changelingsandothernonsense:

teal-deer:

changelingsandothernonsense:

New Ea-nāṣir lore just dropped and I don’t know how to feel about that. I hate the meme but the guy having thugs coming after him for bad copper sales is perfect.

Wait wait WAIT

As someone who hard agrees with all your tags re: tired of the meem

BUT who is also invested in antiquities

Is it possible for you to drop the new lore

So the building in Ur where the infamous tablet was found (1 “Old Street” Ur Excavations VII) was actually full of similar tablets, all detailing how badly this guy’s deals went. All of these tablets were collected and put into storage at the British Museum. Typically this kind of thing gets forgotten about, many of these tablets have been sitting there for a century, untranslated or partially translated.

The Nu Tabletum

This was recently partially translated and it’s incredibly fragmentary, but it’s a letter from the man himself reassuring a customer in Larsa about a bad shipment (a lot of goods were missing). He is upset that the customer sent thugs to collect (which is located in a different tablet). In turn, he sends his own to the customer’s home. They are to make offerings at the temple of Šamaš together to symbolically “smooth things over”. They are taking an oath.

He later goes on to blame the customer for the missing ingots. He (Ea-nāṣir) decided to employ a third party to deliver said ingots to the customer (all the way in the next city-state in the Sumerian cultural sphere). It seems like the third party either stole or got into a fight with the customer over the goods.

Ea-nāṣir now has to haul his ass to Larsa to deal with this personally. There’s a lot of “Why don’t you believe me?” “They don’t listen to me!” “Please don’t send-” going on in the tablet. But from what I can gather it looks like this peace offering (making an oath at the temple of Šamaš) broke down too. Everyone is blaming each other for the missing copper ingots and now the man himself has to take the three-day journey to sort out this issue.

We have a name for one of the thugs: Mr. Shorty (kurûm). He seems to be a bit scary.

The man from Dilmun got kicked out of the Merchant’s Guild for a reason, he’s had this problem before with copper shipments from Elam. Either he’s the world’s worst judge of character or he’s embezzling, and badly. This is his side hustle stage where he’s selling everything from used clothing to speculating (badly) on real estate. He may have dabbled in money lending too. He’s your classic failed finance bro.

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foone:

gender-trash:

i dont understand at all how non-programmers use computers. every day i encounter new and strange workflows? “yeah i write my fic in scrivener but then when it’s ready to post to ao3 i copy/paste it into libreoffice and use find-and-replace to convert it to html” dude what the fuck

Yeah, this is part of why my sub-niche of programming is like, “developer productivity”. Developer doesn’t just mean programmer here, it means anyone, because GOOD LORD people are doing too much manual stuff. Computers are supposed to do mindless repetitive tasks, that’s what they’re for. Humans are supposed to do the creative and decision-making tasks. 

Although I think this issue has an interesting intersection with ADHD. Like people with it will see someone use a computer and go like “HOW DOES THAT NOT DRIVE YOU MAD!?” and it definitely would, but I think it’s often overlooked that there’s a “having ADHD that makes it painful/difficult to do relative tasks” to “whelp I’m a programmer now” pipeline. You get tired of doing some task over and over and you just look into a little bit of scripting because the manual makes it seem easy and hey here’s a tutorial on using javascript/lua/batch/bash/ahk and WHOOPS now you’re a programmer. 

(Because you don’t have to go to school and study C++ and algorithms to be a programmer. Everyone who learns a bit of JS to spice up a webpage or a bit of Lua to make a minecraft robot dig a hole or a bit of AHK to make a complex macro to optimize their workflow is a programmer)

mother-entropy:

oriko-mikuni:

I feel like people should really just block transphobes instead of doing epic owns

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[image description: tags from @cumaeansibyl that say “#don’t put that shit on your dash for trans people to encounter #it’s not like arguing will convince anyone #keep uplifting trans people instead it’ll get the message across without scaring anyone” /end ID]

^^^ THIS.

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clonerightsagenda:

The Dracula line about the old centuries having a power modernity cannot kill reminded me of my original fantasy British sadboy Nicholas Sayre who strode confidently into the superstitious countryside armed with modern scientific rationality and promptly got possessed by the Horrors.

aerialsquid:

clouds-of-wings:

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“A rare photo of a telecom technician hatching. He even still has parts of the eggshell on his head.”

transmaskmetaknight:

transmaskmetaknight:

bro i didnt share my new son $1.07 with you guys hold on

yall arent ready for her . u cannot emotionally prepare for him .

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her name is $1.07 and he is the worlds least animal

he is so scared all the time

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beyoursledgehammer:

plantanarchy:

plantanarchy:

listen i love and grow and appreciate native plants as much as any plant ecology nerd but good god the energy of a lot of native plant discussion on social media continues to be so………… much

all the replies to this are wonderful and exactly what I mean.

I guess my biggest difficulty with the energy of native plant activism is the idea that we can buy our way into saving the native environment in our own individual yards. We can’t. Not really. Not as the sole effort of ecology work. We can’t just buy the right plants and pull the naughty plants and save the day. Not even as a network of people all doing the same things in their yards.

If you are lucky like I am, your state will have something to help promote natives in a more comprehensive manner.

For example, the state of Georgia has the Georgia Native Plant Initiative that provides a lot of information including lists of nurseries that grow and sell native plants, which milkweeds to plant for monarchs, and how to handle invasive species (among other things).

amygdalae:

amygdalae:

Packed up 11 boxes of penguin today. 334 pounds total

To clarify it was boxes of books from Penguin Random House. I did not shove 334 pounds of antarctic seabird into boxes at my job

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barclaysbianca:

Meme news: The Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah came out as bisexual at the age of 76

That’s her, btw


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She’s an icon and also very talented. We Stan.

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falewife:

lieutenant-columbro:

can he sit on your dash for a minute?? he’ll be very polite :]

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you have to start to scroll away and then come back and reblog this

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fuckyeahgoodomens:

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Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)

Neil Gaiman: Hi, I’m Neil Gaiman. I’m wearing the first red T-shirt I’ve worn since 1987. Because I’m a member of the WGA. I’m on strike. I care so much for the things that I’ve written but I’m out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.

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nitrogennightmare:

thisdiscontentedwinter:

poetry-protest-pornography:

Oh, I love this an inordinate amount.

This guy covers children’s songs in the style of various artists, and he’s incredible.

I’m weirdly emotional about it?


This is amazing!

This is the exact opposite energy of the “what happens after the camera cuts and you’ve destroyed you labtop for 5 seconds of entertainment”

This guy not only wrote a whole song but dressed up and FILMED it! For what! For 1 and a half seconds of MY entertainment! That must have been HOURS of shooting and editing! I’m touched, this is art

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