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Ancient Egyptians Had A Different Set Of Zodiac Signs, Here’s What Yours Means

theotherguysride:

lynati:

MUT:
January 22nd – 31st, September 8th – 22nd
“Protective, Rational, and ShyThose born under the Goddess of the Sky’s sign are protective and nurturing over those they care about. They
tend to seem extremely charming and personable but they feel shy on the
inside, so they guard their feelings as a way of protecting themselves.
Once they fully trust someone they will be more willing to share their
thoughts and wisdom. That trust also inspired them to become
incredibly generous. They have a very rational way of thinking, and may
get stuck in their ways, but it’s because they believe they’ve already
gone through all the pros and cons. Because of their initial
shyness and lingering resistance to open conversations, they are often
mistaken as unfeeling. They have problems when they put their focus
entirely on their relationships, because if it doesn’t work out or they
have some time apart they might become depressed or withdrawn. Their sacred animal is the vulture.”

February 12th – 29th, August 20th – 31st

Compassionate, Reliable, and Obsessive

The
God of the Earth influences the people born under his sign to be kind
and compassionate people. While they care for others, they tend to be
introverted, enjoying to spend time on their own.

They are highly
empathetic of other people’s emotions, which can be difficult for them
at times if there is a lot of negativity in their world.

They are
reliable and helpful, the type of people who are always there when you
need them. They also are known to think before they speak or act, making
sure that they’ve thought through all the options first.

They remember everything, especially other peoples
actions towards them, and it will affect how they act towards others in
the future.

While they are not necessarily pushovers, they do
have the tendency to take on more than they should out of a fear of
letting others down. They are prone to anxiety and may often spend a lot
of time obsessing over work and other peoples thoughts about them.

Their sacred animal is the goose. “

*This explains everything*.

Bastet

July 14th – 28th, September 23rd – 27th, October 3rd – 17th

Intuitive, Peaceful, and Nostalgic

As the Goddess of Cats, Bastet teaches those born in her sign to embrace peace and balance. They don’t enjoy conflict, instead preferring to avoid stressful situations.

They tend to be in tune with their intuition, and their ability to judge someones intentions is always on the mark.

They seek out joy, even though for them that joy may be related to the occult. They have a strong connection to the psychic world and can pick up on things others can’t.

They do however have problems asking for help, and will refuse it when offered by people they don’t know. However, with the people they really care about and trust, they tend to get a little clingy.

They also have a hard time letting go of the past, and can easily become moody or depressed by remembering the way things used to be.

Their sacred animal is the cat.

*eyes this* Huh.

Ancient Egyptians Had A Different Set Of Zodiac Signs, Here’s What Yours Means

lynati:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Ancient village discovered in Canada is 10,000 years older than the pyramids.

The discovery of a 14,000-year-old ancient village in Canada could forever alter our understanding of early civilization in North America. Researchers estimate the settlement is way older than the Giza pyramids, and have found artifacts dating all the way back to the Ice Age. The village is one of the oldest human settlements we’ve ever uncovered in North America – and lines up with the oral history of the Heiltsuk Nation.

Researchers from the Hakai Institute and University of Victoria, with local First Nations members, unearthed revealing artifacts on Triquet Island, around 310 miles northwest of Victoria, Canada. They’ve found fish hooks, spears, and tools to ignite fires. Thanks to the discovery of the ancient village last year, researchers now think a massive human migration may have happened along British Columbia’s coastline.

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https://unitedhumanists.com/2018/10/06/ancient-village-discovered-in-canada-is-10000-years-older-than-the-pyramids/

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Submitted by nathanialroyale.

I wonder how much more ancient history in the North American Continent we’d now about now if we hadn’t come in, killed everyone, and gutted the land.

Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World

welcometoyouredoom:

As the three continued their work, they noticed something else that was remarkable: again and again one group of people appeared to be particularly unusual when compared to other populations—with perceptions, behaviors, and motivations that were almost always sliding down one end of the human bell curve.

In the end they titled their paper “The Weirdest People in the World?” (pdf) By “weird” they meant both unusual and Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. It is not just our Western habits and cultural preferences that are different from the rest of the world, it appears. The very way we think about ourselves and others—and even the way we perceive reality—makes us distinct from other humans on the planet, not to mention from the vast majority of our ancestors. Among Westerners, the data showed that Americans were often the most unusual, leading the researchers to conclude that “American participants are exceptional even within the unusual population of Westerners—outliers among outliers.”

Given the data, they concluded that social scientists could not possibly have picked a worse population from which to draw broad generalizations. Researchers had been doing the equivalent of studying penguins while believing that they were learning insights applicable to all birds.

Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World

sanerontheinside:

norcumi:

thefreelancerdivision:

Mando’a word for niece/nephew

bu’vodu???

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Thought process:

ba‘vodu (aunt/uncle, pl. bavodu’e)

ba‘buir (grandparent)

ba = one generation older?

bu‘ad (grandchild)

bu = one generation younger?

I am really bad at this. A bit of digging turned up a fan-term “ba’ad” (from here), but honestly your logic makes sense to me.

… you know I think there’s a chance they don’t have one, culturally—because of cooperative, clan-based raising of children rather than with family specifications? I mean, yes, parents (buir) and siblings (vode) are important, but you would raise children of the clan no matter whose they were, right? 

I don’t have much to back this, tho, buir’tsad means family lineage and the note put next to it in the Mando’a dictionary says it’s specifically a reference to biological lineage, and rarely used. 

that aside, tho: 

bah is the dative form of ‘to’, so a grandparent might have the shortened form of ‘parent to [your parent]’, ba’buir. 

it’s a little different with ba’vodu, because by the logic above, I’m trying to form ‘sibling to your parent’. …. now it’s more like ‘to [your parent] sibling’, which is interesting. 

Actually that makes sense, because dative means giving, so your parent was given a sibling, or given a parent in the case of ba’buir.
(it’s definitely within Mandalorian culture to be able to refuse/disown a parent, so I suppose while it’s expected that a parent will do their duty by their children, it’s also of term of respect for the grandparent who did their job right)

does the logic hold for ‘to [your child] children’ (i.e. grandchildren)? bu’ad: children are ade. The root of bu is likely buir, and most of that branch appears to imply responsibility (ex. buirkan). 

so, ‘to [your sibling] children’? vo’ad? lol.

@maawi halp

PLEASE tell us how vegetables are a social construct

bemusedlybespectacled:

so a long time ago humans were trying to figure out edible plant matter, right

and because they didn’t have fucking microscopes or anything they were like “okay we have to divide them in some way that is easy for us to figure out”

so they COULD have divided them up by like, color or some shit

like all the red things are called noogles and all the orange ones are called fuckips and all the yellow ones are called snarglebutts or whatever

but they didn’t

they divided them by taste, which makes sense if you’re trying to sort edible plant matter, the whole point is eating them so why not sort them by the most likely reason you need to know the difference between them

so all the sweet tasting things are called fruits and all the not sweet tasting things are called vegetables

except like other than that there’s no rhyme or reason to it at all??

like potatoes are roots and broccoli is a flower and pumpkins are fruits and celery are stalks

but we’re putting them together because they don’t taste sweet

and lemons are juicy and wet but not sweet but they’re fruit for some reason but tomatoes aren’t even though they’re also juicy but not sweet and carrots aren’t even though carrots can be sweet

meanwhile apples are genetically more closely related to fucking roses than they are to shit like blueberries but because they both taste good in pie we put apples and blueberries in the same group and roses are a different thing 

like, there’s a good reason why we sort plants this way, and that reason is “it’s easier to make food if you know vaguely what it tastes like beforehand,” and sorting plants by genetic family also makes sense if your reasoning is “i want to know what plants are related,” but they’re both sorting groups that humans made up and we could just as easily sort by color or shape if we decided that was an important thing we needed to know and that’s why it’s a social construct

cuzosu-blog:

afroling:

My favourite part of that Buzzfeed shit was about ‘nigga’. Like ‘Ugh, other Black people are so stupid and horrible for wanting to use that word.’

Well, lemme tell yall, I’m a sociolinguist specialising in AAVE and writing my Master’s Thesis on why nigga happened and its social implication.

AAVE is known for semantic bleaching of obscene words so that they can be reappropriated for different purposes. This is why, for example, we add -ass to the end of things, including adjectives and gerunds, to make them more emphatic (e.g. Her long hair havin-ass took 20 minutes to get ready). This is also why we have certain social contexts where it’s okay to use ‘bitch’ and ‘ho’ and some where it isn’t (à la @katblaque, I thought about this from your video). This has its roots in West Africa, where obscenity is more context based and less lexically linked (a word isn’t always intrinsically a cuss word, but who, how and when someone says it may make it offensive).

It wasn’t until the post-Civil War era when assimilationist Black people decided that using words the white man found offensive was not going to help the cause. Sadly, this ideology persists today.

Nigga has also undergone semantic bleaching, but in a much different way. Black people calling each other nigga is not new, and in fact may even date to slavery. However, in the Africanist way, rarely have Black people as a group taken offence to intragroup usage of the word. There have been individuals who have (and sometimes, these individuals are the most outspoken), but generally it has had a very neutral tone in the AAVE and Black world. However, as recently as the late 80’s and early 90’s the usage of nigga has been politicised, especially through the use of early hip hop, where it was again given new meaning. While nigga had always had nuances of negative, neutral and positive lexical meanings, this was when it was explicity stated on a mainstream stage that Black people can say nigga, white people cannot, and it is because of the usurpation of power. Black power does not entail antiwhiteness, but it does include usurping power from the institution of whiteness. This happens at the linguistic level as much as anywhere else. And in the same way that the LGBTQIA community decided to reclaim ‘Queer’, so did the Black community choose to reclaim ‘nigga’. Neither. Of course, was a unanimous decision, but they were both generally accepted decisions. What’s more, Black people added an African twist to their reclamation: just as in Africa words are vulgarised by context, so was nigga. In this case, nigga is vulgarised when spoken by a non-Black person.

The social implication then is an anti-assimilationist and Africanist approach to intragroup semantics. It demonstrated unity, power and linguistic pride in the African American speech tradition.

So, @buzzfeed, if you don’t want to participate, that’s fine. Every Black person is allowed to be individual and have their own opinions. But I and many other Black linguists have been pro- (or at least neutral-)nigga for some time. Just wanted to clear it all up for yall.

A good piece on the intricacies of language.

Patreon recipe questions: kosher cookies?

thebibliosphere:

I had an interesting ask which I now can’t find my answer to, so it looks like tumblr ate it somewhere along the queue to posting stage so I’ll just quickly answer it again sans pictures and come back and redo it properly later on—sorry I can’t remember your tumblr name to tag you! 😦 

The question was: “I want to make my mom’s cookies for my friend’s birthday, but I think they keep kosher, do I need to change anything? and if so do you have a kosher cookie recipe? also how do you cook for someone with allergies?”

I’ll start this by saying—I’m not Jewish. I merely grew up in a house that was heavily influenced by my Jewish family background so keeping kosher in our house was more out of familial habit than an actual need to adhere to Jewish law apart from my father who worked as a Jewish butcher for some 20 odd years. As a result I may or may not have a few crossed wires somewhere, so if any of my Jewish friends spot something I say which is incorrect, I would love for you to correct me so I can edit it and post the correct info.

And also wow this got long so I am going to throw this under a cut.

If you’ve got a baking question you’d like to throw my way, PM me over on [Patreon] or drop me a line on [Tumblr]. Even if you think it’s really really silly and don’t want it to be a public post, please feel free to ask! We all start learning somewhere 🙂

-tumblr mom xoxox

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