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moving to @circleofthesun

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moving to @circleofthesun

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moving to @circleofthesun

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moving to @circleofthesun

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does anyone know a way to transfer sideblogs to a new blog without having a spare email handy to make a separate account?

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Old Gods: Day 4 - Swallow

Swallow is the herald of summer, light and warmth and so seeing it brought joy to the people. It was a sacred bird that only had positive beliefs tied to it. It was believed that the swallow was kin to humankind since the bird’s head resembles a human face in small size. It also has the tendency to nest near human settlements so it was believed that it did so to get closer to its kind. Swallows move to south for winter. Some believed they followed the Milky Way (which is called “Linnunrata”, “the Bird’s Way” in Finnish) to a place where birds and human-like folk lived together in peace. Since swallows were often met close to lakeshores some people believed that they slept in the bottom of the lake during winter. They also predicted fates. If a woman saw two swallows flying it would mean she would marry that summer. If a person saw a lone swallow flying it meant their partner would die the following year.

You can follow along and use my prompt list if you like! If you want you can tag yours as #oldgodsinktober or #shinonart on all platforms so I can see your works, too!

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My Gabby from the Son of Satan: The Mortal Coil! She’s very candid and agile, and will smack that morningstar in the face of her enemies

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How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet.

That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Fransisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using no persistent managed network.

The app can connect people via standard Bluetooth across an entire city, thanks to a mesh network. Chatting is speediest with people who are close, of course, within a hundred meters (330 feet), but you can also chat with people who are farther away. Your messages will simply “hop” via other Bridgefy users’ phones until they find your intended target.

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everyone reblog and tag ur top three fruits i want to know

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Sad Indigenous History Fact

In honor of the Ecuadorian resistance getting a peace treaty and Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I decided to make two posts about native history facts, one fun fact, and one very unfun fact. The Sad Fact:

Many people don’t know the history behind Mount Rushmore, or that it is a desecrated holy site equivalent to the Mecca or Vatican City in the native religion. 

It’s true name is Six Grandfathers, and it was a holy site to the Lakota people. It was the destination of a yearly ritualistic pilgrimage by their religious leader, and in the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the mountains were agreed to be given to the Native peoples(keep in mind this was less than 2 decades after the Trail of Tears, the ethnic cleansing that forced many natives to abandon their homeland and religious sites on it). 

However, the United States shortly after invaded and conquered the territory, and despite the Lakota telling them the mountains were sacred, they decided to carve a monument to the four leaders of the colonial power that the United States was, and defaced and carved the mountain with dynamite, and destroyed evidence that the mountain was a holy site.

Today, it’s considered by many a “Shrine of Democracy”, and has 2 million tourists per year, most who know nothing of it’s colonial origins, a twisted echo of it’s original significance as a holy site to natives and image of what America truly is. 

Here is Six Grandfathers before it was defaced:

There was a movement to sculpt a statue of Crazy Horse, a famous Lakota warrior who lead the resistance against the colonizers, into the mountains as a “memorial”, but it was done by a Polish-American while many native Lakota people objected and considered it a pollution on their sacred site, with the additional fact that Crazy Horse was notorious in never wanting to be photographed while alive, and was buried in an undisclosed location. It’s an important example on why Colonialism still effects Indigenous peoples today, and why having them as leaders of projects of tribute and cultural significance is important.

@cyndigenous @latinexplains @finding-my-culture

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*tough guy voice* you best be lovin yourself

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dog teeth #317

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Eartha Kitt photographed by Gordon Parks in New York, 1952.

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Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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The world wasn't ready for Megamind in 2010. I think it could be ready now. After seeing the same superhero arc in every Marvel movie, the squandered subversion in expectations from Game of Thrones, the tired consistent revamps of previously done ideas from Disney,, I petition that we just rerelease Megamind in theaters again. No changes at all. Just toss it back in there and let people experience culture and class for the first time in their lives

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Get a budgie. They sleeve. 😍