for anyone who may be losing faith in himan progress, remember this: we invented the dildo 27,000 years before the gun.
we invented pornographic art tens of thousands of years before written language.
we invented the condom before steel.
Bread is older than war. Beer is older than borders.
We're better at making good things than bad. We've had more practice.
Terry Pratchett said that there seems to be a place inside the human skull where someone wrote ~"kings: seems like a good idea" and while that may seem at times to be the case, it is literal fact that care for the sick and disabled is written not merely in our bones, but our fossil record.
Feb 2, 2026 00:30
