generalism.

the ism of all isms.

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Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments To Look Like American Superheroes

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When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.

Jomo Kenyatta, 1st President of Kenya

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Terra nullius, "land belonging to no one"

Marie Byrd Land, 620,000 sq mi of unclaimed land in Antarctica

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Isaac Cordal, 'Electoral Campaign', Berlin

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Wes Anderson Centered

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Banksy

#WithSyria

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It’s funny now, but at thirteen it was pain 

To be almost sure of who you are and have it ripped away 

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Al Capone's jail cell, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

[unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream]

photographer Yume Cyan has been shooting some magical long exposure photographs of fireflies in a forested area around Nagoya City, Japan. By keeping the camera’s shutter open at a low aperture Cyan captures every bioluminescent flash of each insect resulting in dotted light trails that criss-cross the frame.

[wnycradiolab]

We never get tired of fireflies.

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In The Garden of Earthly Delights, there's a naked man with music painted on his bum. This is what it sounds like.

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The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.

Napoleon Bonaparte, letter to Louis Alexandre Berthier, 1798

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When asked recently what he thought about the current state of hip-hop, Yasiin Bey FKA Mos Def replied simply: “Listen to Ka from Brownsville.”

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason, it has definite practical significance). You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the Nation.

Final paragraph of FBI letter to Martin Luther King, Jr., trying to convince him to commit suicide. November 1964

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17% of cardiac surgeons are women, 17% of tenured professors are women. It just goes on and on. And isn’t that strange that that’s also the percentage of women in crowd scenes in movies? What if we’re actually training people to see that ratio as normal so that when you’re an adult, you don’t notice? …We just heard a fascinating and disturbing study where they looked at the ratio of men and women in groups. And they found that if there’s 17% women, the men in the group think it’s 50-50. And if there’s 33% women, the men perceive that as there being more women in the room than men.

Source: NPR: Hollywood Needs More Women

Seriously, go listen to this.

(via josette-arnauld)

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Danbury Baptist Association, 1802