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I can’t stop thinking about crocodiles for some reason so here’s some cool pictures I found of probably the second largest one in captivity, his name is Utan:

isn’t he beautiful

listen to the SOUND when he bites

and that’s not even a real power bite, that’s mostly just heavy bone falling on heavy bone from his jaws and the air rushing out from between them

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"I have ensured that adequate protection for the rock art is central to my proposed decision" yeah like that fucking worked for the sacred site rio tinto destroyed.

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Triple J's holding an Australian Music Hottest 100, lets gooooooo

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/countdown/hottest100

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i’m obsessed with how every single person can be stupid in their own special way and infinitely smart in another. simultaneously

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Grave offerings and burying the dead with tools and goods is actually such a deeply human thing to do. It's not really even necessarily about how much you believe in a literal afterlife or them taking the tools with them. It's also just going Wait, I'm Not Done Taking Care Of You, let me make you one more pair of socks so your feet won't be cold when you go wherever it is where I can't follow.

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I don't think anyone here's actually seen me be truly aggressive. I can write with frustration, that I'll fully admit, but aggression as I know it has been something I avoid. I don't like being aggressive, and I'm particularly conscious of it when it's something that gets thrown my way in scenarios where I can't even see the aggression.

Someone walked into my area of expertise, challenged me, offered very little in the way of evidence and freely admits they have little to no knowledge of what they've challenged me on, and yet I'm in the wrong somehow. So it strikes me as quite odd that everytime I meet someone academically because they've challenged academically, everytime I use the language I'm accustomed to when in those situations, I'm suddenly aggressive/rude/defensive.

At some point, some of you may realise that continually calling a female academic 'aggressive' for using academic language to defend her position as an academic is uhh...misogynistc. But this site's against that, right?

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Can you help me in regards to Ancient Egypt? From what I've read, women's place there was relative good, they could get divorce, they could study equally with men, they could hold jobs and be paid equally and they could wander outside their house without a male escort. So why then Ancient Egyptians were so against to the idea of having a female ruler, that when a woman tried to ascend the throne, they either imposed her to the position of regent, tried to bring her down and even erase her name from history (like with Hatshepsut's case)? Or am I getting something wrong?

the key word here is 'relative'. relatively more freedoms and opportunities =/= no patriarchy.

i'm not an egyptologist tho so i can't confirm or dispute any of these claims about ancient egyptian culture (which btw spans 3000+ years and thus was subject to change).

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Shout out to my Torres Strait Islander mob!

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Torres Strait Islands - Map and Flag.

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remember kids, the moral of "Irish and Italians weren't even considered White yet!" isn't "because in those times people were so ignorant they didn't think the Irish were white". the moral is "because white is an unreal category created to justify slavery and ongoing hoarding of power and wealth". It's not that you know better about Italians. It's that the boundaries of the higher caste have changed.

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Shrew wizard summoning breakfast. This is @bowelfly fan art

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I don't usually post my non-fandom craft stuff but I worked for a long time on this tablecloth so I wanted to show it off😌

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if you find a part of a human body (not your own) you shouldn’t keep it in your house for the next 50 years. yeahhhhh. that jawbone is not for youuuuuuuu.

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Shirt that says REJECTING ONE INCORRECTLY BLACK AND WHITE VIEW OF HISTORY FOR ANOTHER IS NOT PROGRESS