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i hate to break this to some of yall but bisexual women are not soul less opportunists who all secretly lust after men constantly and dont actually love women... and its not exclusive to bisexual women to leave their partner for another person. if you really believe that youre gonna be severely disappointed later in life lmfao

venusdryad

the assertion that bisexual women could just leave women for men and live a perfectly happy and content life is so disingenuous. do yall forget misogyny exists when it comes to bisexual women?? do yall forget that men are the main perpetrators of domestic abuse??? bisexual women have the highest rates of being victims of sexual assault (by a partner) and youre really just gonna sit there and go on and on about how well all just leave a same sex relationship for a man. its like you want bisexual women to admit theyre really bihet handmaidens straight and get in relationships with men ffs

#I've got the beeeeest of both worlds #not letting cishet men fetishize my sexuality 2020

tastefullyoffensive

Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

dama3-deactivated20210619

old school hate mail

jakovu

Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock

thesparkofrevolution

Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.

skeletonrex-deactivated20151101

Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole

thesparkofrevolution

More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.

prokopetz

And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:

He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.

The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

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comparativelysuperlative

Okay, but imagine from the other guy’s point of view. You send angry letters about how Ea-nasir shipped you half a ton of subpar copper, and then 3800 years later—

peter-pantomime

History: you are without a doubt the worst business man ive ever heard of

Ea-nasir:

ants-are-fascinating

When ants die, a few days later they emit oleic acid, which tells the living ants to dispose of their corpse.

A myrmecologist named Ed Wilson discovered this and dropped the chemical on a living ant. It was immediately carried off, despite the fact that it was still moving, and clearly not dead.

periegesisvoid-deactivated

“I’M GETTING BETTER”

kuroba101

Bring out your dead. Eh, close enough.

glitterandgrunge

IM NOT YET DEAD SIR

lazorsandparadox

You left out the part where the ant, believing HERSELF to be dead, stayed in self imposed exile in the ant graveyard until the acid wore off and she realized she was not supposed to be in the ant graveyard.

silent-wordsmith

@finite-experience, this seems like the sort of thing you’d like to see

mister-christmas

Ant 1: To the ant graveyard with you

Ant 2: But I’m not dead

Ant 1: You smell dead

Ant 2: Fair enough

eric-coldfire

Ant 1: “I thought you were dead.”

Ant 2, after acid wears off: “I got better.”

ottermatopoeia

Ant 2, returning to the colony: i lived bitch

cultiverunjardin

I don’t think we’re meant to be exposed to so many random strangers opinions on literally anything and everything on a constant, daily basis

gowns

me as an ancient greek walking through the agora and past the lyceum trying to mind my own business

nowthisnews

‘Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move past it, it can’t just be on people of color to deal with it. It’s up to all of us – Black, white, everyone – no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out. It starts with self-examination and listening to those whose lives are different from our own. It ends with justice, compassion, and empathy that manifests in our lives and on our streets.’ — Michelle Obama

afeelgoodblog

Why hasn’t this been done before?

roboco-san

no smart appliances in this house. absolute fucking moron appliances only. my toaster is there to make bread hot not to tweet what time I ate breakfast or whatever the fuck

roboco-san

don't need my goddamn microwave to snitch to the nsa

exilerose-deactivated20220711

if i am somehow forced to own a smart appliance (likely due to lack of availability) i will figure out how to take the computer out and make it dumb

roboco-san

lobotomize your coffeemaker

cool-pictures

sad and trve..

oystein

the way this literally happened to me LMAO

#mayhem #not a fan of how he pushed his bandmate to suicide #big fan of the croptop tho

h-el-l-deactivated20200408

my plan B for everything is to die before it happens

maulgoths

It’s intersex awareness day!

Here’s a reminder not to imply that intersex people are inherently trans or nonbinary when discussing trans issues! It’s one thing to say that certain traits are not necessarily male or female, but it’s another thing to say that being intersex prevents someone from being cis.