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starting a collection
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Samantha: do the people know about Ampersand Island?
me: ... no.....
this is Ampersand Island. every time I come across a beautiful, interesting, or unusual ampersand in my archival travels I take a screenshot and place it neatly in this little pile on my desktop
when a hog steals your pants and you have to hunt it down with an ax
book of hours, use of st. omer, c. 1318-25
the british library, ms 36684, f. 31r
Toy from Ancient Greece, c.450 BCE: this doll was crafted in the form of a woman with a rolling pin, and it has articulated joints that allow the rolling pin to be moved back and forth
This terracotta figurine was created nearly 2,500 years ago, and it was likely designed as a toy. The doll is positioned above a small tray, and its torso is equipped with a set of pins (located in the waist and shoulders) that allow the figure to lean up and down, gently pushing the rolling pin back and forth across the tray as if preparing food.
Above: another view of the same doll
This is not the only known example of an articulated doll from ancient Greece. Many so-called "dancing dolls" (also known as plangones) were created throughout the Greco-Roman world.
Above: bone figurine with articulated limbs, from ancient Greece, c.350-250 BCE
As this book explains:
Female dolls withΒ attached limbs known as plangones, korai, or nymphai were made in numerous areas in Greece over a considerable span of time from the Geometric to the Hellenistic periods. Male dolls also exist but were far less popular. Although made out of a wide range of materials, including wood, bone, ivory, marble, wax, cloth, and alabaster, dolls of terracotta are by far the most common.
The same book goes on to describe some of the other toys that were created and used by the ancient Greeks:
In antiquity, play was as much an integral part of growing up as it is today, and the ancient Greeks possessed a wide variety of toys and games. Both the archaeological record and ancient literature provide information about these, only some of which overlaps. The most common toys preserved include rattles, dolls, knucklebones, figurines, miniature vessels, miniature furniture, and miniature animals, some of which are wheeled and some of which have riders. Less common are balls and wheeled carts.
Ancient toys have been unearthed in many other parts of the world, too.
Above: a wheeled horse from Roman Egypt, c.50-250 CE
Some of the rattles, pull-toys, articulated dolls, and mechanical figurines from Mesopotamia and Egypt even date back to nearly 4,000 years ago.
Above: a mechanical dog figurine from Egypt, c.1390-1352 BCE, with a lever that opens and closes the dog's mouth
In one of my previous posts, I also mentioned a 3,500-year-old wheeled hedgehog figurine from Iran that may have been created and used as a toy.
Above: wheeled hedgehog from Susa, in modern-day Iran, c.1500-1100 BCE
Sources & More Info:
British Museum: Toy
Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past: Jointed Dolls and Play
American Journal of Archaeology: Jointed Dolls in Antiquity
University of Friboug: From Greece to Rome: Toys for Growing Up? (PDF in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Bone Figurine with Articulated Limbs
British Museum: Wheeled Horse
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mechanical Dog
The Louvre: Hedgehog Toy from Susa
The Louvre: Toy from Ur
Cambridge University Press: Ritual, Play, and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies
Another thing about trying to be more sustainable re: clothing that I don't often see people talk about (except my friend will. hi will) is the importance of clothing items that can be adjusted to accommodate body changes. I really want to focus on this when I make my own clothes, because there's no point in having a bunch of beautiful pieces that become entirely unwearable if you gain or lose a little weight. Obviously there are limits depending on the style and type of garments you're making/buying, but the sustainability impact of adjustable waistbands cannot be overstated.
Bodies are never static, and even in sewing circles this is not acknowledged as much as it should be. Even body-positive spaces will say "make sure to re-take your measurements each time you start a new project, because they will change and this is morally neutral!" but they don't really talk about how to make garments that will work with these changes instead of against them. A lot of it is fatphobia (the same reason that many people will make/buy 'aspirational' garments that are too small for them instead of things that actually fit their current body) but there's also just a cultural fear of and thus avoidance of the concept of change, and additionally we're so used to fast fashion and the disposable nature of clothing that it's easier to just keep buying new things any time there's a minor change to the size or shape of our bodies rather than focusing on clothes that can adapt to these changes.

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This isn't technically good news, but I wanted to highlight it, because it underscores a DEEPLY important thing to understand about the news and social media in their current forms: They are warping people's perception of reality. Bad news gets shared more, gets reported more, and gets highlighted more. People think that means there IS more bad news than good news, and that is simply not true. There are lots of good resources for finding good news, and you should seek it out for yourself to get a more accurate understanding of the world we all live in.
The media's adherence to βif it bleeds, it leadsβ has resulted in global dominance of negative news (e.g., stories of corruption, fraud, sho
We report stories of progress
Tell me "I didn't click the FixTheNews link." without using the words, "I didn't click the FixTheNews link."
I post six pieces of good news every day. Some of them are about vaccines. A lot of them are about massive numbers of people being helped out of poverty, massive numbers of lives being saved by public health efforts, innovations in how we grow food to make it more nutritious or require less water, improvements in human rights, massive construction of renewables, huge numbers of people getting access to education, etc.
You wanna be a doomer pessimist, go be a doomer pessimist, but not on my post.
I'm sorry WHAT
'lazy people don't feel guilty about not doing anything' is insane to me and I have been trying to make my brain believe it for a long time, it shocked me to my core when I first heard it
An important corollary to "if you were faking your mental illness, you could stop whenever you wanted."
I'm sorry WHAT
'lazy people don't feel guilty about not doing anything' is insane to me and I have been trying to make my brain believe it for a long time, it shocked me to my core when I first heard it
An important corollary to "if you were faking your mental illness, you could stop whenever you wanted."
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i'm starting to love circus/monkey things the same way i love every bad apple but it's [...] video
I just think we all deserve massive home libraries and a couple swords, as a treat
Phenomenon is a great word. It means "Thingy" but when you don't want to sound stupid
"Thingy (possibly happening?)" Vs. "Thingy (possibly dude?)"
Anomaly is another great one: "thingy (???)"
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reposting my proud black bunny boy fuck you.
he is famous...you can't keep a nigga down
this is my last self reblog not to clog my profile but: but it's important to have my black pride bunny on my account, he's a representation of something I learned to love abt myself. my blackness is to be celebrated.

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The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "π° No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!
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A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Hey, why the long face?"
The horse says, "I think I'm about to be homeless." The bartender, who now feels a little bad about the joke, says, "Oh, man, that sucks. What's going on?" The horse says, "It's the job market. It doesn't matter how good I am at SEO optimization. No one wants to hire a horse. The moment they look at my resumΓ© and see the name 'Brushstroke', into the trash it goes." The bartender says, "Really? I had no idea." The horse says, "And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking why don't I just apply for horse jobs instead? Well, for the first few months I wouldn't. It was a matter of principle. I didn't become the first in my tailine to get a degree in computer science just to end up pulling a cart. But lately, I've given in. Because my saving's are running out, and my kids can tell that something's wrong. So now I'm doing interviews to let drunk tourists ride me, and the pay is peanuts, and you know what? I'm still not getting any offers! It's all going to younger horses!" The bartender says, "That must feel awful." The horse says, "You can't imagine! It's eating me up! People are trying to help, but they can't. They can only offer a couch for a few weeks or only a place for me, not for my family. It's like, every morning I have to come home to my husband and my two kids and tell them I'm not good enough to support them! I'm already having to juggle debt to handle his medical expenses, and then... then there's just the shame of it. I was sired for this! I was bred to do it! And I can't! I just can't pull it off!" The bartender says, "Wow. I don't know what to say." "I know," the horse says. "I just need to find a place that's stable."