In archeology there are artifacts, which are items made or modified by humans, but there are also manuports, which haven’t been modified but are found far from any possible origin point and there’s no explanation besides somebody carried it there. Manuports include things like stones, fossils, and seashells, and have been found in deposits as much as three million years old.
So yeah, apparently the oldest human activity for which we have evidence is Picking Up Cool Rocks.
I was on a team that found a walrus tusk on a late IR2 site in central Jordan. We all knew what it was instantly, but just kind of sat there, telling ourselves stories about how it got there. It was plain and unmodified, and probably one of the coolest things the team ever found.
The Makapansgat pebble is [possibly] the world’s oldest manuport; it’s about three million years old, has indentations that look a bit like a human face, and was found in a cave in South Africa alongside Australopithecus bones, at least 3 miles from the nearest natural source.
“It has been suggested that some hominids might have recognized it as a symbolic face, in possibly the earliest example of symbolic thinking or aesthetic sense in the human heritage, and brought the pebble back to the cave.”
Anyway I just think that’s neat. One of our very early ancestors saw a stone that kind of had a face in it and went “hey, friend stone” and took it home.
that clips of the nazi at University of Washington who starts throwing seig heils and shouting slurs in a gender studies lecture before getting chased outside by THE ENTIRE LECTURE is the funniest shit ive ever seen because 1. they keep releasing more angles of it 2. this happens in their campus square, which is without exaggeration the single largest flat, paved, vacant area i have ever seen that isn’t a parking lot, and 3. it’s like 200 people bearing down on one (1) dude. someone posted an aerial shot and it looks like when you fuck up in the scouting phase of an RTS and accidentally pull aggro from the entire enemy home base
he’s the one in the light blue shirt at the very top
he even posted his own POV this is truly the gift that keeps on giving
i personally think its pretty crazy that karl marx actually knew what was gonna happen to us back in 1850 like this guy comes out of nowhere at what the fuck o'clock and goes, capitalism is going to creep into every single crevice of your lives there will be nothing left and all creativity and integrity will be taken away like. he just said that and it was correct
Well, this is fun: Cards Against Humanity have apparently released a new version where every joke on every card is fully explained, turning the game into an “Informational product” to make it 100% exempt from Trump’s tarriffs:
All profits go to the American Library Association. 💥📚
Cards Against Hunmanity is constantly doing shit like this and I love it so much that it’s a fuckign. Bawdy card game company taking a stand all the time.
hey so i used to work at tumblr but now i work at garbage day. i just re-read the piece in garbage day about the slur song and i figured since i don't work at tumblr anymore nothing is stopping me from messaging you and saying that omg i absolutely love it and thought it was hilarious. i sent it to my team on slack and was like "y'all this is the song of the year" and all of us lost our minds. i also sent it to my "queers united" group chat the universal response was "this is an absolute banger" lol.
10/10 completely unmonitizable and unmarketable and your post about "tumblr staff finding out their site has crowdsourced a viral song only for it to be unusable in corporate marketing" made me, the lead of the marketing team at the time, laugh until i cried. spot on, literally was like "guys this is the biggest thing on tumblr right now, it's fucking amazing, and we cannot touch it with a 10-foot poll." absolutely incredible. stellar work.
you guys know that you are allowed to like characters who suck in canon right? you guys know that you don’t have to ignore the worse parts of a characters to like them right? YOU GUYS KNOW THAT LIKING A SHITTY CHARACTER AS THEY ARE DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOU CONDONE THEIR BEHAVIOUR RIGHT????? RIGHT???? YOU GUYS KNOW THAG YOU CAN JUST ENJOY FICTION RIGHT?????
