#Historical Data:

[hadesoftheladies]

”you’re biased against men!” but am I wrong?

[funnyweezines]

data dress up

[transmutationisms]

i follow some of those vintage advert accounts and it's crazy how many of them are just for colonial tourism

[wemlygust]

Download Wikipedia Maybe?

If you are concerned about media preservation due to current events in the U.S. Direct link to latest SQL and XML downloads. Ctrl + F to find the file you want on that page. Choose a "multistream" version, because this way you can use an offline wikipedia reader to open and read individual articles without having to decompress the entire database (which would require WAY more storage space). The wikipedia how-to page linked at the top of this post recommends this file: pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 (this is about 19GB when compressed, but expands to 86 GB ish when decompressed) Which includes the current versions of all English Wikipedia articles, but not their talk pages, not user pages, and not past revisions of the articles or their edit histories. You'll need to choose a different file if you want the talk pages or etc (I like to have the talk pages for tiny or controversial articles, myself), but I haven't managed to find a multistream version with the talk pages yet. This file is a (I think) non-multistream version with talk pages: "pages-meta-current.xml.bz2"

[commanderbuffy]

The Circus returns this Thursday with Chapter 3!

@swashbucklery and I thought it would be fun to share the (ridiculous) emoji calendar they made for June 1891 with the associated text revealing what the emojis stand for removed!

So, voila! A spoiler for some upcoming chapters if you think you can decipher the meaning behind these emojis!

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

I know this is interesting to no one because it's incredibly niche but I have a little mystery around mid-to-late 19th century mens waistcoats that I've been digging into, and so far, after digging into a bunch of local, provincial, and also national and international online archives, including but not limited to the Rijksmuseum, the V&A, LACMA, and KCI, and also asking about this on instagram and specifically asking the dutch costume society, I have found:

-9 pictures, all local to my area in eastern Netherlands, and every single one of these pictures is people wearing local folk dress -and one (1) extant garment, in the US and also made there.

that's it.

[werewolfpngs]

re: the prev reblog (i have not read the study yet) this is what i meant before about chat gpt revealing structural problems with education rather than causing them. these conclusions (if they are sound) should be causing people to ask questions like. “are there problems with how educators currently assess student understanding?” “are there external pressures that would motivate a student with minimal passion or skill in an area of study to spend time, money, and even potentially go into debt for a degree in that area?” “to what end is the school system teaching students to read, and how could these goals impede genuine learning?” notice how none of these questions ask whether we should kick college students into the sun.

[woodfrogs]

pros of having energy today starting at 2:30 pm:

yayyyy ^-^

cons:

restless leg syndrome :(

[aconfusedsquirrelsstuff]

Did I start this blog with the idea of filling it with historical fashion yes, yes I did. Has it very, very quickly become a quagmire of star trek and ghostbusters and anything else that my twisted little mind is currently fixated on? Also yes.

[of-the-weeping-willow]

i would like to point out ☝️ that my last post and many others come from this stupid notes folder bcuz my phone can’t use tumblr without wifi but i don’t wanna forget these beautiful ideas of mine!!

also yes hashtag history reference bro 😎

[moonilit]

I like to think Bruce have a journal, not as batman just as Bruce Wayne and you can see where he wrote all the headaches he gets from his kids

[al-mayriti]

one thing about classicists, we never fucking learned dates

[feralparsnip]

one of the things you will not hear commonly on the internet is that it is like. fine to be an athiest and also a pagan or whatever. like learning about blavatsky et al & finding materialism did change how i relate to my practices a Lot. a lot. and i do think we have a responsibility to for example understand the history and mechanisms of orientalism, etc, bc these 'outside of organized religion' religious practices have an ugly and exploitative history and we have to look at that if we are to salvage anything meaningful from the project of paganism. i mean this to you so sincerely. if you think of yourself as a witch this post is for you. i lived there for ten years i'm not throwing stones from outside the house here

but last night i lit my candles on my little altar to death and it's like. what she means to me has changed as i come to understand the world. i think she's the progressive force, in truth. i am trying to love the world enough to see it for true

but the other other interesting thing to me is that. seeing the world more clearly doesn't change what i'm getting out of the experience very much. and i guess i thought it would.

i think if we were to dismantle the systems of power wherein religion is used for control (and believe me, paganism is not exempt from these pressures due to it's largely decentralized nature), that religion might just be like. dance. like you can get fancy with it or not but it moves you because it moves You. like it may one day just be a kind of art

anyway. the gods don't have to speak to you. in truth i don't think they are speaking to anybody because i don't think they are real. and if you're looking at paganism or 'witchery' or whatever and wanting to start or expand your practice. i am telling you directly that you don't have to use it to escape from the world. it is so tempting to find some magical system to simplify your model of the world but you don't actually have to use this to hide. it can be the place you love the world enough to see it for true. or love yourself enough to see what you need. take the parts that work and discard the parts that don't & remember you need some chemicals to cast fireball in real life.

[jadedbirch]

(Please reblog this for SCIENCE so that I can get better data)

[knxfesck]

-> phone stops being able to fast charge sometimes -> does my research -> cleans port with toothpick as instructed by multiple sources -> phone now can't fast charge at all because I apparently scratched the inside of the port -> unironically costs more to fix port than to buy a new phone by upwards of $30 -> I'm The most impatient guy ever and my phone now takes 4 hours to charge minimum Forever fuck my stupid baka life

[alijoharjatoi]