I Laugh Too Much. It’s Fine Lol

I live in Kansas. That’s cool ig...

[luisonte]

[versacemom]

PET HER GODDAMMIT

[pointedahead]

This person is committing a crime against all the good in this world.

[loosesealbluths]

[going-to-hell-to-fuck-satan]

[swarnpert]

im going to start a false crime podcast where i explain crimes that never actually happened

[dunmertitty]

i’m going to do the crimes you explain, forcing you into having a true crime podcast

[basedandfatpilled-deactivated20]

[frogmoss1]

when hamsters are born they see a silver thread that connects them to their gruesome and peculiar death and they follow it like soldiers marching to war.

[official-lucifers-child]

wait wait wait i have literally the best picture ever of my cat, bob

[official-lucifers-child]

b e h o l d

[breakfast-deadman]

Unrestrained Joy

[anythinggoesfandoms]

Bob: beheld

[twocubes]

she knocked that smug look off my face but luckily i was wearing a second, smaller smug look underneath

[nardacci-does-art]

[melissa-s23]

This post is so incredibly dumb and everytime I come across it I just can’t help but laugh. This site is just magical. Where else will you get this nonsense?

[the-unabridged-journals]

international friends: here’s the deal. South African scientists have been tracking the COVID genome and keeping an eye out for mutations. Most places in the world aren’t doing so. When we announce a new variant, it’s not necessarily from South Africa, we just publicised the fact that we detected it here. And yet, because we’re a country in the Global South, it doesn’t matter that our scientists are incredible and are doing the world a service by tracking and reporting these things, because our ordinary citizens are being blacklisted because of it and being prevented from entering other countries and placed on red lists for no reason 

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

For those who aren’t aware, this is exactly how the Spanish Flu came to be named the Spanish Flu. It didn’t originate in Spain. Spain was just the first country to acknowledge there was a global fucking pandemic and do something about it.

[natalieironside]

Btw I’m pro-quitting.  This is a quitting-positive space.  If you’re doing something and you decide “I don’t like this” or “I don’t want to do this” then you should quit.  Quitting is awesome.  Grinding only works in video james.

I quit all the time.  It’s great.

[natalieironside]

Embrace the power of “Y’know what? Fuck this” and see how it can improve your life

[aiiaiiiyo]

Ice delivery man in Houston, TX circa 1920 Check this blog!

[corporatebigwig]

why did he eat this 

[shorthistorian]

#the hip pop… the cigarettes in the hat…#how many kids from pre-electric refrigeration look suspiciously like this guy I wonder…#POV: You are a bored housewife whose husband is constantly away on business trips and barely looks at you when he gets home#and this guy is rolling up to your house on like a weekly basis with a block of ice and his WWI thousand yard stare

Historian finishing a dissertation on the ice industry here. For once, I am not here to take away your joy!  “Oh no, the ice man is too sexy and he’s going to fuck my wife while I’m not home” was a legit moral panic for DECADES. So much so that if you were fancy, you could get an icebox built into your wall so the dirty, sexy ice man didn’t have to come inside your house with your delicate, impressionable wife.  This pic is going in the diss if I can chase down the correct citation for it.

[toastbutteregg]

[hell-propaganda]

Instead of requiring my henchmen to wear matching uniforms, I allow each of them to design their own costume and encourage them all to develop their own unique battle techniques, making each henchperson a minor villain in their own right rather than simply one of a horde

[hell-propaganda]

My facility encourages evil career development

[valtsv]

so proud of my organs for unionizing. would be great if it wasn't against me but you can't win them all i guess.

[official-kircheis]

what is the brain but the landlord of the organs

[skookumthesamoyed]

[i-peed-so-hard-i-laughed-deacti]

invite Her in

[aristoteliancomplacency]

There’s been another murder on academic Twitter.

[aristoteliancomplacency]

[narrativerehearsal]

PSA: Bioarchaeologists hate this woman and her book too. 

Any bioarch/osteology program worth its salt has lengthy discussions of ethics early on and plenty of discussion of the importance of NAGPRA and the various  equivalents around the world (it’s kind of different in Europe because they’re our dead and land for reburial is expensive and very limited and the relevant laws here reflect that difference).

When Repatriation and Erasing the Past came out the main bioarchaeology association in the UK wrote a letter to the publisher soundly condemning the book and stating that the entire british field was appalled such an abhorrent book full of ‘out-dated colonial perspectives’ had been published. The publisher did apologise and take various actions, including a donation to the Association on American Indian Affairs, but unfortunately didn’t remove the book from publication.

Weiss has stuck to her guns consistently and been shouted down/caused fury at conferences, including one of the main anthopology conferences in the US, because of it.

As a side note, posting remains on social media is also generally considered a Bad Idea/ethically dubious and her twitter is full of that, not just her icon. If she was a student at my department and posted those pictures the lecturers would rip her a new one.

TLDR: almost all anthropologists/bioarchaeologists are just as horrified by this woman as everyone else.

Edit: Just went to see how bad her blog was and she keeps getting worse. According to her the fact that there’s evidence of pre-contact slavery and mistreatment of captives in the Americas is something we need to talk about more because that somehow justifies her being racist? jfc

She also claims that medieval Londoners were just as exploited and marginalised as Native Americans, which is wrong and ridiculous on so many levels that I don’t even know where to begin.

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Pretty sure she’s published at least one paper with her ex-husband that’s basically phrenology. (Phrenology, for those who don’t know, is looking at the shape of the skull and using that to make claims about people’s intelligence, personality, etc. It’s pseudo-scientific nonsense, obviously. When it was first invented people were interested in using it to figure out if someone was likely to be a murderer. To the surprise of literally no one ever, once it hit America it became all about being profoundly racist instead). Their paper was ‘remember that bullshit about intrinsic racial IQ differences? Well we measured some skulls (and some kneecaps. I shit you not.) and we’re pretty sure the bullshit racist idea is right!

There are some incredibly shitty people in academia - it’s not the liberal haven some like to make it out to be - but every now and then there’s still someone that makes me go ‘okay but HOW do they still have a job??’

[captainamerica-inmiddleearth]

God I hope this woman gets super cursed and haunted

[rubyvroom]

What’s so awful and hope-eroding about the pandemic at this point is how consistently the value of life is cheapened before our eyes. The number of deaths go up. We are appalled and scared. The number of deaths go down, we talk about the economy. Hospital wards are full to bursting. The number of deaths go up. That number isn’t as scary as it was. We can get through that. The number goes down. It’s not zero. It’s hundreds and thousands, but it’s less than before and there are profits to be made. The number goes up. We’ve seen worse. The numbers go by. We don’t blink an eye anymore. They’re just numbers. The profits go up and the deaths go up and it’s business as usual. People are dying. People are always dying. It doesn’t make your stomach drop anymore. The number goes down. The economy goes down. Add another covid booster shot, make the numbers go the right way. My neighbor gets evicted because he can’t work anymore due to Covid side effects. Make him a number. People live out of their cars. But they didn’t die, don’t count them. Restaurants are open. Shops are open. People are dying. It’s not scary anymore. 526 Covid deaths yesterday. That’s not so bad. This is normal. It’s all numbers. 4.5 million dead around the world. How many is that? Is that a lot? I don’t know anymore. I feel sick.