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National Tile Museum in Lisbon. Would recommend.
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A 1948 portrait of store detectives hired by Macy’s. They posed backwards to protect their identities.
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Snagged a great retouched photo recently. This was originally taken (and retouched) in the early 1900s.
With Photoshop, I've followed the pencilled-out areas and refilled them to show her original body shape (missing a few details - her skirt waistline should be in there somewhere, etc.)
Unidentified woman, L. Vasseur, Paris, c. 1906. Collection of Kenna Libes, 25.10.
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as someone who tried to keep my tumblr "persona" and irl personality as far apart as possible i was curious
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sometimes…..fictional characters…….don’t need to name their children after dead people…….
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Paris is honoring entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural. By urban artist FKDL.
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I'm obsessed with the fact that at my elementary school nobody brought backpacks (IDK if that was normal or weird for then) while every grade-schooler I see wears one
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I think more media should narratively punish parents for not listening to their kids and specifically I think it should punish them in cruel and terrifying ways. I want real life parents to go through life with a healthy fear that if they ignore their children's boundaries a witch might cook and eat them
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Hey everybody, in the tags tell me something good that happened to you today 🙇
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carlye lived in boston. she could have gone to nursing school at massachusetts general hospital. massachusetts general is affiliated with harvard med. do you see what I mean.
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(cut line from 4x10 quo vadis captain chandler)
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have you ever cried over a celebrity's death?
#that depends on the definition of crying#but if the question includes 'tearing up the slightest bit' then yes a few times#polls
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Young women bikers, c1940s (via zzchop)
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i have to get something off my chest that's been bothering me for a while:
A run-on sentence is "when two independent clauses run together without proper punctuation or appropriate conjunctions" (source: Northern Illinois University Effective Writing Tutorial).
it is not "any time a sentence has more than one clause in it." this goes out from me, a lover of long sentences with proper periodization, to the whole internet. long sentences can be confusing, and often should be edited down, more often for rhythm than anything else, but not every long sentence is a "run-on." many of you are just complaining about complex sentences.
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Something that gets really lost in a lot of discourse is that what we would now call 'going low-contact' or 'going no-contact' with your family used to be so completely within the normal range of familial contact that there wasn't even a term for it. Sure, in the pre-IM pre-social media days some people were calling their parents daily, but I'd wager the vast majority of people were not. Long distance calling used to be quite expensive, after all. If your kid went to the big city to seek their fortune you might hear from them every few weeks, or every month, or once a year, and that wasn't particularly odd. This was even more the case before telephones were common, of course - people would send letters, but definitely not more than once a week and probably a lot less. It was just a normal, accepted fact that you'd hear from some family members who lived nearby often, and some who lived farther away very rarely.
The minimum amount of contact with family that is expected of people in the groupchat-facetime-instagram era is so much higher than at any previous point in history. The ceiling is about the same, since then and now multiple generations often live under the same roof, but the floor is higher by orders of magnitude.
How many adult children who are 'no-contact' or 'low-contact' now would also have been the ones who moved to the city and sent a letter every three months then? Is family estrangement an actual current problem, or is it just an illusion caused by smartphones?
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feminism shouldn’t be about patting housewives on the back for making that decision but it should be about making sure that if that housewife’s husband starts cheating or slapping her around that she can be taken seriously, get a divorce, not have everyone in her life turn against her, not force her to send the children back to his house every other weekend where he starves them just to send her a message, and not be left in financial ruin
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the thing about the panic about kids absorbing harmful ideas from books is that the most harmful ideas are also the ones that are most prevalent in the broader culture. a lot of the adult fantasy i read as a preteen and teenager had really strongly conservative ideas about What Men And Women Are and how they're functionally different species - which is also the premise of thousands of jokes, at least several very popular movies & songs, and just how a lot of people in the world talk. books can embed themselves pretty deeply in your mind, and there's maybe something different about the kind of influence they have because of the individual work of interpretation, but a lot of the things that are "bad lessons for kids" (bad way of talking about books anyway) are larger problems about society.
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