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guerrillatech

guynewyork

Am I depressed or just broke is a solid question.

guynewyork

Another good question is "Am I depressed or am I unhappy?" I spent a long time in a not-so-great relationship thinking I was depressed when mostly I was just very very unhappy.

Also a little depressed, but still. :P

everydaylouie

happy halloween! here is a ghost duet

snootyfoxfashion

Mystical Woodland Animal Art Prints by RivuletPaperShop

x / x / x / x / x x / x / x / x / x

babyfoxcollectionthings

kestrel-tree

Well someone displeased the sky gods didn’t they

augustdementhe

My first thought was someone pleased the sky gods, because this is a SHOW.

madmaudlingoes

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

talesfromgringolandia

That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath often look the same.

why is this fire quote from a tumblr post

mythopoeticlicense

Because tumblr is the real world equivalent of infinite monkeys using typewriters eventually producing Shakespeare.

serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty

Boss made a dollar

I made a dime,

That was a poem

From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand

And gives us a cent

While he’s got employees

Who can’t pay the rent.

So when boss makes a million

And the workers make jack

Then that’s when we riot

And take our lives back.

#WorkingClassSolidarity

gunsandfireandshit

dispatchesfromtheclasswar

Victor Frankenstein: I’ve created life but I refuse to put any effort into helping that life develop. I won’t teach him, love him, or defend him even though I forced him into existence with a fully operational adult brain lol. Peace, bitch.

The Monster: Am Eloquent Baby

Boomers: He’S NOt thE ViCtIM, HE’s tHe MOnsTEr

an-ace-up-your-sleeve

An ironic parallel considering the idea of “tough love” parenting that plenty of boomers like to use. If they buy into the idea that their kids just have to toughen up and face the real world without guidance or emotional support, I’m sure it does scare them to read a story where someone who wasn’t given any support began to resent their creator and turn on them.

firelxdykatara

it’s like that post that’s like ‘knowledge is knowing that frankenstein is the doctor; wisdom is knowing that frankenstein is the monster’. like the whole point of the post is that frankenstein’s monster is a victim of viktor frankenstein’s own monstrosity.

mary shelley did not lose her virginity on her mother’s grave just for people to misunderstand her best known work over a century later.

cockyroaches

odinsblog

Me, whenever I see businesses complaining about “lazy workers” because they won’t work low paying minimum wage jobs:

aphony-cree

Most of these businesses were deemed necessary during the pandemic (like fast food jobs), which means they never had to close and never had to lay anyone off. They were able to offer steady employment during lock down

So ask yourself, why are they in desperate need of employees now? The answer is because their staff either died, got fired for taking sick days, or left out of fear that their workplace wasn’t protecting them. Or all 3. There’s a lot of data coming out recently that the fast food industry suffered huge staff loses due to covid illness, especially among line cooks because poor ventilation put them at higher risk

memecucker

Invention of bread is weird bc it’s like some Neolithic ppl were like “hey you know that tall grass thing that’s sorta edible but not really how about we take it and grind it into a very very fine powder which is extra backbreaking right now bc the wheel won’t be invented for awhile and then we mix it with water and heat it up and you know what let’s also toss some mold in there just to see what happens”

quoms

there are a number of distinct steps though, each of which can be observed in isolation. “grind tough seeds to make them edible” is practiced with other foods besides grains (like acorns). the natural next step after that is to add water, which gives you porridge: a common ancient roman meal was puls, very similar to modern cream of wheat. once you have that you also have a simple dough, and baking it to preserve it is a logical experiment (as is baking some you forgot about and left out for a few days, just so you don’t waste it... voila, leavened bread)

there could have been, and probably was (though i’m not an archaeologist) a substantial time between each of these innovations. it’s not too hard to imagine people being chill with “grind seeds for soup, select plants for bigger seeds” for a good while

quasi-normalcy

Do you ever wonder how many amazing things are fated to go forever uninvented because each step necessary to invent them is a completely unintuitive thing to do?

noctumsolis

Okay, that's not how bread was invented. I wrote a potted history, I could try to dig that out if anyone is interested?

quasi-normalcy

Please do

panecultus

I'm putting this on my bread blog, because of course I am. Also tagging @appendingfic who I think expressed interest.

Tens of thousands of years ago people foraged and hunted for their food and ate whatever they could. Among their forage were wild cereals, which included the ancestors of modern cultivated wheat, barley and others.

People like sweet things. Grains are starchy, but if sprouted they start converting those starches to sugars, so people would've left grains in water to sprout. These sprouts are also easier to digest, thus more nutritious, which bestowed an invisible advantage on those sprouting their grains.

If grains are left in water too long, however, they begin to ferment. Alcohol is produced. People like alcohol.

In ancient Mesopotamia the fermented grains were experimented with, resulting in an early form of beer. The process of making that beer was quite complicated and involved a combination of sprouted and mashed grains.

People wanted beer all year round, but early beers did not have long shelf lives and the grain could only be harvested at certain times. So the ancient Mesopotamians invented a way of storing the ingredients for beer.

It was made of the grain mash, honey, dates and spices that were fermented to make beer. For storage, prior to fermentation, the mixture was baked dry, cut into smaller pieces and baked again to remove all water. This produced bapir, a product very much like biscotti, which could be stored for later rehydration and fermentation. Sometimes it was eaten instead.

I've made bapir, and I've eaten it. It is brittle but delicious. It's also a form of unleavened bread.

Bread was invented as a way to store the ingredients for beer, which was most likely a development from a chance discovery. Leavened bread (that is, with bubbles) may well have been discovered when a mixture like that for bapir was accidentally allowed to ferment before baking. Yeast is responsible for both alcohol production and leavening.

There's a lot more to it, in terms of the cultivation of grains and the development of milling, than I've written here. It's been a process of millennia to go from chewing sprouts to eating soft white bread like that pictured. But every step along the way was small and simple.

quasi-normalcy

I never would have guessed that beer pre-existed bread. I've always just assumed that beer was an accidental discovery by breadmakers.

kurowrites

Oh my god what is this bullshit. Beer existed pre bread?? Archaeological evidence of flatbread made out of wild wheat etc. is at least 12000 years old, long before even an early form of beer was ever inveted!

And the earliest from of beer was found in Iran and is around 7000 years old, last I checked. (Notably, the first evidence of grape vine also dates to around that, and was found in China.) Even the oldest examples of bread in Europe are 2000 years older than that.

Now evidence of yeast used specifically for baking, on the other hand, can be first found in Ancient Egypt (around 4000 to 5000 years ago?), though of course its usage might be older.

lierdumoa

The above comment contains incorrect/outdated information. We have archaeological confirmation that beer dates back at least 13,000 years. Stanford University archaeologists discovered a 13,000 year old beer brewery in Israel in 2018.

From: [ news (dot) stanford (dot) edu/2018/09/12/crafting-beer-lead-cereal-cultivation ]

“This discovery indicates that making alcohol was not necessarily a result of agricultural surplus production, but it was developed for ritual purposes and spiritual needs, at least to some extent, prior to agriculture,” Liu said about their findings.

In her lab analysis, Liu said she was surprised to discover evidence of beer brewing in the residue samples they gathered.

“We did not set out to find alcohol in the stone mortars, but just wanted to investigate what plant foods people may have consumed because very little data was available in the archaeological record,” said Liu, who is the Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor in Chinese Archaeology at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences.

I’m guessing the above commenter just didn’t know about the 2018 discovery, and based their response on previous findings.

>>the earliest from of beer was found in Iran and is around 7000 years old

We need to be careful about saying that anything archaeologists discover is the “earliest” or the “oldest.” Archaeologists are always finding new evidence of even older shit.

And archaeologists will be the first to tell you that lack of evidence isn’t proof of absence.

It’s perhaps worth noting:

Alcohol is naturally occurring in nature. If a beehive gets flooded with water, for example, the honey inside it turns into mead without any human intervention necessary.

That means fermentation is something humans discovered, not something we invented. Certainly we invented new techniques that improved upon the natural process, but we weren’t starting from scratch. We were basing our experiments on observed pre-existing phenomena.

Bread, on the other hand, is not naturally occurring. Humans had to come up with bread entirely on our own.

So it makes sense that humans would try to ferment grain before we tried to make bread with it.

It makes sense that beer would pre-date bread.

yieldsfalsehoodwhenquined

things heating up in the history of bread fandom

anxietyproblem

wolfinthethorns

Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.

castielific

I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in.

They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them.

I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much.

People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth.

Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad.

0jamajos

The fact that both the tweet and these reblogs are pre-pandemic makes this post even worse

high-quality-tiktoks

What magic is this

penny-anna

hot take:

Gloin is the sexiest dwarf by dwarf standards.

Kili is the sexiest dwarf by elf standards.

Thorin is the sexiest dwarf by human standards

& Bombur is the sexiest dwarf by hobbit standards

penny-anna

#ITS TRUE AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT #(ALSO THORIN AND KILI BEING ‘UGLY’ BY DWARF STANDARDS IS AMUSING CONTENT)

further take: Kili is straight-up ugly by dwarf standards. Thorin is like, the dwarf equivalent of Benedict Cumberbatch. Some dwarves think he’s an absolutely dreamboat, others think he is super weird looking, there’s very little middle ground.