*uses your ashes as eyeshadow*
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Meet Leizu the Legendary Chinese Empress who is Credited with Inventing Silk
This is Leizu (aka Xi Ling Shi) the ancient Chinese empress credited with inventing silk in 2640 BC. A teenager and wife of the Yellow Emperor Leizu was outside having tea one day when a silk worm cocoon fell into her cup. She fiddled and toyed with the cocoon and noticed fine shiny strands emanating from it. Leizu, totally fascinated by the strands, gathered together her ladies in waiting to formulate a technique of weaving the strands together to make a cloth. Eventually they succeeded and she presented this cloth to her husband, the Emperor. Leizu went on the develop sericulture, the science behind producing silk.
Chinese Women Producing Silk 12th Century AD
The legendary tale of how she invented this wonderous material was recorded by Chinese academic, Confucius. No one truly knows how much of the story is true and how much of it is myth but Leizu went on to be revered and respected by the Chinese people. Sericulture remained a woman only science in China for thousands of years. Silk went on to become one of China’s biggest exports with cloths found all over the world. The method of production was kept secret for 3000 years and people found trying to teach others or smuggle worms out of China were executed.
Sources British Silk Association , Women in Science, Insects Through the Seasons
So just a reminder that while this post has around 36k notes the petition has around 16k notes. Don’t be a shit ally and pretend you care and then not actually take the time to sign it.
-Ezzy
being a boy in a dress doesn’t make you gender fluid
its makes you a boy IN A DRESS
Being a transphobic fuck makes you a transphobic fuck.
I don’t think they’re being transphobic, I think they ment that you can wear whatever you want without being generfluid. Like a girl who wears boy clothes, and says she is a girl, means she’s a girl. If a boy wears girl clothes, and says he is a boy, he’s a boy.
you got me thank you
okay can we get a couple of things straight?
- Russia has not technically invaded Ukraine. Crimea asked for Russian aid, and so Russia was invited into the country. Crimea is pro-Russian and is actually happy that Russia is there. If Russia moves out of Crimea into the Ukraine proper however, is a different story.
edit: because i just realized that people probably don’t know about Crimea.
This is Crimea. Crimea is an autonomous republic. It’s a peinsula that is home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet and was part of the Soviet Union until 1954. 58% of the population identify as ethnic Russians according to Wikipedia.
- Russia has not declared war on Ukraine or vice versa. Ukraine’s PM will declare war if Russia militarily intervenes, but so far that has not happened. Ukraine’s armed troops are on combat alert however.
- RE: The Budapest Memorandium from my earlier post: “Ukraine has signed the Budapest Memorandum with US, UK, & Russia whereupon by giving up their nuclear weapons they will “respect Ukraine sovereignty, not threaten or use force again Ukraine, and “Seek United Nations Security Council action” among other things. Russian dropped the ball with this obviously, and this is why people are looking to see how US and UK respond. Technically all they have to provide is “security council action”. US and UK are not obligated to defend Ukraine. Fun fact: Russia has veto power in the UN.
- WWIII is not happening, so calm down. Putin isn’t stupid enough to start a WW when he knows he will lose against the forces of, well, the rest of the world. As of right now, the best case scenerio to this situation is that everyone talks and comes to some sort of resolution. War hasn’t even been declared yet. Until the situation changes, calm down.
As of right now this is just a military intervention, not invasion and not war. There isn’t a cause for war right now.
of course it’s not adam and steve, steve is a name with firmly greek origins, what would he be doing in the original aramaic/hebrew text. it’s adam and simeon.