#humanity i love you

[soracities]

[eezdalf]

We should also consider if the inhabitants of the mega-sites consciously managed their ecosystem to avoid large-scale deforestation... Archaeological studies of their economy suggest a pattern of small-scale gardening, often taking place within the bounds of the settlement, combined with the keeping of livestock, cultivation of orchards, and a wide spectrum of hunting and foraging activities. The diversity is actually remarkable, as is its sustainability. As well as wheat, barley, and pulses, the citizens' plant diet included apples, pears, cherries, sloes, acorns, hazelnuts and apricots. Mega-site dwellers were hunters of red deer, roe deer, and wild boar as well as farmers and foresters. It was 'play farming' on a grand scale: an urban populous supporting itself through small-scale cultivation and herding, combined with an extraordinary array of wild foods. This way of life was by no means 'simple'. As well as managing orchards, gardens, livestock and woodlands, the inhabitants of these cities imported salt in bulk from springs in the eastern Carpathians and the Black Sea littoral. Flint extraction by the ton took place in the Dniestr valley, furnishing material for tools. A household potting industry flourished, its products considered among the finest ceramics of the prehistoric world; and regular supplies of copper flowed in from the Balkans. There is no firm consensus from archaeologists about what sort of social arrangements all this required, but most would agree the logistical challenges were daunting. A surplus was definitely produced, and with it ample potential for some to seize control of the stocks and supplies, to lord it over others or battle for the spoils; but over the eight centuries we find little evidence for warfare or the rise of social elites.

a description of talianki (located in modern day ukraine), a neolithic site from 5,700 years ago (inhabited from roughly 4100 to 3300 bc) from the dawn of everything by davids: graeber and wengrow

once again this book is fantastic - and one of its main theses is that "the agricultural revolution" and some of the conclusions we draw from it are, largely, not true.

the development of farming in human societies is a much much longer and more "playful" process than popular narratives would have us believe. 'agricultural revolution' suggests an on/off switch almost. and the way it's usually taught sees agriculture being "invented" and then spreading like wildfire to take over the globe - only then allowing for true cities and the "necessary evils" they entail. this simply isn't true. an urban, farming society is not automatically doomed to bureaucracy, inequality, and exploitation.

all across the world the archaeological evidence points to the domestication of plants taking literal thousands of years longer than it "ought to." and then, even when the domestication of a wild plant was complete there isn't an immediate rise of huge fields and class stratification (as the popular narrative goes). again - in the magnitude of multiple thousands of years. we have generations upon generations of humans with farming know-how who don't immediately begin a march of politics and inequality precipitated by farming.

agriculture isn't humanity's curse no matter what the memes and capitalists say. we are not doomed to our current ways - we can imagine, we can build, we can create new ways of being. the past is the present is the past. and fuck you capitalism and doomed "human nature" debates. and read the dawn of everything <3

[eccedeus]

The almost instinctual curiosity for drama that immediately brings strangers together is something I'm particularly fond of and is in my opinion a foundational pillar of humanity. Two drivers were blocking traffic yelling at each other and on both sides of the street almost a dozen people stopped to watch it, some discussing it with each other, before they drove off and we all went our own separate ways again. I'm rather shy but I will strike up a conversation without a second thought if its to ask someone what that fight over there is about. Nothing prompts people to wash their windows like an argument on their street. Humans are nosy little creatures and I love us for it

[wonderwithin-us]

do y'all ever think about the wonderful implications on humanity that fall upon seeing someone holding a lot of groceries or bags or luggage or baggage at the door, and deciding to run to help them hold it, or carry it

because I do

Like I know it's been said a million times before but we were made to love

We will always see our best friend or roommate holding the groceries they got for us at the door and we will see a house guest over to stay, & they're laughing and there's too much luggage for them to hold and we will see a kind old lady at the side of the road, and go, without thinking, here, let me help you with that, on instinct

And then we will see our friends in the winter crying in their bed while it snows outside with all their emotional baggage, and we will go, instinctively, without thinking, here, let me help you with that and goodness we really were made to love, weren't we?

[colescosmo]

I am so hopelessly in love

In love with how hands fit perfectly together; as if they are meant to hold each other

In love with the kind of laughter that leaves you gasping for air

In love with the moments when you’re so filled with happiness that all you can do is cry

In love with the trust and love a pet has for it’s owner

In love with the reflection of the moon on the ocean

In love with the warm summer breeze

In love with the fiery leaves of autumn

In love with the snowmen in the yards of family homes

In love with how people get excited over the smallest things

In love with how peoples’ eyes shine when talking about the things they love

In love with the belly laugh of children

In love with the platonic love between friends

In love with love

[sheakspeare]

Four year old beekeeper distracted by a roly-poly.

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[hansoeii]

It was affection.

[valtsv]

enough paintings of saints where they're looking heavenward in ecstatic agony or down with love and mercy on their onlookers as they ascend. we need more paintings where the martyr is looking accusatorily directly at the viewer.

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean1]

Beauty of Culture ❤️

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This is a very old Islamic tradition, still alive in parts of Turkey. When a white blanket of snow covers everything - people go to the tops of mountains peaks and scatter seeds and food for the birds through the snowing season so as not to let the birds die of starvation. This deed was started by the Muslim caliph Umar bin Abdul Aziz and is narrated in various books of history and quoted as “Go and spread seeds on the tops of mountains - may the birds not die of starvation in a Muslim country.”

[soracities]

my mom is 5'1 and my dad is 6' and when they got together he started lovingly calling her "small" in her native language instead of her name. but then. she started calling him the same thing ironically, as he is ofc not small. but now 25 years later they still never call each other by their names, only "small" :) and as a child i was always surprised that everyone else's parents called each other by their names and not by an oddly specific term of endearment that began as silly teasing over height difference <3

...........nobody talk to me i need to go scream into a pillow for a thousand years

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[raggedytiger]

this is so bad but i permanently cropped the file so brutally that i can no longer edit it. whoops! also panels 4-7 were fully coloured but it looks better without for some reason. pomni (penny?) is such an ugly crier. i love my horrible failgirl accountant

[aterfish]

i love ways the word 'halfa' can be interpreted

[s0up1ta]

"so grunkle ford how do you know bill?"

"... that's not important."

[andstuffsketches]

girl who lives in a cave