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Potter Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, ca. 1930 - 1940

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

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Two children ignoring the artwork at the San Francisco Museum of Art. ca. 1960s

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You obviously do not have to be a UK or Clacton citizen to do this poll it's not the actual bi election.

I just want to see what the world thinks

i haven't seen anything about this on my dashboard, so i wanted to share. ICE gestapo killed another human being on tuesday. he leaves behind three sons and his wife, who he has spent the last 35 years building a life with

there is a gofundme supported by the league of united latin american citizens set up to help with funeral costs, legal fees, and supporting his family moving forward.

Yeah, trepanation sounds horrible from a modern point of view and I'll thank everyone to leave my skull cap where it is, once I'm sufficiently decomposed (future archaeologists excepted), but these were still people and whatever cultural practices were at play, they had meaning for them. I know it's usually not intended that way, but it feels rather disrespectful to turn them into an offhanded joke about the supposed creepiness of ancient burials.

The best ones have advice on decor, how to select high-quality furniture, childrearing, fashion, etc--from a contemporary perspective, and the things the authors feel the need to clarify vs the wild shit that will just casually mention like it's something everyone knows and agrees on is REALLY revealing of the culture and how it's shifted.

And while a lot of the advice is WILDLY bigoted or just outright funny, you'd be surprised how much of it is...just genuinely timeless, and shockingly compassionate.

They ALSO, as a writer, have INVALUABLE resources--because, again, they're talking about things that are so MUNDANE that a lot of the time nobody really sat down to formally document what normal, everyday people thought or cared about--because that's boring! But a book written to provide advice and information to, say, a young woman who's never run her own home before? You can fully expect an entire chapter dedicated to The Types Of Oven, and which features are useful and worth spending money on, and which features are a huge hassle to clean and a waste of space, and what to spend that money on instead.

And like. As a writer who frequently works in the 1800s? Fuck inflation calculators, this is the kind of thing I need. This is absolutely priceless.

Now that being said.

My current favorite 'etiquette guide' in the world is actually like....70% purely practical advice, written by a gentleman the groupchat has affectionately dubbed History's Most Autistic Man In The World, and thank god they didn't have Aderall back then

Because the AuDHD is strong in this one and as a result, in addition to the deeply practical and useful everyday reference points, we also have:

hi sorry uh. incredible miscommunication on my part lmfao.