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Being on Tumblr from ten years ago until now and seeing how it's aged is so funny. When I first got here everything was like "haha lol so random, superwholock, taquitos, tumblr university!" but today I just scrolled past three different memes about tax season
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Even such a barbarian can tell that you’re barely an ape. Who do you call an ape?! I’m not even close! Stop squeaking!
Talio Fukushu Daiko no Futari (タリオ 復讐代行の2人)
2020, dir. Kimura Hisashi, Yamamoto Toru.
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Human guide: humans are capable of eating almost anything.
Alien thinks about the time their human friend refused to eat for a whole evening when they were served pizza with pineapple on it. "Well, it does say almost everything."
Human guide: humans can suffer grevious injuries and still keep going.
Alien thinks back to the time their human friend had to sit and cry for thirty minutes after stubbing their toe. "That doesn't sound right."
Human guide: human culture indicates they are a vicious predatory species and excellent at the art of combat.
Alien thinks back to the time their human accidentally swatted a butterfly and held a funeral for the insect. "Okay, this thing doesnt know what it's talking about." *throws guide away.*
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Urartu Religion
The religion of the Urartu civilization, which flourished principally in ancient Armenia from the 9th to 6th century BCE, was a unique mix of indigenous, Hurrian and Mesopotamian gods and symbolism. The pantheon was headed by the trinity of Haldi, Teisheba, and Shivini, who were the principal beneficiaries of sacrifices and temples built in their honour. Inscriptions, dedications and representations in art are all a testimony to the importance of religion in Urartu culture and especially to warfare.
The Urartu Pantheon
The gods of the Urartu religion were many, but they are handily listed in a 9th-century BCE inscription discovered in a niche in the mountains near the capital Tushpa (Van). The list, inscribed in duplicate, mentions 79 gods and the various sacrifices which should be made to each. The large number of deities may be explained by the fact that the Urartu religion adopted gods and practices from the Hurrians and other Mesopotamian cultures, which were mixed with indigenous Urartian gods. In addition, a feature of Urartu territorial expansion was the assimilation of local gods into the official pantheon of the conquerors. Many of these local gods were totems and represented such important elements or prominent natural features as water, earth, the sun, mountains, caves and trees. Still other deities were related to ancient animalistic beliefs.
The three most important Urartu gods were Haldi (Khaldi), god of war and the supreme deity, Teisheba, the god of storms and thunder who was likely based on the Hurrian god Teshub, and Shivini, the Sun god, who was often represented as a kneeling man holding a winged solar disk, and therefore likely inspired by the Egyptian god of the same association, Ra. Haldi’s consort was Arubani (or Bagmashtu in the eastern part of Urartu, notably at Musasir/Ardini), the most important female goddess; Teisheba’s consort was Huba (aka Khuba), and Shivini’s was Tushpuea (aka Tushpues). The close cultural relations between Urartu and Assyria are again illustrated by the Urartian application of the Assyrian ideograms for the gods Adad and Shamsh to their own gods Teisheba and Shivani respectively.
Other important gods include Sielardi, the moon goddess, Epaninaue, the land goddess, Dsvininaue, a sea or water goddess, Babaninaue, the goddess of mountains, and Sardi, the star goddess. Most towns were given their own local god or goddess who was often named after the settlement, e.g. “the god of the town of Kumanu”. The most famous examples of such naming conventions were the capital Tushpa named after Tushpuea and the important city of Teishebaini, founded and named after Teisheba by king Rusa II (r. c. 685-645 BCE).
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I have nine hours, stimulant medication, hyperfocus, hyperfixations, access to the library computers, and no page cap on my final paper.
I'm about to make my professors regret that last one.
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Goblin.Tools
So, yesterday a friend told me about Goblin.Tools, which uses AI to break down tasks (intended for neurodivergent folks whose executives like to dysfunction). (Admittedly, right now it does use OpenAI's models, but the About page expresses an intention to eventually move to more ethical options.)
ANYWAY, I wanted to play around with it and the first thing that popped into my head was "break kneecaps." I expected it to give a snarky "I can't tell you how to do that" response, but... well, here are some of the breakdowns it gave me:
Does it have any useful advice regarding late-stage capitalism?
What if I want to multitask?
I can't decide which of these is funnier:
I'm supposed to be doing an assignment about AI right now, but this is my serotonin for the foreseeable future.
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It depends on the environment and how long you need to store the bread.
Having an argument in the server. I need to prove I am not insane for putting sliced sandwich bread/white bread/loaf whatever do u call this 🍞 in the freezer.
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Snowy Night: Timeless Love (2024) dir. Leung Sing Kuen, Ren Hai Tao
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