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This Tumblr User is oh so normal about Victorian Architecture

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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Me, hoarding my DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, gaming discs and cartridges, and books like a dragon on a pile of gold or a magpie with a nest full of shiny objects: hah, can't delete these from your fucking streaming service or digital store you fucking bastards!

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Concept: kangaroo whose hands are human hands

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Being in the history field, and especially living history, is a roller coaster of existential crisis meeting the sublime. I am walking in the steps of the ancestors to honor their memory. I am creating a farcical piece of theater with the thinnest of ties to reality. I am sharing the transcendence of human experience in a tangible way. I am shaking my fist at God for creating people with the inability to learn from the past.

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I’ve been sick for like the past WEEK and this is honestly the first time I’ve spend more than three minutes on tumblr

Did I miss anything interesting?

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Archaeology can be

- Getting enough proof for the Department of Transportation that the local tribes are correct, there is an ancient burial site there, the DoT cannot thus build the highway there

- Identifying and cataloguing mass graves that the government claims does not exist and assisting with both identification and reuniting remains with surviving loved ones

- Investigating impacts of climate anomalies on premodern agricultural communities, which helps other climate scientists with their models

- Rescuing sites from natural disasters or wars and helping local authorities safely take possession of artifacts

- Assisting with locating and disposing of old munitions

And so forth.

Archaeology is actually a pretty hard science. It is an applied science, and it has multiple applications. Most archaeologists are effectively grossly underpaid manual laborers during dig seasons, and it’s not 1912 anymore. There are codified ethical standards. If you take a bone home from a dig without proper custody you will never work in the field again.

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Why are your goats invisible

#askculture

so i did bioarchaeology for my undergrad and looked at different ways of telling the species of bones, particularly between sheep and goats (famously almost impossible)

because of this difficulty, in uk archaeology it's generally assumed that any ovicaprid (sheep-goat) bone is sheep unless people have a reason to believe otherwise. this means that there are essentially "missing" goats, because we know there were a lot of them from the domesday book but we don't have many bones we think are goat

so my dissertation title was "investigating the invisibility of goats in the archaeological record"

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Joining in on the analogue boop train. Can you believe they've rate limited me???

ANALOGUE BOOPS

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NOT including sunglasses you put on only outdoors on bright days,

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u ever wonder if ur a mutual who your mutuals are scared to talk to

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i genuinely hope that boop day inspires everyone to interact more with other tumblr users. because it’s clearly way more fun this way!! even once the boop button is gone, there’s still asks, tag and ask games, comments, dms, fuck it let’s bring back blog rates i don’t care. part of the reason that tumblr is dying is that its way less social than it used to be. let’s fix that!!

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Reblog if it’s ok for your mutuals to tag you in posts they think you’ll like even if you don’t talk often.

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my 8 year old has some emotional regulation difficulties, and I've done my best to help him with those.

unrelated, I gave him a shovel a couple of days ago and told him to go have fun in the field because I was tired.

He suddenly seemed happier, having less trouble breathing through disappointment and just being generally all around more cheerful and able to focus in school better. Sure, my partner had to pull him out of a six foot by three foot hole today, but he was stoked about it!