An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has been described as an early example of artistic thought.

From West Tofts, Norfolk.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Courtesy Alison Fisk

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hunger

how?? just how?

hi lydia! i found a thing on twitter,,,,....here u go

OBSESSED

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Kitten Sleeping in the Arms of Madame Ingres

i still can't get over the sheer AUDACITY of iroh going to ba sing se. like did it work? yes. but ONLY because the dai li was too busy following around some bald kid looking for his dog to notice him

Nothing more annoying than writers who write historical fiction but don’t want to put in the work to make it historically accurate. A couple minor anachronisms here and there are one thing, but that particular kind of weirdly smug disregard for historical accuracy is insufferable.

Just make it science fiction! Set it on an alien planet! Set it in the far future, or an alternate timeline, or some kind of warped preserved memory! Take that particular thing that interests you most about a period of history and slap it into another reality and worldbuild around it to your heart’s content… that’s cool. That’s fun. And it doesn’t have that taint of meanness towards the past that makes low-effort historical fiction so irritating.

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

April 27th is International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day! My comic Crow time is pretty much stuffed to the brim with crows, so it's a good way to celebrate these goth little dudes.

READ CROW TIME!

OR GET PLUSH GOTH BOI?? WOW!

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