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A Pair of Greec Gold and Agate Earrings,

Hellenistic Period, Circa 1ST Century B.C.

Each surmounted with knopped finial, flanked by pair of knopped pins, beneath an oval box bezel, with granulated border, set with a banded agate, two circular bezels below, inlays now missing, each supporting a length of double loop-in-loop chain terminating with a ovoid banded agate bead, flanking an inverted tear-shaped box bezel, with granulated border, set with a banded agate, an amphora pendant suspended below from a hinged join, composed of a banded agate bead capped with gold shoulder and neck with 'wavy ribbon' handles, fluted gold body and cylindrical foot with band of filigree.

3¼ in. (8.2 cm.) long.

Courtesy: Christie's

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Gold and glass bead necklace, Greece, 4th century BC

from The Virginia Museum of Fine Art

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Every line in this video is iconic

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AHHHHHH OH MY GOD JESUS CHRIST OAHH HHHH FUCK FUCK FUCK ok nevermind. i got over it

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this was in the tags of a very funny screenshot and i didnt want to derail there, so i will make a new post: dishwashers manufactured after 2013 take MUCH less water than washing dishes by hand. it seems counterintuitive but it is provably true and has been tested extensively. if you are washing dishes by hand as a way to lower utility bills you are shooting yourself in the foot. dishwashers also sterilize dishes and in general are much much much much cleaner than hand washing, which becomes extra important if you live with anyone who has immune issues, long covid, cancer, etc. if you tried to hand wash your dishes with the temperature possible inside a dishwasher you would get serious burns. it's not physically possible to hand wash dishes and get them cleaner (as in, the amount of bacteria and other contaminants on the surface) than you can with a dishwasher. its almost like an autoclave in there

also do not use sponges to clean things but thats a different post

oh my god i went looking for the sponge bacteria post and found these tags. everyone on this website needs to pay attention in school when they teach you about germ theory. i personally know four people who became permanently crippled from getting basic bacterial food poisoning once. bacteria does in fact make you drop dead, but more often it just makes you permanently ill for the rest of your life. i know "hygiene hypothesis" (being too clean makes you sicker in the long run) was big for a while in the 2000s but its been mostly debunked

it's obvious and inarguable that having a dishwasher at all is a first world thing, and only the wealthy or lucky members of the first world. it's a luxury. what im trying to say is that if you have access to one of these luxury machines, please use it. i run into so many people who have dishwashers and dont use them and then backpat themselves about water saving and cleanliness, both of which are measurably worse with handwashing. its not virtuous or practical or efficient to wash dishes by hand if you have a functional dishwasher.

questions of "laziness" etc can be referred to other discussions of disability vs protestantism and wont be addressed here. but i will mention that i know a few people who have to hand wash and have been able to use a barstool to make being at the sink for long periods of time easier.

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i think we should talk about degendering more as a very real form of transphobia. you should not be calling a trans woman "they" when she's explained her pronouns to you. you should not be calling her a "person" instead of a woman. she's not too gnc, she's not too androgynous, you're not "confused" about her identity, you're degendering her. I fear we've gotten to a point we've forgotten the very basics of this movement is "trans women are women" and "trans men are men", and not just "trans people are someone who's pronouns you have to memorize so you don't offend them." you see her as a man in a dress and it pisses me off

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I am reading Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh and it is SUCH a great allegory for being an ExMormon/excult member/leaving a high control group.

Like it is so perfect I can’t help but wonder what the authors background is. WHAT CULT DID YOU LEAVE EMILY. You know what it feels/looks like too well not to be writing from experience.

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Someone in the notes already mentioned A Memory Called Empire but ALSO ALSO, Ninefox Gambit, in which the main character lesbian is carrying around the ghost of an executed heretic/traitor/famous strategist war hero inside her head.

It's kind of interesting that four (probably more) of the lesbian space atrocities works deal with characters having multiple people inhabiting their brain.

Baru Cormorant - imagined someone so hard she needed a lobotomy and gained a split personality

The Locked Tomb - tried so hard not to absorb the soul of her homoerotic childhood rival that she got a lobotomy and also her body got puppeted by multiple other souls

A Memory Called Empire - brain implant of the personality of an ancestor

Some Desperate Glory - simultaneously herself from multiple timelines, who function like different people with different knowledge and values

What's that all about?

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I mean we’ve all been there, right?

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does anyone here like Some Desperate Glory.....

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Going a bit insane about these two

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one of the absolute best illustrations of terfs betraying their feminist principles is on the topic of bodily autonomy, tbh.

sometimes it happens in small ways, like when I saw a bunch of them having what they thought was a gotcha moment over people regretting their Harry Potter tattoos. they were sitting there having a little kiki about "see they understand regret over making permanent changes to their body"

as someone who once got a Harry Potter tattoo on a whim for $20 while getting my huge back piece done, yeah, there's definitely a part of me that regrets getting that, not because I regret tattoos on principle, but because i don't want people to look at me and worry i am unsafe. as a general principle, i do not like to make innocent people feel unsafe.

if you're a piece of shit bigot, i want you to be intimidated by me on sight, but innocent people? no.

but what is the alternative? if i regret my tattoo, does this mean i should advocate stricter tattooing laws that prevent people from making the same "mistake"?

absolutely not. i have another tattoo that includes the words "better me than you", and i got it during a time in my life where i had this belief that i was so strong that i wanted to carry the burdens of others so they wouldn't have to

but through recovering from the trauma of my abuse, i realized that i shouldn't try to carry the burdens of others just because i could. yes, i still want to help people, helping people is my greatest joy in life, but i just have a much healthier perspective on it.

i still do not regret that tattoo, i still do not wish i had been prevented from getting it. it is a reminder of how far i have come.

and putting up regulations to keep other people from getting tattoos is not a line I want to cross because I believe in bodily autonomy. Period. I refuse to compromise on that.

But the biggest offense becomes apparent when we look at the ways in which terfs and the gender critical movement as a whole campaign against trans medical care. Terfs want to bring up detransitioners as some gotcha to show we shouldn't allow for people to transition, even grown adults, which not only ignores the reality of detransition (most people detransition not because they stop identifying as trans but because there is no support and also transphobia), but it sets an extremely dangerous precedent

but let's pretend for a second that all detransition is due to people regretting their decision to identify as trans (which is not the case the vast, vast majority of the time, but let's pretend). if you look at the actual numbers, regret rates for gender affirming surgeries are far and away smaller than even things like knee replacement surgery. the regret rate for this care is less than 1%.

less than 1%.

by contrast, if we look at the regret rate for abortion from credible sources?

5%.

so, no, as a feminist, i will absolutely not be advocating for restricting the bodily autonomy of others based on a regret rate that is even less than that of the regret rates for abortion. any feminist who would advocate otherwise - and especially team up with organizations like The Heritage Foundation to do so - is an absolute threat to the cause.

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you can go back to the past but nobody’s there

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Fauna, Richard Siken