[kosmogrl]

they should invent a january that doesn’t make you go through every emotion known to mankind every day

[shoyowo]

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

[shoyowo]

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

[shoyowo]

white people can and should reblog this

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

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[headspace-hotel]

The photo of the women looks like a baroque painting

[blushedfemmes]

i love ppl who talk in the tags bc it satisfies my deep desire to know ppl’s opinions on everything without needing to have a conversation with them and ask. even better when it’s a side tangent that barely has anything to do with the post, or a personal anecdote, or a joke. tag talker mutuals you’re my favorite. tag talkers rise up

[mimisfortress]

🌹Different Types of Divination 🌟

From Man, Myth, Magic reference book encyclopedia collection, Vol. 5

[stoney-baloney-with-cheese]

Do not let them erase this. Do not let them tell you he meant "my heart goes out for you."

This man is the grandson of a Canadian Nazi sympathizer who moved to South Africa BECAUSE he thought the apartheid was just the coolest.

He has a gaggle of kids specifically because he believes his genes are superior and need to be spread to improve humanity.

He has thrown his support behind the neonazi party in Germany and the far right party in the UK, not to mention how far he's wormed up the ass of the Republican party.

He threw two sieg heil salutes back to back at the inauguration of the president of the United States and is trying to scrub the evidence off the internet.

Elon Reeve Musk is a fucking Nazi.

[arctic-hands]

[Image Description: gif of Elon Musk at a podium at the twenty twenty-five presidential inauguration, placing his right hand on his heart then raising his right arm into a Nazi salute, then turning around and repeating the gesture to whatever is behind him. End I.D]

[there-goes-trouble]

The World According to Elon Musk’s Grandfather

What happened to antisemitic rants before social media.

[teaboot]

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

[sheilikhal]

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

[greenthey]

Neanderthals took care of their disabled. They were more "evolved" than we are today

[the-hierothot]

I will never stop reminding people that NINETY-NINE PERCENT of human history happened during the Paleolithic.

And I feel like a lot of our discontent comes from the fact that we’re living in the AI generation with caveman brains.

It explains so much. Why lack of exercise leads to increased anxiety. Why watching people cook is so relaxing. Why we’re so socially burnt out and depressed—Because in the Paleolithic we’d interact with MAYBE 100 other humans over the span of a decade, but people in socialization-heavy jobs (retail, food service, etc) can converse with that many people in one day. Why sex and food are such strong motivators for us. Why sometimes when we’re single, even if it’s by choice, we get this weird feeling that we “should” be in a relationship. My agoraphobia makes sense, my adhd makes sense, and the persistent and seemingly endless existential crisis I’ve been having for years makes sense.

[victusinveritas]

An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has been described as an early example of artistic thought.

From West Tofts, Norfolk.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Courtesy Alison Fisk

[ralfmaximus]

Half a million years ago. Whoa

[honorthegods]

Not this blog's usual area of interest, but here's a little more information about this object:

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology -https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/450987/

Journal of Archaeological Science - (critical of the seashell inclusion having been intentional by the knapper) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440323001681#sec5

Nasher Sculpture Center - (the handaxe presented as an intentional work of art) https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/art/exhibitions/object/id/3147-535

Museum of Stone Tools -https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/artefact/europe/handaxe-3/1878/

Wikipedia "Boxgrove Palaeolithic Site" - (earliest human remains found in Britain from 500,000 years BP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxgrove_Palaeolithic_site

[hylianengineer]

Hey, important point:

A Homo sapiens human did not make this axe. It's so much cooler than that.

There weren't any anatomically-modern Homo sapiens (that's humans like us) until about 300,000 years ago, and that was in Africa. There definitely were not any in Britain at that time, so they can't have made this axe.

Who was in Britain at the right time? Homo heidelbergensis. There's a bunch of arguing among scientists about whether they're a subspecies of Homo erectus (this idea has gotten less popular recently), or their own species (current most common view), but they weren't quite like us.

And yet, they made this. Isn't that cool?!

[mindblowingscience]

Iron Age DNA Reveals Women Dominated Pre-Roman Britain

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society.

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons buried together in southern England and uncovered strong evidence of female-line descent. Among the large kin group, who lived before and after the Romans launched their invasion in AD 43, more than two-thirds were descended from a single female ancestor. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the unrelated family members were male. "This tells us that husbands moved to join their wives' communities upon marriage, with land potentially passed down through the female line," explains geneticist Lara Cassidy from Trinity College Dublin. "This is the first time this type of system has been documented in European prehistory and it predicts female social and political empowerment."

Continue Reading.

[cosmicretreat]

[travelingtwentysomething]

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[rowark]

Luigi Mangione's lawyer is SO good

like, she didn't miss a beat in the arraignment, calling out the police, the perp walk, the mayor...

I hope this trial is televised tbh. i will not miss a second of it if it is

ETA: ANNNNDDD calling out the mayor for not using the word "alleged".. YES!

I get SOO annoyed whenever people complain about the media using the word "alleged", especially when there is video footage of the crime happening... people complain that it's some sort of media bias, and not like... straight up a VIOLATION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT if they don't say "alleged"

The presumption of innocence is a right. Luigi's rights have been violated repeatedly in this regard.

And possibly also his right to a fair trial, since they are creating SO MUCH bias against him

[rowark]

@arewestill

You're 100% right, and that's not even gaslighting. That's exactly the question everyone SHOULD be asking.

Do we know he did it? Absolutely not. And unless a jury reaches a guilty verdict, we are all supposed to assume he did not do it. That's exactly how the presumption of innocence works.

Everyone saying that we all know he did it is just doing the prosecution's job for them. We don't know that Luigi Mangione is the guy in the CCTV footage. The prosecution has to prove that he is, and if they can't, he gets acquitted.

And that's exactly why the media has to say "alleged". It wouldn't even matter if they had footage that clearly showed his face, because the media and the general public doesn't get to decide if someone is guilty or not.

And that's why it's so good that his lawyer has already called this out, because without the presumption of innocence, you can't have a fair trial.

In every court case, the burden of proof only falls on one side, and in criminal cases, it's always on the prosecution. So basically that means if you are on trial, you walk into a court where the assumption is that you are not guilty, and the prosecution has to convince the jury that you are guilty, while the defense just has to raise reasonable doubt.

Since the presumption is that you're innocent, if the defense can poke holes in the prosecution's case, enough that the jury isn't 100% convinced that you absolutely did it, they have to acquit.

But if you walk into a court where everyone already thinks you're guilty, it's going to be a lot harder for the defense to raise reasonable doubt, and the burden of proof is going to essentially be lifted from the prosecution, because they're just proving something that the jury already thinks is true.

So when the police and the Mayor of New York keep going out of their way to present Mangione as guilty in public (the perp walk, having 4 officers behind him at the arraignment, as though he's a danger to society, not saying "alleged"), they are convincing the public that he's guilty before a trial even starts, and it's going to be difficult to find an unbiased jury. If the jury is made up of people who think he's guilty before it starts, he doesn't get a fair trial.

So it's not gaslighting to ask if we actually know it's him... we don't know, and people very much need to keep remembering that.

None of us were eyewitnesses. The CCTV footage doesn't show his face. We didn't see the police find the alleged evidence on him. We haven't seen this evidence in person. We have not heard any sworn testimony. We have not heard a confession.

We very much do not know that he did it. People are literally only assuming he did it because they've been told that he did. They're accepting it without proof, and that's dangerous.

[sourdough-seal]

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

[juniperandthistle]

Fuck it here is the sorority letter for the tiktok refugees:

If you just opened this like I told you to, tie yourself down to whatever chair you're sitting in, because this post is going to be a rough fucking ride.

For those of you that have your heads stuck in old algorithms, which apparently is the majority of this website new users, we have been FUCKING UP in terms of reblogging and general social interactions with Tumblr Veterans. I've been getting post on post about people LITERALLY being so fucking NON-INTERACTIVE and so fucking BORING. If you're reading this right now and saying to yourself "But oh em gee Juniper, I've been having so much fun with my fellow new users these past couple of hours!", then punch yourself in the face right now so that I don't have to fucking find you on dash to do it myself.

I do not give a flying fuck, and Tumblr Veterans do not give a flying fuck, about how much you fucking love to only like posts. You had years to only like posts, and this upcoming year is NOT, I fucking repeat NOT ONE OF THEM. This time is about fostering relationships in the social media community, and that's not fucking possible if you're going to not reblog posts and only talk to each other and not users already on this site. Newsflash you stupid cocks: TUMBLR VETERANS DON'T LIKE BORING USERS WHO ONLY LIKE AND DON’T REBLOG. Oh wait, DOUBLE FUCKING NEWSFLASH: TUMBLR VETERANS ARE NOT GOING TO WANT TO REPOST AND FOLLOW US IF WE FUCKING SUCK, which by the way in case you're an idiot and need it spelled out for you, WE FUCKING SUCK SO FAR. This also applies to you little shits that have talked openly about reblogging on other sites IN FRONT OF TUMBLR VETERANS. Are you people fucking Zuckerberg and Musk operatives? That's not a rhetorical question, I LITERALLY want you to comment below telling me if you're a Zuckerberg and Musk fan so I can make sure you don't get blazed or followed. If Tumblr users openly said "Yeah we're gonna make sure your algorithm is as bad as Meta’s algorithm ", would you be happy? WOULD YOU? No you wouldn't, so WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU NOT REBLOG POSTS?? IN FRONT OF THEM?!! First of all, you SHOULDN'T be liking posts on Meta sites, I don't give a FUCK if your friends are on it, if your mutuals are on it, or if your entire family is on Meta sites. YOU DON'T POST THERE. YOU. DON'T. GO. And you ESPECIALLY do fucking NOT convince other users to leave with you.

"But Juniper!", you say in a whiny little bitch voice to your screen as you read this post, "I've been voting in polls, doesn't that count for something?" NO YOU STUPID FUCKING ASS HATS, IT FUCKING DOESN'T. DO YOU WANNA KNOW FUCKING WHY?!! IT DOESN'T COUNT BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN FUCKING UP AT REBLOGGING FUCKING POLLS TOO. I've not only gotten posts about new tiktok users being fucking WEIRD on blogs (for example, being stupid shits and saying stuff like "durr what's the color of the sky?" is not fucking funny), but I've gotten posts about people actually voting in polls, but not reblogging. Not reblogging the. Fucking. Poll. ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?!! I don't give a SHIT about blog’s aesthetic, YOU REBLOG A POLL YOU VOTED IN AND DON’T JUST VOTE, HAVE YOU NEVER TRIED TO BOOST SOMETHING? ARE YOU FUCKING NEW? Or are you just so fucking dense about what it means to make people like you that you think being a good little empty aesthetic blog on the tumblr is going to make other users happy? Well it's time someone told you, NO ONE FUCKING LIKES THAT, ESPECIALLY OUR FUCKING SITE VETERANS. I will fucking cunt punt the next person I hear about doing something like that, and I don't give a fuck if you REPORT me, I WILL FUCKING BLOCK YOU.

"Ohhh Juniper, I'm now crying because your post has made me oh so so sad". Well good. If this post applies to you in any way, meaning if you are a little asswipe that doesn’t reblog posts or if you're a bot that does bot shit on the dash, this following message is for you:

DO NOT GO TO POPULAR TAGS.

I'm not fucking kidding. Don't go. Seriously, if you have done ANYTHING I've mentioned in this post and have some rare site malfunction where you're unable to NOT do these things, then you are HORRIBLE, I repeat, HORRIBLE PR FOR NEW USERS. I would rather have 40 new users that are fun, interact with the existing community, and reblog to help create a fun site than 80 that are fucking silent bots. If you are one of the people that have told me "Oh nooo boo hoo I can't reblog with my thoughts, I'm too cool", then I pity you because I don't know how you got this far in life, and with that in mind don't fucking show up on the explore page unless you're going to stop being a goddamn ai artist type bot on this site. Seriously. I swear to fucking God if I see anyone being a goddamn silent non-reblogging, only liking posts bot on the Trending page, I will block you even if you're a veteran returned. I'm not even kidding. Try me.

And for those of you who are offended at this post, I would apologize but it is a copypasta. Google it.

[kaythespice]

Everybody is posting screencaps of the TikTok message trying to open the app from last night to today, and one thing I couldn’t help but notice was how the messages changed the wording.

It’s just something interesting to consider as a part of the whole dumpster fire.

[mysterygrl20]

thank you, staff.

[ificouldhelpyouforget]

DO NOT USE TIKTOK TOMORROW OR WATCH THE INAUGURATION

The only reason TikTok is back up is so the people can see the inauguration. We do not give narcissists the attention. We starve them of it.

He did not "save" the app. He fully intends to let Meta control content that makes him look like the good guy. Classic propaganda 101. Do not praise him for shit. Block meta, Facebook, Instagram, any and all Meta app accounts on TikTok. Shou, the CEO, no longer has "CEO" in his username and that should tell you that no matter what, billionaires will be billionaires.

Do. Not. Watch. The inauguration.

[kandimouse]

to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

[goingknowherewastaken]

Another important point

You need to actually reblog posts for this site to work as it should.

Liking posts only saves them in a spot that no one checks except for the user who liked them. Most people have their liked posts hidden.

Also, this site has a spam bot problem. One way we weed those out is to check the blog to see if it's actually being used to post legitimate content. If there is absolutely nothing on your blog you're getting blocked and some users may just straight up report you as spam as a precaution.

Not to mention that the posts you reblog will only be seen by you and whoever follows you. Tagging it "fyp" does absolutely nothing.

[charliejaneanders]

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.