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"Some twelve thousand muskets were double-loaded, and half of those more than triple. One rifle even had twenty-three balls in the barrel — which is absurd. These soldiers had been thoroughly drilled by their officers. Muskets, they all knew, were designed to discharge one ball at a time. So what were they doing? Only much later did historians figure it out: loading a gun is the perfect excuse not to shoot it. And if it happened to be loaded already, well, you just loaded it again. And again.

— Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

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Sometimes I forget how unhinged reenacting sounds as a hobby. "What do you do for fun?" "It's like LARPing, but you're pretending to be a real person. You get publicly shamed if your costume isn't perfect. Sometimes you pretend to have smallpox. Also there's fire. People pay to watch. You don't get paid."

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Don’t make me put your ass in the sealbarrow

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Trans and intersex people in the UK need you to be loud and angry about the new "deception as to sex" guidance released which makes trans and intersex people legally guilty of rape if we don't disclose our gender identity and/or the sex we were assigned at birth to sexual partners.

This is particularly going to harm trans and intersex sex workers, who often have a higher number of sexual partners who we might keep our trans or intersex identity from for our safety.

"To summarize this guidance in the simplest terms, it treats a trans or intersex person not disclosing their gender identity and/or the sex they were assigned at birth as a form of deception which negates consent."

"This interpretation of part of the existing Sexual Offences Act (2003) places an unreasonable burden on trans and intersex people to inform our sexual partners of our medical history, while no such burden is placed on cis perisex people who are allowed to rely on assumption."

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i love it when botanists fight in the annotations

guy in 1939, taking his time to line up his typewriter to painstakingly write the family name: its equisetum hyemale!

guy in 1948 scribbling on a slip of paper: no dumbass its equisetum prealtium

guy in 2020 on a sticky note: hey fuckass! its equisetum hyemale, are you smoking crack? are you on fucking crack? update annotation.

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POOR GRANDMA!!!

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guys. please

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Southern hemisphere fuckers your days are numbered. We're stealing your sun

northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

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Hey so fun new scam just dropped! I got a call earlier today from someone spoofing the local police department's desk number, asking me if there was a reason I'd missed my jury summons this morning.

Friends, I had not received a jury summons for this month. Which I told him, at which point his previously clear diction suddenly turned into a rapid mumble, only becoming clear for scary words like 'federal' and then asking to confirm my address, at which point I hung up and decided to call the police department later.

When I called the police department the desk officer sounded so tired y'all. All I had to say was "Hey I got a call earlier saying I missed jury duty this morning?" and she immediately sighed and told me that yes it was a scam that was going around and thanked me for calling to confirm.

So this is your periodic reminder that law enforcement agencies will not call you to tell you that you're in trouble. If you need to pay a fine of some sort they will mail you a physical invoice. Anyone calling you saying they're from the police or any other law enforcement organization (up to the CIA and yes I have heard of scammers attempting to impersonate CIA agents over the phone) who then tries to get financial information from you over the phone is a scammer.

I know I actually bang on about this a weird amount, but it is my fervent hope that the information will stick in peoples' brains if they get randomly selected for the adrenaline spike lottery. Scammers use scary words to get you to panic in order to shut down your critical thinking, and if even one person's brain spits out "Tumblr user waterhobbit said the cops/CIA/federal marshalls don't call about this shit" before their bank account routing number is in the hands of assholes I will consider it a job well done.

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peace and love on Earth..

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The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

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History wants so badly for Cleopatra to be beautiful. Like they can’t conceive of Rome being intimidated by anything less

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Why Amazon Sucks Reason #928374982

Almost a year ago, I ordered a copy of Rube Goldberg: Inventions from Amazon. My mistake for supporting them in anything but an emergency. I got the book on the right:

The book on the left however is the one I ordered. To be clear, this was not from "a seller on amazon," this was from AMAZON itself.

Note that it shows and claims to be the authentic book on the left above. But it was not, it was a shit-tier print-on-demand bootleg, made by Amazon itself and not Simon and Schuster as the page claimed:

They did this to others as well. Though they refused to post my review, this one got through-

Here is the print on demand page in the back of my Amazon book-

Here is how bad the reproductions are-

Best seen on the spine where Simon and Schuster's logo is literally a blurry mess-

I tried to report this to the publisher but the only thing I could find was an email address on their site that nobody replied to.

If anyone out there knows anyone in copyright law or the publisher, please let them know about this. Amazon is literally turning the publisher trademark into unreadable crap.

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Professional sleeper

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this is the funniest fucking billboard possible. who the fuck paid for this

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wish we had more internal organ emojis

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"Are you in a relationship or partnership which you suspect may be emotionally unsafe or unhealthy for you or others?

Give yourself a checkup. Are you:

Suffering from anxiety, stress or depression, or having unusual physical symptoms, such as stomach aches, insomnia, changes in energy levels or appetite, a sudden drastic increase or decrease in sexual drive, or other physical symptoms that are not caused by an existing condition, outside situation or illness?

Putting other important relationships or goals of yours at risk because of your relationship?

Finding yourself often trying to rationalize that sacrificing other things which are important to you for the relationship is okay or worth it?

Taking risks which put you and yours in a position of sexual, physical or high emotional risk, or feeling you must make many sacrifices to have or maintain the relationship?

Feeling isolated from everyone BUT your partner, or having trouble thinking of others outside yourself and your partner(s)? Feeling like you have no one left to reach out to but your partner? Discovering that other important parts of your life are taking a backseat to your relationship or really suffering (your grades, your job, your family, etc.)?

Feeling sad, frustrated or upset with sexual relationships or encounters far more than you find yourself feeling happy?

Clinging to those happy times even though you know they're rare, or focusing more often on the relationship you had at the start than the one you're really in now?

Feeling you must keep sexual activity, tension or emotional issues high and escalating to maintain the relationship, using sexual activity or other behavior to avoid or diffuse relationship conflicts, "zoning out" during sexual activity, or feeling either predominately passive or dominating during sex with your partner?

Becoming unable to be autonomous and have a life and sense of self independent of your partner or a sexual relationship?

Feeling bad about yourself in general, or specifically in regard to your sexual relationship or behavior?

Find yourself agreeing with your partner when they put you down? Feeling scared to be yourself with your partner?

Doing things you really don't want to do and feel you have to because of your partner?

Having trouble discussing, making or enforcing limits and boundaries (sexual or otherwise) or respecting those of your partner?

Feeling like you're always walking on eggshells?

Making a lot of excuses for yourself or a partner?

Finding you're the only one in your life rooting for your relationship, or that you're often trying to defend it to others who care about you and who are concerned?"

Heather Corinna, Blinders Off: Getting a Good Look at Abuse and Assault