she/they/it/any — corybant, man-woman, erotic specialist, sexually abnormal creature — show me ur ferrets
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tag yourself, i'm "erotic specialists"
ALT One of the most striking aspects of gender in cuneiform cultures is the very number of different terms apparently denoting non-binary identities. These include but are not limited to kur-ĝara / kurgarrû, assinnu, saĝ-ursaĝ, gala / kalû, pilipili and kulu’u. However, this list quickly pales in comparison with the abundance of words that have been used to describe one or more of these groups in contemporary scholarship: “homosexual,” “cross dresser,” “bisexuals,” “transvestites,” “hermaphrodite,” “eunuch,” “male cult prostitute,” “effeminate,” catamite,” “berdache,” “corybants,” “man-woman,” “castrated choirboy,” “impotent creatures,” “erotic specialists,” “sexually abnormal creature,” “a sexless, probably self-castrated, being”—and so on
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the 1972 rothschild ball was bizarre
guests were instructed to wear black tie and long dresses with "surrealist heads". meaning their outfits were normal from the neck down, but their headwear had to be bizarre, dreamlike, or conceptually warped.
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Just learned tragic news, the @InsulatorsUnion has changed its logo 😭😭 old left, new right.
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Scotland is the interesting contrast for the thesis that anglophone countries have a weak apartment tradition because we didn't adopt condominium laws until after the good apartment typologies were banned (by parking minimums, front and side setbacks, dual egress requirements, etc).
Scots law is a civil-law hybrid, and there you could own a flat outright under the common law of the tenement. The Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 later codified it.
Edinburgh and Glasgow have the strongest apartment tradition in Britain.
So I have been agnostic for a long time about why anglophone countries have such a weak apartment tradition compared to the continent.
I'm starting to agree with the property law theory of everything. England didn't have condo law until 2002.
The Napoleonic Code let you own a floor of a subdivided building in 1804.
The US got condos in 1961--which would have legalized owning a condo in a courtyard block buildings--courtyard block buildings had been illegal for ~20 years.
With exceptions of coops in NYC (and some in Chicago), American pre-war multifamily is rental.
And this partly explains both why our apartment tradition is so lackluster compared to continental AND why Americans have such a hard time with aspirational apartment ownership (we don't have a great stock of aspirational apartments)
But mixed-use apartment buildings are necessary for green, dense, walkable neighborhoods (which many want but no one is building), so Americans have good reason to figure this one out
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paul thek's "birthday cake (1964)" melted, and is now preserved at the smithsonian as "untitled meat pyramid (1964)". the slumping wax transfigured into a new life
after talking to an art conservator about the restoration process, i think we should let artworks age naturally and waste away
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Luckily the verb 'to marry' can refer not only to what the spouses do but also what the priest does. When Martha tells Mickey "well then, you shouldn't have married me", she obviously* means that Mickey officiated her wedding to Tom :)
*through the power of our belief
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pink panther is definitionally trade. He works in insulation construction etc. And he's DL even if he isn't fooling anybody.
Everything a spectrum so just choose love
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Watched 162 games of baseball to get to today where I will spend the next 72 hours wondering if it would’ve been easier to kiII myself.
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White Sox need to start using this graphic every time someone hits a homer.
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Thank you Liam ❤️
Liam Hendriks has announced his retirement.
In 14 Major League seasons with six teams, Hendriks made 490 appearances, was a 3-time All-Star, and a 2-time winner of the Mariano Rivera Reliever of the Year award.
Perhaps his greatest achievement was his inspirational comeback from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Hendriks was a pillar of the community in every city he played and was nominated for the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award seven times.
Congratulations on a remarkable career, Liam 👏❤️
ALT Liam Hendriks yells with a clenched fist while wearing a black Chicago White Sox uniform and cap. Thank You Liam Hendriks Twins → Blue Jays → Royals → Athletics → White Sox → Red Sox
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did sean burke just come out as a single, childless orphan
Sean Burke will start Game 2 as the White Sox try to win their first playoff series in 21 years. He’s motivated.
“This is my life. No family—no girl, no kids. This is all I do.”
chicago.suntimes.com/white-s…
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this bone is extemely amusing because when it mentions the king's chariot was overturned, they write the glyph for 'chariot' upside down
(original post by @gyankotsu below)
【#Yinxu Calendar】#September 30
This oracle bone preserves China's earliest known "chariot accident scene"? During the reign of King Wu Ding, Ziyang suffered a carriage crash while joining the royal hunt. The oracle bone records this traffic #accident from over 3,000 years ago.
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They both look like dogs hiding something in their mouth
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