#ANCESTORS

Thread (longish): This is Diduch or Did, the most important decoration made in the Carpathian villages in Western Ukraine during the traditional winter holidays, originally Winter Solstice, now Christmas... It
Read more
Too many scientists self-proclaim their procurement of Indigenous peoples' DNA & data from non-sovereign entities as "ethical".Legal ≠ ethical. Collecting genomes from Indigenous groups who are "easier to recruit&qu
Read more
Part of the reason why we do not know for sure yet whether the nice man won is because of something called the “electoral college”.Even though we can all see
Read more
Every great civilization has its own unique spiritual backbone.The Chinese have Confucianism. The Indians have Hinduism. The Japanese have Shintoism.The Europeans have Catholicism & Calvinism, or Christianity.The Russians have the Ort
Read more
And @petriefriends' panel on 'The Eugenic and Racist Ideas of Flinders Petrie' is about to start Very much looking forward to this conversation, and thanks for planning it so
Read more
This Sunday I re-read one of my favorite book "Why we sleep" by @sleepdiplomat These are the 13 Tips for a Healthy Sleep from the book [THREAD] You must stick
Read more
We can't talk about the attacks against "Socialism" without talking about white backlash to demands for investment in communities of color.Government programs, or what they call "Socialism," is apparently fine
Read more
There is this belief in our industry that humans are fundamentally dumb about risk.As the argument goes, we spend too much time on dangers that are unfamiliar or immediate, while
Read more
When I saw the gut-wrenching images of those brutally murdered Hindu children and the equally brutal, inhumane response across social media, it was easy to connect the dots with other
Read more
How bad do you have to be that you are abhorrent even by the standards of slavery? "The behaviour of Picton as Governor of Trinidad was abhorrent, even in his
Read more
Retrograde doesn’t mean shit came back to you b/c was supposed to. This ain’t “if you love something let it go.” A person or situation simply EXISTING in your life
Read more
18 August, 1700"28th March – Does this date ring a bell in your mind? Maybe, maybe not.How many Battles of Panipat were fought? Everyone knows this one- 3.How many times
Read more
@gaana you have employed a woman who loves passing sexual comments on other people and their faith, someone who is hinduphobic af @ @gaana the person in question has a
Read more
something feels weird about arguing that x or y is better for us (humans) bc it more closely resembles something in the ancestral environment my flinch is something like "well
Read more
Timber framing is by far the most ecologically sustainable and economical way of building homes in the widest range of climates, but even inside the category of timber framing (fachwerkhaus,
Read more
1 @oiwoods is right. While redneck Pakeha cling to the myth of Moriori as a pre-Maori people, many liberal NZers have adopted, with the best intentions, the claim that Moriori
Read more
By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.