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Credit: @pelagicventures

[rashemibabe]

Uhm what is that it’s huge?

[skyfirerevenge]

Issa sea tortoise, like the ones that can live to around 500 years old. They’re capable of getting quite large from what I gather.

[helloitsbees]

A big boy!

[setheverman]

music genre: video game 2

[lastdjnosaurs]

tell me this isn’t the cutest thing I’ve ever seen

[paganalia]

The white ravens of Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Photography by Mike Yip

[ladofthelakes-deactivated202308]

So my dad used to teach human evolution at the University of Minnesota, right? And his favorite thing was discussing Native American cultures and bashing misogyny. 

So he’d start off class by going “Raise your hand if you think you know why men hunted and women stayed back in the settlements” and most kids would raise their hands. He’d list off a few various reasons and kids would slowly start participating. Then he’d go “How many of you think it’s because men are stronger” and of course most of the males would raise their hands with a few girls. He’d then proceed to rip apart the patriarchal views they had all been taught. “No,” he’d say, “It’s because if five men went out and three or two came back no one would bat an eye. They’d grieve sure, but society would go on. Now if five women went out and three or two came back you know what would happen? Society would collapse.”

And it was true. For many Native American cultures the only reason women did what they did was because the men couldn’t do it. We are (usually) taught a twisted, self-aggrandizing form of history despite evidence suggesting the complete opposite of it. 

[muchymozzarella]

This was present in a lot of cultures in the past before white colonization (see: imperialism and genocide)

In Australia the Aborigines believed that women were more powerful than men and closer to gods because of their ability to give birth, and men would make themselves bleed just to be like women when they came of age

In the Philippines many people held practices which celebrated a woman’s first menstruation, encouraged free sexual exploration before marriage for young men and women, and believed women to be spiritual leaders, so that the only way a “man” could be one was to become a woman (transwomen were able and even encouraged to marry, and were identified as women within the community)

Also in the Philippines economic structures defined power, so a man who was poorer than his wife would take her name, and daughters would inherit and become heads of the family if they were the eldest

Westerners love to flout how great they are at women empowerment when it comes to other cultures that treat women badly, but actively try to hide the fact that there are thousands of other cultures who treated women better centuries ago than they do even today 

And that’s a fact. 

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“Pickle, you want a belly rub?” (sound on)

[starryeyedq]

Baby bat learns to fly!

[lunargrim]

this is my cause of death, I have transcended this realm

[hiighlyssa]

It looks like a baby dragon omg

[nynnelovgreen-deactivated201812]

Hyphantria cunea

[weavemama]

It was nice knowin y'all

[weavemama]

@ science side of tumblr,, ALL JOKES ASIDE WE REALLY NEED YALL TO TELL US IF WE’RE GONNA BE OKAY OR NOT

[plenoptic07]

By “diseases,” they mean microbes (MICROBES, not the same as PATHOGENS), that were living their merry lives in water when it began to freeze over.

Yes, we are going to be okay, at least as far as these little friends are concerned. The odds of a microbe that evolved in an aquatic environment THOUSANDS of years ago suddenly up and adapting to infect a human system as soon as it’s thawed are basically zilch. (The megaviridae [big ass viruses] that are the actual subject of the above clickbait infected ancient amoeba. It would take a TREMENDOUS amount of time and selection pressure for these viruses to learn to infect human systems, even by viral time scales.)

You SHOULD be worried about deforestation, especially in rain forests, which has the potential to release microbes that are more than adapted to mammalian systems and are generally happy to make a zoonotic (animal to human) jump, especially those that primarily infect simians. The major hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, Marburg) were more than likely first exposed to humans after major deforestation.

[round-t-w-o-deactivated20190622]

Wow im so glad at least someone in this craphole of a website is smart and can educate my dumb ass.

[hapless-hollow]

90s Gothic stye by MALICE                

[thetrippytrip]

The man-free sanctuary will offer up a range of typical beauty services such as hair, waxing, facials and manicures and pedicures, while providing unique services like henna and halal nails and eyebrow shaping.

“We want women to be able to come in and feel completely relaxed,” ~ Quhshi said.

Quhshi also noted that while Le’Jemalik was created with Muslims in mind, “women of all faiths, races, and ethnicities” are welcome.

[choochofcolor]

This store is in Brooklyn, please support if you can; this is such a huge need for us muslim women.

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[batcoins]

It’s pumpkin season guise.

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[catsbeaversandducks]

Best Cat Tweets Of 2016

Via Bored Panda

[fishwrites]

Sorry long list but everyone is gold

[mautlyn-deactivated20170727]

but yeah it does seem that most het men aren’t even attracted to women lol they find women in their natural state repulsive, they find the female body as it naturally exists repulsive and make all kinds of crude jokes about ugly vaginas etc even TO the women they date sometimes, but they are turned on by the power they can wield over women and that’s why they’re so attracted to hyperfemininity and sex dolls and hurting women, they’re attracted to dehumanization and degradation of women…male heterosexuality in our society is mostly sadism