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pls dont sleep on modern wtnv, this is from episode 259 and it made me actually laugh out loud at work

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Eating mummies may not have been a Victorian thing, but there are a lot of heinous things that they DID do, like stealing from tombs. Why bother clearing up a harmless lie when it's not going to improve their image anyway? It makes it look like you want to defend the Victorians

This is very fun and disingenuous bait! 'it makes it look like you want to defend the Victorians' is laughable. 2/10 level, really.

You see, there's this interesting thing that happens where you can clear up one thing that's incorrect, but it doesn't detract from everything else that happened. With the study of History this is important, because if you leave the incorrect facts in there it detracts from and actively distorts from the actuality of the Historial record.

On the Internet in particular, people have this habit of exaggerating or misattributing terrible things to existing terrible people to make them look even worse. People love a good use of hyperbole when it comes to terrible people in history. The problem with it is that these people are bad enough on their own in Actual History That Happened without the need to make stuff up or misattribute things. It's important, as a Historian, to not twist or distort Actual History That Happened by inventing or misattributing events to people in history in order to make them look worse. This is where confusion in the record occurs and affects Historians further down the line. You see this with the 'Tutankhamun's Curse' narrative. The papers made it up after Carter gave exclusive publishing rights to the Times, and now it's part of the public consciousness. According to you this would be a harmless lie, right? No. It's fed into the racist 'spooky black magic Egyptians' narrative, and it's actively harmed research and understanding.

Finally, you obviously didn't check the original post because you would have found this tag:

The fact that you took 'hey did you know the victorians didn't actually do this it's a much earlier practice' and turned it into 'the victorians are cool and the desecration of corpses and colonialism was great actually' without any words to that effect being on the post in question is honestly a you problem and one I hope you work on in the future. It'll certainly help you send less embarrassing bait messages.

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People on this website will really mock anti-vaxxers and flat earthers for ignoring scientists and getting their alternative facts from facebook, and then turn around and insist they know more history than historians and more archaeology than archaeologists because they read an unsourced tumblr post once

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padmé wearing THIS outfit to tell an unbelievably hormonal teenage anakin skywalker that they can’t be in love with each other is objectively one of the funniest things that’s happened in star wars 😭😭

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Not only did my fried rice panel take off in a way I wasn't expecting but my POST about the fried rice panel also took off in a way I wasn't expecting please let me rest

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Hands Off protests around the country.

As to folks proclaiming these photos are bad OPSEC, we can all agree everyone in these photos is at this protest to be seen protesting. People worried about OPSEC do not go to peaceful protests easily identified or at all. Just chill for a sec and let people have their peaceful movement.

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I feel like "thanks to bisexuals and gen z" deserves a place in the tumblr meme phrases

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I like the idea that hyperfixating is sort of a natural dwarf trait and it takes Bilbo a while to get used to just how hard these motherfuckers Lock In to their craft/task it's intense like "Thorin I haven't seen you in three days :(" "babe I can't talk rn I'm making a sword"

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maybe im just a weirdo but does anyone else hear an interesting or relevant conversation behind you in a way where you think if i’d been a cat my ear would have done this just now

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I like the idea of Nightwing being a well-known figure among the hero community, but relatively unknown to the public outside of Gotham and Blüdhaven. Like, he was the first ever sidekick and a kid of one of the Justice League's founding members. Most older heroes are his aunts and uncles, the first generation of sidekicks are his friends, and to the younger ones, he is a mentor and older brother figure. The hero community loves him. But outside of that, he is just a local hero. He sticks to the shadows, and while the people of blüdhaven love him, and the people of Gotham have at least heard of him, he is not very well known.

That is until the Justice League hosts some sort of public event with a lot of younger heroes attending, and one journalist gets an idea for a fun, lighthearted story. They go around asking different heroes and sidekicks who their favorite hero is, and 80% have the same answer: Nightwing

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Full Blood Worm Moon l Rami Ammoun

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i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

There is porn of everything, act accordingly

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it’s genuinely so funny that im alive and this is what im doing

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the transition from people needing each other to wanting each other is literally one of my greatest weaknesses that shit makes me want to walk into the sea and sit on the ocean floor for a thousand years

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you know there actually is a meaningful difference between 'men's' and 'women's' deodorant beyond the selection of scents. 'mens' plays better with pit hair and doesn't pill up in it and 'womens' tends to have a more powdery finish to help prevent chafing. so really the two genders are actually hairy and bald.

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