A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Indigenous peoples and nations of North America. It traditionally resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft. In pre-colonial times the head was made of stone, bone, or antler, and European settlers later introduced heads of iron and steel. The term came into the English language in the 17th century as an adaptation of the Powhatan (Virginian Algonquian) word.
Tomahawks were general-purpose tools used by Native Americans and later the European colonials with whom they traded, and often employed as a hand-to-hand weapon
Etymology
The name comes from Powhatan tamahaac, derived from the Proto-Algonquian root *temah- ‘to cut off by tool’. Algonquian cognates include Lenape təmahikan, Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon, and Abenaki demahigan, all of which mean ‘axe’
History
The Algonquian people created the tomahawk. Before Europeans came to the continent, Native Americans would use stones, sharpened by a process of knapping and pecking, attached to wooden handles, secured with strips of rawhide. The tomahawk quickly spread from the Algonquian culture to the tribes of the South and the Great Plains.
Native Americans created a tomahawk’s poll, the side opposite the blade, which consisted of a hammer, spike or pipe. These became known as pipe tomahawks, which consisted of a bowl on the poll and a hollowed out shaft.
General Purpose Tool
Many Native Americans used tomahawks as general-purpose tools. Because they were small and light, they could be used with one hand. This made them ideal for such activities as hunting, chopping, and cutting. Both the Navajo and Cherokee peoples used them in this way. The development of metal-bladed tomahawks expanded their use even more. Most Native Americans had their own individual tomahawks, which they decorated to suit their personal taste. As Native American artwork shows, many of these were decorated with eagle feathers, which represented acts of bravery.
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to give some credit to the “palestinians and israelis have been fighting for thousands of years argument”, 1947 might had well have been thousands of years ago in the average American’s understanding of history
ey. gottem.
starting to wonder if the consistent writing chapter of my life is over indefinitely, or for the foreseeable future. my motivation and imagination have really felt sapped for over two years, and yet i still miss it and feel a creative need not being fed. idk, i almost spoiler tagged this behind “self pitying bullshit.” but maybe accepting that it could be behind me could take some pressure off and i’ll find my way back to it through that lack of pressure. and hey, three feature scripts that i pretty much all like and feel proud of (this varies day by day ofc) - which are vastly different from each other in many ways while still showing a distinct, recurrent authorial voice & vision - is further than many with these silly ambitions get.
also i’m full of shit. i have been writing the last couple years, i just haven’t found a project that’s spoken to me enough to complete in that time. plus i’ve been iterating my existing material. that’s way different from having no drive/imagination.
my kneejerk negative inner voice is such a narcissistic self-centered woe is me little turd part of me i swear 2 god
Logging onto facebook and seeing a variety of pages with WW2 pictures… of Nazis. With Nazis in the comments giving salutes
Any Factorio heads play the new expansion? I didn’t even know about this until a few days ago.
Time for another tablet weaving post This one is a 3/1 twill, like my Amleth belt, but the twilling on that one is harder to see so I wanted to make one that specifically displays this form of weave more. You can see the offset lines that make stark diagonals a lot better on this one.
The back is mirrored of course. I kinda wish I had swapped the black and white borders so that it would look like this on the front side, with the white triangle ending in the white border, makes it look more uniform and a bit nicer imo, but its fine.
whatever entertainment value I get from Arcane is totally offset by the fact that it gets that shitty Imagine Dragons song stuck in my head
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BEEE MY ENEMYYYYYY
* seeing a swastika in a Hong Kong movie that was never meant to make it to the west * oh it’s totally different in that cultural context. It’s actually an ancient symbol that represents an independent Ukraine.
Bird flu is gonna pop off for real now RFK is in charge of public health, isn’t it
you’d think people would be more normalised to public health policies around mass outbreaks after a major pandemic. but you know it will be so much worse if another one breaks out within the next 20-30 years. even well meaning libs are gonna kick up a fuss about having to give a shit about other people ‘again’
Mandatory exposure to speed up herd immunity, keep the lathe the hell away from me
I’m gonna try and cut my hair. It’s probably gonna suck, but I can always buzz cut it if it goes really bad lmao
I gave myself a Mohawk kinda haircut thingy, and I think it looks alright. Kinda shocked that I didn’t fuck it up horribly
Ayyy hell yeah comrade. That’s pure talent, you can’t teach that
it is november 14 and stalin saved the world from fascism
So I seem to recall Biden threatened to begin thinking about maybe considering implementing possible consequences with regard to providing certain weapons if humanitarian conditions didn’t improve. Does anyone know if this happened?
“I’m not gonna speak to that,” Patel said.
That’s literally your job!
“Ah well nevertheless”
It has been months since I watched and yet my enthusiasm for Furiosa does not seem to have eroded
It was so sick, action movie slop with some fucking PROTEIN for a change, I could write an essay about how clever it was and how subtly it went about it
I still need to watch that one. It’s too bad, it seemed like a really good one for theaters but I completely missed it.
since i started Doing Politics i have like 2-3 dozen new friendly acquaintances in the span of less than two months it kinda goes (would b nice if some of them evolved into full friends tho
)wait i’ve been painting my nails black for over a year now and no one told me how fucking hard disintegration by the cure goes? holy shit this album is goated
It’s amazing and it’s still probably my number 5 of theirs. The Cure are fantastic
personal galaxy brain top 5 cure albums? (im trying to branch out beyond abrasive 2010s internet weirdo music)
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Seventeen Seconds
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Pornography
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Boys Don’t Cry (it’s the American release of their first album and does that thing where they’d swap out some songs with singles, it fucks up a lot of albums, but I’m this case it cuts some really weak material and replaces it with all time bangers)
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Faith
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Disintegration
Aside from Disintegration the albums I have here are from sorta their original run so to speak. The release order would be boys don’t cry, seventeen seconds, faith and pornography as their first 4 albums, Disintegration is their 8th. It’s been a .inutr since I’ve listened to much of their other stuff aside from their new album that just came out at the start of this month and fucking rules. I’m a punk and punk descendant music encyclopedia, if you want old school goth music I’m the guy to come to. My favorite goth band is Mustaa Paraati from Finland in the early to mid 80s
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Hey everyone - I currently work in the growing gig economy of “AI training”. It isn’t really something I would recommend broadly, but I know that some people might appreciate some insight into it from my experience. It might work for some people as a good way to earn low-stress part-time remote work money. My personal experience, as someone with an advanced degree in the USA, I have been able to make at minimum $25/hr but on some occasions much much more ($60/hr PLUS “generous” incentives for completing a set number of tasks is the best I have gotten), although the availability of work is sometimes scarce and frustrating, and the biggest company in this space is downright evil and also incompetent.
I was considering that an effortpost about it given my experiences might be valuable to some people - it isn’t anything I would recommend as a permanent reliable source of income but for now there is money that can be made if you are lucky. Would people be interested?
I’m interested in hearing more about the experience for sure
What comm do you think would be good for that? Or just main?
I actually don’t know, technology maybe? I’m sure main would do. My impression is that as far as traction goes the comm doesn’t matter too much on this site, most of us are looking at an unfiltered feed of all the posts. If you remember, please tag me in a comment or DM me so I don’t miss it!
