#daily history

[dailydoseofoldshit]

Sourced from the 10 April 1973 issue of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; page 14 - accessed via Google News Archive.

[jokergirlout]

Imagine that you came to a coffee shop, ordered coffee and at the last moment said "Give me Nace, please" 😐😐😐😐 NACE

And I don't even need to imagine. I just wanted to buy a Nuts today. 💀👍

[studywithjennifer]

whitby abbey, where dracula arrived in england

[jstor]

The preservation of transgender history is essential to ensuring that the stories and experiences of trans people are not forgotten. The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) has taken on the vital task of gathering and protecting this history, bringing together documents, images, and materials that reflect the rich and diverse experiences of transgender people across time and place.

By making these resources accessible, the DTA facilitates explorations of the often-hidden or erased narratives of trans communities. From personal stories to institutional records, these materials provide a window into the challenges and triumphs faced by trans individuals, while also celebrating the resilience and diversity of these communities.

Preserving this history is also about ensuring that future generations can learn, understand, and be inspired by the stories of those who came before them.

Explore more about how these efforts are safeguarding trans history, and why it matters, on JSTOR Daily.

Image: A man in drag and a man in male clothes looking into each other’s eyes, via Digital Transgender Archive.

[lichenaday]

Roccella phycopsis

Litmus

So you've probably heard of a litmus test. Ever wondered what that is? Well a litmus test is a chemical test used to figure out if substance is acidic or basic, and litmus (from Old Norse meaning "moss used for dying,") is derived from lichens!!! It is unclear exactly which Roccella lichens were originally used to make litmus (people weren't so careful about species ID back in the day, ya know?), but R. phycopsis is among the original litmus lichens. This fruticose lichen has terete, erect branches which grow in small tufts out of a basal holdfast attached to costal rock, cliffs, walls, and shrubs. It is pale gray-brown, and has bulging or spikey soralia producing white soredia. The basal holdfast has a characteristic orange or ochre medulla (internal layer of fungal hyphae). R. phycopsis is rather rare, likely due in part to overharvesting for its use as a source for purple dye stretching back to the Roman empire! And inevitably due to the destruction of suitable costal habitat. So yeah, I hope y'all learned something new today, and the next time someone mentions a "litmus test," interrupt whatever they are saying in order to share this fun fact, and encourage them to conserve costal habitats for the preservation of these special little guys.

images: source

info: source | source | source | source

[todaysmodernmindset]

[thedeadpoets-blog]

“i wanted to vanish completely, that even i would not remember me. no feelings, no memories. just the freedom of oblivion.”

— unknown.

[worfsbarmitzvah]

there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

[incaseimakeit-daily]

"WOA, that sounds very good. what song is this?"

"oh ! it's blackboxwarrior - okultra. it's by my favorite music artist, his name is -

[sherrymagic]

What do I have to do to win you over? Easy. Get out of my face.

Joong Archen as FADEL and Dunk Natachai as STYLE THE HEART KILLERS | EP. 4

[fanbun]

In 1973, activists succeeded in their efforts. As they had in years past, gay activists disrupted panels and gave speeches. One of the more famous speeches offered at the May 1973 APA conference in Honolulu was by a gay activist named Ronald Gold, who told the APA members, “Stop it, you’re making me sick.” The resounding line was somewhat of a double entendre: the APA was literally saying that Gold, as a gay man, was ill, implying that the “medical professionals” were creating sickness where there was none. And, in stigmatizing Gold’s personhood, the APA was helping to further the social conditions that alienated and ostracized queer people—like him. Ultimately, activists were successful in part by pointing out the gaps in the APA’s own reasoning behind classification. The declassification movement made heavy use of the fact that, until this time, the members had not really defined what a mental illness was, only asserted that they existed and had a distinct etiology, though the brain’s complexity prevented complete precision. “In fact, the controversy over the homosexuality diagnosis was able to reach such heights of publicity in part because the APA had never had cause to reach consensus on a standardized definition of mental illness,” Lewis writes.

[dailydoseofoldshit]

Sourced from the 8 April 1932 issue of The Imperial Valley Press; page 1 - accessed via Chronicling America.

[reactionimagesdaily]

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 11: 19th Century II and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

*There is a lot of discourse around gender and sexuality with these two historical figures and it can get pretty ugly. I know most of us have opinions, but absent a time machine we can't know for sure, so please be gentle with each other.

[jstor]

It's October 1st, and that means it's officially ghost story season! 👻 ✨

There's nothing better than curling up with a spine-tingling tale while the autumn winds howl outside. If you're like us and love a good eerie read, you're in for a treat—we've found some of the best ghostly legends and creepy folklore just in time for Halloween.

Check out JSTOR Daily’s Halloween Editor's Picks and prepare to get spooked.

Image: R.W. Buss, The Ghost Story! n.d. Chromolithograph. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

[dayurno]

kevin is funny and perfect he knows very well the effect he has on a man's psyche and he uses it to his advantage several times while remaining (?) perfectly heterosexual (?). the canonical pretty face that fucked jean over & sent riko to an early grave & made andrew take on the mafia. first male femme fatale