[elucubrare]

The chronicle of the monk Herbert of Reichenau for the year 1021 ends “My brother Werner was born on November 1.“ 

1021 was not an uneventful year. The emperor began a campaign into Italy. Illustrious abbots died. There was an earthquake. But Herbert took the time to note, at the end of the year, that his brother was born. 

Of such acts of tenderness is history made. 

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

This post broke through the shell of crustiness on my medievalist heart and made me go ‘aww’.

[marzipanandminutiae]

There was a medieval parenting manual that recommended parents smack pieces of furniture their toddlers bumped into and scold the furniture for being so naughty as to get in the way, so that the kids would laugh and forget about their bumps and bruises 

I read that and my heart melted

(source: Medieval Women by Deirdre Jackson. She cited the primary source but I cannot for the life of me find the book to check what it was called)

[shredsandpatches]

We should hold a thousandth birthday party for Werner in a couple of years.

[00807x]

[beautifulterriblequeen]

It’s been like three thousand years and they still haven’t figured it out.

[jaspurr]

damn the hatred for corporate twitters really escalated quickly

for years it’s been like “yeah they are pretty much ads made by either interns or underpaid workers because people higher up want to take advantage of social media but have no idea how it works.”

and then like a month ago people started spamming “you are not immune to propaganda” under any and all corporate twitter post and making think pieces about how it’s an ultra insideous form of advertisement

now today I saw a post that said that “saying interns run the social media accounts was probably just evil propaganda to further humanize the brand, there’s no way they would give such an important job to lowly interns” followed by another post saying millennials who work on social media pages for brands are “class traitors”.

like within the last couple months we went from “remember that these twitters are advertisements, and that these brands aren’t actually people” to “the real life human beings who run these accounts, either as a job or an imternship at the company, are not people”. and it’s uh… kinda alarming?

like god damn I know capitalism is shit and it’s destroying the planet and everything on it but there is perhaps, a middle ground here that doesn’t lead straight to dehumanizing people and trying to justify your increasing levels of hostility towards them?

idk it just gives me the same vibes as “shoplifting is activism because the brand is evil” when all you’re doing is harming the retail workers. like the ceo isn’t running the twitter account and I highly doubt that they would give a shit if you treated their twitter like garbage because just generating attention towards the brand is an ad, but you are probably making some employee’s (or several employees) day shitty. and saying that isn’t trying to “humanize the brand” it’s saying you can just fucking ignore an ad instead of going out of your way to treat an actual human being like they are the personification of the brand.

[theanishimori]

[aleatoryw]

if a salesperson says “welcome to *store*, would you like to try a free sample” do you yell at them for being a corporate shill? or do you recognize that they’re a human person who is trying to sell you something because that’s how they survive and say no thanks? company accounts are the exact same except they have to deal with more angry facebook boomers

[agetwellcard]

coming soon: the duolingo owl will break into your home at night and beat the shit out of you if you don’t know the word for potato in french

[dragontamereg]

POMME DE TERRE!

P…please… spare me…

[agetwellcard]

now say it in german

[autumntides]

You don’t want to be rich. You want to live freely.

[godsbaby]

That’s it

[royalgoons-deactivated20220109]

that’s it, man.

[mossadspydolphin]

The idea of being super-rich actually scares me. I don’t want to be so empty inside that I spend my money on $30,000 ugly handbags and giant boats and shit. I just want to pay my bills without panic and support lots of charities.

[somethingwendythiswaycomes]

And maybe go some places

[revolutionarykoolaid]

Today in ridiculously ignored Trump news!

[whatbigotspost]

Since tumblr hates date tagging…just confirming this is news as of 3/26/19 (aka today as I type this.)

What a GD monster.

[seilnakyle]

The dc and marvel fandoms are having a very different day I see

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Ashley’s Sack [1200x1540] - A cotton sack that contained a tattered dress, pecans, and a lock of hair given from a mother to her 9 year old daughter after she was sold away in slavery. A descendent stitched the story onto the sack in 1921 and it was found at a flea market for $20 in the early 2000’s

[the-real-eye-to-see]

Didn’t even know people are not allowed to give blood if they are gay

[captainfunkpunkandroll]

That’s been the thing for years. The HIV scare of the ‘80s prohibited us from donating blood. And they still hold that against us despite the fact that that claim has been debunked over and over again.

[discipleofpuck]

the wording on the paperwork is “Are you a man who has had sexual intercourse with a man after 1980” or “Are you a woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man who has had sexual intercourse with another man since 1980” (this was a blood drive at my college where majority of the students werent Alive in 1980.) I donated all the time back when I was a virgin, because o- , but now I’m not allowed to. So a better question for this article is “Why won’t baby boomers let queer people donate blood, even though all the blood gets screened for HIV and aids anyway?” though, theres a lot of room for loopholes in the wording of it

[lazysekhmet]

This fucking matters. Bias in medicine is bias that should not exist. Fucking fix it.

[apersnicketylemon]

I want people to know and understand why this was in the questionnaire too.

They did it because they didn’t want to test the blood for HIV/AIDS in the 1980′s. It was kinda pricey, took a few days, and they didn’t want to test it, so they screened for gay men as though that would prevent them from getting HIV+ Blood.

Naturally, people with HIV+ blood still donated (probably without being aware they were HIV+), because it’s not a ‘Gays only’ disease. Straight people got it without ever coming into contact with mlm because HIV/AIDS doesn’t really care that much about your orientation, as it turns out (contrary to the belief that led to this particular rule!).

THOUSANDS received blood  that had HIV+ blood. THOUSANDS died because the blood services decided it cost a little too much to check, and a few days was too long. They’re now legally required to screen all blood because of this, and the test now takes a few minutes (not days).

This part of the questionnaire was meant to ‘weed out’ people who maybe could have HIV/AIDS because they decided only MLM would have it, and only people who were in contact with MLM. For some reason, they continue to weed out MLM specifically from being allowed to donate due to the laziness (Not to mention capitalism) of the 80′s, despite the law having changed, the test being faster, and the test being exceedingly cheaper.

Their original intent never worked, and couldn’t work, and was pointless then as it is now. MLM should be allowed to donate blood, especially as it’s going to be tested anyways (And lbr here, two mlm who have had only each other as a sexual partner ever in their whole lives are probably not HIV+… yet they still cannot donate because of the AIDS crisis in the 80′s)

[dacreskars]

[minusthelove]

And we really be tryna power through this while everyone thinks you’re not putting in any effort.

[lesbianshepard]

i haven’t seen Supernatural in years but i still can’t get over the fact that they had a secret 3rd brother who got kicked into hell and then they just straight up forgot about him.

[lesbianshepard]

supernatural is about to end and they still haven’t remembered their long lost third brother. 10/10 writing on the show.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I understand more and more things about cisgender men the longer I’m on testosterone. I know why teenage boys use so much axe now. I understand the crying thing. I know why they accidentally break things. I know why they wear shorts in the snow. I know why so many of them don’t use washcloths. I see everything.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Okay. Y’all want explainations? I’ll tell you all the things.

Testosterone makes you warm. With young men especially it can actually get really uncomfortable while their testosterone levels are at their peak. Often times coats and winter pants will keep in all their heat and it gets uncomfortable. So it makes sense to pick a part of the body to be exposed to help them stay cool. The legs tend to be the least uncomfortable part of the body to feel cold on. The arms are uncomfortable, the face hurts when it gets cold, and the torso is where all the important stuff is. It doesn’t actually hurt that much to have your lower legs exposed and there’s no important organs there so that’s what they go with to keep themselves from overheating in their winter jackets. Along this same vein, they might take their shirts off to jog or just have a naked torso in general during the summer because they’re in more danger of overheating than estrogen dominant people. Older men, children, and estrogen dominant people tend to do this stuff less because they have less testosterone and are therefore colder.

The axe thing is because of testosterone as well. Early on in puberty especially and into adulthood as well boys and men will stink no matter how hard they try. People often complain about how men don’t shower enough and while there is some truth to that testosterone makes you sweaty and it makes your smell last longer. It doesn’t smell worse than women’s BO, but it is harder to get rid of and easier to get. Before I started taking T I could get away with taking a shower every other day or even every three days. Now I have to take a shower every day. And some days when I shower, put on deodorant, put body spray on my clothes, avoid heavy physical activity, I still end up smelling awful. I just smell bad and there’s only so much I can do about it and that bottle of axe starts looking really tempting.

With crying? Testosterone just makes you cry less. You still feel all the same emotions. You just don’t cry as much. Men are often socialized to not cry, yes, but even those who haven’t been taught that still cry less. That’s just how testosterone works. They hit puberty and then it’s just harder to cry. It doesn’t necessarily mean they feel less than estrogen dominant people or that they’re repressed. They just have a different physical reaction to emotion.

They accidentally break things because testosterone makes it easier to gain muscle. Sometimes you even do it without meaning to. I already accidentally grabbed or slammed things too hard. Now I have to consciously be gentle. Some people forget about being gentle for a split second. Then things break. Sometimes I look at my hands now like what the hell did I just do. Relearning how to know my own strength. It’s a learning process.

The thing where some men don’t use washcloths and use their hands or a bar of soap instead isn’t because they’re lazy. It’s because they’re covered in hair and the washcloth pulls at it. It’s really uncomfortable actually.

[weissroseschnee]

This is important, not only for people without Testosterone, but for people with it as well because information is important and I knew none of these things myself.

[writers-hq]

[vir-ignotus]

These are hilarious. The last one especially.

[anxietyproblem]

[kolinar]

Starfleet dress uniforms but fashion

[emelang]

I made another blog solely for Star Trek doodles so everything will be more organized™️

[deact-ysabella]

Mumps outbreak at universities

Public Health England confirms there are 223 suspected cases at two Nottingham universities.

There's a Mumps outbreak in Nottingham. If you haven't had both MMR jabs please do. It's not just your life at stake here but any vulnerable person you come into contact with. 

[nunjournal]

These Jezebel commenters are right and they should say it