Pyramids Are Just Really Elaborate Jenga

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[thatlittleegyptologist]

Hi, welcome to this blog! Here’s a few things you should know:

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I block blogs that have no title/default avatar or pfp/no content/no likes/no explanation for why the blog is blank like 'this is my main but I use my secondary blog mostly'. This site has too much of a problem with Pr0n bots for me to allow random no content blogs to follow that later use my content as a way to legitimise themselves.

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This is a personal blog, not a pure Egyptology blog. I will just reblog whatever amuses me, and it won’t always be about Ancient Egypt. 

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[the-almost-fashion-historian]

Evening dress, 1909 by Callot Soeurs

This dress is decorated with sequins, bugle beads, cut glass beads, gems and lace. It very obviously takes inspiration from the patterns and symbols of ancient Egypt

This dress can be found in: Gregg Museum

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I hate that I don't know how to unlock the part of me that's still upset about three years ago. I hate that the unconscious reaction to it is to fall into a sort of half depression where I can function but I'm irritable to the extreme and have lost interest in the things that bring me joy. There's no way off this ride until November, it's just going to happen, but I can't create, I can't enjoy things, I can't even talk to my friends. I just sleep all the time. I'm just listless. I have a story I want to write! I have an outline! But it's like being completely disconnected from that side of me that the words won't come because a different person from the one I am currently knows how to do it. I have to wait for her to come back or try to push through as much as I can. I hate it so much.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I like how I keep seeing US media outlets describe Naughty Nige's by-election victory as 'thumping' when in reality he only got 1k more votes than he did in 2024 when he stood against all the main parties, and this time nearly 10k people were happy to vote for a man dressed as a fucking alien bin.

[kajalcorpse]

you really could be DEPRESSED for MONTHS and the only thing people will notice about you is how easily you get irritated

[carbomcoco]

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

[carbomcoco]

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

[aphony-cree]

people always go "Instead of spending all that time on a study they could have just listened to us when we said these thing happen"

they did listen, that's how studies work, they asked people about their experiences and put all the data together in a nice package that can be cited

[thatlittleegyptologist]

men are can get gregnant?

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Joke’s on the government. My anxiety meds are combo’d well enough that their emergency alert for “GRASS DRY. FIRE MAYBE?” didn’t even faze me.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

thank god today is the last day of the heatwave (well, this one at least) because Bad Mood due to heat and overstimulation is becoming a permanent fixture.

[whitepeopletwitter]

Is it the freedom

[aralintheobsessive]

It's the venting. In the USA, dryers have massive exhaust vents to the outside of the room/building that take the hot wet away and leave hot dry behind. In many other countries, dryers do not generally have external exhaust vents, and simply fill the room they are in with the hot wet, which may or may not be enough to actually remove the hot wet from the clothing depending on how well ventilated the room itself is.

[whetstonefires]

for this reason 1) you generally can't leave the dryer open in winter without causing a draft and 2) sometimes when you're walking around outside in the US the world will suddenly smell of clean laundry because you're near someone's house and their dryer is running

[zaprowsdower27]

And 3) Eventually your drier stops drying things so well and you have to hire somebody to bring a ladder up to the vent (either high up an exterior wall or on the literal roof) and clear out the accumulated lint and cruft blocking it

[ayellowbirds]

You ought to do this regularly even if the dryer efficiency remains the same, because dryer lint is fantastically competent at burning your damn house down if you let it catch fire.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm in Australia (no exhaust vents), and I've found that if your dryer starts making hot wet laundry, you first clean out the lint trap that you already know about and clean every time, and then you go looking for the second secret lint trap that nobody told you about and clean out the year's worth of lint in there that you were blissfully unaware of. The dryer will now mostly dry your laundry again, and give you either hot dry laundry or hot just-very-slightly-damp laundry.

[bladesofaura13]

This reminds me of the story about the couple who kept cleaning two different dryer vents and were confused why their so never cleaned the lint

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That post was what first prompted me to go looking for a possible second lint trap

[em-dash-enthusiast]

I'm genuinely appalled that dryers outside the US are not vented to the outside world. That much moisture just...builds up in your house/apartment every time you use your dryer?? Does that not lend itself to mold growth over time?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Mine recondenses the water into a little tub that I empty into a sink after use. I could also get a plumber in to vent the water directly into the greywater but I prefer being able to have the dryer in a part of the room with no direct water system access.

[em-dash-enthusiast]

That makes much more sense tbh. I was envisioning a steam room and the associated drywall moisture damage every time you do laundry, like "at that point I would just opt for a clothesline" lol.

(Which we do still use in the US, despite the popular conception that we all have dryers. Not as common as it once was, but I've lived several places where we used a clothesline bc we had a washer but no dryer.)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In Australia most people use clotheslines all the time, and even those of us who have dryers tend to only use them when the weather is too wet to make line drying practical. Electricity is expensive and sunlight is free. Can't speak for people living in city apartments and suchlike though.

[bucketofdeltav]

I grew up in Aotearoa and formerly lived in the US and now live in the UK and yes every dryer I have ever seen is absolutely vented to the outdoors???

What are the Australians doing?

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Condenser dryers are perfectly normal. They’re typically used in spaces where external venting isn’t an option. I have a condenser dryer and I’ve had one for years, as have multiple people I know.

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[thatlittleegyptologist]

It’s 22c at 1am. Fuck this shit.

[bitchfitch]

Ok, Have you in real life ever seen a bathroom that had its light switch Outside of the bathroom. Not like one of those fancy giant bathrooms where the toilet is in its own little room, but a normal sized bathroom where you could be in there doing your thing and someone Outside could just turn the light off on you?

This is so normal to me

Yeah but it's weird

Maybe? normal though.

Maybe? weird though.

No but I'm pro this being a thing

no and what the fuck why would that be a thing

Other

Button.

Voting ended onAug 14

In Real life. not in a videogame or movie because I've Only seen it in videogames and a friend has spotted it in a movie.

[bucketofdeltav]

Yes, but mostly in hotels.

And having the toilet in its own little room is also normal, that's not a 'fancy giant bathroom' thing, that's a 'normal house' thing.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Since it was 36c today, I chose not to cook and did the very british thing of out sourcing that to the local chippy who has air conditioning and therefore wouldn't suffer nearly as much as I would in the kitchen. I've been craving fish and chips for about two weeks, which is about how long I give a craving before I give into it just to make sure it's something my body actually needs rather than boredom craving.

When I say devoured it...

[reggiemess]

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

[reggiemess]

Who does this benefit. Who is made safer by this. Whose life is made better by this. Who is out there going "Wow I sure am glad I didn't have to see that word without it scribbled on a little. That really reduced the emotional impact of reading that word." Can I kill them?

[reggiemess]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I don't participate in wider circles for writing because I'm antisocial and frankly I don't enjoy the mean girl clique bullshit that makes me feel like an alien on another planet, but I read a fic and I have nowhere else to express this so:

he would not say that

she would not say that

using a place name doesn't automatically mean your world building is done

why is it always the same three goddamn tropes?

about 1500 words in I realised it was just writing single sentence lines. There were 8000+ words in total.

character do the thing, character no have introspection

character supposed to be vehicle for narrative but that vehicle is a 1990s little tikes cosy coupe

I've seen drink spillages with more depth

okay I'm done

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Why is it 10:30am and 30 fucking celsius?