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Signpainting workshop with feline supervisor and intermittent sunshine.
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Signpainting workshop with feline supervisor and intermittent sunshine.
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Swedish archaeologists uncover brutal 5th century massacre | Science | The Guardian:
ineptshieldmaid:
This is a report on a three-year dig, so not new news to archaeology but it is new news to me. Cool, slightly creepy news.
Highlights:
- archaeological dig of a 5th c hill fort (cool)
- instead of layers of occupation and gradual abandonment the place was suddenly abandoned after a massacre
- or rather DURING. No one buried the dead. The villagers are still lying where they died, in their houses or while trying to flee
- the place doesn’t seem to have been looted. Animals starved in their pens. Valuable items are still with the bodies
- except for weapons: no weapons anywhere in the site.
So far so cool/creepy.
Bonus: no written record of anything like this
Super bonus: over 1500 years later the locals still avoid the site and warned archaeologists not to go near it, because it’s a bad and dangerous place
Just. What _happened_ here? What did they do, that no one came to bury them (from which I assume no one undertook to avenge them, which would be a Big Deal)?
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Swedish archaeologists uncover brutal 5th century massacre | Science | The Guardian:
ineptshieldmaid:
This is a report on a three-year dig, so not new news to archaeology but it is new news to me. Cool, slightly creepy news.
Highlights:
- archaeological dig of a 5th c hill fort (cool)
- instead of layers of occupation and gradual abandonment the place was suddenly abandoned after a massacre
- or rather DURING. No one buried the dead. The villagers are still lying where they died, in their houses or while trying to flee
- the place doesn’t seem to have been looted. Animals starved in their pens. Valuable items are still with the bodies
- except for weapons: no weapons anywhere in the site.
So far so cool/creepy.
Bonus: no written record of anything like this
Super bonus: over 1500 years later the locals still avoid the site and warned archaeologists not to go near it, because it’s a bad and dangerous place
Just. What _happened_ here? What did they do, that no one came to bury them (from which I assume no one undertook to avenge them, which would be a Big Deal)?
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solarpunks:
The Russian Scientists Bringing Back the Ice Age - Pleistocene Park
In a short documentary by Grant Slater, Sergey and Nikita Zimov explain the vision behind Pleistocene Park.
Pleistocene Park: An Ice Age Ecosystem To Save The World Kickstarter - (Spring 2017)
Arctic permafrost is melting. It will trigger catastrophic global warming. We’re creating a northern Serengeti to stop that from happening.
Pleistocene Park is a proof of concept, a public demonstration, a landscape scale art project and a philosophy of rational co-existence between humans and nature.
Here in the most remote corner of Siberia my father, Sergey Zimov, and I are reviving the ice age “Mammoth Steppe” ecosystem. Re-wilding this vast area of the Arctic will not only create a northern Serengeti, but most importantly, today, is a vital tool to mitigate global climate change. As climate warms, permafrost here in the Arctic is starting to melt. It will soon unlock huge carbon stocks and trigger a catastrophic global warming feedback loop. Natural grasslands, maintained by numerous grazing animals, have the capacity to both slow climate warming and prevent permafrost from melting.
We’ve already starting transforming the land, with our real world prototype.
For the past 20 years my family has spent a big portion of our time and all available finances to create Pleistocene Park. Currently we have over 70 large herbivores in the Park, including cold adapted Yakutian horses, moose, musk ox, reindeer, and European bison. These animals have shown that it is possible to transform ecosystems and reestablish high productivity grasslands by reintroducing large herbivores.
We have fenced 20 square kilometers of land, built infrastructure and installed monitoring equipment. To bring animals to the Park we have mounted extreme expeditions ourselves. We traveled by small boat through the Arctic Ocean to Wrangel Island and from the Mongolian border with a 4x4 military transport truck, driving thousands of kilometers on frozen rivers through roadless wilderness.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/907484977/pleistocene-park-an-ice-age-ecosystem-to-save-the/description
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solarpunks:
The Russian Scientists Bringing Back the Ice Age - Pleistocene Park
In a short documentary by Grant Slater, Sergey and Nikita Zimov explain the vision behind Pleistocene Park.
Pleistocene Park: An Ice Age Ecosystem To Save The World Kickstarter - (Spring 2017)
Arctic permafrost is melting. It will trigger catastrophic global warming. We’re creating a northern Serengeti to stop that from happening.
Pleistocene Park is a proof of concept, a public demonstration, a landscape scale art project and a philosophy of rational co-existence between humans and nature.
Here in the most remote corner of Siberia my father, Sergey Zimov, and I are reviving the ice age “Mammoth Steppe” ecosystem. Re-wilding this vast area of the Arctic will not only create a northern Serengeti, but most importantly, today, is a vital tool to mitigate global climate change. As climate warms, permafrost here in the Arctic is starting to melt. It will soon unlock huge carbon stocks and trigger a catastrophic global warming feedback loop. Natural grasslands, maintained by numerous grazing animals, have the capacity to both slow climate warming and prevent permafrost from melting.
We’ve already starting transforming the land, with our real world prototype.
For the past 20 years my family has spent a big portion of our time and all available finances to create Pleistocene Park. Currently we have over 70 large herbivores in the Park, including cold adapted Yakutian horses, moose, musk ox, reindeer, and European bison. These animals have shown that it is possible to transform ecosystems and reestablish high productivity grasslands by reintroducing large herbivores.
We have fenced 20 square kilometers of land, built infrastructure and installed monitoring equipment. To bring animals to the Park we have mounted extreme expeditions ourselves. We traveled by small boat through the Arctic Ocean to Wrangel Island and from the Mongolian border with a 4x4 military transport truck, driving thousands of kilometers on frozen rivers through roadless wilderness.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/907484977/pleistocene-park-an-ice-age-ecosystem-to-save-the/description
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I want to Do things. This is the hell of having a day job; my periods of greatest inspiration and restlessness coincide with the times at which I am at work, and constrained to perform tasks there that require focus, and sitting, and repetition, all things I don’t want to do. I want to do physical things, and creative things, and things I’m inspired by– I have half-finished tasks I want to complete, I have complicated tasks I want to sketch out, things I want to pull out my materials and evaluate their suitability for.
But no. I have to go through a musty box, photograph some things as un-artistically as possible, change some numbers to other numbers on the Internet, make some very picky small decisions with inadequate information that involve annoying other people. These tasks are not rewarding and will not leave me with any sense of accomplishment when they are complete, and will exhaust me. I will return home later tonight, cramped by inactivity and frustrated and burned-out, and maybe I’ll accomplish one or two of the tasks I wanted to do, but likely I’ll just do dishes and laundry and make dinner and then refresh the Internet for a couple of hours while in an uncomfortable position in a cramped space just like I am all day at work.
And then I’ll go to bed.
When I’m at the farm I work pretty constantly from sunup to after sundown, and am usually physically exhausted at least at the end of the day, but the tasks I’m performing there are also usually not ones I’m particularly inspired to do on my own account– but, they are things that give me a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day, even if they were only ephemeral things like ‘make dinner’ or ‘keep Farmbaby from murdering herself for several hours’.
A bright spot of this morning: Sister texted me that Farmbaby had actually with her mouth uttered the phrase, “Halt, scoundrel!” in a meaningful way, so, there’s that.
I’ve been brainstorming about yurt setup. I’m going to show up prepared, with some concrete pavers, and level that fucking platform if it kills me, this time, so I don’t spend another year with water running across my floor…
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I want to Do things. This is the hell of having a day job; my periods of greatest inspiration and restlessness coincide with the times at which I am at work, and constrained to perform tasks there that require focus, and sitting, and repetition, all things I don’t want to do. I want to do physical things, and creative things, and things I’m inspired by– I have half-finished tasks I want to complete, I have complicated tasks I want to sketch out, things I want to pull out my materials and evaluate their suitability for.
But no. I have to go through a musty box, photograph some things as un-artistically as possible, change some numbers to other numbers on the Internet, make some very picky small decisions with inadequate information that involve annoying other people. These tasks are not rewarding and will not leave me with any sense of accomplishment when they are complete, and will exhaust me. I will return home later tonight, cramped by inactivity and frustrated and burned-out, and maybe I’ll accomplish one or two of the tasks I wanted to do, but likely I’ll just do dishes and laundry and make dinner and then refresh the Internet for a couple of hours while in an uncomfortable position in a cramped space just like I am all day at work.
And then I’ll go to bed.
When I’m at the farm I work pretty constantly from sunup to after sundown, and am usually physically exhausted at least at the end of the day, but the tasks I’m performing there are also usually not ones I’m particularly inspired to do on my own account– but, they are things that give me a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day, even if they were only ephemeral things like ‘make dinner’ or ‘keep Farmbaby from murdering herself for several hours’.
A bright spot of this morning: Sister texted me that Farmbaby had actually with her mouth uttered the phrase, “Halt, scoundrel!” in a meaningful way, so, there’s that.
I’ve been brainstorming about yurt setup. I’m going to show up prepared, with some concrete pavers, and level that fucking platform if it kills me, this time, so I don’t spend another year with water running across my floor…
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Oh.
Well. Ok.
I guess I should be grateful it’s not snow. (at Buffalo, New York)
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Oh.
Well. Ok.
I guess I should be grateful it’s not snow. (at Buffalo, New York)
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design-is-fine:
Walter Crane, Peacock garden corridor, 1898-1900. Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest. Shown is the entrance to the former private apartment of the first museum director, who was a big admirer of british design, Crane was celebrated with an exhibition in 1900.
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design-is-fine:
Walter Crane, Peacock garden corridor, 1898-1900. Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest. Shown is the entrance to the former private apartment of the first museum director, who was a big admirer of british design, Crane was celebrated with an exhibition in 1900.
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marthawells:
marthawells:
Books of the Raksura covers, art by Matthew Stewart, Steve Argyle, and Yukari Masuike
Now a finalist for the Hugo Award in the Best Series category. :)
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marthawells:
marthawells:
Books of the Raksura covers, art by Matthew Stewart, Steve Argyle, and Yukari Masuike
Now a finalist for the Hugo Award in the Best Series category. :)
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Aw the weird portal website the vet’s office uses sent us an automated e-card to recognize our cat’s birthday. apparently she’s 11 years old on or about today, given the age they estimated her at when we brought her in for the first time for her kitten vaccinations and such.
aww my dumb furbaby Chita Rivera. <3
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Aw the weird portal website the vet’s office uses sent us an automated e-card to recognize our cat’s birthday. apparently she’s 11 years old on or about today, given the age they estimated her at when we brought her in for the first time for her kitten vaccinations and such.
aww my dumb furbaby Chita Rivera. <3
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