If you’re trying to understand young women facing marriage and childrearing in modern times,
Understand young men being sent to war in the 20th century.
The emotions are very similar.
Except there’s no VA, GI bill, or even basic respect.
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Why Americans Choose to Live on this Isolated Island
Out in Washington’s San Juan Islands is Orcas Island, a place where eccentric people without cell phones live alongside billionaires, musicians, artists, and others who have chosen a simpler way of life. They come from very different worlds, but share a desire to live away from it all, surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Join me as we head out to Orcas Island for a day to cruise around, meet the locals, and get a feel for what life is like here.
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These rituals just seem like ritualized self loathing directed at vulnerable community members who were full of life and youth.
Powerful sadists fabricated a bunch of dopamine spiking bullshit to justify killing those they were most jealous of. 🤮
Humans are crazy.
500 YEARS AGO, THE INCA WERE GIVING CHILDREN DRUGS BEFORE SACRIFICING THEM TO THE GODS. NOW WE KNOW WHAT SOME OF THEM WERE TAKING.
I came across a new study published November 3, 2026, in the journal Antiquity, and this one is pretty disturbing.
Researchers examined the frozen remains of eight children and young women who were sacrificed by the Inca roughly 500 years ago, high in the Andes Mountains of Peru and Argentina.
What they found in their hair and fingernails tells us something about the final months of their lives.
These children were prepared for it.
The Inca practiced a religious ceremony called capacocha, where children were chosen to serve as messengers between the living and the gods. Some were taken on long journeys through the mountains before being sacrificed at sacred sites, sometimes more than 6,000 metres above sea level.
The new tests found evidence that all six children whose hair was examined had consumed coca leaves, the same plant from which cocaine is made.
Some had also consumed alcohol, likely a fermented corn drink called chicha.
Researchers found a chemical called harmine in the fingernails of a 14-year-old girl discovered on Mount Ampato in Peru.
Harmine is found in plants used to make ayahuasca, a powerful drink that has been used in South American spiritual ceremonies for generations.
Now, the researchers didn't find DMT, the chemical responsible for the strongest hallucinogenic effects of many ayahuasca brews.
But they believe the plants may have been used to calm the children, reduce their fear, or prepare them for what the Inca believed was a journey to the gods.
One eight-year-old girl discovered on Mount Chuscha had enough hair preserved for researchers to study roughly the last six months of her life.
They found evidence of coca use over that period, but signs of alcohol only appeared in the final month before her death.
An eight-year-old child, taken from her ordinary life, brought through the mountains, given substances that changed how she felt, and eventually sacrificed because the people around her believed she had been chosen for something sacred.
We don't know what these children understood about their fate. We don't know whether they were terrified, accepting, or completely unaware of what was coming.
What I find fascinating is how much we can now recover from people who died centuries ago.
Their hair was still holding a record of what they consumed. Five hundred years later, we're reading it.
The Inca believed these children could carry messages to the gods. We can't prove anything about that belief.
But we can now see that preparing them for death involved far more than simply performing a religious ceremony.
article in the comments below.
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This is what lead poisoning sounds like
Ancient Roman music is the most unsettling shit I’ve ever heard in my life
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The music is not from a surviving score. It is new music based on guesswork.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaulia
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This explains a lot. It’s like a bad decade but it lasted for CENTURIES
Ancient Roman music is the most unsettling shit I’ve ever heard in my life
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The music is not from a surviving score. It is new music based on guesswork.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaulia
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To all of my lovely followers,
From now on you will be my flowers 🌸 🌹🌸🌺🌷🌼🪷🥀
A little flower garden in my comments
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Twitter is a male-dominated environment, and there is a pervasive and sycophantic yearning for male approval amongst all Twitter users
If you call it X, you want ELon approval
If you call it Twitter, you want old guard male approval.
There’s really no escaping. Hotel C
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What! An A$$hole.
A wild donkey in the Arizona desert will dig a well six feet deep with its front hooves, and for half a century the United States government has been shooting it as a threat to the desert.
August on a dry wash in the Sonoran. The creek has been gone since May. The sand is hot enough to cook on and every animal for miles is standing in what shade it can find, waiting for a rain that is not coming. A burro walks down the wash, stops at a bend for no reason anyone else can see, puts its head down and smells. Then it starts digging. Front feet, one after the other, like a dog after a bone, until it is in up to its shoulders and the bottom of the hole goes dark and wet.
It drinks and walks off.
Within the hour there is a queue. Mule deer. Javelina. A bobcat. A scrub jay standing on the rim. In 2021 a biologist called Erick Lundgren published the count in Science: 59 species of vertebrate drinking at donkey wells, 64% more species than at the dry stretches of the same streams, and in the driest months the donkeys were raising the amount of open water in the desert by 300% on average and by up to 1,450%. When the wells were abandoned, cottonwood and willow seedlings came up in them. The donkey had been planting the riverbank.
Asked about his methodology, the donkey had another drink and left.
When a beaver builds a pond, a film crew is sent. When a donkey digs a well, the Park Service sends a marksman. The burros came up from Mexico with the Spanish and the prospectors, carried the ore out of every mine in the West, and were turned loose when the mines closed. Then they were reclassified. In 1979 the National Park Service planned to shoot all 577 in the Grand Canyon. A writer called Cleveland Amory raised more than $500,000 and lifted 582 of them out by helicopter, slung underneath, the most expensive taxi ride a donkey has ever taken. Death Valley shot 400 between 1987 and 1994.
Lundgren said that when he started, people did not think a donkey digging a hole was worthy of scientific attention.
The animal was listed as a threat to the desert's water.
It was the one bringing the water up.
Fifty-nine species knew.
The ones with the rifles had never sat by the hole.
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