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Fun Fact! One of the giant African millipede’s defense mechanisms is pooping on whatever it might perceive as a threat.

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I didn’t mean to be so threatening!!

#animal facts

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do you ever listen to music and suddenly you’re like wow I want my life to be the way this song sounds I want to live in this song

#me last night at the tour because awesome

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Kristen Stewart, shot by Sebastian Kim for Vanity Fair France

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oh for fuck’s sake

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When we say “black lives matter”, it does not imply “white lives don’t matter.”

When we say “women should be respected”, it does not imply “men should not be respected.”

When we say “there’s nothing wrong with being gay”, it does not imply “there’s something wrong with being straight.”

When we say “trans people are people” it does not imply “cis people are not people.”

Us getting rights does not mean your rights are being taken away. You are not a victim. So stop making everything about you.

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this is like. top three favorite vines ever i’m crying

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Hi, my friend is dying of AML leukemia and she really needs a marrow transplant and soon. Would you be willing to signal boost so people get tested? They would have to be 18 and a simple cheek swab can determine whether they are a match! Thanks so much.

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spread this!!!

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Bone marrow donors can come from all over the world. So spread this wherever you live. 2 days ago she wrote on her instagram:

Tuesday I met with my bone marrow transplant doctor and I still do not have a bone marrow match, he told me that the my chances of finding a match is basically 0% because of my little bit of Japanese inheritance… With this said, I do believe in miracles so please still spread the word and get tested!! Thank you again to everyone that has been spreading the word because again even if you aren’t a match for me you could be a match for another kid and potentially save their life!!

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SIGNAL BOOST THIS TO HELL AND BACK PLEASE. My mother recently passed from stage 4 breast cancer and I don’t want others to experience the same pain.

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You may have seen Melanie and Vanessa Iris Roy’s side-by-side pregnancy photo (top), as it’s been massively viral — but it’s definitely not the only inspiring and adorable shot of their family. In fact, every one of these deserves to go viral in its own right.

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Life goals.

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THIS IS SO FUCKING CUTE OH MY GOD

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I am Iron Man

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Cops Arrest Sex Workers for Carrying Condoms (x)

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This is a map of Asia. North Americans, you may notice this map is not solely comprised of Japan, Korea, China and Thailand. People in the UK, you may notice India is not a continent. That is, if those of you who generalize entire continents can even pinpoint India on a map. Indians are Asian, gasp! And not all brown skinned people are Indian, also, gasp! There are an alarming amount of people, of all ages, from all backgrounds, who seem to be unable to process this.

I’m ethnically Asian. Since Asia is an extremely large continent, I could be from any number of countries. I am neither from India, China, Korea, Japan or Pakistan, yet not so surprisingly, I am still Asian.

Yes, there are commonalities across regions, through the conflation of cultures, colonialism, globalization, transnationalism and movement of diasporas. Sometimes these are all the same thing. Rickshaws, rice and curry can be found across the continent. But let’s not overgeneralize. You can also find Buddhists, Catholics, Muslims and Hindus across Asia. Cantonese Speaking Chinese Muslims! English Speaking Indian Jews!

No, we are not all the same. Orientalism? (Please look up Edward Said for basic concepts) No thank you.

Geography, people. It’s important.

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This pops up on my dash every so often. I reblog it again, not just because I wrote it, but because nothing has changed since I first posted this.

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What’s cool about Iran is that it falls in 3 different regions of Asia so depending on what part of Iran you’re in, you can kind of get culture shocked a bit. The central and western part of the country is West Asia, the north east is Central Asia, and the southeast is in South Asia.

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To the folks wondering about Russia being included, I want to mention that the cultural debates and angst about that has been going on for CENTURIES. While France has been pretty fetishized all the way back from Peter the Great, there is no question that we are not Europe, even with that influence showing really obviously in historical seats of power like St. Petersburg. Nonetheless, the whole country was under control of the Mongols (The Golden Horde) from roughly 1242 to 1480, and that left an enormous Mongolian and Tatar heritage that remains to this day. The ancient Scythians are huge in the cultural imagination as well. And besides… look at the Russians who are outside the standard “Kievan Rus” phenotype (which most folks assume is how all Russians look.)

Here are three of the 30 distinct ethnic groups in Siberia alone:

Buryat grandfather, photo by Alexander Newby

Evenk children, photo by Evgenia Arbugaeva

Young Yakut couple, photographer unknown

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AS SOMEONE WITH NORTHERN IRANIAN (AZERBAIJANI)/RUSSIAN/ HAZARA-PERSIAN/ UYGHUR-CHINESE ANCESTRY THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL POST

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And that’s why sometimes you’ll see a person with curly black hair, pale skin, and hazel-green eyes (my grand-father’s sister) who turn out to be Chinese. Mad recessive genes game at play, I swear. Mongols, they really got around.