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Anyways, here are some posters and protest signs from ACT UP! During the AIDS crisis, shout out to the New York public library <3

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Happy pride month to rural gays specifically. Shout out to all the poor gays down in the south that can't afford to leave. I love you guys, stay vigilant, stay strong <3

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Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

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Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

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soup! soup! finally after long last redrew this one! u can buy a print of it here!

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This is probably the biggest news in paleontology to come out in a while.

Previously, the only remains we had of this group of humans were some teeth, a partial jawbone, and a fragment of a finger bone. But through examining its mitochondrial DNA, we were able to identify them as a group of humans distinct from Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalensis. Unfortunately, the remains we had were not enough to give it a formal taxonomy.

Cut to 2018, and a worker in China hands in a fossil skull to some scientists, claiming that his grandfather had found it in the 1930's and didn't tell anyone until his death. In 2021, it was identified as a distinct human species and named Homo Longi, or Dragon Man.

This year, another study was done on the Homo Longi skull, looking for DNA. The study was able to find some mitochondrial DNA, revealing that the Homo Longi skull was actually that of a Denisovan.

Now that we have a more complete specimen, I think it will be easier for us to identify remains in the future. I'm also expecting a small debate over whether the species should remain Homo Longi or be called something else, but I think it will end up remaining Homo Longi.

See below for an article on this

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When someone languages outside of what people think is normal, others can think they are bad with language, or are not as smart as someone else. No one is actually ‘bad with language.’ We want to help people understand that no language is bad. It is okay to want to change your language use if it will make you feel better. No one should make you feel badly about your language. We need a bigger and more flexible understanding of what language is.

Jon Henner and Octavian Robinson (2023). "Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: A Crip Linguistics Manifesto." Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability.

Open access article here.

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Remember to always be cringe and weird and off putting and odd and annoying and faggy

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the signs do be kinda vibin doe 👀👉👈😳✊👊🖐️🥺🥺

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Athena, Odysseus, and Telemachus for class

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I love pdfs how you can download them and keep them forever 💕 the internet is so beautiful! "Computer storage full" is a lie created by big recycle, never delete anything!!!

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when enkidu dies Gilgamesh covers his face, veiling it “like a bride”. Haha (sudden low voice through gritted teeth) the ancient Mesopotamians are running circles around us. I need you to get your ass on the field and give me your best yaoi or we can kiss these quarter finals goodbye

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Child's Sock from Egypt, c.250-350 CE: this colorful sock is nearly 1,700 years old

This sock was discovered during excavations in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus. It was likely created for a child during the late Roman period, c.250-350 CE.

Similar-looking socks from late antiquity and the early Byzantine period have also been found at several other sites throughout Egypt; these socks often have colorful, striped patterns with divided toes, and they were crafted out of wool using a technique known as nålbinding.

Above: a similar child's sock from Antinoöpolis, c.250-350 CE

The sock depicted above was created during the same period, and it was found in a midden heap (an ancient rubbish pit) in the city of Antinoöpolis. A multispectral imaging analysis of this sock yielded some interesting results back in 2018, as this article explains:

... analysis revealed that the sock contained seven hues of wool yarn woven together in a meticulous, stripy pattern. Just three natural, plant-based dyes—madder roots for red, woad leaves for blue and weld flowers for yellow—were used to create the different color combinations featured on the sock, according to Joanne Dyer, lead author of the study.

In the paper, she and her co-authors explain that the imaging technique also revealed how the colors were mixed to create hues of green, purple and orange: In some cases, fibers of different colors were spun together; in others, individual yarns went through multiple dye baths.

Such intricacy is pretty impressive, considering that the ancient sock is both “tiny” and “fragile."

Given its size and orientation, the researchers believe it may have been worn on a child’s left foot.

Above: another child's sock from Al Fayyum, c.300-500 CE

The ancient Egyptians employed a single-needle looping technique, often referred to as nålbindning, to create their socks. Notably, the approach could be used to separate the big toe and four other toes in the sock—which just may have given life to the ever-controversial socks-and-sandals trend.

Sources & More Info:

Manchester Museum: Child's Sock from Oxyrhynchus

British Museum: Sock from Antinoupolis

Royal Ontario Museum: Sock from Al Fayyum

Smithsonian Magazine: 1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion

The Guardian: Imaging Tool Unravels Secrets of Child's Sock from Ancient Egypt

PLOS ONE Journal: A Multispectral Imaging Approach Integrated into the Study of Late Antique Textiles from Egypt

National Museums Scotland: The Lost Sock

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This Istanbul house was built in four historical eras

First floor: columns from Eastern Roman (Byzantine) era.

Second floor: archs from "again" Eastern Roman era.

Third floor: stonewalls from Ottoman Empire era.

Fourth floor: mud bricks from the first years of the Republic of Turkey.

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Woah Mama, regulations are written in the blood of the working class

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First ape to go to the watering hole with a container and put some of the water in it so that they could drink more later without returning to the watering hole must have been lauded as a fucking genius.