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katfishcomsfw

Finally this sweet silly bunny can sleep peacefully.

thedouble

“Freedom always has a price.”

― Persepolis (2007) dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

izapug

No Spoilers allowed

thedouble

“Freedom always has a price.”

― Persepolis (2007) dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

kefi-catfish

omgthatdress

ily, menswear guy

possumsarenice

Shout everyone else taking the vow of silence today

sketch303

𝐈𝐈: 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢.

bleaksqueak

I’m tired and my eyes are bothering me so the natural conclusion to this is Nero

1millionmymelodys

Sketchbook dump🤠💕

1millionmymelodys

Five’s living, laughing, but not loving

He’s a hater and I respect that

1millionmymelodys

Five post goop

femmenietzsche

Birch bark was heated in underground chambers to create a tougher adhesive.

Neanderthal tools might look relatively simple, but new research shows that Homo neanderthalensis devised a method of generating a glue derived from birch tar to hold them together about 200,000 years ago—and it was tough. This ancient superglue made bone and stone adhere to wood, was waterproof, and didn’t decompose. The tar was also used a hundred thousand years before modern humans came up with anything synthetic. After studying ancient tools that carry residue from this glue, a team of researchers from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and other institutions in Germany found evidence that this glue wasn’t just the original tar; it had been transformed in some way. This raises the question of what was involved in that transformation. To see how Neanderthals could have converted birch tar into glue, the research team tried several different processing methods. Any suspicion that the tar came directly from birch trees didn’t hold up because birch trees do not secrete anything that worked as an adhesive. So what kind of processing was needed? Each technique that was tested used only materials that Neanderthals would have been able to access. Condensation methods, which involve burning birch bark on cobblestones so the tar can condense on the stones, were the simplest techniques used—allowing bark to burn above ground doesn’t really involve much thought beyond lighting a fire. The other methods involved a recipe where the bark was not actually burned but heated after being placed underground. Two of these methods involved burying rolls of bark in embers that would heat them and produce tar. The third method would distill the tar. Because there were no ceramics during the Stone Age, sediment was shaped into upper and lower structures to hold the bark, which was then heated by fire. Distilled tar would slowly drip from the upper structure into the lower one. The resulting tars were all put through chemical and molecular analysis, as well as micro-CT scans, to determine which came closest to the residue on actual Neanderthal tools. Tars synthesized underground were closest to the residue on the original artifacts. “[Neanderthals] distilled tar in an intentionally created underground environment that restricted oxygen flow and remained invisible during the process,” the researchers wrote. “This degree of complexity is unlikely to have been invented spontaneously.”

andmaybegayer

Weeping with joy over the idea of a Neanderthal industrial engineer

sodomit

If I told you that there's a distinct group of people that account for the majority of cases of child abuse, murder, and trafficking, and they're being actively endorsed to do so by most governments worldwide, you'd think I'm about to tell you some bizarre conspiracy theory about pedophiles.

But no, I'm just talking about parents.

sodomit

Statistically, parents and other older relatives/caregivers are committing:

- 56.5% of child homicides overall, 77.8% homicides of children under the age of 1 year[1]

- 41% of child trafficking, 36% of child sex trafficking[2], much younger victims on average[3]

- 34% of CSA[4] and 48.6% of CSA for victims aged 0-6[5]

- 58% (father) and 28% (mother) of CSEM production[6]

- 13.9% of physical harm that resulted in hospitalization of children, teens, and young adults overall (0-19 years), 59.6% for children under the age of 4[7]

If any other distinct class of people was responsible for such numbers, we'd see mobs demanding their blood in the street. Meanwhile parents/families are always conveniently excluded from conversations about child abuse prevention. We are taught to operate under an assumption that safety of children is in parents' best interest, that they're our ally in prevention, and not one of the biggest roadblocks. And the idea of children's freedom to exist and express outside of their parents' zone of control is often explicitly opposed to the idea of child safety. But it shouldn't be.

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5862181/

2. https://www.iom.int/sites/g/files/tmzbdl2616/files/2018-07/Counter-trafficking%20Data%20Brief%20081217.pdf

3. https://web.archive.org/web/20250216133514/https://2021-2025.state.gov/the-misconceptions-of-child-trafficking/

4. https://rainn.org/facts-statistics-the-scope-of-the-problem/statistics-children-teens/

5. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/national-children%27s-advocacy-center_know-the-facts-over-90-of-instances-of-activity-7061792250145488897-_mk_

6. https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2021/02/new-research-shows-parents-are-major-producers-of-child-sexual-a

7. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2020/8169030

evergreen-femme

im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.

please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.

t4t4t

A prayer by Kalonymus b. Kalonymus ben Meir that appears in his poem ספר אבן בוחן, יג Sefer Even Boḥan (§13), describing the author's wish t

unabashedllamamusic

Cursed be the one who announced to my father: “It’s a boy!"... ...How could he twist the course of the stars so much? How could he have erred so in his astrology? A lying tongue, a fool’s mouth it had given him For he foolishly transformed justice to poison He altered the law and transposed the lines

Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman... ...I would say "how lucky am I"

Father in heaven who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water... ...Who would then transform me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...

What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me and has maimed me with an immutable deformity then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition that we bless both, the good and the bitter I will bless in a voice hushed and weak: blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.

I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.

aerialsquid

Some small additional context - the final line is part of a longer set of prayers that are variations on 'blessed are you who has ___" and men use that line when praying, I forget what women use in substitition. But it would have been a line this rabbi would have recited over and over again, possibly daily....and had a lot to think about from it.