Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children.
Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈
Catherine Frieman
Gladstone: You may think, “How did we get here?”
For the First Peoples of this land, unfortunately, this has been ongoing since the birth of this country as we know it today.
So perhaps the question then is not, “How did we get here?” It’s, “How are we still here?”
They’re still going and there’s a pretty visible lighting storm overhead? I’m pretty sure that’s not the stadium??
this whole episode was interesting, its a show I really enjoy but if you haven't time for the whole episode, the last 4 or 5 minutes is the best most epic commentary on the ultra rich tech oligarchs of our time ive ever heard. Ever.
open.spotify.com/episode/0pOe...
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio.
Magic!
Goodnight.
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Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.
