catman

i’m becoming serious now they/he

[pardalote]

The horde grows.

[aro-ace-culture-is]

aroace culture is preferring to be called nonpartnering or similar because for some reason too many people assume that single means "still open"

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[aro-ace-culture-is]

aroace culture is constantly thinking about how you'll always be second to your friends partners and the constant fear of all your friends leaving you for romantic relationships

🫂

[animentality]

[existennialmemes]

"Testosterone is the evil, poisonous hormone that just makes people violent and angry!!"

Meanwhile, Testosterone:

I'm begging everyone to understand that there is nothing inherently "bad" about any of our natural hormones. We need all of them, and different people require different ratios between them, but none of our hormones are actually "bad."

[angelnumber27]

[pardalote]

Finished stitching my Oversight series.

12 small embroidered poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.

Edit to add(thank you @avpdgirl): [ID: 1. stitching: They know your name, 2. stitching: They scan your face, 3. stitching: They time your call, 4. stitching: They hide your post, 5. stitching: They form your view, 6. stitching: They sold your data, 7. stitching: They view your work, 8. stitching: They note your exit, 9. stitching: They mark your test, 10. stitching: They flag your card, 11. stitching: They read your file, 12. stitching: They lock your cell. /End ID]

[accordionlover]

cross stitch, words from Jenny Holzer's Livings, 1980-1982

[noodlecatman]

no one wants to talk about how boring work and capitalism is but i will

[bsaka7]

excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy

[kosmogrl]

this is so cool!!

[kosmogrl]

[noodlecatman]

new exam strategy: self imposed exile in my room until exam is finished so when i am free i get to leave jail

[shadytail]

We also figured out—the hard way—that the ancients probably cut each layer of linen to the proper shape before gluing them together. For our first linothorax, we glued together 15 layers of linen to form a one centimeter-thick slab, and then tried to cut out the required shape. Large shears were defeated; bolt cutters failed. The only way we were ultimately able to cut the laminated linen slab was with an electric saw equipped with a blade for cutting metal. At least this confirmed our suspicion that linen armor would have been extremely tough. We also found out that linen stiffened with rabbit glue strikes dogs as in irresistibly tasty rabbit-flavored chew toy, and that our Labrador retriever should not be left alone with our research project.

[krakenartificer]

I love this in every way possible. What is it from? Where can I read more?

[blackcatphysics]

The pitfalls of experimental archaeology and puppies.

[shrewreadings]

link to source:

“Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery, or how Linen Armor Came to Dominate our Lives.”

https://jhupress.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/unraveling-the-linothorax-mystery-or-how-linen-armor-came-to-dominate-our-lives/

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

holy shit read the article. it’s short but wild

[mounmantaka]

We found that even more of a threat than rain was one’s own sweat on a hot day. So, yes, it does need waterproofing, both inside and out. We did a number of experiments along those lines, and found that rubbing a block of beeswax over all sides of the armor provided nice waterproofing. It also makes the armor smell nice! When you wear it for a couple hours, your own body heat softens the glue a bit and makes it conform to your body shape, so it is much more comfortable to wear than rigid types of armor. Our reconstructions weighed about 10 pounds–about one third the weight of bronze armor that would provide the same degree of protection.

Honey i gotta go to war… not to smell my bee armor or hang with the boys or anything no.. uhh we need to uh do war things?

[thefibrarchaeologist]

#i've definitely read this before and i've probably reblogged it before but like.#no one in this thread is mentioning that they actually shot someone with an actual arrow in this armor.#they were like 'we've got to test this in practice' and instead of getting a mannequin or something they had an actual person wear it.

They what?

[classicslesbianopinions]

from the article:

While all of this mayhem (both scientifically controlled and free-form) convinced us that our linothorax was ancient-battlefield-ready, we still felt compelled to try a real-life scenario, so Scott donned the armor and Greg shot him. And while we had confidence in our armor, our relief was still considerable when the arrowhead stuck and lodged in the armor’s outer layers, a safe distance away from flesh.

a good life-size mannequin is expensive but i guarantee it would've cost way less than they were spending on all that linen.

[dr-dendritic-trees]

Academics are just like that.

[captainhelion]

They wrote a book about it btw

Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unravelling the Linothorax Mystery - Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, Alicia Aldrete, 2013. and here's the "they shot a guy" pic, with one of my favourite captions ever

[ineptshieldmaid]

WOW YAY thank you @captainhelion , one for this important update and addition to my tbr and two, because I remembered you didn’t have the username On Here that I met you under but had forgotten what you changed it to!

[miamaimania]

Statues of Mt Nemrut ~ Turkey by Stephanie Borcard & Nicolas Metraux ⧗ Decapitated by earthquakes, reassembled by archaeologists

[noodlecatman]

so sorry but the moon is not actually colourful & that post is misinfo, check its reblogs for details & links but the short version is that the images are edited to show mineral composition

ah ok ty!

[noodlecatman]

feeling all my hard work paying off

[joeinct]

Marquees, Photo by Jenny Holzer, 1993

[oldnewyork]

Times Square installation of Jenny Holzer’s neo-conceptual text-based art.