In another way could not be.

🖤🩶🤍💜 25 An archivistics student, a Critter and just all-around nerd

[archivistmyrya]

Psst!

Kdyby někoho zajímalo, co za postavy mi čtyřiadvacet hodin denně rotuje v hlavě, tak to čas od času hážu na @onaras-oficialni . Zatím tam toho moc není, ale lepší nic než vůbec nic.

[teaboot]

How people get nicknames:

Recipient of a third-degree burn in front of witnesses. IE, "I won't take that shit from a man dressed like a ghostbuster"= "Gostbuster" or "Buster"

A distinctive personal feature or quirk. IE, "Have you noticed how that new guy is always eating bell peppers?" = "Peppers", or "That chick has a massive forehead" = "Forehead".

An embarrassing thing you said or did. IE, "Did you seriously call Dale "Dad"?" = "Junior", "Baby boy", "Sport"

A game of name-mutation telephone. IE, "Donny Clyde" = "Bonnie 'n' Clyde" = "Bonnie" = "Bon-bon".

Irony. IE, calling a tall person "short stack" or a particularly dour person "sunshine".

A 'wrong place wrong time' one-off incident. IE, "He spilled oil on his pants and had to borrow a pair that were way too big and Jim saw him with the waistband pulled up to his nipples and called him 'Parachute'"

A batman-style origin story but not in a cool way: "One time she hit a deer with the company car and when she called the boss to tell her she was crying so hard we thought she was dying" = "Bambi"

The incredibly rare 'admiration' nickname, bourne only once a millennia under the light of the blood moon: "We saw him lift a truck once so now we call him 'iron man'"

+ How Nicknames Stick:

Your fate is determined by The Counsel

You hate it

It's accurate

[cedule]

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

"Regional Committee for the Fight Against the American Beetle in Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary, 7th July 1952

Notice

On 19th of July 1952,

the Regional Committee for the Fight Against the American Beetle in K. Vary announces a nation-wide search for the greatest pest on our agriculture

the American beetle

It is the patriotic duty of every citizen to take part in the nation-wide search so that the American beetle - the harbinger of American imperialism - is destroyed in our region and to prevent its further spread further east and to our eastern neighbors.

Participants are to meet at 15 o'clock before the Local Committee and at designated places in other cities.

Signed Regional Deputy for the Persecution of the American Beetle

Beneš Josef"

The American beetle:

(Colorado potato beetle)

[egberts]

"forgor" did irreversible damage didn't it

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

yeag

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

your fav flower {if multiple then the first one you thought of} is your new name how is it going

good

bad

great

awful

not for my gender

results

Remaining time: 9 hours 22 minutes

[r0seart]

Guys I’m literally called “Rose” on here!!!!

[saintsideways]

Yet more unreasonable employment standards in the UK

[comrademugsy]

blatant alivism and it’s disgusting.

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[jinglebellrockstars]

[The Odyssey]

Odysseus plot

Telemachus plot

[vamprisms]

being online is so scary aren't you guys worried about the world wide spider

[redfagdiver]

It took 36 years for someone to make this joke and by god it was worth the wait

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

And that they're somehow better than everyone else for being aware of the scam.

[elevenbathroomsinks]

these are the same picture just on opposite sides of the spectrum

[admiralrainbow]

[flailypichu]

Julien killing Koral is such a good character moment - that whole scene. He's made it a life goal to kill as many Tachonis as possible, but because Occtis asked him to, he was willing to talk to Koral first and maybe spare his life. It's only when he realizes Koral was an unrepentant actor in the massacre of his family and home that he decides to kill him.

The Julien Davinos of two weeks ago was so angry at his losses that he wouldn't have hesitated, but he's calmed down just enough, bonded just enough with Occtis, that he waited to be sure that Koral deserved to die before killing him. I said ages ago that everything Julien does has to be viewed through the lens of someone furious in grief, and that he would probably change as time went on, and I think we're see the start of that.

[bajecna]

literally

[hlas-lidu]

Nejlepší verze Lásko má, já stůňu:

Helena Vondráčková (a je to svatokrádež preferovat nejakou jinou)

Helena Vondráčková (ale není to svatokrádež preferovat jinou)

Monika Absolonová

Hana Holišová

other

(klidně doplňte další)

nejlepší verze lásko má, já stůňu:

helena vondráčková (a je to svatokrádež preferovat nejakou jinou)

helena vondráčková (ale není to svatokrádež preferovat jinou)

monika absolnová

hana holišová

walda gang

jiná co bude v přeblozích

Remaining time: 4 days 19 hours

[teaboot]

I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you

[flightlessosprey]

I know I am extremely late to the party, but I’ve just watched all of Hannibal for the first time and hot damn you guys were not exaggerating how gay they are. I assumed it was gonna be like, a queerbait type ship where you gotta grasp at bits and pieces to get the queer reading, or something with an obvious queer reading but the writers only put it there to mock queer people, but no. They really are just that gay.

I wish I watched Hannibal sooner. The insane development of their relationship and characters over the course of the show and the fact that they constantly speak in riddles captivated me.

[bunjywunjy]

on the treadmill watching asmr barbershop videos that would drive any chimpanzee absolutely stark raving bananas foster with lustful social grooming envy

[bunjywunjy]

I do believe that if chimpanzees could speak and understand us they would willingly participate in human society, but only to the extent that they could earn enough money for regular full-day trips to their local spa and salon

[bunjywunjy]

@sunsetsands GET BACK HERE AND SHARE THIS WITH THE CLASS

[bunjywunjy]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Why couldn’t traditional Chinese Yinpiao银票/silver drafts be forged if they were merely slips of paper? (cr大明宝钞，渐越)

Traditional Chinese yinpiao/silver drafts were paper vouchers issued by private banks starting from the Song Dynasty(960–1279). People could exchange these slips for physical silver at bank branches across the country.

Silver drafts were made in multiple copies with matching serrated seal edges. One copy went to the customer and others stayed at the bank. All edges had to fit perfectly together to withdraw silver. The unique split edge marks were almost impossible to copy.

This mechanism is known as qifeng骑缝 (split-joint seal) in China. It first originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). The Rites of Zhou records that contracts were written on bamboo or wooden slips in duplicate. Notches and marks were carved in the middle before splitting the slips, with each party keeping one half. The two halves would be matched by their notches for verification.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 BC), this idea evolved into hufu虎符/tiger tally tokens. A military tally was split into two pieces with identical inscriptions carved along the split edge. Troops could only be deployed if the patterns and characters on both halves perfectly aligned, serving as a metal version of the split-joint anti-counterfeiting system.

The technology matured in the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Government documents and private contracts commonly used split-joint seals stamped across the dividing line. The Chinese character "hetong合同" (contract) was written across the middle before the paper was torn apart, so the complete characters would only appear when the two halves were put together. This split-coupon system was later adopted for Song Dynasty (960–1279) jiaozi paper money and yinpiao/silver drafts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912).

Official Song dynasty paper money (Jiaozi交子) was abolished in 1107. Private silver drafts issued by Qing-era piaohao票行 (ancient exchange banks) vanished completely in 1951, hit hard by modern banks and currency reforms. Nowadays silver drafts no longer circulate as currency. Their collectible value depends on their rarity and physical condition.

Split-joint seals (骑缝章qifengzhang)are still widely used on important paper documents in modern China, an anti-tampering technique passed down from ancient times. They are applied across the edge of multi-page contracts, bidding documents and official archives. If any page is removed or replaced, the broken seal pattern can prove the file has been altered.

[ariaste]

OMG I got so excited about this because they used a really similar (though far less refined) version of this for contracts in the European medieval period!

First they were called "chirographs", but later the word "indenture" (in its earliest meaning as just a legal document of any kind between two people) came to be used, originating from the practice of a contract being written twice on a single piece of parchment and then cut in half with serrated edges (as in dent, "teeth" -> indents -> indenture) in order for each party to take one half, so they could later piece them together and verify that there had been no forgery -- same as the Chinese silver drafts!

(Charter of the Clerecía de Ledesma, 1252, showing the serrated indents at the top -- presumably they are cutting rather than tearing because they're using parchment, which I expect is much harder to tear than wood-pulp paper like the Chinese were using)

Delights me when human beings find similar ways to solve the same problem at two different ends of the world. <3