[fairycosmos]

my dead wife. the ad free internet

[fairycosmos]

watching dreamily recorded footage of a web forum from 2003

[wolfliving]

Household cookware in an era of enshittification

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still wort

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

[ancestralia]

In 1997 Amelia’s daughter, Mary Moran, and other members of the Moran family were invited to Sierra Leone, West Africa, where they were welcomed in Freetown by Sierra Leone’s President and then flown by helicopter to the country’s interior.  There, in the small village of Senehun Ngola, Mary and Bendu Jabati met and sang this song together for the first time.  Years earlier, Bendu’s grandmother had told her that this song, which had been passed down in her village from mother to daughter for centuries, would one day reunite her to long-lost relatives.

In addition to finding out where in Africa her ancestors were abducted into slavery, Mary Moran discovered the meaning of the Mende song: a processional hymn for the final farewell to the spirit, it was sung in Senehun Ngola by women as they prepared the body of a loved one for burial.

(The OP's link leads to a site with a recording of the song sung by both Mary Moran and her mother, Amelia)

[thisaintnofuckingdisco]

Original link seems to be broken, but a quick search led me to this very touching accounting of the full story of how Mary Moran was able to find the village her great great grandmother was taken from:

How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved

[valtsv]

"why does this nonsexual power dynamic sound so sexual" i have some news for you about the dominant social relationship between sex and power

[valtsv]

i am also a corrosive pervert. that's not relevant right now though.

[mino2aur]

[sophsun1]

David Duchovny as Fox Mulder

The X-Files – 1.11: Eve

[briannyssey]

Oh easy mistake. Yearning actually rises from the floor and longing hangs from the ceiling

[briannyssey]

🥺🥺

[eroscestlavie]

Dude. Have some self respect

[sleepyjim2]

fanart of this photo 🐾 i was captivated by his silly pose and fievelous fluffs . . .

[eroscestlavie]

OMG 😭 ❤️ this is so beautiful

[probuccalfat]

being a bitch actually saves you a lot of time

[probuccalfat]

they’ll think you’re a bitch anyway for having some reasonable boundary so you might as well just be a bitch sometimes and save yourself the trouble, the time, the energy, the money, etc

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

The UK gets a new prime minister just whenever. Completely random intervals

[nobrashfestivity]

Leonard Fink Attendee on bicycle at police barricade 1974 New York, New York, United States Gay pride march Source Leonard Fink Photographs (The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, NYC)

[anxeious]

[anxeious]

[simoneashley]

Armand + that hairstyle

[gasperyjacques]

There are mutuals that don't know how to take a hint 🙂‍↕️

Message me non anonymously if you want clarification on hints 😌

[cyberglittter]

kitty su by rielle oase