henrik-von-schneeplestein:

steg-o-sore-us:

nonbinary-safe-haven:

I call this photo set Famous People Giving Trans/NB People Their Love and Support

If you have anything to add to this then please do!!❤️ -Mod Lee

ok so i reread this

definitely not crying

I hope y’all don’t mind if I add one:

siobhanblank:

yeah obviously a villain is supposed to do bad things but i wish ppl would understand there are still things that are and aren’t appropriate given the context; if you got to the end of a mario game and bowser called mario the n-word that’s not something you’d just accept

mylegendaryquotes:

yournewapartment:

mygenderadventures:

writerdarkflamespyre:

sketchthetrees:

juhaniotsoberg:

So I found a site that does a subscription box for your period- it sends you basics like hygiene products, pain medication as well as snacks and pampering stuff to make you feel good, 

but the best thing is they have a specialty boxes, like vegan or kosher only snacks but also 

they specifically offer boxes for menstruating guys and nb folks. 

which is pretty darn cool.

it’s called bonjourjolie and I think it’s 1000% awesome tbh 

i think this is the best thing omf

@mygenderadventures

, don’t know if this is content you’d put on your blog, but I think this is fantastic.

I don’t tend to post non-art stuff but thanks for the shout-out anyway!!! I’m sure this will be of interest to a few people here :)

This is such an exciting thing!!

Please don’t read the comments, some people are so embarrassingly uneducated and cruel. YNA supports our trans and nonbinary followers! ❤️❤️

Whoever came up with this idea is just awesome. They really take their costumers’ diets into account, like there’s so many options. Look at all this

And if they still don’t have a box to accommodate your needs, you can even order special items and ask for a box that doesn’t have anything you’re allergic to in it

Not to mention how amazing this is

I hope this service might help some of you guys

supersillyanddorky06:

THE ONLY WALL THAT DESERVES ATTENTION GOING INTO 2019

literatebitch:

Pennsylvania Ballet

“A Facebook user recently commented that the Eagles had “played like they were wearing tutus!!!”

Our response:

“With all due respect to the Eagles, let’s take a minute to look at what our tutu wearing women have done this month:

By tomorrow afternoon, the ballerinas that wear tutus at Pennsylvania Ballet will have performed The Nutcracker 27 times in 21 days. Some of those women have performed the Snow scene and the Waltz of the Flowers without an understudy or second cast. No ‘second string’ to come in and spell them when they needed a break. When they have been sick they have come to the theater, put on make up and costume, smiled and performed. When they have felt an injury in the middle of a show there have been no injury timeouts. They have kept smiling, finished their job, bowed, left the stage, and then dealt with what hurts. Some of these tutu wearers have been tossed into a new position with only a moments notice. That’s like a cornerback being told at halftime that they’re going to play wide receiver for the second half, but they need to make sure that no one can tell they’ve never played wide receiver before. They have done all of this with such artistry and grace that audience after audience has clapped and cheered (no Boo Birds at the Academy) and the Philadelphia Inquirer has said this production looks “better than ever”.

So no, the Eagles have not played like they were wearing tutus. If they had, Chip Kelly would still be a head coach and we’d all be looking forward to the playoffs.“

Happy New Year!”

rudjedet:

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jenniferrpovey:

thatlittleegyptologist:

rudjedet:

bakenmut-the-tired-vulture:

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thatlittleegyptologist:

rudjedet:

Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost

• The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction
  
• The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity
• We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either
• Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender
• The gods didn’t actually have animal heads
• Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)
• The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous
• Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”

• The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit

• ‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”
  
• While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago 
• The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved

• The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum
  
• Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose
• Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards
• Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”
• The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)

• While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition
  
• It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that
• Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass

I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On

• Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies

Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

• Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids
  
• Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
• Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
• Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt
• Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
• Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
• Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
• Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt
• Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)
• McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:  Laundry Lists and Love Songs
• Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion 

Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks

Any of you guys confirm some of this? I already knew about Set.

As both the second poster and I are Egyptologists I can confirm that all of the above is true because it’s our job to know this. If you want to confirm it for yourself, do look at the sources I listed.

Can confirm it’s all true. I have a PhD in Egyptology and to everyone reading this comment in the notes: Congrats, you’re just learning that most of what you were taught at school was a load of crap because actual Ancient Egypt is far too complex to explain to 8 year olds. The sources provided above are as legitimate as you’re going to get for this site. They’re peer reviewed, and written by actual Egyptologists.

Please stop harassing Rudjedet calling all this ‘fake’, ‘untrue’, or even ‘asking for sources’ when you’ve got them on the post. We’re not lying to you, we’re not trying to be edgy for the notes, we’re actual Egyptologists, educated in this subject for over a decade, and we’re telling you this is the reality of Ancient Egypt. 

Right. Hatshepshut was not a trans man. She was a woman who had to act as a man during certain ceremonies, because she was king and that was part of her job.

When she was representing the Pharoah, she wore male clothing and presumably used male pronouns, but it was ritual theater. She was acting. She also may have died from complications of diabetes because of an overly-rich diet.

Also, the Pyramids (I believe, if I’m getting the project wrong, correct me), were the site of a strike that at first mystified Egyptologists.

Workers struck because they weren’t getting “cosmetics.”

Eventually somebody found reside in a mortar and reverse engineered it, because archaeologists do cool things like that.

Turned out that what we were translating as “cosmetics” was…sunscreen. Dang important safety gear if you’re doing construction work in the desert!

So, yes. The ancient Egyptians had sunscreen. They had sunscreen pretty much as good as anything we have today, in fact.

The Turin Strike Papyrus you’re referring doesn’t come from the time of the pyramids, no. It’s from Deir el-Medina, during the time of Ramses III. By this time, they had stopped building pyramids and were burying their dead rulers in the Valley of Kings. The village of Deir el-Medina was a workman’s village whose purpose was to cut, decorate and otherwise prepare the rock tombs in the Valley. 

I’ve seen the Tumblr post that claims the whole “cosmetics-turns-out-to-be-sunscreen” and it’s just not accurate. 

The word that post refers to is sqnn, found on recto 2, line 3 of the Turin Strike Papyrus*:

This word is translated as “oil/ointment”. It was used to denote any type of oil or ointment that they weren’t or didn’t want to be too specific about. If you’re curious, you can find all the attestations of the word here. 

So we can’t and shouldn’t translate sqnn as sunscreen. Moreover, I’ve yet to come across a recipe in the medical papyri (my specialisation) that can be interpreted as sunscreen - especially something that’s as good as the stuff we have right now! 

*Translation can be found in The Strikes in Ramses III’s Twenty-Ninth Year, by William F. Edgerton (Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jul., 1951), pp. 137-145 (The University of Chicago Press).)  

Well I’ve got to say a few things. I’m not going to argue any of the particular points made. Some are good, others are plainly ignorant.

The number one thing most of these points should be followed by is, “we don’t fucking know.” Because we don’t. All of this is a best guess.

Your degree in Egyptology does earn you the right to have some respect for your sources and opinions. But you also should never forget you are being taught the opinion of academia, which is highly conservative, and incestuous, and gets plenty of shit wrong all the time.

And the opinion of those who currently work within these spiritual practices are totally valid and necessary. In fact, in some cases better than those who don’t because the Egyptians themselves wholly accepted the reality of their gods and spirits.

Everyone, I’d like to take this opportunity to point out the following:

If you want to disagree with me or engage in a discussion with me about the things I write, either in this post or in others, that’s fine. You can do that. I only ask for two things if you do: be sure you did your own research, and make a clear point. Don’t, for example, write “some of this is plain ignorant” without specifying what is ignorant and why you think so. Don’t cast aspersions on what I say unless you can and are willing to back your opinion up with a substantive argument.

And as another general note: a lot of what I said in the original post we actually “do fucking know” because the Egyptians themselves told us so. Egyptians wrote their stuff down. We can read the Pharaonic Egyptian languages. We have, for example, the Diary of Merer, which tells us about the workforce that built the pyramids. It’s true that there are gaps in our knowledge, but even if we don’t have unequivocal evidence for something it doesn’t mean we’re only guessing and hoping for the best. Usually we like to form our theories based on proper methodology. Does that leave things still uncertain? Yes. Does that mean that we “don’t fucking know” anything about ancient Egypt ever? No.

Now on a less general note - wtf does “academia is incestuous” mean?? Am I sleeping with my professors who are also suddenly my dad? I’m confused.

themadcapmathematician:

love-the-weirdo-in-the-closet:

therealfeedback:

racistspiderman:

demon-princess-serina:

smokeypsd-games:

The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy

BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.

Motherboard

You know, it’s almost like that was the fucking problem in the first place you stupid bastards

the absolute need for every online video platform to become just like cable tv despite the fact their success comes from not being like cable tv is just overwhelming 

Netflix: Alright guys, we have a fantastic model going! Piracy is down, subscriptions are up, everyone’s making money with these contracts for your show’s streaming rights, and viewers are getting a ton of great content they enjoy. Everybody wins!

Morons: But what if we had our own streaming service just for our content?

Netflix: …I mean in-theory that would work at first, but if everyone’s content was suddenly 100% exclusive and you have to get a dozen subscriptions to a dozen proprietary streaming services just to watch three shows, that defeats a lot of the val–

Morons: And we could charge more than Netflix and Hulu too! We could make even more money!

Netflix: Well at a certain point you’re going to start charging more than people are willing to pay and you’ll start losing more money than you’ll gain. We’ve been doing this since 1997 so we have a pretty good idea of–

Morons: *create streaming sites for every single fucking studio that all charge more money than their content is worth, saturating the market with too many options, almost all of which have too little content to justify their price*

Consumers: Yeah fuck this

Morons: I knew streaming was a dead-end. It never could’ve worked

Netflix: But we were making money! It was working before you fuckers killed the goose laying golden eggs!

Morons: Yeah, but when we wanted more money, it stopped working, and we’re too good at business to make bad decisions, so clearly it was streaming itself that wasn’t working. It’s not our fault the goose couldn’t keep laying eggs after we ate it!

Netflix: What the fuck is wrong with you people

Everything is wrong with people

The free market?? Sabotaging itself??? More likely than you’d think

iamburdened:

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Don’t you believe? They can prove with mathematics.

Guys, she did it. And and we had no idea.

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Bonus*

pelkoja:

nuderefsarebest:

This is such an evil way to switch around statistics

smitethepatriarchy:

insecureghosts:

blackcollarcitizen:

hestmord:

astrophobe:

aresnakesreal:

i hate monopoly it is like some old white guy was sitting around and then thought to himself, what if we could make capitalism fun? well you tried and you failed dipshit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly it was actually created by a Georgist to illustrate the principle that rent makes landlords richer and tenants poorer. She designed it to be incredibly not fun, to show that if you don’t own property you experience an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of your resources until you eventually go bankrupt. She figured that through Monopoly people would be so bored and frustrated that they would understand how terrible the system of rent is

Then Parker Brothers patented it, mass-produced it, people bought it because people have terrible taste in games, and the original creator experienced an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of her resources until she died impoverished and obscure

society is a horrific parody of itself

No wonder this game makes me aggressive

Her name was Elizabeth Magie and her game was stolen by Charles Darrow.

Darrow went bankrupt after the 1929 Stock Market Crash, so when he saw his neighbors playing the game, he copied down the instructions, and published his own version of the game.

Then he sold it to the Parker Brothers who popularized the game. Darrow became a millionare within the year. Despite this, Hasboro currently lists him as the sole creator on their website.

Magie was amazing, and not just for her game. She liked to mock societal standards of the time through theater and even made national headlines mocking the institution of marriage. She supported herself until her mid 40s, proving that marriage was not the only option for women, before tying the knot herself.

Elizabeth Magie is attributed with this, “Girls have minds, desires, hopes, and ambitons.” Dont forget her name.

This is the saddest and most representative of the United States thing ever.

accio-shitpost:

so what did muggles think was happening during the voldemort wars? i mean surely they had to have seen some of it, they can’t just write it off as

you know what i just remembered that we had killer clown sightings all over last year and our reaction was ‘huh that’s weird/creepy anyway let’s not wonder about that any more’

deadybones:

my-little-ninja:

tilthat:

TIL the original TRON (1982) was not considered for a visual effects Oscar because the Academy felt the filmmakers had cheated by using computers.

via ift.tt

War…war never changes

Part of the fuckery of this is that a lot of TRON’s most iconic visual effects weren’t done using computers. Like, at all. They just look like that because they were filmed on a high-contrast film called Kodalith, with backlit hand-painted animation cels layerered in there so everyone looks all glowy.

These are hand-painted cels! Even the zappy digital effects started on paper:

So by any standards TRON got fucking robbed and it’s an injustice our rotten, corrupt society will never live down