What is a man but a miserable little pile of bios?

juji - they/them - scientist

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[turgidturnip]

You don't even need to be a journalist, experts LOVE answering these kinds of questions. I, a regular-degular idiot, recently contacted the Smithsonian asking what kind of ink to use on mineral paper for maximum longevity, and I got a very detailed response in under 48 hours.

[whyenn-reader]

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.

[whyenn-reader]

the more you twist yourself into a pretzel to avoid regret the harder it will hit when it eventually catches up to you.

[childsacrifice]

(no beers in) So how do you perceive me in the privacy of your thoughts

[sixtwothree]

Agates carved into orange slices by wutong_crystal_carvings.

Source: x

[tiny-pebble]

[aniseandspearmint]

this post never fails to make me crave gummy orange slices

[krippe90]

"you could just eat normal clementine slices?" NO! I want to eat ROCKS!

[ewaneneollav]

i love people so much that im trying to be one myself. its a bit crazy, i know…

[orpheuslament]

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

[astrodael]

[mbmbimbo]

i know everyone loves baby seals, but sometimes i really am blown away by their whimsy. they took a teddy bear and made it a mermaid. i feel very wonderful knowing we live on the same planet as puppy mermaid teddies

[tastylemonbread]

friend who went to bed is a type of dead wife

[didderd-reblogs]

[snakeater-deactivated20260130]

you may think it’s no big deal but every sweet interaction is actually the most important thing in the world. sooo. take that

[robertreich]

Trump's corruption is making us all less safe.

[machine-unlearning]

god I'm such a slut for Chinese eggplant in garlic sauce *decides it’s inaccurate to refer to myself as a slut in light of my minimal sexual activity* if The Enemy discovered my ardor for Chinese eggplant in garlic sauce, they would gain a significant strategic advantage

[chillyfeetsteak]

there should be more options than suffering via employment and suffering via unemployment

[narcissene]

affirmations:

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

- i CAN do this anymore

[poetrylesbian]

good news everyone

[seadeepspaceontheside]

Stupid ugly statement

[thatsbelievable]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[puppybotz]

TL;DW

the image of the voodoo doll as a magic doll you stab to hurt people actually comes from a practice by english pagan witches of making poppets. the poppet would be made in the shape of someone you hate and filled with their hair and then stabbed with big needles repeatedly. and the poppets got conflated with voodoo dolls later on.

voodoo dolls were actually a way of keeping records when black people were prevented from reading or writing. a voodoo priest who would serve as a communities doctor would make a doll that looks like the patient, and stick a pin in it where the patient was experiencing symptoms, this would let the doctor keep track of who was having what issues. for example if a patient has a headache, the voodoo priest puts a pin in the dolls head. the priest gives the patient a treatment, when the patient comes back the priest knows which doll is theirs because it looks like them, and they know they're dealing with a headache because the doll has a pin in it's head. when the symptoms resolve the pin is removed, until then the doctor has a reminder that this is an ongoing issue for a specific patient.

I wrote this because when I saw it this post had a TL;DW that conflated the information about poppets and the information about voodoo dolls, creating new and original misinformation about voodoo dolls that comes from confusing them with poppets so like don't reblog that one maybe.

also someone else in the chain included this freeze frame so you can read it