Kat

Forever in love with ancient history and cats.

[thoodleoo]

i was looking at the etymology for the greek word for cat after reading an article about cats in ancient greece and honestly at this point i don't CARE if this is a folk etymology, because the idea of ailouros literally meaning something like "wavy-tail" is about the cutest thing i can imagine

[holycosmolo9y]

Marforio, a colossal marble statue fountain of a river-god restored as Oceanus (2nd century BCE)

Exhibited at Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums in Rome.

[aqua-regia009]

Roman Ruins in Schonbrunn (1891) by Carl Julius Rudolf Moll

[vulgarette]

girls be in their bedrooms. spiraling and what not

[pettyprivilege]

me

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[thedreadpiratejames]

the mortifying ordeal of being known by 20,000 bees

[onenicebugperday]

That’s 20,000 new friends!

[libraryticketss-deactivated2025]

"لا تختصر أحب تفاصيلك“

"Don't shorten your speech. I love your details."

– (zaidalhourani) زية لحوراني

[lawrence-alma-tadema]

Sculptors in Ancient Rome, 1877, Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Medium: oil

[en-theos]

Really want to be a cat on a Mediterranean archaeological site napping in the sun right about now

[intercal]

"I could look it up but it's more fun asking friends" gang

[kernalphage]

"there's probably an objective answer for this but let's see if someone has a rant locked and loaded" group chat

[noragaribotti]

POMPEII-A Roman Road travels through the city and toward Vesuvius #Pompeii

[quotemadness]

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

— Seneca

[vancila]

problems in stardew valley

[radio-charlie]

Palestine’s head of mental health services says PTSD is a western concept

“What is sick, the context or the person? In Palestine, we see many people whose symptoms are a normal reaction to a pathogenic context.”

Similarly, she says, clinical definitions of post-traumatic stress disorder do not apply to the experiences of Palestinians. “PTSD better describes the experiences of an American soldier who goes to Iraq to bomb and go back to the safety of the United States. He’s having nightmares and fears related to the battlefield and his fears are imaginary. Whereas for a Palestinian in Gaza whose home was bombarded, the threat of having another bombardment is a very real one. It’s not imaginary,” says Jabr. “There is no ‘post’ because the trauma is repetitive and ongoing and continuous. I think we need to be authentic about our experiences and not to try to impose on ourselves experiences that are not ours.”

Jabr, author of the book Derrière les fronts (“Behind the Frontlines”) on mental health in Palestine, talks about PTSD in international forums, so as to communicate the suffering of those in her country in terms that can be easily interpreted around the world. But, she says, the condition does not fully capture the traumatic reactions of Palestinians.

“We describe our psychological experience in terms that we hope to be understood in the West, so we talk a lot about PTSD,” she says. “But I see patients with PTSD after a car accident. Not after imprisonment, not after bombardment or being labeled as a person against the law and having a relationship with prison like revolving door. The effect is more profound. It changes the personality, it changes the belief system, and it doesn’t look like PTSD.”

Jabr says people in Palestine who face continual trauma are more susceptible to shifts in personality, and express a variety of symptoms where their emotions stress is manifest in physical reactions. For example, she had a patient who suffered from breathlessness and who was sent to a psychiatrist after physical examinations could not find a cause. “A few months after he developed enough trust, he told me that he developed these symptoms after he was attacked by soldiers who forced him to use filthy words against his wife [and] his mother,” she says. “He was so ashamed of the event, that he had to comply with the instructions or soldiers…and his body expressed the suffering. We see that very often.”

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[steampunktendencies]

Kevin Lenaghan, “Stairway”, “Glass Palace”, and “Crystal Stairway” (2021)

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

Extraordinarily detailed and dynamic black-and-white mosaics from the Baths of Neptune in Ostica Antica, the port for ancient Rome.

[red-winged-monster]

Nerina, the cat of the Colosseum, is dead. She arrived at the Flavian Amphitheatre when she was just a kitten and she spent the past decade protecting the place from mice, birds and the tourists who tried to pet her. She had been nicknamed “the last panther of the Colosseum” because of her black fur and fierce temperament. 

Mollia non rigidus caespes tegat ossa nec illi, terra, gravis fueris: non fuit illa tibi.