respect rioters

also just for the love of the game (and personal curiosity): here is what i can find on when these objects were invented, what they looked like, and what they looked like at the past time listed in this image (if it is different)! with the occasional bonus of when they get to their modern form

the safety pin

there is some interesting stuff about pins comparable to the modern safety pin throughout history (here is a 1964 article about ancient fibulae titled 'ancient safety pins' ), but walter hunt is credited with the invention of the modern safety pin in 1849 with this patent filed in the us. the distinguishing features he describes being "the construction of a pin made of one piece of wire or metal combining with a spring, and a clasp or catch, in which catch, the point of said spring is forced and by its own spring securely retained."

(first image from the patent, second image is a visual representation of it from wikimedia, cropped to the example that i think is the closest to the intent of said patent.)

so not quite yet a match to modern day!

judging from my patent perusing it looks like metal covers for the pointed end came around relatively quickly. i can't find an explicit patent on them so my timeframe is just "between 1849 and 1877". (given that i found a patent filed by WA butler where he wasn't arguing that the shield concept in and of itself was novel, just the design thereof, from 4/10/1877).

i found a patent from 1878 where the metal shield is pretty much in the shape as we know it today:

(there are others that are getting there functionally, but this one has the little folded over bits we know so well).

we were pretty much there by the 20th century. a more interesting visual/confirmed brand is clinton safety pins from that era. this antique clinton safety pins box is an example of what i am talking about:

(images are better quality in the link, there are other comparable ads that they put out about it as well as other antique boxes you can find the old auction listings for). i didn't manage to dig up their specific patents but i did try. but even if they didn't make them, it looks like someone was!

the museum of everyday life has a page for "a visual history of the safety pin" which isnt quite as granular about the construction i am talking about, but has some interesting jumping off points.

paperclips

i am going to point to the office museum's history of the paperclip for if you want to learn more about the paperclip without buying one of the books people have written about it. most things online seem to be citing or match them. please assume everything i am saying is pretty much from there unless stated otherwise (because again. so many people cite them)

we actually got the ovular paperclip pretty early, but the paperclip patented in 1967 by samuel fay was actually a shaped something like a fish or a tipi depending on how dedicated to the triangle the company making it was while making it. here is a side-by-side look at that style of clip (right) by a 'standard' paperclip (left)

(picture from 'pins to paperclips' by carolyn wasser, which talks about different fastenings she was dealing with while working at her archival internship.)

again, per the office museum, the paperclip we know so well is the 'gem' paperclip, which started being sold in the early 1890s. (image below also theirs).

so i wonder if the ai recorded 'triangular' in the descriptors of the fay paperclip and got that pointed version? but at any rate, not correct.

bobby pins

bobby pins are a bit of a fun adventure in the sense that i can't definitively nail down an inventor or original year for them. they are most commonly attributed (in the sources i am finding) to luis marcus in the nebulous time frame of 'after ww1', but he did not patent them that i can find. that story seems to be the most reputable but it's a pretty low bar; this mentalfloss piece is damn near the only article that links anything when talking about other people's claims (looking at you reader's digest).

but since i am more worried about the timeline: by and large, immediately post ww1 to 1920s seems to be consistent for when, with the rise of bobs, bobbing "bobby" pins gained prominence (in the usa at least).

i see contentions that the kirbigrips of the uk were invented earlier and seemed to have been comparable enough to become synonymous over there. now i did find three hairpin related patents (1904, 1905, 1926) from kirby beard & co but i dont have a ton of information from google patents, i do not speak french, and i dont think the UK patent search lists expired patents and/or patents this old, so i do not have any visuals to confirm anything. so we will look at a picture of vintage kirbigrips and then move on to other bobby pin shenanigans. okay? okay.

(this is just from an art print site, which i think is from this stock photo. there is a similar image of almost identical packaging a lower quality on this page which made me more willing to use it.)

but at any rate, first obvious bobby pin patent i can find is this one from 1924, which notably does not contain the now ubiquitous one-bumpy-and-one-smooth side (example figures below on the the left). the first patent that i can actual find is this one filed in 1926 by s. goldberg (below on the right).

mr goldberg has quite a storied life, which i will leave for your reading pleasure/general citation, but his hump brand bobby pins from the second patent were pretty close to our modern equivalents.

both of the above images are from this ebay listing, since i can ballpark it to 1920s-30s since most visuals for hold bob bobby pins are gayla brand, which is the same company just the brand hold bob pins were sold under in the 1940s. (goldberg's widow renamed the company (and her family) gaylord in the 1940s and gayla was under that umbrella)

the only missing link as it were is the fact that it took until the 1940/50s to add the rubber tips that the ai seems to be implying and which are now very common. the patent for that was filed in 1948 and was being mass-produced by the early 1950s.

bic cristal ballpoint pens

the image is brand name, so i'm going brand name, but the ballpoint pen does predate bic so keep that in mind. bic's cristal pens have been pretty consistent since their debut in 1950. it's a whole brand thing. they simply will not shut up about it. and because it's a brand thing (especially compared to the ubiquity of the other objects) it's a bit harder to uncover manufacturing details given talking about flaws can go against the narrative they've built. last year was their 75th anniversary so i wouldn't be surprised if, in part, that was the cause of this image. (all of those links love these pens so much. its all just advertising.)

i think the broad strokes of the visual are the same, so the extra blue plastic at the bottom of the '1950' version is probably just randomly generated. my biggest conjecture from the images ive seen is that the hole in the lid was likely smaller or nonexistent (the lids appear too pointed for the hole in the modern pen). otherwise, the main thing seems to be is that the placement of the etchings varying over time. just for fun, here are some ads from the 50s and an example from the 1956 catalog.

ads are from the already linked 75th anniversary page and the cropped example from the catalog is from their ''our story'' book-length advertisement. that thing is over 100 pages.

In the US, there is no meaningful legal definition for educational/academic neglect in any of the 50 states or federally. What this means is that a child can be "homeschooled" and exclusively be taught how to cook and clean, reach the age of 18 being unable to read, write, or count, and this alone is not considered neglect. That 18yo, should they even have the knowledge that suing exists, has no legal grounds to sue their parents for denying them an education.

In over 40 US states, a convicted child abuser can homeschool their children. So someone who has done time for child abuse and somehow regains access to their child(ren) can decide upon returning home that they want to "homeschool" their kids. Those children are now locked in a home with their abuser where nobody can see them.

There are no welfare checks.

There are no routine assessments.

There aren't even databases — state or federal — keeping track of how many homeschooled kids there actually are.

Meaning a child can be locked in their home for their entire life with their convicted abuser, learn absolutely nothing, never go to the doctor, and so long as that child is fed, clothed, and the abuse isn't physical or sexual, that child has almost no chance of rescue and no legal ground to seek restitution if/when they escape.

The only way homeschooled children get rescued is if they're beaten, starved, or physically neglected and they're able to get the right person to see that. Otherwise? They have to wait until someone finds out they were murdered as a result of their parents "homeschooling".

And feral homeschool parents love to jump down my throat about this, and then get even more pissed when I tell them I'm a homeschool alumni.

Because I know it's not all homeschoolers. But even one is too many, and the lack of protections should scare everyone. If you're a good homeschool parent, nothing will change. If not, you deserve whatever comes your way as a result of adequate oversight.

israelis are human beings, of course op is right. israelis support this genocide by overwhelming majorities (such as the poll above). that is unacceptable and since they are regular human beings like everyone else, the world should be allowed to hold israeli genocidal war criminals to account for their crimes.

zionists demanding everyone allow israelis to commit genocide without being criticized or resisted are basically tell all of us to not treat them as we would any other human beings. yall are the weirdos.

Awesome video displaying phenomenal craftsmanship—posted by one of my favorite Tiktok accounts: Tlingit_Haida

Aani (the land known as Southeast Alaska) has been home to the Tlingit and Haida Peoples since time immemorial