Hellboy by Mike Mignola
npr:
Two pending rule changes meant to reduce what the Trump administration calls abuse of federal benefit programs could also mean hundreds of thousands of children lose access to free school meals.
The first proposed change: The Trump administration wants to tighten states’ standards for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps. States have long been able to simplify enrollment in SNAP, allowing families who live near poverty to apply for the benefit with less paperwork and somewhat more flexible rules to qualify. But the administration believes some households are getting benefits they don’t deserve.
Food Fight: How 2 Trump Proposals Could Bite Into School Lunch
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Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost
- The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction
- The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity
- We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either
- Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender
- The gods didn’t actually have animal heads
- Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)
- The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous
- Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”
- The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit
- ‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”
- While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago
- The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved
- The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum
- Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose
- Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards
- Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”
- The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)
- While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition
- It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that
- Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass
I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On
- Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies
Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.
Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:
- Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids
- Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
- Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
- Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt
- Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
- Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
- Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
- Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt
- Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)
- McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs
- Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion
Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks
I guess I have to add this…
- No Cleopatra didn’t sleep with every other guy she met, that was Greek propaganda.
- She did however have sex with animals, including a bee powered violator, and a horse… but a lot of Egyptians had sex with animals from dogs to crocodiles… make of that what you will…
No, you really shouldn’t have added that, because that’s all wrong.
1. Cleopatra being a wily sex kitten was in the basis Roman propaganda, specifically started by Augustus, and then reinforced by certain Greek historians as well as all the Hollywood movies made about her life.
2. She ABSOLUTELY DID NOT have sex with animals in that way! Nor did “a lot of the Egyptians” engage in bestiality! Cleopatra wasn’t even Egyptian herself! You know what you’re repeating here? Roman/Greek propaganda and/or modern misconceptions! Good lord, the irony.Seriously I’d love to know what your sources were for this because I need to expunge them from this world.
today i discovered a whole NEW ““““fact”“““ that i get to be mad about until the end of time can people just like please. please stop talking. my life was so much happier before 30 seconds ago.
On this day, 16 October 1859, white abolitionist John Brown and his followers raided a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, with the intention of using the weapons to arm slaves. Seven were killed in the raid and ten were injured. Brown himself would later be captured and tried for treason. Brown became a committed abolitionist at the age of twelve after he witnessed a man brutally beating a young slave boy with an iron shovel. Brown later wrote that the experience transformed him into “a most determined abolitionist…leading him to declare, or swear, eternal war with slavery.” More info in this chapter by Howard Zinn on resistance to slavery: https://ift.tt/2LaluWB https://ift.tt/2NPeTlS
The police caught and arrested him. But despite the heinous and violent crimes he was credibly accused of, he was released without bail. He was free for three months AFTER police discovered that he was abusing 12 underage black girls.
Chrystul Kizer was raped and trafficked by this man for years.
She’s now facing life in prison for defending herself against her attacker.
Free Chrystul Kizer!!!
Pls spread help spread the news!
SIGN THE PETITION
this isn’t an old post; the screenshot has a typo: her hearing is scheduled for february of 2020 and if she is convicted as charged she will spend life in prison. she will likely never be granted clemency. her case and the court are far more stacked against her than they were for cyntoia brown, who regardless still spent 15 years in prison.
please sign the petition.
The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions.
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