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History Person | They, Them | US Social Studies Teacher and History Person, Professional Dork, Unprofessional Walking Star Trek Encyclopedia
with a Doctor Who obsession.
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the thing is this dashboard change isnt the end of the world ill get used to it whatever im just fucking dying of embarrassment that its supposed to look like twitter
twitter gets run over by a bus and the next day tumblr comes 2 school wearing her clothes like. oh my god come on
The people of Thera packed up their belongings and put them under furniture even as their island was smothered by falling ash.
Somebody in Pompeii baked bread the day before Vesuvius erupted.
A whaler at Ozette put their harpoon in its case and put it away right before their village was buried by a mudslide.
A bureaucrat was calculating taxes as Rome burned.
Priests all over Europe led mass as the Black Death raged across Europe.
Farmers in Celtic Britain tended their fields as the Romans invaded.
Through all of history ordinary people have done ordinary things as their worlds collapsed. Some of them died, but others lived, and passed their ordinary jobs on to the next generation.
They made sure boring times would be possible again someday, and they left remnants of the ordinary that came before for us to find.
We know what people in Pompeii ate because of them, and the tools Makah whalers used, and what belongings were important to the Minoans, because they kept going even as everything fell apart around them.
And someday an archivist will find your grocery receipt and know you put on a mask and went shopping through the worst of COVID. Someday an archaeologist will dig up a coin from 2020 and know the factory workers at the mint still worked, even through a pandemic. Someday a researcher will sift through the 21st century internet and find your bread recipe post from lockdown and know what bread tasted like as our world fell apart.
And they’ll know some of us made it through cataclysm. They’ll see the small, ordinary things done by ordinary people, and it will tell them so much about us that they would never have stopped to consider otherwise.
‘why are actors striking aren’t they all millionaires’ here’s a paywall free link to an article that mentions how most of the cast of one of netflix’s biggest shows had day jobs bc they couldn’t afford rent
remember that actors are usually not well off at all. forget the big screen famous guys, they’re the very few ones. this strike is for all the other ones, that deserve to have a livable paycheck for their job.
And a note to say that, had Orange is the New Black been on a not-streaming network which paid them residuals each time they screened the show the actors would have done fine or better than fine.
At the start of streaming rules were agreed to let these beginning ways of putting out stories over the web succeed and get established, and letting them not pay actors and writers traditional style residuals was part of what was agreed. They got established. They succeeded. The actors and the writers took the hit.
God is my witness I initially read this as “TOPS ARE A PRIVILEGE! THEY MUST BE EARNED!” and I thought that was a tad presumptuous of an employer.
Hey hey this is *SUPER* illegal in the United States holy cow.
If you are in this country and took the job, which I hope you didn’t, now is definitely the time to look into a pro-bono labour rights lawyer. You’re definitely eligible for back pay of any tips withheld and probably more. If you’re in any progressive state there’s a good chance your rights go beyond this. Regardless, federal regulations:
Can all the tumblr homosexuals agree to stop buying chick fil a. It’s so depressing that across the board lgbt people and supporters are indifferent to chick fil a and feel fine buying it. Can we at least stigmatize it here
For those who actually like chick fil a sauce and refuse to boycott because of that:
It’s ranch dressing, honey mustard, and barbecue sauce. Now free yourself
Fuck Chick-fil-A. That homophobic chicken isn’t even that good, y'all are literally simping over chicken that tastes like it was made at a White cookout
[Image description: a tweet by @/pervocracy “Cliff Jerrison” which says “Lil Nas X is really exposing how many Christians think of Satan not in spiritual terms as a force of temptation and punishment for earthly wrongdoing, but in Diablo II terms as a second god who has magic powers and will take over as main God if he gathers enough Worship Points”.]
I mean yeah, that’s what most Christians are taught. One of the things that people not raised in the faith don’t realize is that many ideas that seem like they should be metaphorical are emphatically NOT. (Catch me getting flack in high school theology class for telling my Jewish classmate that transubstantiation isn’t real while trying to help her write a paper about it).
Satan, as far as modern American Christianity is concerned, was a literal singular angel who fucked around and found out, and still wants to be in charge. Now, most Christians are NOT taught that this has no real basis in the Bible but is based on early henotheistic beliefs which are present in ancient texts, thousands of years of shoddy translation, ecclesiastical storytelling and bickering, and classical literature. But they also do NOT like to learn about the historiography of the Bible either, so good luck educating them.
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