#website mapping

[javen-tiger]

The final findings of the “horrendous” eight-year long “massacre map”, tracing the violent history of the Australian colonial frontier have been released.

The Colonial Frontier Massacres digital map project, spearheaded by the late emerita professor of history at the University of Newcastle, Dr Lyndall Ryan, officially concluded in 2022.

Since then, researchers have reviewed every site on the map, with contributions from the general public, volunteers and peer reviewers. Much of the rest of the work on the map was completed by professional and academic staff without pay.

. . .

Guardian Australia collaborated with the university team to produce The Killing Times, a long-running series telling the stories of all sides of Australian frontier history.

The project found that:

At least 10,657 people were killed in at least 438 colonial frontier massacres.

10,374 of them were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people killed by colonists.

Only 160 of those killed were non-Indigenous colonists.

There were 13 massacres of colonists by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people.

The most intense period of massacres was from the late 1830s into 1840s, with a pivotal point being the Myall Creek massacre in 1838 – the first time any perpetrators had been punished.

After the Myall Creek convictions, the government could no longer involve the military and new “police” forces were created, which set a pattern for the rest of the conflict.

About half of all massacres of Aboriginal people were carried out by police and other government agents. Many others were perpetrated by settlers acting with tacit approval of the state.

Some perpetrators were involved in many massacres.

. . .

The project defined a colonial frontier massacre as the deliberate killing of six or more relatively undefended people in one operation. It did not include the many documented killings of fewer than six people in incidents on the frontier, so the numbers generated are very cautious lower estimates.

There were likely many more killed, Pascoe says, “but we had to limit ourselves or we would never have finished. It was a huge task. Finalising this work and making a stable version of the data available in an archive means other researchers can build on it and answer these and many other questions,” he says.

The work has changed our understanding of history in Australia, Pascoe says.

“Back in the 80s and 90s it was possible for people to argue that the frontier wasn’t so violent, and for them to be believed. Nobody can argue that point any more. Anybody can go and read the evidence for themselves. It’s time to move on to the next step – now that we know that these events happened, we need to understand more about them,” he says.

[mechanicalwyrmz]

rain world art month days 21 & 22 — karma 4: gluttony & danglefruit

this is survivor & monk

[lonelysa1lor]

when the pens are dogs idk I didn't go to the party

[toadslug]

I'm putting together a playlist for old Wings of Fire videos!

Went down a WoF rabbit hole on YouTube and I ended up making a playlist for everything I found. This isn't a comprehensive playlist; it mostly consists of videos I watched when I was young. Posting here to see if anyone shares my nostalgia <3

Here's the playlist! I'll add to it if I find anything else. Feel free to share your own WoF nostalgia with me as well!

[webdiggerxxx]

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[sixeye-sketch]

[setup-wizard]

hoho! art thou making battle maps? fantasy world cartography, perchance?

forgotten adventures has +120 000 high resolution assets [11 GB] available to download for free on their website!

frequent user of dungeon draft? they have +30 000 free objects available on their starter pack as well!

[knifelace]

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[felisgalactus]

Asgorb

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.・。.・゜✭・Emily Wilde & Wendell Bambleby・✫・゜・。.

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

Not to brag but [ redacted because I’m fighting the temptation of pride ]

[trans-estinien]

made my own version because i realized the post i rbed was AI

[shaxxophone]

Hey, just a heads up that will be important to know if you frequent your local library (in the USA)!!!

If you hear about your local library hosting a book reading for ‘brave books’ or ‘kirk cameron’ on august 5th— know that there’s a 98% chance it is not a library sponsored event.

Basically, kirk cameron is one of those ‘i need to win the war on woke!’ people who writes children’s books for just that purpose. He, in an effort to spread information about his books in the past, tried to hold book talks in which he broke library policies in order to do so (boy didn’t even try to reserve a meeting room)

….and he is now declaring his ability to successfully reserve meeting rooms and follow policies as ‘winning over the libraries that had denied him’ 🙄

Now on august 5th, he’s calling on people all across the country to reserve rooms in libraries to have these book talks about these books.

He’s saying it’s just to share the books but basically given his history of comments its clearly him wanting to cause tension between the public, and public libraries. Like a whole ‘i dare you to turn us down, and i dare citizens to get mad at us’ type of thing.

Public libraries are supposed to be 100% neutral. Just as we cannot and should not ban books, we cannot and should not ban anyone from our meeting rooms. The breakdown of neutrality will always lead to a bad path.

These events are not library sponsored however, we have not coordinated them, no effort on the library’s end has been put into them, and we are not advertising them.

A detail the people who reserved the room at my library are conveniently leaving out, despite being told they need to…

And now a counter protest is being planned for my library.

So please, if you hear or see anything about this happening at your local library, and you hear people getting upset about it, try to provide further context to them.

Often times, your local library IS a safe space. Librarians tend to be some super forward thinking folks, and many many library workers are upset about this, but we need to remain neutral to avoid legal issues.

The guy organizing this is just an asshole who knows that and is trying to make you think otherwise.

Here’s an article for more info if anyone wants it:

[wolverinedoctorwho]

Man who lives in a red state: Gee it sure is hard to get access to HRT round these parts, that's so crazy

[agarzalouzada]

I made a personality quiz!

I made a quiz to tell you what Monastery you’d belong to, you can take it here! Let me know what you get! Psstt… If you back the Kickstarter, you get a sneak peak at the prologue that explains the monasteries in more detail!

[tilbageidanmark]

Play with Wonders of Street View, from Neal Agarwal:

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