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Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.

And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.

this is such a beautiful post it doesn't need my dumb addition, but i can't fit this in the tags. at the archaeological site Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic there are a bunch of really really fascinating finds and I'm only going to tell you about one tiny detail of one of the most interesting sites in the world.

at this settlement 20-30,000 years ago there lived a person who appears to have been a sort of sorcerer-grandmother-ceramics artist and her workshop was preserved very well in the sedimentary layers. her hut where she had her kilns was full of little sculptures of animals and people that seem to have been made to explode in the kiln on purpose, we're not sure why but nevermind. the relevant detail is that when you sculpt something with your hands and then fire it, your fingerprints can be preserved in the surface of the clay forever, so we have fingerprints of ancient ceramics artists that have survived for tens of thousands of years. and one of the major artifacts from Dolni Vestonice has a fingerprint on it that is so small it could only have belonged to a child

so this shaman-grandmother-sculptor, who was buried with her pet fox by the way, had children running through her workshop and touching everything she made while she was at her mysterious work of creating the world's oldest ceramics, none of which appear to be bowls, bottles, pots, or any "useful" items at all, but rather a collection of animal and human and sometimes anthropomorphic figures, some of which appear to be self portraits. exactly the same as sandersstudios' grandmother being led to the garden by an excited baby. we've all been the same for 30,000 years.

David Cage you fucking hack

David Cage citing the work of David Cage as an inspiration that changed his life is classic David Cage.

i made collages of my favorite comments yesterday

me as a gnome: dude i am gettting so crossfaded on these raspberries blackberries and strawberries

kiss has to be one of the most disappointing bands ever. imagine hearing about this crazy rock band that dresses up in insane costumes and wears face paint and the one guy looks super demonic and has a really long tongue and everyone says they're satanic and then you listen to them and they're just singing about how they wanna bone but it's in a socially acceptable tongue in cheek way that your dad likes

Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you

Said with an incredibly condescending sneer: "Whimsyless."

looking for sugar baby to spoil. bachelor’s degree (at least) and excel skills required, 5+ years experience, knowledge of SQL, Python or COBOL highly desired

help a trans woman pay rent !!

believe it or not i haven't managed to pull my life together and if anything things have gotten worse! who knew that trying to make a living without a car was so fucking hard!

please please please spread this around and if you can, even tiny, tiny amounts donated help immensely. you would genuinely be shocked by how much the little things add up

i need $850 by august 31st in order to pay for rent and other pressing bills i literally cannot avoid

thank you so much for reading this post and spreading the word. i know you see a ton of these on tumblr alone but every little bit helps

$100/850

thanks so much for spreading the word and offering what help you can thus far!!!

The use of difficulty ratings (easy/medium/hard) rather than levels of firmness (soft/firm/hard) to describe egg yolk viscosity implies the existence of higher difficulties such as "eggs over-legendary" and perhaps even "eggs over-nightmare"

sometimes a dark and edgy philosophical point of view is deep and has something profound to say and sometimes it just resonates with people because the survival brain is a pessimistic lil fucker.

"When you look at the world under the assumption that everyone is stupid and self-serving, you'll find that everyone is stupid and self-serving, which proves it, because looking under this assumption, I can only find examples that support it. I am very deep and don't understand how a theoretical lense works."

"Every good thing ends. Disregard how long it exists before it ends, that doesn't matter."

"The fact people act in Bad ways sometimes must mean that humanity is secretly Bad always, actually. Disregard the fact that badness is a moral standard that would have no meaning if we didn't care about being good."

"Observe how people react extremely negatively if they experience a crisis! Truly this must be a way more accurate reflection of humanity's true nature than every day life, which encompasses everything outside of a crisis and 99,99% of a person's life span!"

... and any variation of "pain matters more than joy because it hurts and joy doesn't."

Pessimism can be quite dumb like that. And the worst thing is, it can convince you that's actually really smart and you should absolutely listen to it.

Left: Composer Leonard Bernstein. Right: Bradley Cooper and the world's worst fake nose playing Leonard Bernstein in the upcoming movie Maestro.

like holy fuck this is actual anti-semitism literally all you had to do was hire a Jewish actor. ONE JEWISH ACTOR, HOLLYWOOD, IT'S NOT THAT HARD.

Bradley Cooper is the Ron DeSantis of desperate to win an Oscar. the harder he tried, the more I hate him.

omfg

A reminder of what Bradley Cooper's nose actually looks like when compared to Leonard Bernstein's:

Literally zero reason a fake nose was needed. This is bullshit. And it's Cooper's "passion project" okay. This is very important to note. This is a project he considers utterly necessary to his artistic endeavors, and he not only didn't cast a Jew to play Bernstein, he's wearing a fucking Halloween costume nose.

Please don't forget, Bradley Cooper pretty much stole the exclusive rights to the Bernstein biopic from Jake Gyllenhaal - a Jewish man - who has said he's been wanting to tell this story for twenty fucking years.

Next time transphobes call trans healthcare "experimental" you can show them this

penicillin was first discovered in 1928; vaginoplasty is less experimental

ibuprofen was first discovered in 1961; phalloplasty and HRT are less experimental

Adderall was first applied as an ADHD treatment in 1994; puberty blockers are less experimental

would also like to note that every single one of these procedures and treatments has been through rigorous testing usually both on animal models and humans in order to be approved as safe and effective by the FDA and not a single one is considered experimental. just in case anyone tries to be like "well HPV vaccines and Adderall are also bad"

The 2 birds per stone factoid is actually a statistical error. Astroid Georg, who fell from the sky and killed 38 billion birds, is an outlier and should never have been counted.

insane how many people just have these incredible artists in their families who get no recognition outside of crocheting circles because this art form is devalued for its association with women

in my country, the word for crocheting, is used metaphorically, to compliment a surgeon’s work.

every AFAB person my mother’s age and older, had practiced this craft at one point on another.

My mom has made literal paintings, that decorate our house for years (I’ll come back with pictures when I visit next) you can only see that they are crocheting when you go very close.

as promised here’s my mom’s crocheting “paintings”

There is another one but it had been stored many years ago, (i remember it from my childhood) and sadly it is probably damaged by mold, it depicted wild horsed running in nature 

@snazzy-hats-and-adhd

HOLY SHIT THE COLORWORK?????

Btw when someone says "don't talk to me like that, I don't know you" the normal thing to do is apologize for the perceived overfamiliarity and correct the behavior. Just in case anyone was wondering

Insane to me that this is actually controversial. I'm silencing notes on this one bc I don't want to see them anymore

An adolescent bamboo rat (竹鼠) doing bamboo rat things

I think it’s time for us to all collectively return to the library. Get a card, go to a club meeting, volunteer on an off day, rent some equipment. You don’t even have to read a book. But since the digital world is rapidly becoming a subscription-only hellscape requiring a criminal amount of private personal information to use even CASUALLY, the library has become our last safe haven to just exist with information present and not have our labour or information exploited for money.