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[ponkothepenguin]

I just know this book is gonna be good

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[dogpuppy]

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[apsleycherry]

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[polarpics]

🎉🏳️‍⚧️

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[jesslovesboats]

I'd like to point out something I was fortunate enough to not see until very recently (special thanks to @evergreensounds for bringing it to my attention):

This is NOT Ada Blackjack, this is AI slop. The "person" in this image looks nothing like Ada, I assume because AI cannot differentiate between different Indigenous groups (if you're looking for a terrifying rabbit hole to go down, look into how quickly AI defaults to racist stereotypes when generating results).

The real Ada was a very petite Iñupiat woman with delicate facial features. She was in her early 20s. She didn't wear her hair like that. Her clothing didn't look like that. Her gun didn't look like that. Vic the cat didn't look like that. This is a total mess of an image, the very sloppiest of slop.

My biggest question is why would anyone bother to generate this image when we have real and incredibly badass photos of Ada that are easily findable with a 2 second Google search?

Anyway, please stop using AI. Ada deserves better, and so do you ❤️

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[starlene]

Here's a nice story I learned in the Norwegian ski museum:

In 1895, polar explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen were having a bad time. Their expedition had faced some hardships and they were forced to stay on Franz Josef Land in a little hut they built out of mud and stones. In their hut, they slept for circa 20 hours a day, and spent the remaining four hours watching the northern lights or reminiscing about the comforts of home and the books they had read.

After several months of this, and nine months of sleeping in the same sleeping bag to stay warm, on New Year's Eve, Nansen finally gathered his courage and asked Johansen if they should start adressing each other with the informal you.

This is where the story ended in the museum, so unfortunately, I can't tell you whether Johansen answered yes or no.

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[the-grollican]

rip roland huntford, not a good historian or person but a once in a generation talent in the field of haterism

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[roaldamundsen]

WINNING LIKE WE'VE NEVER WON BEFORE

edited because I was not awake and uploaded the wrong screenshot

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[robertfalconscott]

on january 6 1902 edward adrian wilson drew the shittiest seal known to man

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[ephraimwaite]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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[valtsv]

i know it's because they didn't have the kind of modern medical knowledge we do back then but reading about polar exploration history is hysterical in hindsight because so many of these guys heard accounts from their fellow explorers describing the absolutely hellish obstacles they faced from both the extreme environment and their own mental and physical deterioration and were like "skill issue" and then went there to prove it and encountered the exact same problems

[valtsv]

"vitamin deficiency is a mindset"

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[perenial]

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[roaldamundsen]

you could never be that bitch (all footage used from danmark på film and the national library of norway)

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[werewolfetone]

In the 1900s they would just let fucking anyone go to antarctica as long as you had enough wrong with you

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[the-grollican]

helloooo british government id like to have a william money pleaseee. yeah i need to take a leaky whaling ship to fuck-all-ville population penguin. for the reason of if i dont do it some fucking norwegian is going to. we cannot let this happen

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[robertfalconscott]

My favorite pictures of Antarctic explorers giving each other haircuts!!

Roald Amundsen cutting Emil Racoviță’s hair on the Belgica :3c the Amundsmile and Wacky Racy make this an instant classic. Love!!!

Anton Omelchenko cutting Patrick Keohane’s hair on the Terra Nova expedition. Anton looks like a real professional here, I’d let him trim my bangs

Endurance haircuts all around!!! On the left is Frank Wild cutting (presumed) Lionel Greenstreet’s hair, and on the right we have Thomas Orde-Lees giving Tom Crean a haircut! It must have been haircut day aboard Endurance, & there are plenty of cute details in this one, including Alexander Macklin patting Leonard Hussey’s freshly shaved head (to the left & in the back)

Henry Rennick cutting Dennis Lillie’s hair on Terra Nova!!! Yes… this is my favorite. Rennick’s dramatic stance and Lillie with his little feet up on the railing…. Cute!!!!

The moral of the story being, of course, if you get a bunch of lads together on a boat bound for Antarctica, they’ll inevitably start cutting each others’ hair for fun. Dudes rock

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[jeyneofpoole]

roald slipping notes under de gerlache’s door calling him a fucking dweeb in norwegian de gerlache getting gassed by cook developing roald’s poisonous nudes in cyanide the next room over he’s dying of scurvy staring down a treasonous raw penguin steak lecointe is shoving sticks of dynamite up his ass a member of the crew just dipped to go run around with penguins and become one with the pack nobody cares they’re all too busy TOUCHING each other ! the belgica voted most “just out there doing whatever the fuck” expedition of all time but dr. cook couldn’t accept the award because his ass is in the CLANK!!!!!!!

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