I'm good with that...
A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.” A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend. Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.
— Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (x)
Fun fact! This is a Dmanisi skull from Georgia, another type of hominin to us.
Notice that jaw? When we lose our teeth, over time our jawbone heals the gaps, making it smooth, so when archaeologists discover skulls centuries later they can tell whether the tooth was lost after death (as the bone didn’t grow to cover the hole) or during the individual’s life.
The majority of this jaw has healed, so this person would have lived a number of years with basically no teeth. The age of this skull, according to wiki, is 1.8 million years.
This means that millions of years ago this person had a diet with soft, easy foods, and that others in the group would have known, understood, and helped by specialising their foraging for this one individual.
Or, in the words of my lecturer when we covered this, “Someone would have had to chew up this person’s food for them. Every day. Multiple times. For years.”

Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Me too Jessica...me too 😳
GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE (2021) - To protect an 8-year-old girl, Emily, a dangerous assassin, Sam (Karen Gillan) reunites with her mother Scarlet (Lena Headey) and her lethal associates & secret sisterhood of assassins, Anna May (Angela Bassett), Florence (Michelle Yeoh) and Mathilde (Carla Gugino) to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.
Screenplay by Ehud Lavski & Navot Papushado, produced by Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona, and directed by Navot Papushado.
Scheduled to be released by Netflix on July 14th, 2021.
Ladies killing people together is my jam.

I saw a dude on Twitter say this looks like John Wick meets The Emancipation of Harley Quinn and I’m thinking “yeah that makes it better actually and that is something I want to see.”
Like, Dude. My dude. I do not think you understand. The words you are using are good words for us. That combination is a bonus. *facepalm*
Also, I have been waiting impatiently for this trailer and it did not disappoint!
I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED!
@littledragonflyson clear your schedule
“Recently, a friend of mine told me that she felt guilty that she hadn’t accomplished more during the last year of the pandemic. Now, I’ve heard that a few times. And I have a feeling we’re gonna be hearing that more and more.”
The Amber Ruffin Show (May 21, 2021)






