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A very beautiful image of these smiley blackfoot. It seemed everything was alright…

Photograph by Mary T. S. Schaffer in 1907.

#!!!!! #can you believe I’ve never seen an old photograph of a smiling native child #she is so cute I love her #blackfoot #blackfeet #indians #native americans #photography #america #black and white #photograph

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#charles darwin #history #people being people #journal #people in history #darwinism #i really like darwin okay #funny history #notes

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Restored film of San Francisco’s Market Street version of a film shot on April 14, 1906, four days before the Great Earthquake, and the attempt to colorize and sharpen the video-converted film.

#san francisco #market street #1906 #april 14 #1900s #video #history #people #people being people

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The traditional costume of Mong people. Credit to Trần Sơn.

#culture #vietnamese #fashion #historical fashion #vietnam

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I think the point can only be understood by those who experience it, and even then you can never understand the reason. You just know how it changed you, for better or for worse.

I am thinking today about the meaning of suffering, and the diverse trials humans experience.

What is the point

#I cannot understand that which I don’t experience #I could project my own assumptions on others experiences but I will be wrong #someone who starves may grow more empathetic and increase in appreciation #or they might become bitter until death #I do not know and I cannot know the meaning or result of their suffering #accumulatalks #2023

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I am thinking today about the meaning of suffering, and the diverse trials humans experience.

What is the point

#I know the supposed point but I do not know the reason for some #I know that God is a God that abides by laws and law cannot stop no matter how hard we pray #the same law that saved and blesses one can create great suffering for another #blessed are the hungry but they do not feel blessed when they cannot feed their skeletal toddler and they starve to slow death #the law of gravity is a blessing we take for granted #but it doesn’t feel like a blessing when someone falls from a great height #God put suffering here so we can grow and learn and refine ourselves to become better #but how can a life in an iron lung teach anyone anything #religion #accumulatalks #I suppose the answer lies somewhere beyond death #suffering must be a law unto itself #and after death I know you continue to exist and have purpose and growth you don’t simply sit on a cloud and be happy #maybe certain kinds of suffering is there so you can empathize with those who had similar pain and minister to them #2023

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#the moon #moon #pretty #photography #video #space #telescopes #need a sniper rifle #astronomy #colors

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Short Story “Ants”

#ants #insects #bugs #biology #science art #art #illustlation #animals

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#physics #quantum physics #space #animals #science #electrons

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1924 Evening dress by Madeleine Vionnet; embroidery by Lesage

shaded green silk muslin, running stitch copper thread embroidery, sewn metal thread, sewn embroidery of white beads, green bugles and faceted rhinestones

(Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris)

#heck this is pretty #fashion #madeleine vionnet #dress #evening dress #20th century #1920s #1920s fashion #clothes #historical fashion

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“ Cuckoo bee “ // rewilding suburbia

Thyreus waroonensis in search of amegilla nesting burrows

Music:  Gibran Alcocer - Idea 22

#animals #bugs #insects #biology #videos #cool #anatomy

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Amazing and highly skill Senegal Traditional Kumpo dance | source                          

#ah yes the shaky bush #Senegal #west Africa #Africa #dance #culture #video #videos

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#this also deserves my science blog #I need more fun stuff here it’s so dry #tolkien #photography #forests #history #ww1 #world war 1 #healing #nature #happy #lotr #books #war

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when people talk about writing ‘the next Lord of the Rings’ they think it’s all about the wars and the languages and the histories, and Aragorn brooding in the corner of an inn and the Balrog roaring in Moria and the ruins of Isengard, and that’s how we got Game of Thrones and several dozen cheap fantasy knock-offs every year, not to mention whatever nonsense the Amazon show is going to produce

but Tolkien’s wars and languages and histories stemmed from his love of creating - of words and history and mythos - and that love infuses into everything he writes, and if you miss that then there’s no way in hell you can replicate it

and the people who want to write the next Lord of the Rings because they want to write the next epic don’t get that the story is about the hobbits’ soft and simple lives and Bilbo’s poetry and Sam’s love language being food and Eowyn discovering hope after depression and Gandalf making fireworks for hobbits even if he is a literal angelic being, and Aragorn weeping over Boromir’s body and Theoden’s kindness to Merry, and Beregond betraying his most prized orders to save Faramir, and the unlikely friendship between Gandalf and Pippin, and the even unlikelier friendship between Legolas and Gimli, and Sam and Frodo singing to each other in Mordor, and Boromir sacrificing himself for the hobbits, and Sam’s simple love for Rosie, and the restoration of the Shire, and the friendship of the Fellowship surviving down through the ages, and peace after war and hope in darkness, and the love between a gardener and a gentleman pacifist being literally the only thing that saves Middle Earth

and that is why people who try to recreate Lord of the Rings by starting with war always get it wrong. you have to start with the love, or it’s nothing: just another empty history

#books #lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien #writing inspo #love

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Paleolithic humans

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#illustration #I like these look at the colors #paleolithic #dogs #art #artwork #traditional art #history #prehistoric #humans #prehistoric humans

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The art of pie: before & after

#art #artwork #food #this definitely belongs on my science blog what are you talking about #beautiful #baking #fruit #pie

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#animals #beaver #animal facts #biology #funny #nature