Dismally yours

[pdmori]

[fruitsaladchewits-deactivated20]

1985: National Geo make millions from ‘Afghan Girl’ portrait

2016: Still has the status of a refugee and may spend 14 years in jail because of her papers

[wretchedofthe-earth]

I fucking hate this picture and everything it represents. Steve McCurry made millions off of this picture and its what launched his photojournalism career into the spotlight. While the woman in this picture got absolutely NOTHING and lived an awful and horrific existence. And calling her “Afghan Girl” is so disrespectful. Her name is Sharbat Gula and her life could have been made 1000X easier had McCurry shared his wealth with her - or even if he couldn’t find her, to share it with of refugees who he exploited. And honestly the idea of a white man going into wartorn nations (that are that way bc of american imperialism) to take pictures of refugees to profit off of their pain and trauma is gross  

[emberi-shade]

A quick wiki search will give you actual updates on her situation, spewing all that rightious anger and less than 30 secs would have helped

[anxietyproblem]

[eraserheadbaby2]

me when i was 8: i dont want to say “tummy ache” because that’s a baby word. im going to say “stomach ache” from now on because i want people to take me seriously.

me now, in a skype call full of people: yo dudes i got a wicked bad tummy ache from eating too many ring pops so im gonna go take a nap-nap, talk to u fools later

[kixlepixel]

[emberi-shade]

#tumblr #tumblrban #dec17th

[pyrlspite]

tumblr is like wading through everyone else’s garbage until you find something good and go “ah. this is good” and take it and display it in your own garbage pile

[chasing-asterion]

Did you mean Australian Bowerbird? 

We collect pretty rubbish and decorate a nest to attract a mate.

[memesandlaughs]

[delusioninabox]

Daily #2,102! Chomp.

[emberi-shade]

[emberi-shade]

[umbridge-against-shipping]

[shacklesburst]

oh i’m loving this already

[the-psycho-cutie-deactivated201]

i didn’t realize growing up meant dying inside but hey it’s whatever

[ultrafacts]

An instrument called the waterphone makes a smooth, eerie sound that’s regularly featured in movie soundtracks.

Here’s a video example: [x]

(Fact Source) For more facts, follow Ultrafacts

[applebutter180]

And now I must get one of these. Thanks tumblr

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

How many horsepower is 1 horse?

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Okay logically it follows that a horse is 1 horse power but what’s the standard? Because horses aren’t the same

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

the average horse can produce almost 15 horsepower

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[thoodleoo]

i hate when people in movies/tv are reading ancient languages and they translate everything really smoothly and poetically, as if when people who study ancient languages aren’t consulting three different commentaries and sobbing profusely when we read

[quousque]

ok so like…. it says

“come you all into the deepest cavern, or maybe that’s fireplace, depends on usage, and having come may you give your…. treasures? Skin? Pants? I don’t know, something…. to the….. about-to-be-adored guy, that one who…. okay, he either causes earthquakes or sleeps a lot, I think this might be an idiom….”

[thoodleoo]

“ok, sorry that took so long and i hate to disappoint but i’m still not entirely sure what it means, like, it could be something about a religious ceremony or it could be a dick joke. leaning towards dick joke, might be both. knowing the ancients, probably both. this could very well be an ancient dick temple and we should probably leave.”

[rudjedet]

Funnest part is when you get shit like this:

Why yes that is a text comprised of almost exclusively crocodile hieroglyphs.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

We also can’t get a coherent translation because the grammar makes absolutely no sense. Participles and Participial statements all the way. Sobek who is Crocodile of Crocodopolis who advances the Crocodile for the Crocodiles….

The crocodile hieroglyph is also used to write sovereign and an adjective meaning power…so the text is suuuuuuuper confusing.

[beautifultoastdream-deactivated]

I can’t help but wonder if the crocodile hieroglyph text (which I never knew about, that is AMAZING) is the ancient equivalent of a sestina or another complex poem form. With the crocodile symbol meaning so many different things, and the result being so difficult to translate, it might make more sense as a poem or some other stylistically rigid text.

Either that, or it was the Egyptian equivalent of a student being made to write lines on the chalkboard.

[systlin]

I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain

I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain

I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain

I will not…“Shakes out chiseling hand” Take the name of Lord Sobek in vain….

[bold-sartorial-statement]

Looks like an ancient shitpost to me.

[midnightmindcave]

mai nayme is hep and wen i wryt upon the wal so smooth and wite i bless the kynnge commend his akh but then get tyred and carve the croc

[digitaldiscipline]

It’s the equivalent of “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”

[captainlordauditor]

this is making me think of that story that was written in order to explain why simplifying Chinese characters to one character per syllable is a really bad idea

[fantasiawandering]

Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek  Sobek Sobek

Hathor, Hathor

Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek

Hathor, Hathor

Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek

Hathor, Hathor

Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek  Sobek Sobek

Ahh Set! Ahh Set!

Set! It’s Set! Ooooo, it’s a Set!

[katzedecimal]

Did you just

[kshandra]

I was gonna reblog this for the I Lik The Bred reference, but it just…kept…going…

[emberi-shade]

Amusing subversion in a show( Stargate SG-1) that normally exemplifies the original point.

Dr. Jackson: Uh, w-well, my translation's a little bit vague, um, I think the circle means 'the place of our legacy'…or it could be 'a piece of our leg', but the first seems to make more sense.

[brainstatic]

Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

[queenrinacat]

English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.

[the-star-holder]

My expectations weren’t met, they were exceeded.

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[killaaluna]

Beautifully☪Insane