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Patlabor 2

1993

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While Mahmoud @ma7moudgaza2 has been securing study rooms, seats, power, and WiFi for 30 students to be able to pursue their degrees remotely, his own studies have come to a halt because he hasn't paid last semester's fees.

If he doesn't pay in time, he will be barred from sitting for his upcoming finals remotely. Please help him by donating to his gfm here or by sharing if you can't donate.

Mahmoud is vetted here.

$0/$800 short term goal in 3 days

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i am a homeless trans woman raising money for a place to live.

hi everyone, i have been homeless since my suicide attempt last year. i live in basically the shittiest hotel i have ever seen. you'd cry if you saw it and die if you smelled it, but it's half the price as the next cheapest option right now.

i am stuck in this gross and overpriced city for the next week or two for medical and legal reasons. i need money to survive the trip out and the ensuing search for sanitary and permanent housing, and then to pay rent indefinitely.

as a refugee i am not socially well-integrated. i have no friends or family and i need to learn an entire language before i can really do anything. and there is so much bureaucracy to deal with.

i am entirely reliant on tumblr donations during this time. thank you all for understanding!

ko-fi/paypal link -- this link accepts visa, mastercard, and paypal.

456/850$

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Odysseus and Polyphemus by Arnold Böcklin (1896)

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average gay interaction

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people in the usa are so uninformed/misinformed/propagandized about socialist countries that even knowing like, basic facts about the electoral system of marxist leninist countries feels like being privy to some kind of forbidden knowledge.

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"Rationalism" is up there with "Objectivism" in terms of "definitionally funny things to call your own belief system".

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lowkey what is the point in delving so deep into old religions. do u do it for fun because i struggle to see how a like idk 400 year old monastic sect relates to modern understanding of religions. this isn't an attack btw i get delving into stuff that interests u but like. is there any more behind it? also you are cool and smart

400 years ago, in the 1600s, in what is now Germany there was a guy named Phillipis Aurelius Theophrastus Bombastus Von Honenhiem. But he was a big asshole, so his classmates at university called him "Cacaophrastus" which literally means shit-talker.

He hated how medicine worked. See, even up until 1600, medicine hasn't changed much since the ancient world. The most up-to-date medical textbook, the core of physicians teachings in the 1600s, was a book by Galen. Galen was from ancient greece. People had invented guns, but they hadn't really improved on how Galen thought medicine worked.

Theophrastus, who called himself Paracelsus, was a bit of a rebel. He saw alchemists doing all this fantastic stuff with manufacturing new types of dyes and cosmetics and metal alloys, and he thought, why not use all that stuff for medicine? So he got to using cutting edge knowledge for the purpose of healing the sick. Which he did.

Do you know what the pre-paracelcian prescription for a musket wound was? A poultice made of cow shit and feathers. Paracelsus said to keep the wound clean, and let the body do it's thing. This saved uncounted lives.

He performed experiments, giving the same substance, in the same dose, to different people, and even testing on animals with different phyiologies, and observing how the same amount of the same substance can affect bodies didferently. He wrote "The dose makes the poison" thus inventing the occidental science to toxicology. Every time you go to the doctor, and don't get poisoned, you have this 1600s wizard to thank.

And he was a wizard. Medical knowledge at that time involved the construction of astrological talismans, made of magically imbued metals which counteracted the astral forces thought to cause illnesses. Along with inventing the foundations of modern medicine, he also engaged in the construction of magical amulets and potions, the theories of which all informed his work. Work which formed the foundations of modern medicine.

It's important to know that ideas don't just manifest out of thin air. Everything you do and think is built on vast ziggurats of human ingenuity and failure, and shaped by the history entombed within. I've just decided to learn about my favorite few bricks.

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why are cyberpunk tabletop things so obsessed with decency and personhood being tied to how many surgeries you haven’t had

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you guys all know i'm in the panopticon too right? just because i'm in the tower doesn't mean i should be treated any differently. all of you can see me just as well as i can see you. my position is worse actually because you're all looking at me at once while i can only point the spotlight at one of you at a time. have some compassion. we're all in the panopticon here. we're all in the same boat

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tozozozo

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The Pale from Disco Elysium is one of the most terrifying cosmic horror concepts I've ever read honestly, I love it.

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Mamluk Knife with Decorated Scabbard

Dated: 14th - 16th century 

Measurements: overall length 21.5 cm; blade length 11 cm

The blade is made of watered steel decorated with three embedded coral beads and the inscription “The time of the reign of Sultan Malik Zahir”. On the reverse of the blade reads, “Fly high, bird of distress and revenge, your rigor and fairness affirm human fate”.

The knife has a square tapered handle of blue glass. The ivory scabbard is richly inlaid with mother of pearl, brass and stones, representing the heavens, with gilt silver fittings with garnets and turquoise.

Source: Copyright © 2014 Galerie Arcimboldo