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s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936

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on one hand I get why people talk about the vanity of the instagram age, but on the other one time St. Ignatius of Loyola got his leg shattered in battle and discovered upon recovery that he could no longer wear his favorite tight leather boots due to the way his leg had set and so decided to rebreak his leg without anesthesia because he was that determined to wear his fashionable boots again...what i'm trying to say is that this man might have existed before instagram, but at heart he was an influencer

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litany against the GOTification of history.

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i think about this a lot

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Who are the Anti-Stratfordians?

People who think Shakespeare wasn’t actually Shakespeare, but that ‘Shakespeare’ was a secret pseudonym for someone more important and better educated, like the Earl of Oxford. 

See also: imbeciles.

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Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like "if you think you might lose, avoid doing that", "being outnumbered is bad generally", and "consider lying."

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I am screaming lmao also this reminds me of @rosewater1997

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i need everyone to stop what you're doing and take a look at this roman duck mosaic

thank you

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In the same vein of cave paintings having children’s handprints higher than their height suggesting them being lifted up or sitting on the shoulders of adults, there’s footprints in Australia dating to the Ice Age showing a group of adults and children walking to a body a water, and one child breaking away from the group to seemingly skip in a wavy path until rejoining the group

This is like 20 thousand years ago! And the joy and happiness of going to water made this child playfully skip along! It’s universal! Dancing their way back to their family!

In a language we will never hear, a culture we’ll never know, with thoughts and ideas we can only imagine! There are millennia of untold moments of happiness, of human connection and warmth that are gone forever. But they still happened! Did that family even notice the tracks they left? How could they have known that that one day their impossibly distant descendants would be able to see the imprints they made?

Another set of tracks in the same area shows three men hunting a giant kangaroo, running at incredible speeds, but one of them had only one foot! They jumped along on one foot, every so often an imprint from a stick appearing. How did they lose their limb? An accident? A fight? A predator? Was it completely gone or maimed? Was it from birth? Either way this person was cared for by their family and was able to heal and participate fully in life! They most likely felt grief when their family member lost the use of their limb! Who cared for them? Who gave them the stick to help them walk? What kind of joy did their family feel when they made a recovery? Did someone shape and carve the stick? They certainly worked all of their other wooden tools, something as essential that would have been too.

This was during the ice age when Australia became a brutally cold, dry desert. Their entire food system had to change. By all indications it should have been a stark and difficult life of little resources. But no! They worked together! They looked after their wounded and sick! The speed that these hunters were running at was incredible and means they were well fed and healthy! A millennia of helping one another and caring for one another and all we can get are tiny glimpses of these moments did they catch the kangaroo did they laugh and congratulate each other when they did how happy were they to bring it back to their families I just

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SIGMUND FREUD?

STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING SIGMUND FREUD GOD DAMN FOOL PAPER WRITING DRUG SNORTING RAT OLD BASTARD MISOGYNIST IDIOT DOCTOR OF PROJECTION BIGGEST FRAUD IN VIENNA LAUGHED OUT OF STEM OBSESSED WITH MOTHERFUCKING SIGMUND FREUD?

STOP PINNING ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT SIGMUND FREUD I HATE HIM SO MUCH WHY DID HE HAVE SO MANY FUCKED UP IF TRUE THEORIES WHY DID HE DECIDE TO FUCK AROUND FOR MIND CLOUT JUST GET SOME PROOF WAS HE HORNY? WAS HE A BASTARD? MAN HAD SUCH A VISCERAL EFFECT ON THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY NOT EVEN PEER REVIEWED NEVER EVEN SAW A SINGLE CASE AND DIDN’T MAKE THINGS SEXUAL AND WEIRD GET AWAY FROM ME.

if i wanted to do research and the PI said sigmund freud was actually right i would piss on their grant proposal for the sole purpose of ensuring it got turned down

if i have to deal with sigmund freud quoted one word in context on zoom in a lecture not only will i close the tab i will withdraw from the whole class out of spite and have to retake the entire course again for the experience of being able to skip all the times when he is mentioned or alive

i dont even know why i hate him so much. he had some good points but i am just mad because i am angy.

he better have had some fucked up backstory to explain this if was just some cis shithead who was too into greek tragedies and decided everyone wanted the irl version ill go ham

BETTER have had his own sublimated anxiety cuz if he didnt Im going to make him

paypal.com/IFuckingHateSigmundFreud

chapters not even about him. vaguely mentioned what is supposed to be maybe dream analysis and I lost it

where the fuck are the neofreudians if they are still around im going to so deeply wish they werent

horny old man

ill punch freud’s ghost and his weird frail old man twig theories will simply flake apart under my epic huge meat criticism and his legacy will disintegrate until all thats left is one final book that quotes him one time simply titled It’s Not That Deep in every syllabus

Im not even breathing im hyperventilating at this point

i hope theres a date given for when the idea of psychosexual development died or will die so i can make it a reminder on my phone

everyday once a year i will see it and do anything but pay respects to the man who had so many fucked up if true papers

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We celebrate David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Prince for their gender-nonconforming amazingness as we should, but let us not forget

Annie Lennox

Grace Jones

Sinead O‘Connor

Dolores O‘Riordan

Patti Smith

Tracy Chapman

Please add if you like, i do not own the photos

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Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.

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Full offense but I’m so fucking sick of those posts that are like “I hate war history and political history, I only want to read about real history like things about culture and food and textile history uwu” because…I’m extremely sorry some shitty men tried to act like weapon history was more important than anything else or laughed at you for being interested in fashion history but the truth of the matter is that if you don’t realize that war and political changes have a direct impact on litterally every single thing in a society, you’re not gonna be able to study any other aspect of history in a relevant way. It’s not like fashion, science and gastronomy develop in their own little bubbles with no impact from the outside world and it’s genuinely silly to act like they do. 

(Also I’m going to scream if I see another person implying that the only reason anyone could study WWII is because they’re creepy violent gun lovers. We live in a world where people’s knowledge of what actually happened during the Shoah is getting worst and worst by the years AND we’re currently facing a fascist uprising so yeah, y'all still need to hear about WWII.)

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ah, i’m so bad at posting here. acknowledging this Day of Mourning from the lands of Kiikaapoi, Peoria, Potawatomi, Myaamia & Ochethi Sakowin people, aka Chicago, derived from a native word for garlic (mmm…) which is really suitable for me because I live here now 🌱🧄✨

whose.land are you on? talk about it over dinner this weekend with your fam & what it means to give the #landback. considering everything, listening & learning from indigenous people is the least you can do.

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It’s incredible how much women do behind the scenes. I know a realtor who relies strongly on his girlfriend’s charisma, beauty and personality to gain clients.

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Keynote Address at ADL’s 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate

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“My privilege will try to make me complicit by default.”

This really hit home, so I’m posting it for others to see.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fukTk8gJ3M

[Image description: A photoset of a white vlogger in front of a bookshelf filled with DVDs, with the captions: "How is it my responsibility, or even my place, to apologize for the actions of my ancestors? Because they did it in my name. They did it for the prosperity of their descendants. But I don’t want any benefits conferred through slavery. I know it’s impossible for me to shed every single advantage that my ancestry affords me, but the least I could do is examine it. Be critical of it, to be as proactive as possible when it comes to the whole ‘not being complicit in historical atrocities’ thing. As a person of considerable privilege, I consider it my responsibility because my privilege will try to make me complicit by default.“]