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Cake day: March 17th, 2024

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  • A small clarification: pre-Columbian Mesoamerica did have copper and bronze metalworking, after picking it up from contact with South American societies some time between 600 and 800 CE. The Nahuas (Aztecs) had bronze axes called tlaximaltepoztli, for example. Macuahuitls might have just been better at cutting than bronze blades, though. Societies that learned about ironworking mostly replaced their bronze weapons with it, after all












  • I will absolutely not share specifics of this since it would be doxxing him, but I found one of his other social media accounts and it had a post from a week ago that seemed ordinary enough. Whatever got him to stop posting here, it wasn’t something so drastic as to prevent him from engaging with his interests

    (Also Squid, if you see this, I am happy to explain how I found you over DMs if it concerns you)





  • While I don’t know where to find any solid records of them ever actually shooting anything down - there are a few scattered comments about one plane being shot down during the Tondern raid, and others about Alan Arnett McLeod VC getting shot down by one in 1917, but I can’t substantiate either - they did have guns on them. To take the Zeppelin P Class as an example, those had eight MG 08 machine guns on them


  • Dh’fheuch mi Duolingo car greis, ach cha b’ urrainn dhomh cuimhnich rud sam bith a dh’ionnsachadh mi. Bidh a h-uile duine ag ionnsachadh ann an diofar dhòighean! Smaoineachadh mi fhathast gu bheil e uabhasach math. Tha e cho so-ruigsinn. Ged a cha robh an dòigh as fheàrr airson mi, is dòcha gu bheil e a’ cuideachadh mòran dhaoine.

    Tapadh leat airson an moladh leabhar! Cha bhith iad a’ teagasg na faclan sin dhomh aig na clasaichean. Gu tur gun fheum…


  • I’ll say this bit in English first for the benefit of anyone else that’s reading: I absolutely do not intend to attempt to justify the suppression of those cultures with my comment. It’s fucked up and it lessens the richness of our culture, regardless of who did it. I’m more just wary of a certain current within Scotland of blaming the English for a lot of stuff that we very much did to ourselves, and I think it’s good for us to reckon with the fact that it was the same Scotland that we identify with that did (a lot of, not all of) it

    Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig ri cùrsa eSgoil UHI (OGE sa Ghàidhlig? Chan eil fios agam). Tha deuchainn agam a-nochd, a-rèist is e seo stuidearachd! Feumaidh mi faclair cuideachd, ach feabhas mi slaodaiche. Bithidh mi toilichte barrachd a bhruidhinn, fiù is ged nì mi mearbhallan. Tha mi airson an cànan a chumail beò