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Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

“He is mocking Georgian dance — look at his hands!”

And Then We Danced | და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ (2019) Dir. Levan Akin

wish someone would re-pot me like a plant

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this user wants to lay down in a field of flowers for a bit.

it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be done

wake up

deny yourself

4. phone in bed

I wish i was different i wish it all was different . *cleans and does laundry *

Bookish Asks

1. What are you currently reading/what is the last book you read?

2. Second hand or brand new?

3. What is your current recommendation for anyone looking for something to read?

4. Go to genre on a rainy night?

5. The book you can finish and then immediately start again without hesitation?

6. Approximately how long does it take you to finish a book?

7. Favorite series when you were a kid.

8. What’s your favorite “elusive” series? (i.e., the series that most people haven’t heard of)

9. If you had to be shoved into a book only armed with what you know about the universe and nothing else, which book would you choose?

10. Your favorite book that you read for school and ended up loving?

11. What’s your least favorite book that you’ve ever read?

12. A book you want to see made into a TV show/movie (or, if its already been adapted but you didn’t like it, what you’d do differently)

13. What character would you play in a movie adaption of your current favorite book?

14. What kind of character are you? (The protag, the quirky sidekick, the tech geek, etc)

15. Have you ever started reading a book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving? What was it?

16. Old book smell or new book feel?

17. What is the oldest book you own?

18. Last book you purchased and why?

19. What kind of book genre are you living in right now?

20. What’s your favorite position/place to read in?

21. Beverage of choice when reading?

22. Music or no music while reading? Classical, ambient noise, or pop?

23. Have you ever read anything by an independent/self published author? If so, would you recommend it?

24. Bookmarks, creased edges, memorization, or random scraps of things?

25. Audio book or physical book?

Beauty and variety of tree bark 🌳

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