Someone Finally Said It

“İstanbul deyince aklıma kuleler gelir. 

Ama şu Kızkulesinin aklı olsa

Galata kulesine varır

Bir sürü çocukları olur.”

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu

Albany Ledger, Missouri, September 9, 1898

which tom holland are you today?

I look at hot people every day when I look at myself in the mirror.

Me

Wonderful new book from Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers and author Kyle Cassidy, This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information.

I need my Coffee Space ☕

I think you’re strong and I think you can get through anything, even if it’s the worst sadness you ever experienced. I believe you can get through this and you should believe it too.

reblog for positivity (via ashleymacleanblog)

Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach (1860-1937), “In De Muizenwereld” by Agatha Snellen, 1894  Source

You know that whole thing fedora-wearing neckbeards like to tote out about how misandry is real because women won’t work in coal mines which is totally only true in the sense that men have been actively trying to keep women out of said mines for like a hundred years? Well, as usual with these things, there’s a flip-side to the bad argument that’s entirely true. To whit, it isn’t women who refuse to attempt jobs coded as “male”. It’s men who refuse to attempt jobs coded as “female”. You know, like nursing.

Ada Blackjack: the real Robinson Crusoe

An Alaskan Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack was hired in 1921 as a cook and seamstress, to go on an expedition to Russia’s Wrangel Island, north of Siberia. The hope was to claim it for Canada. Four men plus Ada set out. And they reached the island! Unfortunately, the expedition was poorly planned. They soon ran out of rations and were unable to trap enough animals to eat. So, on January 28th, 1923 three men decided to try crosssing 700 miles across the frozen Chukchi Sea to Siberia for help and food. The left behind Ada and one other man who was sick with scurvey. She cared for him until he died, and then Ada was left alone, on a Siberian island, with just the expedition’s cat, Vic.

The three men were never heard from again. But Ada survived. She learned to live in the extreme freezing conditions for seven months! Ada was rescued on August 19th, 1923 by a former colleague of the expedition’s leader. She made no money on the subsequent publicity and books, just her pay for the expedition and a couple hundred dollars from the furs she trapped while on the island. Ada returned to Alaska and lived there till her death at the age of 85.