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Oldest medical amputation on record was performed on a Stone Age child in Borneo 31,000 years ago

About 31,000 years ago, a skilled prehistoric surgeon cut off the lower leg of a child hunter-gatherer in Borneo. Now, archaeologists have concluded that this ancient surgery is the earliest medical amputation on record.

The skill of the Stone Age surgeon was admirable; the patient went on to live an additional six to nine years after the surgery, a radiocarbon dating performed by researchers of the individual’s tooth enamel revealed, according to a study published online Wednesday (Sept. 7) in the journal Nature.

“It was a huge surprise that this ancient forager survived a very serious and life-threatening childhood operation, that the wound healed to form a stump and that they then lived for years in mountainous terrain with altered mobility,” study co-author Melandri Vlok, a bioarchaeologist and postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sydney,“ said in a statement. ”[This suggests] a high degree of community care.“ Read more.

Matt created an important update. 

[ Matt Bors ]

“oh we can’t hold the Queen accountable for the actions of her ancestors!!!” 

her ancestors? you mean her dad? 

y’all realize she was crowned in 1953 right? Nearly 70 years of imperialism with her face stamped on it. She’s the longest-lived, and longest reigning British monarch. 

Y’all look at her and see a kindly withered old gramma with memeability, but completely ignore the amount of damage that she and her family have done to so many countries. 

“oh well, what did you want her to do, just walk away from it?”

yes. 

Yes, I do expect people to look at the harm that systems they uphold do to the world at large and then actively refuse to continue their participation in them. I do not believe that is too much to ask of anyone, let alone one of the most powerful women in the entire fucking world. 

Sorry that I’m not particularly impressed with her #girlboss legacy when the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and Australia are still feeling the monarchy’s effects on their homes and families. 

70 years and she never once thought, “Hm, maybe imperialism is a bad idea?” 

I hope the old woman kicks the bucket, and I hope that her family continues to disintegrate until the entire thing comes crumbling down. May independence finally come to the people England has been crushing under its boots for centuries. 

Very torn between “Queen Elizabeth is a colonizer” and “but I do want her to outlive her stupid son”

it’s wild to me how there is literally ZERO correlation between what a piece of media is like and what its fanworks are like. 2014 captain america fans were out there writing poetry and full-on academic papers inside of their fics. sonic the hedgehog and my little pony fandoms are both famous for drawing fetishes you’ve never even heard of. les miserables fans spent most of their energy on college aus. there is literally no consistency or observable pattern and it’s incredible

MONDAY. I’M ALL OUT OF CALMER IDEAS.

Momo could so easily cheat at any board game

Try to have some respect the queen just DIED. It's not like she was evil or anything

And why should I do that for the head of a family that oversaw the British Empire's legendarily brutal concentration camps in colonialist Kenya during the 1952-1960 Mau Mau rebellion, has personally and repeatedly shielded credibly accused rapist Prince Andrew and tried to get the scandal to go away, personally paid Andrew's financial settlement while the family treated Meghan Markle terribly and gave her none of the same protection, exerted a huge amount of control over UK public finances without any transparency or disclosure (while also receiving huge amounts of that money), got to personally edit laws according to her likes and dislikes, enjoyed sweeping legal immunities that are described as a "threat to UK democracy," is the most visible figurehead of British colonialism even as her descendants put on a horribly tone-deaf Caribbean tour (twice in one year!) that was basically about unreconstructed imperial imagery of the kind that is poisoning Britain, while the entire country buys into the fantasy that she is an impartial, uninvolved, kindly and benevolent grandmotherly figure....?

Nah.

#NEVERFORGET

every reblog is -1 hp for charles

NOT TRISHA PAYTAS GOING INTO LABOUR AS THE QUEEN DIES

pls… i beg of you… reblog creations… or else there won’t be any more creations

Megan thee stallion <333333333

Pretty much everyone said this would happen. One ticked off parent can throw a tantrum and get any girl investigated because their kid didn’t win. Gross.

x

I misread ‘untie people’ as ‘white people’ and got so fucking confused

why does it feel like a goodbye?

Hey there! I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but bumpkarrie is Tamie Wilcox, a known scammer who is stealing a legitimate gofundme and trying to pose as the family member when they aren’t. Evidence can be located by searching up the username and the PayPal name in Google with ‘scam’ added on. It will list several past alerts for name. Also, the blog is very new and spamming asks, and nothing donated will go towards what they claim. An alert has been posted on kyra45 that links to the real fundraiser!

Thank you to you and the other person who had reached out to me! Thankfully I did not donate to that blog as I’m very tight on money atm and usually I reblog those posts so that way someone who can donate is able to. To everyone else, please be very careful!! Phishing is a very real threat and thank you again to the people who reached out. I’ve taken down the post so I’m hoping everything will be fine now.

thank you so much!

my favorite sdv media is things that preserve the chaos of the farmer. i want emotional fanfictions where the farmer gifts Shane a singular egg in the morning on his way to work and he falls in love. i want elliott to watch the farmer eat raw seaweed fresh from the sea. being a farmer in stardew valley is incredibly chaotic and i am here for it

so i started playing stardew

This. This is one of the prime reasons I planned that my farmer would be nonhuman anyways.

please consider how much of a cryptid the farmer is in stardew valley

like

-[stares into space for three hours, completely motionless while waiting for their favorite person to open the door so they can shove a gift in their hands and then immediately runs off]

-they enter the mines. they are knocked unconscious. they enter the mines once more. they are knocked unconscious. harvey begs them to stop. they enter the mines o

-appears from the fukcign...void in the middle of conversations, says one thing, RETURNS TO THE VOID AND REFUSES TO ELABORATE FURTHER

- the farmer has been fishing for 12 straight hours. they eat a fistful of tulips. they continue fishing.

-people don't question why one person needs so much void mayonnaise. they also have stopped noticing when the farmer climbs into the sewer.

-it is your birthday. a farmer kicks open the door at 9 am, hands you an entire chocolate cake, and leaves. you are overjoyed. you do not understand.

-eating an entire pizza in one bite.

September is Bi Visibility month so shoutout to all my bisexual pals out there! I love you, you are amazing 💗

mormon kids under the age of 18 being told their church is a cult

mormons 18-24 after they go through their endowment ceremony and receive their new name and secret clothing and learn the secret handshakes and passwords and realize everyone around them has been secretly doing this the whole time and now theyre going to be sent away from their family for 2 years where they will literally not be allowed to be alone for 1 second of the day except to go to the bathroom and they have no idea how to get out of what they just got into

AWESOME. NOBODY WATCH IT

Big problem with online trans discourse is that a lot of people - including other trans people - 100% believe that trans people are the gender we say we are, and that transitioning is not Just A Weird Sex Fetish Thing, in the abstract. Theoretically. But once confronted with actual trans people that dissolves away pretty quickly.

A lot of people out there who try to be trans-positive will gladly believe any accusation of sexual misconduct against a trans person - ESPECIALLY trans women because of the whole "deception" stereotype. "No, no, it's not because they're trans, I just like to Believe Victims," someone will say, despite the fact that any evidence is...flimsy at best - they liked a children's cartoon, they like erotic horror, they like a Bad Ship, they refused to dogpile someone for liking a Bad Ship, they made a joke about their genitals in a strictly adult space, they flirted with someone once (and stopped when it wasn't reciprocated but let's just ignore that clearly they still WANT to and THINKING is the SAME as HARASSING) - oh, they're obviously a predator, and saying that accusation is transphobic is trivializing transphobia!

A lot of people out there who try to be trans-positive will tell transmascs that they're "dominating the conversation" if they're doing ~10-25% of the speaking - which is...even less forgiving than where cishet men will usually see women as dominating the conversation (25-30%). Transmasc exclusionism hinges on this concept. We need to sit down and be quiet like good little girls responsible people aware of the dangers of male privilege because perfectly stealth trans men make 90% of what their cis male counterparts make rather than 80% so clearly there's no difference between us at all! We need to make ourselves small and ~remember it's okay to be feminine~.

It's, uh, how can I put this? Bad.