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memories-of-ancients

Lapis lazuli ornamental plate, Achaemenid Empire, 500-400 BC

escuerzoresucitado

creatingblackcharacters

I'm speechless 🤣

creatingblackcharacters

This is the real world example of "white person with brown bucket tool" lmao this is what it looks like to me when y'all draw Western Europeans in all but name and then think giving them brown skin is going to fool me into accepting them 🤣

isuggestlandback

Europeans complaining about North America isn't even the pot calling the kettle black, it's the fire calling the pot hot.

hagiomoto

Israel is not an exception to history...it is the latest manifestation of white supremacist colonialism and imperial conquest.

hippotime

'Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia' by Janine Roberts is a new edition of a seminal illustrated work of history

I had no idea. I feel sick.

The myth that the British Empire was the world's only civilised empire is still so tacitly accepted here in the UK that each time atrocities are forced on our attention, we assume they're exceptions.

I can't stop thinking about the playfulness of it - how British that was. We've never gone for German efficiency, but we did like to get creative.

This is who we were. This is who some of us still are.

diserbillyti

Good resource on the subject of massacres within the Australian colonial context:

Hundreds of massacres left thousands of Aboriginal people dead, a history many Australians struggle to accept. A brave few started documenti

I also think it's important to understand colonialism in Australia and committed by the Australian state is ongoing, both against Aboriginal peoples at home and throughout both South Asia and the numerous island cultures that surround Australia throughout Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. It's vital to remember Australian colonialist violence is not "in the past," it is very much something we are still doing, even if not in this extreme and overt violent form.

For instance, although we discuss the Stolen Generations in the past tense, Aboriginal children are up to 26 times more likely to be incarcerated and many, many, many of these children are placed in adult detention facilities where they are (of course) intentionally abused (because that's what a prison is).

Why are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the most incarcerated people in the world?

This is so normalised that politicians in Australia run on "tough on crime" anti "juvenile delinquency" measures, while actively obstructing and resisting measures that would meaningfully provide resources to Aboriginal communities or provide protections from the overwhelmingly white police. This is not a subject of discussion in white households in Australia, and when Aboriginal politics do enter the mainstream, they are easily misrepresented by directly opposed racists and poorly defended by supposed allies, ie. the Voice to Parliament.

dimetrodone

People horrifically fucking up facts about evolution and genetics too support their stupid beliefs or to seem smart and “rational” is probably one of my big pet peeves

bogleech

Yeah. An enormous number of racists, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes I’ve met eventually whip out something about evolutionary biology and they never, ever, ever, ever have the slightest shadow of even a half-right idea what any of it means or ever cite a claim ever actually made by a scientific study.

Here’s a quick handy reference list or anyone who isn’t sure:

Homosexuality does exist in almost all social species.

“Alpha males” are not a real phenomenon and in fact the most aggressive males tend to be the least reproductively successful.

“Survival of the fittest” simply means that the success of a species hinges on how well it “fits” its environment. It does not mean that stronger or smarter individuals are supposed to succeed. Those things can even be a detriment in nature by wasting too many resources.

“Race” is not a biological concept. Someone who looks different from you has the same human genes, just a different grab-bag of dominant traits.

Evolution is not a march towards higher complexity, more intelligence or even more adaptability. It’s just a fluctuation of characteristics dictated by environmental pressures and mutation. A slime mold isn’t “less evolved” than a hawk, just adapted for success under different parameters.

People didn’t evolve “from apes.” It’s more complicated than that. We are a category of ape, sharing a common ancestor with the other apes.

No human on Earth is “closer” to an evolutionary ancestor than any other. We all descended from the same one.

Neanderthals were also a “sibling” species of ours. We didn’t evolve from them.

Some of us did, however, cross-breed with Neandethal man. It is exclusively non-African races, such as white people, who still carry hybrid human/Neanderthal genes. Whoops, sorry “white purity” skinheads, you’re actually mixed with a whole other species.

sunny-butch-deactivated20220919

Some more stuff!

Humans are actually more genetically homogeneous than most people suspect. This is possibly due to a population bottleneck at some point in our evolutionary past. Two chimpanzees from different sides of a jungle are likely more genetically different to each other than any two human beings in the world.

Our big brains may help us use tools, but what was really principal in their development was the need for empathy, communication, and cooperation.

Humans. Are. Social. So social it drove an incredibly energetically costly increase in our brain size. Don’t believe anyone who says its our nature to fight “every man for themself.” We’re humans, not bears. We fight for each other.

And we always have. Fossil remains are found of ancient humans who bore signs of crucial mobility impairments that lived to notable ages. Some even have sticks or other mobility aids – community care and support is our way. We don’t cast off those with impairments, we stand by them.

Human sexual dimorphism is on a decreasing trend. Our ancestors had greater difference in canine size and overall size. Our dimorphism gap has gotten smaller.

Occam’s razor is the principal that whatever is the simplest explanation is probably the most likely one. Don’t believe someone who says the reason we evolved bipedalism is so that males could carry gifts to females to woo them. Yes, this is a real ‘theory’ on how bipedalism evolved.

Skin tone is an adaptation of UV levels vs vitamin D levels. Both come from the sun. UV is harmful, so where sun is plentiful populations develop a darker skin tone for more protection. The skin needs sun to create vitamin D, so where sun is scarce, the skin tone lightens to allow more sun in. This is literally all it is.

Final thing: No one’s mind is really equipped to fully understand how long a billion years is, or a million, or even tens of thousands of years. Evolution takes place over a loooong time. Its very, very, slow, slower than we can really comprehend. We can’t “stand in the way” of natural selection by caring for our ill. We don’t need to “help” evolution in any way. It inevitably happens, but not on any sort of timescale we could possibly affect, so don’t fall for anyone that tells you not to “stand in the way” of natural selection. That’s fascism, and its utterly pseudo-scientific.

Not to mention natural selection doesn’t have a “will” that you can stand in the way of. Its not an entity with wants, its a millions-year long process. And its impossible for our decisions to “stand in its way.” Our decisions to care for one another are what brought our species where it is, plain and simple.

memewhore

bananahomo

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

puppylovesystem

re-reblogging and thinking about when i have another collection agency calling that i can just do this

secondmoredangerouseyes

Yo this is such good info to have

sorceress-foxgirl-ariel

Cheers Americans, have fun with this one

alexiaroselikethewine

Being recently disabled this is going to relieve a FUCK TON of weight holy SHIT

dragon-in-a-fez

keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it

lordandgodoftheobvious

me: Privilege is multidimensional. That means it's entirely possible for someone to be privileged along one axis of oppression while being oppressed along another.

tumblr user: Okay.

me: For example, a Black man is oppressed for being Black, but still privileged for being a man.

tumblr user: Makes sense.

me: Such contradictions are not only perfectly natural, they are baked into the very definition of privilege. I cannot stress enough the fact that this is the case.

tumblr user: Yeah, I got that.

me: Americans have privilege.

tumblr user: That doesn't make sense what about American of color and LGBT Americans and homeless Americans and disabled Americans and--

special-agent-dale-gooper

uncle-beanbag-mojave

We would fully accept any Japanese buckaroo

theconstitutionisgayculture

Foreigners will never understand how someone like Rawhide Kobayashi would immediately become a beloved local fixture in whatever small American town he ended up in.

brazenautomaton

every single time someone pulls the "How would you AMERICANS like it if someone came to AMERICA and" reversal, the answer is always "we'd fucking love it"

not-so-innocent-bi-sander

@kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd

Your tags summed up the exact feeling I had about this

tikkunolamorgtfo

I just Googled the Swedish-Japanese guy in the OP, and according to this interview, his Japanese name was given to him by the master gardener he was apprenticed under:

“The family name ‘Murasame’ was given to me by my master. The given name ‘Tatsumasa’ is a combination of ‘dragon’ (tatsu), the [zodiac] year when I was born, and one character from my master’s name,” says Murasame."

So I think maybe it's less like naming yourself 'Brandon McFreedom' and more like moving to the states to work under a veteran car mechanic named Bud McLean, and then having him turn to you after a few years on the job, and say "Son, it's time for you to become an American so you can open up your shop. And when that day comes, I think the world should know you by a new name: McLeo GM Corvette."

teaboot

Named by his superior by conventions one would apply to a super chill stray cat

hagiomoto

Please consider setting up a recurring donation to Project Muhammad.

From the heart of besieged Gaza, where life has become a daily struggle for survival and childhood has lost all its basic protections, the E

aaronwarnar-deactivated20150722

“filipino mythology” does not exist; don't tag something when it does not even exist, how stupid are you?

[cracks knuckles] [drinks tea viciously]

well, one as rude as you might as well be as stupid, for “filipino mythology” does exist and people like you make me gag. Our stories might not be as well documented as the greeks or the romans or and god damn egyptians, but we have preserved them through oral traditions. We told them to our children before they sleep, we told them to young teens when they would need guidance, we told them throughout centuries and believe me: we are far from forgotten. so, you want some mythology, i’ll give you some god damn mythology:

— list of all our documented and known deities

— list of all of the creatures in their respective ethnic myths (yes we have more than one form of mythology and we take it into high regard when we talk about certain myths

— creation myths that i myself have heard many many times from my grandparents (my grandfather mostly)

— most detailed account of the mythology in the philippines

— another great source for information about filipino mythology

— oh look, yet another detailed explanation of creatures in filipino mythology

— why, would you look at that, yet ANOTHER source of filipino folk tales

anyway, regardless of what you think. filipino mythology is as valid as any other mythology out there and i shall protect it at all costs. normally i would have just deleted such a message but how you had told me of how invalid my culture was, well that angered me. to completely tell me that, i myself was invalid, a statistic. you are no better than the spaniards that arrived at our coasts. oh how they erased out existence from history’s books. let me tell you this, i will not be silenced. i will not be stopped. i will not be merciful. you come back into my ask like this again, i will meet you with a fury that even the gods cannot contain

creatingblackcharacters

Hey everybody,

So, I wanna be clear: I use this page to platform fundraisers specifically for people and causes of Black African descent. We often don't even consider that Black people exist across the globe, and have to deal with the same suffering and political conflicts in tandem with pre-existing antiblackness. Sudan, Congo, Haiti, Cuba, Palestine, etc. I want to use my position to amplify their voices, to give them the spotlight and space to be seen in a world that often neglects their existence.

That being said!

My peers (of all backgrounds) and I have been sharing fundraisers for Gaza for at least three years. And I recognize that that's a while, but folks being tired of hearing about it doesn't prevent suffering from occurring. It doesn't stop people from experiencing horrors under genocide. So often I get asked on my personal page, why no one is listening or helping, and I don't have anything to tell them. I don't know what to say anymore.

Because I see what they're saying, I do see how it feels like my peers and I are basically circling fundraisers between ourselves at this point. I see how the world treats them, and I don't know what more I could possibly say to convince people to care, after everything we've witnessed. What could I possibly say, if that's not enough?

We could use your help. But much more importantly, the people of Gaza could use your help! Even if you can't donate, reblog a campaign post shared by your peers every now and then. Pick one family's campaign and commit to sharing that one, if nothing else. Anything is better than nothing. Everybody on here claims to have some sort of marginalization and struggle that they wish to be witnessed and acknowledged, so I know you understand and empathize.

Anything is better than nothing, y'all. Please.

enbaluka-tokyo-drift

The US tortured a chinese scientist to death and the media calls it "hostile questioning"

kropotkindersurprise

His name is Danhao Wang and he was murdered on March 19, 2026.

“On March 19, at approximately 11:00 p.m., officers from the University of Michigan Police Department responded to a report of a subject who fell inside the George G. Brown Building,” the statement read. “A faculty research assistant was found after falling from an upper level and was later pronounced deceased.”

Lin Jian, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the U-M researcher died by suicide after U.S. law enforcement interrogated him, urging the U.S. to conduct a full investigation.

Wang worked in the lab of Zetian Mi, an electrical and computer engineering professor. Engineering Dean Karen Thole wrote in an email Friday that Wang played a major role in research breakthroughs at the University of Michigan, and the community is mourning his death. “Dr. Wang was a promising and brilliant young mind, whose research into wide bandgap III-nitride semiconductor materials and devices published in Nature stands as a landmark, uncovering for the first time the switching and charge compensation mechanisms of emerging ferroelectric nitrides,” Thole wrote. “His loss is felt deeply not only by those who knew him here at the University, but also everyone who understands his potential to have contributed to breakthroughs in science that would have positively impacted people around the world.”

DPSS is investigating the March 20 death of Danhao Wang, an assistant research scientist in the College of Engineering.

viking369

"Suicide by throwing himself down the stairs." Cops love that one.

milf-king

A lot of Americans are too brainwashed to realize this but you have absolutely 0 reasons to hate Iran and Iran has every reason in the world to hate the US.

The US has always been the primary structural agressor in this relationship. The 1953 coup, the decades of sanctions, the military encirclement, repeated threats of regime change, decades of anti Iranian policy (by every single administration) and all the war crimes we're seeing take place now. This entire environment was built by the US.

It's time to either stfu about Iran or read up and start supporting the only country in the world willing to fight back against this violent colonial entity