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There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things, isn't that kind of the point?

[localstarboy]

Marshawn Lynch needs to be protected at all costs.

[nooniebaddass-deactivated201804]

Lmfaooo

[justcariii]

Lmfaooo

[jadorexjaii]

Ohhhh my goodness 😂😂

[tonyrackstonx-deactivated202110]

Lmfaooo

[soulfullynostalgic]

i fucking love him so much

[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.

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[animal-factbook]

Timmy was always a bit different from the other ostriches

[00432381-deactivated20180201]

I love him

[besnurched]

Please for the love of god LOOK AT THIS

[kingjaffejoffer]

[breathinginbiology]

Please reblog.

[helloallec]

Please listen to and amplify Native voices on this issue too.

[melonmemes]

[homefixin2shavemister]

This post is going to take a turn.

[bumbleshark]

I said this to a guy one time and he was immediately turned away

[stuglies-deactivated20180220]

i dont know if this is funnier with or without the context of this being a comment on a gnomeo and juliet vore fic

[drinkpisspissblood]

me: i’m gonna go to bed early tonight

me at 4am on the cryptids wikipedia page:

[blacksquares-deactivated2018090]

for my entire life i wondered why a dragonfly has an ass thats like 8 times as long as their body and tonight i finally felt compelled to investigate and as it turns out dragonflies breath thru their ass and can shoot water out of their butt hole to make them fly faster…….so…… i really did not expect that to be the answer but there it is

[lhommetimide]

Me: What time is it?

Some asshole: Quarter pa-

Me:

[onlytwitterpics]

[90sdefect]

My uncle has this blanket.

[weloveshortvideos]

[how-do-magoo-deactivated2020052]

this is the purest video I’ve ever laid my sinning eyes on

[crwntooheavy]

He was half asleep oh god 😍😍😍

[dragonpark-deactivated20160930]

When a nigga w/ long hair, sees a short haired nigga w/ waves & a mean ass fade.

[fvshon]

When a nigga w/ short hair, sees 1 of them Tarzan ass nigga somehow finesse a snap-back.

[dragonpark-deactivated20160930]

When a tall ass nigga, sees a short ass nigga w/ a tall girlfriend.

[dragonpark-deactivated20160930]

When a short ass nigga, sees a tall ass nigga doing the matrix to get twerked on & he keeping up.

[dragonpark-deactivated20160930]

When a Blood sees a Crip, speaking out about police brutality & institutionalized racism

[dragonpark-deactivated20160930]

When a brother, sees another brother standing up for a sister. ✊🏾

[dragonpark-deactivated20160930]

When you finally see your homie w/ the girl he always wanted & deserves.

[cuethetrou-deactivated20201023]

When you finally see one of your homies dreams coming to fruition

[dookiediamonds-deactivated20200]

A good post

[nikareeashlee]

This is how it should be.

[thesweetishthuggishbone]

I live for black positivity

[chicagosugarbitch]

SO PURE

[ruinedchildhood]

[neurodeervergent]

Friendly reminder that stress affects everyone differently.

You’re allowed to feel stressed even when you’re a student who gets very little easy-to-do homework. You’re allowed to feel stressed even if you only work part-time. You’re allowed to feel stressed when you don’t work and have two doctor’s appointments this week and feel stressed out about those. You’re allowed to feel stressed out if you work 50 hours a week. You’re allowed to feel stressed out if you work 20 hours a week. You’re allowed to feel stressed out by whatever life may throw at you.

Stress affects everyone differently at different times. It doesn’t make you weak or useless.

[ruinedchildhood]

Don’t ask questions, just reblog.

[blackbellybella]

I love this man and I wish to be as obscure and secure when I’m his age