
Are ready for debunking the lie these five individuals were saying?
One of the women said that the Royal Family didn’t commemorate Diana with a statue or something like that.
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO
FOURTEEN YEARS AGO!
STOP REWRITING THE HISTORY!
loveforthecambridges
These stupid people really forget most of the times that we have Google toe expose their lies 😒😒😒😒😒🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Anonymous asked:
You've gotten an awful lot of questions about mummies so I thought I would shake things up a bit and ask you what your most favorite ancient egypt fact is? Like what is the thing that you really love about ancient egypt even if it is just one tiny thing?
Tutankhamun was buried with his childhood clothes. One tunic has ducks on it, and he probably wore the tunic to his coronation.
👀 GOOD OMENS SEASON 2 IS COMING! ❤
I don’t know how to feel about this. Right now, cautiously optimistic. But… Urgh. There are so many ways things could get… messy.
sixsaltysweets
I’M DEAD
Fun fact: if you know your feline body language, you’ll notice that the lynx is deferring to the housecat. As far as these two are concerned, the housecat is the higher-ranking cat.
OH MY GOSH
itsmyspookyhour
It’s because the cat is that lynx’s mom
alsogolden-ana
BIG STRONG DAUGHTER
I’m not crying, you’re crying 😭
I bought a chocolate bar but instead of Hershey’s, on the front this is exactly what it said:
Fun fact: a good way to test if you’re in a dream is to read something, because your brain usually won’t have logical words prepared and will make something up at random!
evil-britney
*takes off my leather jacket to reveal a second, secret leather jacket underneath*
you mean, skin?
wombuttress
What an absolutely terrifying addition to my post. Thank you.
