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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

I'm 100% putting a temple like this in my next ttrpg campaign

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

A woman on this tour made me pose like this while she took my picture

Me on the pyramid at Giza in a really weird pose

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

I need one of these tea sets fr

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

I. LOVE. TRAINS.

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

it was very fun, you could feel the weight of all that stone pressing down on you

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3d

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine that

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 3d

People really need to stop counting the damage done with this ridiculous idea (that was spawned from Twitter’s techbro men culture) in terms of $$$ and start approaching this in terms of the harm it has done globally (e.g. number of deaths due to USAID cuts).

Dollar metrics are meaningless.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Elon Musk’s DOGE never came close to cutting as much money by Sept. 30, when the government closes its books on the fiscal year, as he promised. Because its work has been obscured by crude accounting and White House maneuvers, it’s impossible to know how much DOGE actually did cut from the budget.

Not Even Congress Knows How Much Money DOGE Cut

Elon Musk’s team started a behind-the-scenes push for White House control over federal spending that is now an undercurrent of the government shutdown.

nyti.ms

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 2d

I had to crawl on all fours up the inside of the Pyramids at Giza

A tall white guy crawling on all fours up the inside of a narrow stone tunnel in the Pyramids at Giza

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 5d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 2d

What nobody tells you about the Pyramids at Giza is that the insides are Very Sweaty

A white guy in a large stone tunnel inside the Pyramids of Giza

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone hop aboard the dongdola

Egyptian boat named dongola on the river nile

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 3d

When I compare what they insurrected over to what we haven’t insurrected over it makes perfect sense to me why they feel empowered to kidnap kids in broad daylight

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 3d

It's great! I'm on a tour. Lemme know if you have questions

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 3d

I had to travel to Egypt to find the most American candy

A Egyptian candy called gun pop, which is a toy gun that shoots a lollipop

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 5d

Last night I attended a public education listening tour hosted by Iowa Dem house members. So many teachers reiterated an atmosphere of total fear, surveillance, & reprisal. One elementary teacher said they refer to the Gulf of Mexico as "The Gulf" to avoid even the suspicion of bias.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 3d

Saw the Pyramids at Giza today, they were very cool

jeff goldblum in jurassic park saying that is one big pile of poop but its the pyramids at giza and jeff is saying that is one big pile of rocks

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3d

an affirmative case for trans rights as a pillar of good democratic governance

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 3d

Why can't I take my dog on vacation with me 😭😭😭😭

Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 4d

Me walking up Jeff Goldblum sexy to the Pyramids: "that is one big pile of rocks"

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 4d

It really just seems like they built this huge cavern for stuffed displays of fish and sea life (now abandoned behind heavily graffitied glass) and the bats just decided to move in

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