enebro-vertebrae

[enebro-vertebrae]

from a roma angry about israel's treatment of the holocaust as a reason to colonize and commit genocide and eternally furious about israel's painting of the holocaust as a uniquely jewish trauma (when rroma and the yenish were also killed en masse and their cultures taken from them), thank you for all of your efforts

te aves baxtalo, and may you and all you love always be well

i'm so sorry. i hope we get to live in a kinder world soon. this message really touched me, and i really appreciate your kindness and love.

te aves baxtalo, and love and care for you and yours in these times.

[enebro-vertebrae]

Maitake and deer jawbone

[enebro-vertebrae]

I truly don't have any words about what's happening in Ohio right now. I want to post something like I usually do. Give vocabulary, etc, whatnot. It's important, it's so important. But I don't have words. What could I possibly say about the level of devastation that has happened, is happening, will happen in the future? This is worse than the BP spill. And I don't know how to respond to that with anything other than a shocked numbness.

[enebro-vertebrae]

Writer tries to use the internet without relying on Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or Apple. Writer struggles. A lot. Not because she can’t stop googling things, but because Google is integrated with everything, and anything it isn’t is hooked into is partnered with at least one of the other four. 

For an example, she details the long process of figuring out how to send a large file without relying on the Google iCloud or Amazon Web Services:

My Gmail alternatives—ProtonMail and Riseup—tell me the file is too large; they tap out at 25 MB. Google Drive and Dropbox aren’t options, Dropbox because it’s hosted by Amazon’s AWS and relies on Google for sign-in. Other file-sharing sites also rely on the tech giants for web hosting services.

…O’Brien directs me first to Send.Firefox.com, an encrypted file-sharing service operated by Mozilla. But… it uses the Google Cloud, so it won’t load. O’Brien then sends me to Share.Riseup.net, a file-sharing service from the same radical tech collective that is hosting my personal email, but it only works for files up to 50 MB.

O’Brien’s last suggestion is Onionshare, a tool for sharing files privately via the “dark web,” i.e. the part of the web that’s not crawled by Google and requires the Tor browser to get to. I know this one actually. My friend Micah Lee, a technologist for the Intercept, made it. Unfortunately, when I go to Onionshare.org to download it, the website won’t load. 

“Hah, yes,” emails Micah when I ask about it. “Right now it’s hosted by AWS.”

The troubling implications of tech monopolies on our private data are discussed, as well as potential solutions that don’t sound very appealing at all:

An uncomfortable idea I keep coming up against this week is that, if we want to get away from monopolies and surveillance economies, we might need to rethink the assumption that everything on the internet should be free.

So when I try to create a fourth folder in ProtonMail to organize my email and it tells me that I need to upgrade from a free to a premium account to do so, I decide to fork over 48 euros (about $50) for the year. In return, I get a 5 GB email account that doesn’t have its contents scanned and monetized.

However, I’m well aware that not everyone has $50 dollars to spare for something that they can easily get for “free,” so if that’s the way things go, the rich will have privacy online and the poor (and most vulnerable) will have their data exploited.

[enebro-vertebrae]

Details of the degraded coyote skull found on last week's hike🦷

[enebro-vertebrae]

Know your history:

Gay:

Used to mean carefree

Then sexually deviant

Then prostitute

Then slut

Then sodomite

And THEN as we know it today but only as a slur

Reclaimed in the seventies

LGBT:

Invented in the nineties

Has faced constant backlash (from both straight, queer, and LGBT folks from being not inclusive enough or too inclusive)

Every year there are pushes to change to acronym

LGBTQ

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ*

LGBTQIA

Mogai

Alphabet soup

Queer:

Used to mean “other”

Became a slang term for “not straight” in the 1400s

Became a slur in the early 1900s

Reclaimed in the 80s.

Sudden push back from within the queer community to have it seen only as a slur in the 2010s, a push that can be traced back to terf ideology.

Is the only term that includes all non cishet people

Homosexual

A medical diagnosis

Used for decades to make queerness into a mental illness

Used as a slur for the latter half of the 20th century

Rejected by the queer community as an acceptable term for a brief period of time in the early 2000s before coming back into fashion.

Only describes the experience of cis gay men and cis lesbians

Think what you want, believe what you will, but every word we have ever used to describe ourselves is coated in blood.

[enebro-vertebrae]

[enebro-vertebrae]

@archeologydyke I got your back

[enebro-vertebrae]

It's about to hit us here in Oklahoma and the rest of the southern states that are not used to this level of cold.

Please take this seriously if you live somewhere this is going to impact significantly.

I just sincerely hope texas' power grid doesn't fail them again.

but at least a small blessing is that this isn't bringing much precipitation with it and the worst of it will be the wind.

Anyway. Stay inside, wear layers, and bundle up. Get your cold weather shit prepped now if you haven't yet.

[enebro-vertebrae]

introducing @brand-directory

a growing directory of all official brand tumblrs. a way to block'em before you even see them to keep their engagement as contained and unseen as possible

submit all the official brand sites you find -- especially if you've seen them via an ad or blazed post

[enebro-vertebrae]

🔮Enchanted & Mystical Blog 🔮 Credit: [x]

[enebro-vertebrae]

a rant

okay the sudden influx of vulture culture artists is officially a problem. there are too damn many of us for us ALL to be ethically sourcing. most of these people wouldn’t dare go out into the woods and pick up a carcass and process the bones, instead theyre buying pre-cleaned bones from hunters and thinking the rest of us can’t tell. which means there’s more of a market for hunters and trappers (which i personally don’t have a problem with, but I do if the animal is just being killed for its bones or pelt, and they often are). people like this are the reason theres laws in every state about bone collecting, and if this shit gets more popular and yall can’t learn to find and clean your own bones, WE’RE ALL GONNA BE FEDERALLY OUTLAWED. I have been doing bone art since I was 16, and I was constantly told it was gross and weird, now everyone and their mom does it, and are gonna ruin it for us all. thanks.

[enebro-vertebrae]

hey uhhhhhhhh my etsy has been restocked :) i moved recently and any food/husbandry money helps! if nothing suits your fancy but you still want to help me out ive also plugged my kofi :} thank u!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CorvusCoraxs

https://ko-fi.com/saintnevermore

[enebro-vertebrae]

today’s obsession is ancient tattoos, in particular the s-curved floral-antlered deer of the Siberian Ice Maiden and Scythian Chieftain. 

it’s such a heavily used trope in modern media (off the top of my head I can think of Pokemon, Annihilation, Bambi, Snow White and the Huntsman, etc) and why wouldn’t it be! antlers look like branches, branches look like antlers, it’s only natural to pair them

but it makes me strangely emotional that our brains have always worked this way, and been drawn to the same imagery over and over again. 

I’m also going to resist the urge to make paired enamel pins of these ancient deer, even though I deeply desire little wearable tributes of the past

[enebro-vertebrae]

Something about collecting oddities and such

[enebro-vertebrae]

bugs go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[enebro-vertebrae]

TRANSSEXUALS HAVE GOT TO GET MEANER (redesign 2022)

click for better quality (instagram) (my shop)