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Neanderthal concepts

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Upper Paleolithic (and one Mesolithic) women

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new least favourite animal discovered. WHAT THR FUCK.

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The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 . July 18

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Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.

If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.

If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.

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huh so during the reign of Emperor Wu during the Western Han there was a common practice of seizing dwarfs to force them to act as entertainers at the courts of powerful people. A magistrate from Hunan named Yang Cheng found the practice to be morally outrageous and protested to the emperor saying that little people are humans equal to all his other subjects rather than slaves to be captured and treated like animals and presented evidence as to how this distributed or even ruined the lives of the families they were forced to leave behind. The emperor was persuaded by Yang's arguments and banned the practice of enslaving dwarfs and overtime Yang actually became a minor deity venerated by little people in China for how he had fought against their persecution and for them to have equal rights.

I found that kinda interesting since it's a pretty early example of someone campaigning against ableism and for equal treatment of those born differently and was done on a matter of general principle

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Playtime for young kea birds! There’s a benefit to this apparently carefree behavior. It helps establish long-lasting relationships between the youngsters and even diffuses tension. David Attenborough | BBC Earth

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“i‘m sorry anakin, for all of it“

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JULY 18TH BRO I CANT WAIT THAT LONG

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i love how looking back is the most likely the first song if we go by the cosmic selector tracklist at that concert but it already sounds like it has the potential to slash my fucking knees with its devastating sound. like yes yes they absolutely kill it with their album openings (love like ghosts the girl that u are…) but they’re known for their devastating final songs. meanwhile looking back is like. right out the gate despair. that fucking violin at the end of looking back that we heard last week and today at the end of the album announcement ohhhh it’s hitting like time’s blur all over again can’t hold on to the past forever etc etc

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apple music users who have looking back confirmed this is the album cover….. i’m gonna cry it’s really real

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the way the whole first half of the song is the narrator like- very accepting of their fate and just wanting this one thing and obviously looking back on things and the music is so so soft and then it slows down the first time and sounds all time-warpy and like it’s winding down. but then it picks back up and it’s faster now and there are lyrics like “i’m gonna see if i can live outside the lines of my body and my mind” and “i’m gonna see if i can find the time to sit and wonder why forever” and “if i need a little money i’ll sell my soul though it isn’t worth much” and “maybe i can pay my cosmic debt before i turn to dust” and it’s like a huge turnaround it’s like sudden denial or this sudden need to answer those last questions that linger. like the final “no this isn’t happening i can fix it” before it’s all gone. and then the lyrics from the first half repeat but this time with more emphasis and then it ENDS and its the most devastating instrumental :)

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I DONT HAVE WORDS.

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“this song wonders if it’s possible to let go, or if looking back is a fundamental law of existence” “can’t hold onto the past forever, time’s blur comes for us all” hey. im on the brink of full blown sobbing :)

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I DONT HAVE WORDS.

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I've been thinking about the quote ”every person between the age of 25 and 34 must have the inner hologram of their life that was built before they were 24 collapse because it was a child’s construction” ever since you posted it. It is so precise and discombobulating lol, I don't even know where to start

me too!!! shattered me completely. and also freed me - I can be whoever I want now. I’m not a failure if I don’t fulfill the dreams I had as a teenager, I can start over and dream again

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We're impressed by the ancient Egyptian and Chinese cultures, where you see continuity over like 4,000 years. And yes, that's impressive.

But then you have the Gravettian Culture, which lasted from like 34,000 to 24,000 years ago, which covered all of Europe and included genetically-unrelated people, and they were all using the same tools, living in the same houses built from mammoth bones, and carving intricate statues of sexy fat girls, for around 10,000 years.

This is so long before any concept of writing that we have no idea what they were up to, or why. So when they did stuff like this,

we have no idea what the hell that was about.

That's three brothers or cousins buried together in the edge of a hill under a structure of branches. One guy is face-down, the one in the middle has a rare genetic disorder, and the other guy has his hand over that guy's dick. They were all around 20 years old.

No doubt these people had lives and a religion that is exactly as complex as any now, and they did this for 10,000 years, and we have NO IDEA what they were about.

But they were us, obviously. And they loved the booty.

We've been around, as we are now, for like 300,000 years. We've had writing for like 6,000 years? Never forget, there are empires of love and life and dreams and philosophy that have come and gone, before we had any way of recording an explanation.

Just big girls, and some guy grabbing his disabled cousin's dick.