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Stone cooking supports used to grill skewers of meat by Minoans on Santorini, circa 3600 years old. The line of holes in the base supplied coals with oxygen. Many consider modern "souvlaki" street kebabs a direct descendant of this portable food system. Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Greece. More: https://thetravelbible.com/museum-of-artifacts/

#ARTifacts

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what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”

#food

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what's the opposite of feeling sand slip through your fingers because I feel this poem more and more as time passes

#poetry

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WHEN ONE IS EXPECTING

Today, I bought this book (for my sister, lets clarify that now ‘cause the only way I’m going anywhere near sperm is if I fall into a vat of it):

BUT WAIT

THIS:

IS:

SOME:

OF THE BRILLIANT:

STUFF IT HAS IN IT:

#funny thoughts to revisit #parenting

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Steve Allen, Dorothy Kilgallen, John Charles Daly and Arlene Francis, backstage during the filming of ‘What’s My Line’ circa 1954.

#dorothy kilgallen

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Most of the conversations I want to have with my mother about her relationships with her extended family are variations on

"Mom, there's a lesson I learned from you that you haven't learned yet..."

#thoughts to revisit

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Dear Tumblr friends,

Can anyone tell me where on this site I can find people who will make silly jokes about ovulation strips with me? I'm looking for the right tag to help me find other people trying to have a kid...because every time I search anything related to "pregnant" or "trying to conceive" on tumblr I end up with

Along with a lot of just straight-up porn. So...please send help. Very happy for all of these kinky folks, but I'm looking for something a little different right now.

#hellsite #crowdsourcing

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#nature

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some good news articles I found

Recent breakthrough in combatting brain cancer

Major discovery in coral reef restoration

Thought to be extinct since the 18th century, 5 Gray Whales have been discovered alive and well

also this cool funny bird is doing alright too

2 million pounds of plastics and trash removed from the ocean by one nonprofit

Tidal power being used to power 1 million homes, largest tidal power project yet

and as a bonus thousands of 3D scans of animals have been published, which is very cool for anatomy artists and will increase the number of skeleton drawings in the world which is nice

#a little bit of faith in the system restored

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VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

#a little bit of faith in humanity restored

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musings on oranges

Alessia Di Cesare, Romero Barros, Wendy Cope, David Stevenson, Rebecca O’Connor, Andrea Kantrowitz, Nina LaCour, Augustin Rouart, Ocean Vuong, Chris Krupinski, Wendy Cope, Mickie Acierno, Jacques Prévert, Robert Spear Dunning, Wendy Cope

buy me a coffee

#poetry #art

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sometimes i think about the history of coffee culture in islam and how it spread like it’s so funny

discovered by sufis who decided it was a miracle from Allah since it allowed them to stay up late into the night for night worship

miracle beans = UNLIMITED DHIKR

cue scholars debating for years about whether it’s haram or halal and if it should be classified as an ‘intoxicant’ or not

fast forward to 16th century ottoman empire, where a woman had the legal right to divorce her husband if he failed to provide her with enough coffee

europeans called it the “mohammaden gruel” or “devil’s drink” bc they believed it to be a “bitter invention of satan and his followers”

fast forward to pope clement viii finally giving in and tasting it to see what the hype is about and then stating: “This Satan’s drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it.”

pope clement viii then proceeds to BAPTIZE THE COFFEE BEANS

#funny thoughts to revisit #the ancients

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#catladycore #barbarian

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In the cold light of day, standing in my closet, I know that I am a coward.

Changing my plea: God grant me several reincarnations as a variety of nudibranchs so I can wear all of the colors and patterns with which I'm too gutless to adorn myself in my current embodiment.

I want to spend a few lifetimes during which I

take in plant cells (symbiotic algae from soft corals) and reuse these to make food for [myself].

A life spent

severing portions of [my] body in order to remove parasites,

and being

observed to regrow [my] head if decapitated

sounds like a life well-lived.

God grant me the boldness to power clash like I'm a clown triggerfish.

#fashion #ootd

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Vintage moon and stars banjo heads

#art

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Need to find a brighter orange lipstick. Something so bright and neon it looks wholly unnatural natural.

God grant me the boldness to power clash like I'm a clown triggerfish.

#clown triggerfish starter pack #outfit inspiration