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the year almost over and i ain’t do shit but suffer

gong yoo in squid game (2021) dir. hwang dong-hyuk

E06. Gganbu Squid Game (2021) dir. Hwang Dong Hyuk

watching Ali Abdul … who was like the only one not in debt …. Do everything for his family ….. and get treated like that …

Arisu Ryohei & Karube Daikichi - Alice in Borderland (2020‒) written & directed by Sato Shinsuke Kang Sae Byeok & Ji Yeong - Squid Game (2021) written & directed by Hwang Dong Hyuk

“You see him? That man down there? He must be drunk… because he’s been sitting there for hours. He looks homeless too, if I had to guess. He’s going to freeze to death if he stays out there any longer. And no one is going over to help or anything. Would you help out that guy? You think that you will stop walking and help that disgusting, stinking drunk, little piece of trash, huh?” — Squid Game

the theme that always resonates me the most in stories is “the world is cruel; therefore I won’t be.”

Keeping in mind what's happening in Afghanistan rn, I want everyone to know that the Taliban do not represent what Islam stands for. Pray for Afghanistan

If you can, please consider donating to help the families displaced by the violence in Afghanistan

A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.” A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend. Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.

— Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (x)

Fun fact! This is a Dmanisi skull from Georgia, another type of hominin to us. 

Notice that jaw? When we lose our teeth, over time our jawbone heals the gaps, making it smooth, so when archaeologists discover skulls centuries later they can tell whether the tooth was lost after death (as the bone didn’t grow to cover the hole) or during the individual’s life.

The majority of this jaw has healed, so this person would have lived a number of years with basically no teeth. The age of this skull, according to wiki, is 1.8 million years.

This means that millions of years ago this person had a diet with soft, easy foods, and that others in the group would have known, understood, and helped by specialising their foraging for this one individual.

Or, in the words of my lecturer when we covered this, “Someone would have had to chew up this person’s food for them. Every day. Multiple times. For years.” 

turns out if i want muscles and to have a toned physique I have to put in effort? sick & twisted, to say the least

She’s the Man (2006) dir. Andy Fickman

SHREK — 2001, dir. Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

The Emperor’s New Groove 2000, dir. Mark Dindal

Jupiter’s surface looks like it came from a dream