genderfox:

ndiecity:

aloyssobek:

i cannot even BEGIN to explain why this is a bad idea

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So basically what I’m hearing is theyre lowering the drinking age to “ehh whatever”

Three children in a trenchcoat holding up a stock photo of an old person to the camera and getting away with four liters of 100 proof vodka

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elodieunderglass:

just-late-roman-republic-things:

So was anyone gonna tell me the Greek navy still has a fully functional trireme?

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Her name is Olympias! She was built in 1987 and can sail up to 17 knots (30 km) per hour!

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Olympias weighs 47 tonnes, but is remarkably agile, able to make a 180 degree turn within one minute. Everything but the bracing ropes was constructed of the same materials as in ancient Greece. (They used steel instead of hemp rope for cost reasons.)

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Experiments with Olympias have helped us understand the capabilities of warships from ancient Greek and Roman times. Triremes like her were built for speed, maneuverability, and aggressive ramming. (Her beak alone weighs 200 kg.) It appears that many of the seamanship feats described by Thucydides were indeed possible!

Olympias is now an exhibit at Naval Tradition Park in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece. She’s usually dry docked these days, but I’ve found a couple videos of her at sea!

The massive continuity of duck (boats)

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transarsonist:

spartanlocke:

every time i say tumblr staff (and tumblr itself let’s be real) made social media worse by never punishing harassment, allowing people to get comfortable pushing cancel and callout culture so they could harass and dehumanize anyone (especially minorities) they want without ever having to worry about consequences, an attitude they brought with them to other websites like tiktok and twitter after the 2018 porn ban….

This is what I’m talking about. tumblr staff doesn’t give a shit if you’re stalked and harassed, but if you’re a trans woman posting selfies? instant ban.

tumblr staff has NEVER done anything to protect its users, but now they’re actively participating in doing the harm.

one thing we can do to dispense consequences is to go into the inbox of the Litigeous Civil Rights Organization that they are currently beholden to via legal contract for this exact reason and let aforementioned group know the situation!
that would be the New York Civil Liberties Union, which i have helpfully hyperlinked to the twitter of. be polite when you do, those are our strongest allies.

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ackee:

“how dare you hide this in the tags” -> “you sir have won the internets”

“none of these words are in the bible” -> “thats enough internet for today”

“op check your carbon monoxide detector” -> “were you on drugs when you made this”

and so on and so forth

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