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Girls' night, 1916. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Chag Sameach everyone!

Here's your annual reminder that it was a Plague of singular Frog (who must have been so big)

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Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuk, 1927-2013) Siilavut, Nunavut [Our Environment, Our Land, 1999

Lithograph on paper 112.39 x 76.2 cm

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people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.

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ph. Danko Maksimovic - Belgrade, Serbia (2024)

Film: Kodak Gold 200

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they need to invent a writing that is easy. and fast also

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The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

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Also shout-out to the Swedes for just borrowing the French "adieu" into their vocabulary and just spelling it "adjö"

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Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/miniatures-from-a-12th-century-medical-and-herbal-collection

The Latin at the bottom reads: “Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing.”

Happy420 #fourtwenty #420day

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I walked up to a restaurant entrance at the same time as this guy and he held the first door for me and then I held the second door for him and he said "we call that the Midwestern two-step" with a laugh and I've been thinking about it all day.

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Party time, 1910. From the Budapest municipal photography company archive.

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On Twitter there are currently a lot of Christians and Muslims getting really angry about ways that Jews work around restrictions on work during Shabbat, and, like, honestly I do not understand why they care? Just a lot of non-Jews telling nice Orthodox Jews that they’re doing their religion wrong for no reason.

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Rail Yard, Duluth, MN, , Photo by Ralston Crawford, 1961

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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?