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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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The noble Bus is a mode of transportation befitting the descendants of hunter-gatherers. Bus is a sort of urban beast that must be tracked, pursued, and taken, by force if necessary. It brooks no cowardice; by its own fortitude it engenders nobility in its hunters. Driving is faster, granted— but cold, solipsistic, enervating of body and spirit. The car is an apparatus of regression; the driver cocooned in womb-like solitude meets no hardship, no test of his mettle, and reacts to all discomfiture with the dyspeptic grumbling of an opium-eater prodded from his stupor. To travel and arrive by Bus requires resourcefulness, grit, alacrity, patience, and guile. The Bus-rider laughs at adversity and looks upon his fellow-passengers as brothers. What though the road construction waylay him? What though the rain wet his shoes? Shoes— pah! What cares he for such baubles? Not for him the base ignominy of "road-rage" hang on my stop's coming up I gotta finish this post

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Got Hadestown tickets with the original Broadway cast I might cry

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GUYS OMGOGNGOGOMG IM GNONNA DUFMDHAKKAKSDJ

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the fact😤👏🏼that there isn’t😓❌ a white rose emoji⚪️ and only a red🔴 is obviously lancastrian🌹propaganda📜😡 you thought❓😔 the wars of the roses 🥀🤴🏻ended at the battle of bosworth field?🗡🛡 think again 🤯🗣 yorkists👑📣 we rise🙌🏽💯 at dawn☀️👊🏼

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I got go on forever about the nonsense that SOME people say around the Richard III debate, but the most hilarious thing at the gravesite exhibition was the section comparing Philippa Langley’s account with the archeologists, and she speculates that they’re against her because they won’t immediately dig up a body they found, and the historians are just like “we have to get legally permission to dig up bones now we’ve a found them, that’s the law”

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Everyone please tell me have you seen one of your top artists live this year

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Cracking one of these bad bois open & sharing with my mutuals

'Tis the season

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not a catholic but not NOT a catholic. im a catholic but im not catholic im catholic but im not a catholic.

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OK so I don't usually bring personal stuff to this blog but I am being hunted for sport by my book club for the way I read my books and I just want to check how badly I have misjudged what is "normal" in this situation lol

So far I have been called "unhinged", "profoundly disturbed" and a number of variations thereupon for my habit of just... closing the book. Which I guess isn't what everyone else is doing. Apparently.

Also please, if you have very strong feelings about this, yell to your heart's content - I can direct you to an entire book club of people who will yell right along with you 😅

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“Harpole” Necklace,

A 7th century burial discovered in the Northamptonshire village of Harpole contains a gold and gemstone necklace that is the richest ever discovered from the period.

The necklace turned out to be part of the bed burial of a high-status individual who had died between 630 and 670 A.D. The bones have long since disintegrated, but the necklace is evidence that the deceased was female, as is the bed burial itself, a funerary practice almost exclusively reserved for elite women in the Saxon period. She was not wearing the necklace when she was buried. It was placed next to her on the bed.

Few of these burial sites date back earlier than the 7th century AD, when burials of high-status men were more common, and as Christianity took root, later graves rarely featured valuable objects because being buried with ornate jewelry, such as the necklace, was frowned upon by the early Christian Church, said Lyn Blackmore, a senior finds specialist at MOLA.

The woman buried in this exceptional grave was a leader in an early Christian community during the short transitional period between pagan burials with all their grave goods and the burials of established Christianity which explicitly eschewed grave goods. She was wealthy and powerful, likely born to a prominent family and held an important religious position like an abbess.

Text courtesy: The History Blog

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gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem

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my bad for assuming everyone has critical thinking skills btw

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Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

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not to alarm anyone but is anybody else worried about how everybody is fucking stupid