had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the “block” function with the far funnier “glock” function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you’d go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing
2,300-Year-Old Plush Birdfrom the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): this artifact was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact
This stuffed bird was sealed in the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that sits just beneath the barrows provides an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produce a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in preservation.
This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.
Since I was desperate for a source I decided to find it myself. It’s real, it’s an artifact from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, and it was also displayed in the British Museum during a temporary exhibition about the Scythians in 2017.
