The past is told by those who win...

The Past is Told by Those who Win

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[literaryspinster]

Things started turning around for me last time I reblogged one of those, but I could still use a little more so here goes…

[flowury]

before i die i want to see the northern lights preferably with whoever my future person ends up being. if yr my soulmate pls start the itinerary

[simpsons-latino]

[say-prettyy-pleasee]

This is Money Marge. Reblog for a miracle of finances to come to you

🙏🏾💰💵

[brooklynrwhitegrier]

We don’t let just anybody touch our crown. It’s a special exchange—brushing, touching, laughing, weaving our history. Head tilting, oil dropping, love flowing. Massaging out the worries. Twisting faith into our being. Unwinding centuries of hurt; warm, greased hands repairing. The dresser mends. Palms telling the story of Black beauty and progression. The comb is holy, the brush is a tool of the supernatural, the fingers are blessed.

[starlightandtears]

THE MALARIA VACCINE GOT APPROVED BY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION TODAY OH MY GOD THIS IS LITERALLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF RESEARCH.

*THIS* IS WHAT BEING HUMAN IS ABOUT.

[that-one-nerdy-gal]

Guys they mean today as in TODAY today!! October 7th, 2021!!

[iamgandalfandgandalfmeansme]

“The vaccine… is not just a first for malaria — it is the first developed for any parasitic disease. Parasites are much more complex than viruses or bacteria, and the quest for a malaria vaccine has been underway for 100 years.” (NYT)

[kemetic-dreams]

[kouhai-deactivated]

Holy fucking shit I hate the united fucking states 😨

[kouhai-deactivated]

And yet we're not taught ab aaaaaaany of this in public nor private schools in the United States (or Western world period, to be frank). The amount of tragically inflicted history white ppl just bury, lie ab & never take responsibility for is crazy as hell. They don't even talk ab this kinda stuff during black history month. Why am I only just learning that this is what caused Haiti's persisting demise?? at 24 years old???

[eureka214]

*When people realize that seeing dick and Kory get shot in the same episode was dickkory with a twist*

[eureka214]

*Trying hard not to draw parallels between Abbie’s Sleepy Hollow treatment and Starfire’s treatment on Titans*

[accras]

Thandie Newton & daughter Nico Parker at ‘Reminiscence’ premiere in LA, 8/17/21

[sbrown82]

She looks just like her mom!

[eureka214]

Please don’t forget her name is Thandiwe Newton

[eureka214]

Titans Season 3 prediction

I think Justin will have the same storyline as Franklin Crandall in the and he is working with H.I.V.E or Black fire. He is just too familiar right now.

[unexplained-events]

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

[smileforthehigh-deactivated2017]

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

[desiremyblack]

(via TumbleOn)

[pearlsnapbutton]

What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

[kiwianaroha]

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

[theopensea]

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

[thegirlthewolfate]

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

[archaeologistforhire]

Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year. 

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

[crazythingsfromhistory]

Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

[fluffmugger]

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.  

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

[ironbite4]

Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

[gluklixhe]

I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

[eastsidecosmic]

[kaijubluu]

So.

Another 751 unmarked graves were found at a Saskatchewan residential school.

Seven hundred fifty one.

[kaijubluu]

This school, The Marieval Indian Residential School, operated from 1899 to 1997.

It was one of the last residential schools to close in Canada. One of more than 130. 

In case you didn’t know, residential schools were created to “cleanse” the people of Canada. These schools operated from 1831, when the Mohawk Institute Residential School opened, to 1996, when residential schools were finally outlawed.

That is 166 years of cultural genocide.

An estimated 150 000 children attended these schools, and an estimated 6 000 children died at these schools (current records of death are incomplete) 

These children were beaten, sexually abused, even experimented on. They were treated like prisoners, like they were sub-human. 

A child’s likelihood of dying in a residential school was one in twenty-five. In comparison, a Canadian World War 2 soldier’s odds of dying were one in twenty-six. 

I am not Indigenous. I cannot pretend to know how painful this may be. But what I can do is speak out. This inhumane treatment of citizens of Canada must be condemned. 

The government of Canada, and The Catholic Church, must. make. reparations. 

[msfbgraves]

After the widespread pedophilia and the Magdalene Laundries concentration camps, I am deeply saddened but not at all surprised by this. That organisation is deeply twisted.

[publiusmaximum]

The above BBC article is from 24 June 2021. This was discovered _yesterday_.

[thouraia-blog]

[groudonisbetter]

I don’t know what to fucking say anymore.

I’m tired. I’m hurt. I’m sad. And angry, like, really FUCKING angry.

They were children, they were only kids. And they found 215 of their corpses buried near those goddamn schools. It shouldn’t even be called a school.

As an indigenous person, this is fucking heartbreaking. But it’s not like it’s new. Shit like this has been happening and will continue happen unless we do something about it.

Sign a petition

Support indigenous artists/creators/actors

Educate yourself on residential schools and the generational trauma that we endure

Just PLEASE for the love of god talk about this.

We can’t keep letting shit like this slide. That was only one school where they found those kids. Imagine how many more have mass graves on the premises. This isn’t just “a dark chapter in our country’s history” this was and still is the whole fucking book. There are people in my community who have lived through the horrors of residential schools and many more that live with the trauma it brought.

The link below me is a petition to call for a national day of mourning for the kids who didn’t make it home to their families.

Please sign and share it. Remember these kids and the horrors they went through because we should NEVER forget this atrocity.

Sign the Petition

Call for a National Day of Mourning for the Lost Children of Residential School

[gahdamnpunk]

+ depression in Black men

Please share, this might help someone

[beautyandthefat-blog]

[loboflaco-deactivated20221016]

Fatphobic doctors deserve to have their licenses striped away for all time, all money and assets earned during their time as a doctor repossessed, and if they get hit by a bus I may or may not be driving, so be it.

[lichfucker]

[image description: a bullet-pointed list of white text on a red background. the list is titled, “Helpful Phrases at the Doctor’s Office,” and the bullet points say:

Show me a study where the majority of subjects succeeded at the amount of weight loss you are suggesting.

Do thin people get this health problem? What do you recommend for them?

Due to a low rate of success and serious irreversible side effects, including death, weight loss surgery is not an option.

The research I’ve seen shows that the vast majority of people who attempt weight loss fail, and many actually gain weight long term.

Please provide me with evidence-based medicine and the opportunity for informed consent.

Shame is bad for my health. I would ask you to first do no harm, and provide me with shame-free healthcare.

In our limited time, I’d like to focus on [what I came in for.]

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[richgirlvibe]