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.

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Hi Guys. Hey any Non-Twitter users following me. Did you see that Elon Musk has put a limit on how many tweets you can READ in a day. If you read 600 posts a day you stop being able to read tweets. I think this is the dumbest decision I have ever seen made on any social media ever. Pretty sure scrolling past a tweet counts as reading it. Like if it appears on your screen you've read it.

I'm rate limited on Twitter cause I spent 20 minutes reading tweets about this . What the hell do I do now

for the losers who are verified and get to read 6000 tweets a day, this totals just over an hour.

an hour per day if you pay for it.

Pride month commencing with no OFMD season 2 date announcement or trailer is a hate crime, pass it on.

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Terrific turtle times

Bullying people over fiction is stupid. I'm sorry, but fictional characters aren't going to reward you for "defending" rights they don't and never will have. The internet has rotted many of your brains, disconnecting you from reality and treating pixels better than humans. You have no issues with doxxing and suicide-bating people to "protect" imaginary ones, valuing them more than real individuals affected by your bullying. 

Fictional characters aren't real and don't need to be "saved" because they're paper dolls for people to play with however they please. Quit treating real humans like shit over nonexistent people. 

Can we please make the deep sea the next cool desirable “final frontier” pretty please. I want Elon Musk to design a horrible Tesla Brand submarine and go down to map the Mariana’s Trench for commercial development and watch it crumple like a tin can the second it reaches 200 meters

just a lil montage of stede realising he's in love with ed; inspired by this post from @sherlockig ✨

im a proud "ive never used chat gpt" user btw

‘what was ed doing straight before izzy caresses his face huh’ glad you asked! he was responding in a defensive way to an unprovoked homophobic death threat, hope this helps :)

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Izzy started it. He saw Ed was in a bad place mentally and instead of doing literally anything else, he decided to mock him and threaten his life. Ed now knows Izzy will follow through on his threats. He orchastrated the English capturing the Revenge and them nearly killing Stede after making a threat when he lost the duel with Stede. Ed's a pirate, his captain. What did Izzy think would happen by repeated attempts to push him too far? Peak fuck around and find out moment for Izzy tbh.

Fans of any character are allowed to ignore their faves flaws, it's fiction, it literally doesn't matter how you enjoy your blorbos. Izzy's an interesting character, I get it. But that's not an excuse to be coming at other fans when they talk about canonically bad things characters have done. Izzy has done some awful shit, he's an antagonist and people are allowed to be uncomfortable by things he's said and done/ dislike him for it. Same applies to any character who has done bad stuff on that show... like most of them, they're pirates.

[ID: A two-panel comic of a goose. The first panel is a close up of the goose's face, the goose saying "Why did Ed grab Izzy by his neck?" In the second panel, the goose is chasing a person who is running out of the panel. The goose is saying the same thing, but in all caps. /End ID]

also i cannot stress enough how much izzy's intention in that scene was to provoke ed to violence. he was trying to get ed to act like blackbeard again. blackbeard wouldn't stand for that kind of disrespect. he was saying the most insulting things he could think of to try and get under ed's skin to get ed to finally snap.

that's why izzy's response to getting choked out is literally smiling, saying "there he is," and yes, stroking ed's face gently. that was izzy winning. that was izzy getting what he wanted.

pointing out "man it's really creepy how izzy provokes ed and then gently caresses ed's cheek about it" shouldn't be this controversial

‘what was ed doing straight before izzy caresses his face huh’ glad you asked! he was responding in a defensive way to an unprovoked homophobic death threat, hope this helps :)

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Izzy started it. He saw Ed was in a bad place mentally and instead of doing literally anything else, he decided to mock him and threaten his life. Ed now knows Izzy will follow through on his threats. He threatened he would do something when he lost the duel with Stede then orchastrated the English capturing the Revenge and they nearly killed Stede. Ed's a pirate, his captain. What did Izzy think would happen by repeated attempts to push him too far? Peak fuck around and find out moment for Izzy tbh.

Fans of any character are allowed to ignore their faves flaws, it's fiction, it literally doesn't matter how you enjoy your blorbos. Izzy's an interesting character, I get it. But that's not an excuse to be coming at other fans when they talk about canonically bad things characters have done. Izzy has done some awful shit, he's an antagonist and people are allowed to be uncomfortable by things he's said and done/ dislike him for it. Same applies to any character who has done bad stuff on that show... like most of them, they're pirates.

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this is the BEST video on the entire internet. i’ve seen this hundreds of times over half a decade and it’s THE BEST.

Yeah we did and it slapped

The vegan to ecofascist pipeline

Actually I'm going to expand on the steps of the pipeline.

It starts with:

"I want to do something to better the environment". A noble pursuit.

Then, "Large scale animal agriculture is bad for the environment". Accurate statement.

Then, "Therefore, I am going to stop consuming all animal products and biproducts." A lofty goal, but still reasonable. It's not something that's for everyone, but if that's what you want to do to do your part, more power to you.

Then, "If I can do it, so can you." Inaccurate. The human body is suited ideally for an omnivorous lifestyle. While the human body is very adaptable, its adaptability varies from person to person, and not everyone is able to subsist off of a vegan lifestyle.

Then, "People who don't follow my lifestyle are maliciously contributing to climate change." We're going into dangerous 'us vs. them' territory now. Now everyone who consumes animal products and biproducts even utilyzes large-scale animal agriculture, and there are myriad of reasons for someone to not be vegan. Personal lifestyle choices are also a distraction from the larger issue at hand, which is that corporations contribute the most to climate change, and blaming yourself and other individuals is a distraction.

Then, "Human beings are responsible for climate change. Humans are inherently destructive." False. Corporations and industrialization is responsible for climate change. Humans are inherently neutral, and for the most part are actually good.

Then, "If there were less people on this Earth, we would have less climate change and pollution." And there we are. At the ecofascism finish line.

Not every vegan ends up at the ecofascist finish line. Many vegans stay comfortably on the third rung of the ladder, focusing on their own personal boundaries and lifestyle choices. However, as soon as you dip your toes into the "if I can do it, so can you" mentality, that's when the ball begins rolling down the slippery slope of ecofascism.

As soon as you begin forcing your lifestyle onto other people, that's when it becomes dangerous.

when the next season of ofmd comes out i am going to experience a high previously unknown to man. i am going to have to pause it every 5 seconds to keep from spontaneously combusting. and the fact that a person could endure this and be expected to show up to work the next day like nothing happened should frankly be illegal.

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Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.

And people say stuff like ‘lol don’t you hate it when you look up in the middle of the night and see a spider on your ceiling’ like bitch (!!) i could have Nicholas II last czar of Russia hangin from my ceiling fan and i would be none the wiser

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the glorification of your 20s and fear of anything else has got to stop. mainly bc your 20s is quite literally the worst decade of your life the idea that ppl think you peak at 25 has me so sad for them

also when ppl act like 20s is peak sexiness. im 26 so if you presented a 22 year old as the pinnacle of desirability i would morph into a chimpanzee and rip you limb from limb. WHAT am i supposed to do with someone who hasn't even gone thru the age 23 ego death

Something horrible about being led to believe growing up that teenagers are supposed to be moody and miserable but you'll get better when you're an adult. Only to find that, yes I spent my teen years being moody and miserable but i didn't get better as I became an adult then went into my 20s, I got worse. I'm 23, I can't say I will continue to feel worse or get better but who knows, I sure as fuck don't anymore.