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Ignacio Ramirez Torres

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by gracecottagehhi

happyheidi

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metamorphesque

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

softwaring

i wrote a recipe for marinara sauce if anyone is interested lol 🥴 i’m making it for chicken parm

kushandwizdom

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

shez-a-b0mbshell

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

teddybearnova

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

2ollux-double-bulge

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

the-collecting-turnip-deactivat

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole?

fgsshinyhoard

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa. So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

hockey-trash

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

cricketcat9

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures.

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

justgot1

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

lettingitoutabit-deactivated202

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

for-southendgirls

Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

goingtiny

Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?

hogwartsconsultingtimelady

This photoset proves you can make anywhere look great or terrible. It’s all framing and more people should know about that

gamebird

Worth a reblog. I don’t think the US version was on there when I first reblogged.

anderperrytheplatypus

Female affection in vintage photographs

theskepticalwitch

How to Make a Flower Crown!

I made myself a flower crown today and I wanted to share it with you all. Flower Crowns are really awesome, and everyone deserves one.

I used the Weaving method, detailed below in the link provided! Here's a visual guide as well, if you're a visual learner like myself.

Do you know how to make a daisy chain or flower crown? It’s incredibly easy and so fun! There are several classic ways to make a flower cro

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Pin Up Girls by Matthew Skiff

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studio ghibli + nature scenario

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hey all, here's a petition to the Honolulu City Council, the Kailua Neighborhood Board, and Kailua and Oahu residents, urging them to support the Kawainui Street Apartments project in Kailua:

Hawaii needs more affordable housing NOW! Please support the Kawainui St. Project!

this petition only has 310 signatures.

and here's another petition (with 5 signatures at the time of posting this) by a group of volunteers working with the Faith Action for Community Equity group that made the other petition:

We are a volunteer group of Kailua renters and homeowners working in association with Faith Action for Community Equity. We believe housing

if reading the above post bothered you, do something about it!

sign the petitions before August 2nd and share this post.

want to do more?

write an email to a member of the council urging them to support affordable housing for Kailua residents.

here's the contact information for the council members!

do some good today!

how2helprightnow

As always, write your own emails!

stagbeetlez

hey it would be really awesome if people signed petitions and stuff for this! this is my neighborhood!!! kailua has been gentrified so much it's very sad. it's unaffordable for kānaka and for locals who have lived there for many generations. i've been to the meeting about this IRL and already shared my thoughts. please keep kailua affordable ❤️