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GOODNIGHTWHITEPRIDE, I want to fuck you with a crowbar :):):)

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The International Cartographic Association (ICA) Admits Western Cartographers Deliberately Shrunk Africa

When the question on the distortion of the world map was put to the ICA president, Professor Menno-Jan Kraak, he didn’t deny it. He told CNN: “Somehow this map projection came to be used on most world maps, especially those produced for classrooms since the beginning of the 1900s. Most of us have grown up with this world image.”

Professor Kraak adamantly argued that the map of the world we see today is nothing more than a propaganda tool. Using Russia as an example, Kraak said “If you take the Mercator projection (bottom), where Russia looks huge, give it a bright red color and then compare it to the rest of Europe, you see how dangerous it can look.”

Canada, Russia, the United States and Europe are greatly enlarged, while Africa has been significant reduced. On the Mercator map, Greenland looks almost the same size as the whole of Africa, but in truth, Greenland is no bigger than the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country in Central Africa.

Professor Kraak believed the enlargement of Europe and North America is not an accident, but a clear case of bias against Africa.

Marianne Franklin, a professor of Global Media and Politics at Goldsmith’s University of London said the map we see today was made to display the power of the West as the ruler of the world, during the era of European Imperialism.

“The term ‘power of representation and representation of power’ sums up quite well how maps and the rise of the Western nation-state system, and with that, empire and colonialism are linked. The world maps that prevail today have been embedded in Western imaginations since the British Empire. They continue (to prevail) despite many challenges to their fairness and accuracy because they underpin the ongoing Anglo-Euro-American presumption that the world belongs to them, and pivots around these geo-cultural axes,” professor Marianne said.

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Remember when we posted about this and y’all white people said we was paranoid when y’all be the ones who don’t know how maps work? #bye

nauticallewis

Look how big Antarctica is must be because its white #whiteprivilege

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Before you know it it’s 3 am and you’re 80 years old and you can’t remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

This is the scariest fucking text post I’ve ever read (via bl-ossomed)

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Toonami using anime to inspire us.

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Saw this last night, Toonami never let’s me down.

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The buff-tip moth is a medium-sized moth that is on the wing at night from June to July. It is quite a common moth in parks and gardens, as well as woodland edges, scrub and hedgerows. It has evolved to look like a stump of a twig to hide from predators. (Source)

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What a badass motherfucker. You worked so hard to adapt to look like a twig, and you’re surviving out there. Everyone give this moth their love.

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Why do Americans put the month first. It just makes no sense.

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We put the month first because in conversation we say, “July 1st, 2015.” Because it’s quicker than “The first of July, 2015.”

“Tomorrow is May 29th” not “Tomorrow is the 29th of May.” That is why we write it 5/29/15 and not 29/5/15. Because we go by how we phrase it in conversation rather than in sequence because it converts better between numbers and language when written in the former. We also use the month first because that’s how calendars are organized. You have one year and one calendar so the year is a constant and can go in the back. However, calendars aren’t organized my days, but rather by months. You flip to the months first and then find the day. So…. p>

While on this topic, we also use Fahrenheit and not Celsius because a 0-100 scale of measuring temperature makes a lot more sense to a human. We know that 0 is really fucking cold and 100 is really fucking hot, which makes sense. Celsius, however, is just about how water responds to temperature, and makes no sense when applied to humans. Fahrenheit is for people, Celsius is for water. And I am a people not a water.

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I find this very funny cause you say that but your independence day is not called July 4th, its called the 4th of July.

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What I find funny is that our armies were about half the size of the British army and yet we were still able to crush your crumby asses, declare independence and pour your tea in the ocean.

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tfw you realise the robots will steal your job

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MY POOP IS COMING

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i am both the distressed child and relaxing horse

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Baby squirrel learns to purr after falling out of a tree, and being nursed by a momma cat and raised with kitten family.

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News anchor: “Emmy the cat gets my nomination for Kitty Mother of the Year. Not that Emmy doesn’t just lie around like other cats and occasionally scratch her claws on something you wish she wouldn’t, but there arose a situation around the time she had her kittens that Emmy has stepped up to the plate and helped solve. Well, she’s taken in a baby squirrel and is providing a plate for the little squirrel at her table, along with the rest of the kittens!”

Jim Watkins: “She’s very protective of it. If it starts to move, she don’t like where it’s goin’, she’ll reach out and pull it back, start licking it, you know, taking care of it just like she would one of her kittens!”

News anchor: “Jim Watkins and his wife Karen, of Carthage, have helped organize Central Mississippi T.A.I.L.S.”

Jim Watkins: “It stands for Taking Animals Into Loving Shelters.”

News anchor: “And that’s how Jim and Karen got Emmy – and her extended family. Emmy’s owner lived where she couldn’t have pets, and called her vet to see what she could do with the new family.”

Karen Watkins: “I seem to be the go-to girl from my vet. Anytime someone has a cat they can’t take care of, I’m the one they call. That’s how we wound up with 18 cats and a squirrel.”

News anchor: “And the squirrel came as a gift from the sky. Just before Emmy’s owner gave her up, a baby squirrel fell out of a nest and landed in the yard. Not being able to climb a tree and put it back, the lady did the next best thing.”

Jim Watkins: “And she put the squirrel in the uh, box with the kittens and she just immediately accepted it and adopted it, started feeding it, has raised it just like hers.”

News anchor: “But if a mama cat adopting a squirrel is amazing, the ability of the baby squirrel to adapt is even more so.”

Jim Watkins: “Oh the squirrel, you can pick it up and pet it, it will start to purr just like a kitten does.” *laughs*

Squirrel: *purrs loudly*

News anchor: “Rocky (they’ve named the squirrel) may go on and grow up always thinking it’s a cat who can just climb trees better than others. It would have to be a pet from this point on.”

Jim Watkins: “He’ll never be able to survive on his own at this point on because of the way he’s been raised. So we’ll- we’ll probably wind up with him.”

News anchor: “So the circle of adoption goes on and on: cat, to squirrel, to people. Everybody looking out for and accepting the other.”

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