Donate if you can, and even if you can’t, spend some time this November educating yourself about the history of the very-much-still-alive tribe that sat down with the pilgrims, the continued history of colonization in America, and about the tribe/s whose land you are occupying.
I’d also recommend seeing if any of the tribes whose land your occupying has a language revitalization program of it’s own. More and more tribes are creating their own programs!
what i wanna know is how captcha technology went from having to type in a barely readable code, to just. clicking a button. how does this tell you im not a robot. can robots Not press the big funky button
I know this is a shitpost but just in case you don’t know, it actually tracks the way the cursor moves. Bots can click it instantly and moving in a perfectly straight line, people take a few milliseconds to react and move the mouse imperfectly. If the computer’s still not sure whether you’re a human or not, it makes you do the 3×3 photo grid thing I never seem to get right
Humans best feature: our wiggles.
Are you telling me that the reason I always have to do that fucking photo grid thing is because I am too good at moving my mouse??? Like, robot-good?
Real witches can believe in the devil, real witches can work with him and his variants.
Witchcraft is not a single practice, it isn’t inherently soft pretty “wicca.”
Wicca doesn’t believe in the devil, because it’s a religion, they have their own deity system. Non-wiccan witches can worship and work with whoever the fuck they please.
Wicca involves witchcraft, but witchcraft doesn’t involve Wicca.
Stop enforcing dogma from one religion on all witches.
The devil has nearly always been a symbol in traditional european witchcraft, and he will not be outcasted by trendsetting new-agers.
Stop pissing me the fuck off, stop harassing and “correcting” those who practice historical accuracy.
Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized.
Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is an abundance of resources. That isn’t how it works. That isn’t how it’s supposed to work.
ok so my roommates are anthropology students and their favorite example for debunking the ‘survival of the fittest’ bs is shanidar 1. (x, x, x)
shanidar 1 is a neanderthal who, at a pretty young age, was hit in the head hard enough to blind him. this also led to that side of his brain shutting down and withering his right arm, and possibly crippling his entire right side. not only that but his skeleton also shows that at some point, he broke a bone in his foot and, in addition to the other factors, resulted in a noticeable limp. there are some sources which say he likely had degenerative diseases. (arthritis was really common in neanderthals)
going off of widespread ideas of “”primitive”” (no longer the word used in anthropology/academia to describe early-modern humans) societies, shanidar probably died really young, deliberately abandoned or killed. i mean, he was severely crippled, blind, etc., he couldn’t contribute anything, he would have been a “”burden to society””, right?
except he lived to be between 40 and 50 years old. (about ~80 in human years)
this means that his social group had to have taken care of him for a minimum of two or three decades without his ‘contributing’ anything significant to the group. this discovery (and Shanidar III’s) was huge because it basically proves that early humans had a concept of hospice. early modern humans cared for the sick and the elderly, greatly extending their lifespan, simply because they cared.
tl;dr: the concept of someone needing to be ‘’useful’’ or ‘’’productive’’’ in society in order to be valued and cared for is a very modern concept and our quasi-predecessors would be ashamed
Also, Shanidar I was buried with flowers. They cared about him after he was dead, too.
He ALSO called the shooting a “wicked act of mass murder.” I don’t support him or his policies, but at least give him credit where it’s due.
because god knows he’s known for his honesty and following through on what he says
He even called the synagogue bombing “Anti-Semitic!” Not that I like him–I don’t–but you have to admit he said the right thing there. Of course, he also said the wrong thing in his speech, but it was immediately followed by the right one.
the problem is that he says the right thing to placate apathetic masses only to use dogwhistles to immediately assuage the fears of white supremacists
there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s
Another Forbidden Texture: those frosted, semi-translucent colorful plastic cups with the grainy surface texture.
Absolute hell. The fact that I lack a long proboscis after being served fluids in cups like these when visiting other people’s houses disproves Lamarckism.
Oh shit, and special acknowledgement of those microfiber towels meant for cleaning windows and glasses. Horrific.
it was a mistake to post it i didnt think it would go viral which is dumb i know!! the caretaker is worried about being located and these calves are SACRED and often stolen/killed/skinned !!!!!!! keep it in your heart and delete delete delete!! help me get the word out!!
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