reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

i don't know jack or shit about the locked tomb series here's my impressions of the only five characters i can name. pictures were taken off the wiki pages, which i didn't read. godbless

Gold swivel ring with amethyst frog, Egypt, New Kingdom, 1550-1229 BC

from Christies

i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

as many have noted, this 11-hour-old post is an incomplete list. the situation on the ground continues to rapidly evolve: harvard set up an encampment despite the ban; UT austin students are getting brutally assaulted by the police, prompting faculty to declare the first university-wide strike

I’m bored and nosy. Please reblog this with the book you’re currently reading.

I am disappointed to learn how difficult DAM has been with complying with NAGPRA

sygol framed poll (handle with care), 2024 mixed media on tumblr post

Not everything the Christians do is stolen from some anonymous pagan culture. I'm sorry y'all but the Christians did actually come up with a bunch of shit on their own.

Like, if you're looking to criticize the Catholic Church, you really don't need to make up fake pagan traditions for them to steal Easter eggs from. You can bring up the genocides.

Oh you mean them killing so many religions and subsenquently stealing ideas from many of them and most of the times they did both so much we kinda just lost track of being able to differenciate ?

Is it really that hard to believe that Christians just came up with the idea of painting eggs for easter?

Ostara is a pagan fertility holiday.

Eggs and rabbits have nothing to do with Jesus, but you know what they are associated with? Fertility

And the word Easter comes from the spring goddess named Eostre

If you’re really gonna fight this battle, at least pick a holiday that isn’t extremely obviously pagan

There are quite literally no pagan sources the record the existence of Eostre. The story about Eostre and the rabbits was probably written in 1887. The vast majority of the supposed Ancient mythology around Eostre was probably written in the 1880s by latent German nationalist writers.

agreeing with CT here. they already know this of course but for everyone else I will add that this is true of a huge pile of supposedly "ancient pagan traditions". I don't have time to compile the list rn but it's safe to assume almost everything you read while standing in the New Age section of Barnes and Noble when you were 13 was invented by either actual Nazis, guys who heavily informed the Nazis, other types of white nationalists who were looking for a state religion for white people that was much less Jewish than Christianity, hippies who were just making it up from vibes, man, or some combination thereof. and all of these people have been shitting up the historical record for...well it depends how you define "shitting up" and "these people" but there's a reason the crystal wizard scene is so phony-feeling. not that fake religion is anything new or modern

The Locked Tomb and Dungeon Meshi both share the feature of "lesbian necromancy isn't actually the weird part."

Both have excellent recipes for soup.

the soup recipe in the locked tomb is NOT good

daily reminder that

big fat bellyyyyyyyyy

Flint hand axe uncovered near Happisburgh, England, roughly 500,000 years old

from The Norfolk Museums Collection

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"Researchers found microplastics in soil deposits more than seven meters (23 feet) underground, which were deposited in the first or second century CE and excavated in the 1980s, a team led by researchers from the University of York in the United Kingdom said in a statement published Friday.

In total, the study identified 16 different microplastic polymer types in contemporary and archived soil samples, the statement adds.

[...]

“This feels like an important moment, confirming what we should have expected: that what were previously thought to be pristine archaeological deposits, ripe for investigation, are in fact contaminated with plastics, and that this includes deposits sampled and stored in the late 1980s,” John Schofield, a professor and director of studies in the University of York’s Department of Archaeology, said in the statement."

[...]

“Our best-preserved remains—for example, the Viking finds at Coppergate (in the city of York)— were in a consistent anaerobic waterlogged environment for over 1000 years, which preserved organic materials incredibly well,” he said in the statement.

“The presence of microplastics can and will change the chemistry of the soil, potentially introducing elements which will cause the organic remains to decay. If that is the case, preserving archaeology in situ may no longer be appropriate.”

a pair of chickadees have been nesting in a camera-equipped box i put out, and it's just become finished enough that the female's roosting in it overnight

there are no eggs yet but i am so fuckii i ng excited

i would correct that typo but sometimes the phone keyboard does a good emphasis thing

addicted to saying "ill definitely check that out" about things that i will definitely forget to check out

not me. i'm going to get to it. for you see, i have Opened A Tab

@thegreatzeldini

I Will. I Will Get To It. In my Tabs. I Will Get There.

cats cats cats

id: screenshots from twitter thread by @shirilevari on common phonemes in swear words, linked here. the linked paper at the bottom is here. /end id