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I remember hearing this snippet on his Instagram

It just keeps me wonderin', this goddamn silence

It just keeps me goin' insane

Numb the pain like I was Novocaine Numb the pain, pain

It just keeps me wonderin', this goddamn

silence

It just keeps me goin' insane

Numb the pain like I was Novocaine

Numb the pain, pain It just keeps me wonderin', this goddamn

silence

It just keeps me goin' insane

Numb the pain like I was Novocaine

Numb the pain, pain

It just keeps me wonderin', this goddamn silence

It just keeps me goin' insane

Numb the pain like I was Novocaine

Numb the pain, pain

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Nobody ever talks about how the Norse did human sacrifice. They just kinda jump over that part. Ignore it, mostly.

They don’t do that for the Aztecs though.

It’s kinda a weird case study I think in how xenophobia and racism shapes the way we talk about things. The Norse and the Aztecs were fairly similar in their violence and their complexity. Both mostly had their stories and practices written down by Catholics after the fact. Both are characterized as generally brutish and war hungry. But we only really focus in on the human sacrifice with the Aztecs.

So look at the whole picture for a minute. The Aztecs had a widely practiced state religion, philosophers, a complex class system. The Norse practiced human sacrifice. My ancestors, the ancient Scandinavians, practiced human sacrifice. There is archeological and textual evidence for this.

It’s kinda stupid to reduce the Aztecs solely down to their intimidation tactics and bloody religious rituals. Those should be part of the conversation, yes, but that’s not all they have to offer. In the same vein, we can’t just gloss over the uncomfortable parts of some older civilizations just because they’re white.

Go read up on the Aztecs a bit outside of their religion. I really like their architecture and weird calendar especially.

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“So, so unutterably ancient” I feel you, pal. I feel you. *pours one out for all the extinct ones*

I LOVE this post, but I got curious and looked it up. The bee that pollinates ophrys apifera still exists in the Mediterranean, it's only extinct in the northern parts of the orchid's range, forcing it to self-pollinate. According to wiki, anyway.

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

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all i do on this app is be horny and make a fool of myself

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I think at the end the cat is saying to not confuse the fact that it let the man provide warmth for it before going back to the noises that really interest it for the cat actually being interested in the man

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

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i was at a haunted hayride tonight and a guy dressed up as an undead cowboy approached me and got in my face and called me "prettyboy" and then he walked away to scare other ppl and then he came back looking for me and said "wheres my prettyboy" and then he found me and said "ah there he is" and got in my face again and i. was so high all night and that was so crazy. bro how are u going to get in my face and taunt me in a cowboy hat and call me prettyboy. how am i supposed to exist now.

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Tumblr isn't social media, it's a habit. Like smoking. We're all gathering by the dumpster in the cold, reblogging posts.