Moby Richard @mobyrichards - Tumblr Blog

riben-deactivated20230922

@macho-sextant @mariabarraza11 @boys--and--buses @a-regular-octopus @germofmany-blog @lev27jes2-blog @ditto-ditto-and-resolve @zeisleh @alibina-kanash18tky @theforeignsoil @top10clipz @clearwaterseocompany @lexikleeann @sarsparillaislife-blog @ballizlife5w4g @helenaliveshere @grantairesatellite @agripinautzig5 @creaturebloom @psychedelicsoundcheck @kidrauhlvs @heyaeya @sogalvenzh @woof-blitzer @pyvelpoq17 @dillonallenperez @hydrogel @sweepinggeneralities @all-teenmovies @reinaescarlata @live-babe17 @bumblebee-cumberbitch @fuckyoudraculas @poopityscoopwhoopity @thisfuckingbandiswear @axt-xmn @yogaintheam @delivermeicecream @disobeyclothing @theogfatd @i-married-my-computer @killugonkillugon @legendarykaran @i-wont-eat-anything-green @allyourhate @reflectiveheart @piccolo--crossing @haiimak @gaudenzi433m20 @ifoundreligionattherecordstore

Ray-Ban Sunglasses

343789359

remember when you were 16 and if you slept past 10 am adults would act like you had murdered someone or were dying

alicentsgf

literally cannot figure a better metaphor for me trying to clean up my shit and be an adult than that scene in derry girls where they're forced to clean the local chippy and theres a montage with inspirational music playing, they're all motivated and doing things and then after a while the music stops they look around and its so so much Worse than when they started and james is using mayo on the windows

like. thats me actually

fandombros

What happened that hes using mayo on a window though lol??

alicentsgf

that isnt important. what is important however are the faces Erin makes in response

loveyazy

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month ∟Day 24: Brenda Song as London Tipton in Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Suite Life on Deck

pissvortex

guy with a pocket knife whose only job at your work is to offer you his pocket knife when you are having trouble breaking down cardboard boxes

cozi

when i was 12 i got banned from yahoo answers and when i emailed support to be like “what did i do??” i got a really vague answer that just said “you know what you did” and it still haunts me to this day

tiktoks-we-like

grafai-ai

Man sees crab for the first time.

marshthemehllow

does he...

Live in the

Sea?!

asingularcanadian

Some fucking

mollusk

pulls up

badgerfrogs

ZUKKA

endreal

"can u bring me a coke"

chewedcorn

Helpful former homeowner.

memento-mariii

When I say love makes us human, this is what I mean.

authenticstains

sexwitsockson

thehours2002

this literally reads like a click hole quote

systlin

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.”

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just.

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.

saxifraga-x-urbium

i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

assasue

One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.

anx1ous-op0ssum

I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.

Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”

whatevercomestomymind

Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

pbrim

I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”. (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.) She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.” “Why would you think that, ma’am?” “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me. See?” They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle. When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.

catchester

So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.

Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.

A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”

“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”

So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.

She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.