Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.
another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this
The term Sápmi encompasses both the Sámi homeland and a way of living with the land, traditional ways of being, life, culture, and spirituality. As such, the book’s title, Liberating Sápmi, “evokes the liberation of not only a territory, but of a people.” The lands under discussion encompass a vast circumpolar region in northern Europe and cross four state entities: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Thus, Sápmi is said to have four ‘sides.’ Sámi history spans millennia and includes a record of invasion, colonisation, and assimilation by the four state actors whose borders the Sámi must now navigate to fulfill their lifeways. Reindeer herding is the core cultural practice the Sámi are known for, but not all Sámi, herd reindeer and there are spiritual, healing, and socio-economic dimensions to their way of life that are also important. Furthermore, the majority of Sámi are urban dwellers. Interestingly, Kuhn notes with surprise how little mainstream Scandinavian societies know about the Sámi: additionally, the Sámi have faced antipathy from the region’s socialist-inclined leftists because, in the context of industrial ‘progress,’ leftists have (more often than not) opposed their defence of the ecological integrity of their lands. The primary industrial marker of leftist ‘progress’ has been a boom in hydroelectric dams, which not only impacts negatively on reindeer herding travel routes, but also disrupts salmon habitats. Presently, the most telling fight opposes wind farms, which also obstruct reindeer herding migration routes. That being said, ‘traditional and contemporary’ go hand in hand in Sámi life systems, which have evolved to include the use of technology (tracking devices, snowmobiles, and helicopters) whilst attending to the revitalisation of traditional songs (luohti , aka joik) and other practices.
There are two sides in the struggle against colonialism: anti-colonial resistance and decolonising/renewing cultural values. Colonial encroachment of Sápmi territories has evolved over centuries without any signing of treaties and resistance is ongoing. Each interviewee understood their connection to their territories as a situated presentness in terms of relationships. Habitation for Sámi people includes the freedom to traverse state-created borders and a cosmopolitan,global understanding of Indigeneity. An important thread running through all the interviews was a question posed by Kuhn regarding regional self-determination, and how it can be realized. Overwhelmingly, the respondents asserted Sápmi self determination does not entail a drive for statehood, but towards autonomy and self-governance. Kuhn provides examples of autonomous self-governance struggles the Sámi might look to, from the Zapatistas in Mexico to Kurdish Democratic Confederalism in Rojava. He also references the independent administrative autonomy exercised by the Inuit in Nunavut, Canada as a possible model for the Sámi to adapt. Another is the islands of Åland occupied by Swedish speakers: whilst technically under Finnish rule, islanders operate their affairs autonomously. Such examples could be emulated, and Kuhn’s interviewees bring considerable knowledge and experience to bear on this issue.
Is there beef with the Holstein cows and you or what was that joke lol
It's kind of wild It's just never come up on this blog before, but I HATE holsteins. Bottom 10 cow breeds for me. I hate how they're so common they account for the majority of milk produced. I hate that they're the "default" cow to the point where some don't even know cattle HAVE other colors. I hate their tiny horns (IF THEY EVEN HAVE THAT. LOSER ASS HORNLESS COW) and their painfully massive udders.
Legit I'm trying so hard to not launch into a No Mouth Must Scream style AM speech-- shoot my hand slipped.
(AM speech about why i dont like holsteins below the cut)
For starters, I have to give a brief lesson on what these terms mean; the "Holstein" is the American strain of the "Frisian" breed. Frisians are an ancient breed from Frisia, in the north of what we now consider the Netherlands. Crosses between the breeds are "Holstein-Frisians."
(There’s even more to this but im keeping it as simple as possible. Also one of my friends is Frisian and she is probably going to kill me for describing it like that.)
Historically, livestock was adapted to the environment they lived in. Frisians were bred by the Frisii people for hundreds of years in extremely grass-rich, lush, flat environments. The "polders" of the northern parts of the Netherlands. They're huge and eat a LOT of food.
Traditional Frisians were developed to produce as much meat and milk from a single individual as possible, without compromising the health of the cattle with constant inbreeding to get quick gains. We are talking about a breed that is over 2000 years old. They had the perfect environment to make The Ultimate Food Cow and by god they did it. I can respect that.
So, take that, drag it across an ocean to a place that does NOT have polders, and add the rapid enshittification of capitalism to it. BAM you've got a fucking holstein.
There is ONE goal for "improving" the holstein. Make More Milk. As long as the black and white milkbag leaks enough, nothing else matters. Health? Fertility? Feed ratio? Ability to not die of infection? WHO CARES. MILK LINE GO UP.
Over 90% of holsteins are inbred to start with, because Milk Line Go Up. To the tune of having an average COI of 8%-- where extreme negative effects (think Hapsburgs) start to crop up around 10%
Holstein bulls are aggressive bastards (many dairy bulls are), so no one wants to keep intact males in their herds, meaning most cows are artificially inseminated
Not being limited by the natural lifespan of a living bull means that the same stud can keep having direct offspring for decades after his death
Toystory the bull had 500,000 calves before he died, and hit over 1 million offspring in 2015. That's ONE animal and to put this in perspective, there are 9 million holsteins in the US.
DON'T WORRY IT GETS WORSE
Not only can 99% of holsteins be traced back to just two bulls-- 99% of male holsteins share one of two exact Y chromosomes with those two bulls.
The gene pool is so small that it's equivalent to about 60 individuals. Warrior Cat allegiances are larger than that. That's barely bigger than modern ThunderClan.
"Massive lack of genetic diversity" does not begin to capture the existential dread of this situation. Mark my words, WATCH, when the Bird Flu finally mutates a strain that rips through a mammalian population, it's gonna be in the USA and it's going to be through our dairy cattle.
This is not prophecy or me laying a curse on the land, this is the natural consequence of basing the stability of US milk production on the equivalent of 9 million clones of two classrooms worth of individuals, and then packing them in close quarters
And we don't have to wait for doomsday for the impacts to be apparent on the cattle themelves
Holstein fertility has also dropped by half since the 1960s when the intensive inbreeding really kicked into high gear
Because their whole body is dedicating all of their resources to milk production, they have a notoriously "bony" frame.
Show judges, however, like this because they think that's a very "feminine" look for a 1600 pound ruminant. Very normal thing to think.
Like. I don't know if i can communicate this to people who don't look at cows a lot (it's not quite as obviously dramatic as a pug skull) but here is a comparison of an "ideal" show holstein and an "unselected" holstein from a herd that's been established as a sort of "control group" for what they looked like back in the 1960s;
The way that the artery on the "modern" cow's belly runs to the udder like a big pink worm freaks me out the most ngl
The udder also bulges out from between the back legs
The show cow is so thin
And then compare these both to a Holstein-Frisian cross who leans more on the Frisian side;
Proper weight, developed legs. Its biggest "problem" is actually just the udder shape-- deep udders, which "hang" low like that, aren't optimal for milk-focused breeds because the higher away from the ground the less chance there is of infection. In that department, the "unselected" holstein clearly outclasses the holstein-frisian.
But it probably won't be surprising to hear that the "show holstein," with its massive, swollen udder, is SUPER prone to infections such as mastitis.
But it is also just more prone to getting sick generally
And, to keep up with these insane demands, holsteins need a TON of food. You aren't going to just turn these things out into a pasture and be done with it. Even its ancestor the Frisian needed premium Dutch polder grass to be such a good cow-- crank that up to 11 with these Monuments to Humanity's Hubrice
The Texas Longhorn developed in semi-feral conditions and can eat a bush to become the best thing in a 10 mile radius. The Scottish Highland was iron-forged in upland moors with a steady diet of turf and rain.
Meanwhile if a Holstein has less than 5 homemade meals a day without poland spring bottled water it will die to death.
And the WORST part? You have to use these if you want to make money in dairy farming. It's WAAY too expensive to just run a suboptimal farm. Their milk isn't great, but they sure do make a lot of it.
...so Holsteins and Holstein-Frisians (and other "super efficient" breeds) have absolutely decimated heritage cattle. The American Milking Devon is a deep reddish brown with gorgeous horns and low maintenance; rare. Randall Linebacks are painted with lines of white speckles down the back and can be used for any purpose; critically endangered. The Niata was a pug-faced cow who could fight jaguars; extinct.
And THAT'S what makes me hate them most of all. I LOVE cows, but whenever I see a reference to one, it's a holstein. It's always boring black and white splotches with big pink udders. They're practically synonymous with "cow" when their homogeniety is actually hiding much cooler breeds from you.
Did you know cows can be tiger-striped?
And that England has its own type of longhorn?
Or that cow horns can twist upwards like an antelope?
And that they can have REALLY LONG ears?
And that they can be blue?
And that's not even getting into some of the cows that have gotten a small crumb of attention lately, such as Highlands, Ankole-Watusi, and Texas Longhorns. There's so many cool cows out there! And they're all really different from holsteins! MOST of them are also a lot healthier and produce tastier milk and meat!
TL;DR yeah i don't like holsteins and I like sniping at them. For reasons both legit and petty.
I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people that do.
I think of that quote alot from night in the woods.
I originally felt the same way, but now, im not so sure.
Maybe its more accurate for me to say I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people that try to.
Its a small distinction, but i think thats significant enough. People try to care, but things are too much, and self preservation kicks in.
I've been fumbling around trying to find my place, carve out my place, with the voice in the back of my head saying "your running from the choice you know you will eventually make."
who am I? what am I?...is it worth trying to discover it? or should i have finish trying to cut my throat open as teen. Should I have went through with it?
I think so, for I am not living really for me, I am only wondering how to keep my existence convenient. If i could make killing myself easy and it not effect my mother, i would go ahead with that to. I wish most days I just don't wake up. I want to help people in the world, but I am too 'me', I have to be less me, or a better 'me'...or just not 'me'. But with that being said what can I be?
I gotta at least stay here until my dog goes, she's 12 now, 11 years of stubborn husky, i hope she isn't staying to stop me. I rather just join her.
Some people don't have a place in this world, and thats ok, maybe thats me. Until my dog goes, I'm here. But once she goes, if I don't find purpose then, I'll go its the least I can do for myself, so I can stop feeling lonely and that i have no place here.
Do you live in Massachusetts? Are you looking for some direct action to take? Guess what our shitty state house just did!
It’s passed in the house and going to the state senate as far as I can tell and it seems like they just snuck it in there because ???. So it’s time to harass your state senator and rep. You can find them here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator
Find My Legislator
Call them, email them, send them letters, protest outside their doors, whatever. Let them know this will not stand here
New technology for digitally unfolding history letters.
(I’m @historyb00ks over on TikTok).
Article is here and free to read : Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21326-w
Here, the authors present a fully automatic computational approach for reconstructing and virtually unfolding volumetric scans of locked let
I’m reading The Deviants War: The Homosexual vs The United States of America and the entire point of gay pride as a concept comes from police raids on bars, clubs, public restrooms, etc where gays were humiliated and outed in the newspapers (sometimes with their addresses!) and had careers ruined and lives upended by being associated with perversion and vice squads and all that and they responded by going “no I’m proud” and took that pride to the streets in defiance of the huge mechanism of shame that existed to oppress the gay community into obscurity and so the fact that people are now trying to apply conservative dogma to pride parades to make them “safe for children” or in other words “safe for people with oppressive conservative values” is simply insane
will never understand the people praying for romance in horizon forbidden west. Im as h*rny as the next girl but there was something so deeply, gutturally satisfying about aloy being surrounded by men in love with her, like truly believing the sun revolves around her, and her response being “???? what??? Im sorry??? God im so busy”
Part of the issue is the fact Aloy is 19 to everyones 26 and up LOL(unless erend is 22). Guerilla made a commitment to making her young and possibly bi and she’s living her young single years.
I love how both corvids and parrots are in general highly intelligent, but where corvids generally have strict hierarchies, solve disagreements in the pecking order by fighting, and have a strong dislike for anything new or foreign until they figure out how to make use of it, parrots are just here to party.
The New Caledonian crow, who knows how to specifically build a tool in order to build another tool, never engages in play. These motherfuckers are smarter than some people with the right to vote, and they are Extremely Serious Birds. They don't have time to play, they got work to do and kids to raise.
And then there's the kea, straight-up titled "clown of the mountains", that has a specific vocalization for "playtime!". Scientists decided to try what happens if they play the Play Call for two fully-grown adult keas that are together in an area and can clearly see there is no other, third kea to make the call, and they just go "great idea, disembodied voice! it's TIME TO FUCKING PARTY!" and start wrestling.
Imagine working really hard in order to make it into a top university to study astrophysics, making it to your first Very Serious Class, sitting down full of serious determination, and the dude next to you is taking notes without using his hands, with a glitter pen he's shoved up his nose. And his notes are good.
Tam Hashford is tired of working at her local pub, slinging drinks for world-famous mercenaries and listening to the bards sing of adventure and glory in the world beyond her sleepy hometown.
When the biggest mercenary band of all rolls into town, led by the infamous Bloody Rose, Tam jumps at the chance to sign on as their bard. It’s adventure she wants - and adventure she gets as the crew embark on a quest that will end in one of two ways: glory or death.
It’s time to take a walk on the wyld side.
Genres: fantasy, romance
*this book can be read as a standalone, but it is a sequel to Kings of the Wyld and set 6 years after, follows the daughter of the previous protagonist
aeschylus: stayed outside in his old age to avoid a prophecy that he would die from having something fall on his head, died when an eagle thought his bald head was a rock and dropped a turtle on him to break its shell
plato: partied too hard
empedocles: jumped into a volcano to prove that he was immortal
philitas of cos: was such an incredible pedant that he wasted away while studying erroneous word usage
saint lawrence: roasted alive during christian persecution under valerian, joked that he was done on one side and needed to be flipped over
didius julianus: purchased the roman empire in an auction, ruled for 9 weeks, executed for being ineffective leader
petronius arbiter: sentenced to death by nero, opened his veins while enjoying a sumptuous dinner party, edited his will to list all of the reasons he hated nero
As someone who is working pet food retail i think this was officially the event that made me sick and tired of dog food and pet retail. Still not going to trust big business also the fact they in like 2003 UC Davis did research the effects of foods with Lamb and Rice Bran in it and saw an effect on the heart. And pre 2000s they had already linked the legume issue with cats.
We’ll see what happens but honestly I have a feeling it might have to with dogs being fed significantly less than what is on the bag with these grain free foods.
Tesla was eating close to 2x as much as recommended on the bag when she got diagnosed with DCM 🤷♀️ similar with some of the other sports dogs I know who got it.
Interesting, I'm sharing this article with my managers and make note of that when I bring it up again. Sorry about your dog being diagnosed! I've been collecting all the research I can find on the issue because I have customers who are torn on the problem and it becomes harder to find grain based foods that are also LID when the dog has a protein allergy trigger. I personally haven't a had DCM diagnosed to either of my dogs even though I fed a majority of the foods on the list but I also do not exclusively feed kibble or grain free, we mix it up alot.
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