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[thiswasnotmyintention-deactivat]

Didn't want to derail the last post I reblogged (about Serbia), so I'm making my own)

! I know only like 8 people follow me but like if 8 people find out about an issue they didnt know about then I think that's great tbh

OK SO

another country with a heap of problems right now is Belarus. I've reblogged posts about it before and yes I'm refusing to stop cause I see nothing about it anywhere.

Belarus has had the same president since 1994. Since he came into power, the country hasn't had a SINGLE FAIR ELECTION.

Covid-19 has caused many problems there. The country still hasn't imposed any official measures. The president has been quoted as saying 'I don't see any viruses here' and the country has had horrendous amounts of cases, I'm not even sure if the figures are accurate, they could be fabricated.

There is an election this year. Protests broke out in Belarus because of the imprisonment of the president's strongest competitors in the election. Random people have been arrested off the streets and the police have been violent.

The worst part is that there's very little media coverage.

Please reblog this, or at least research the topic it would mean a LOT

[dfjks74r78hdg-deactivated201603]

a new law is about to be passed in Saudi Arabia that will allow the government to execute people for coming out or being openly gay online.

ignoring the fact that this is literally something out of some kind of dystopian novel, in the interests of safety i’ve emptied out my face tag and may temporarily deactivate or password protect this blog.

please reblog this and get the word out, and if you pray, please pray for me and my fellow Saudi LGBTQ+/MOGAI family.

[nicenonbinarythings]

ALSO, for those who need it [x]. its a post on erasing all traces of yourself from the interwebs. 

[kidspointofview]

this is not something to read and keep to yourself. please spread this around. may Allah keep everyone safe.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[eamhhair]

[the19thduckpotato]

how many times may I reblog this before it’s considered spam?

[gemwort]

[garrus-vakkarian]

me, in 2014: haha what is up with people who want to fuck monsters that’s disgusting 

me, now: 3 werewolves fucked me in a denny’s bathroom

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which Denny’s

[momwithagun-deactivated20200728]

which fucking Denny’s

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[pikaole]

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Young Black boy killed during Protests by White Supremacist!!!

Black Protester Shot to Death Outside Omaha Bar

A young black protester was shot dead outside a bar in Omaha as unrest across the nation engulfed the Nebraska city, by white supremacist Jake Gardner.

The victim was identified as 22-year-old James Scurlock, whose father called for justice as the city braced for another night of chaos.

“Last night I lost a son, my wife lost a son, my kids lost a brother,” the grieving dad, who has the same name, told reporters at the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation Visitors Center, “His daughter lost a father. All because he decided to protest against racism.“

Unfortunetly, Prosecutors in Omaha, Nebraska, said Monday that the white bar owner will not face charges because in their minds “video evidence shows he acted in self defense” even though he had aimed the gun to a crowd of unarmed protesters and James only got involved to protect anyone form getting shot, resulting in losing his life, as both videos here show: video1/video2

The murderer, Jake Gardner, also owns 2 bars one of which was closed down because of an outpour of reviews stating they woulf often refuse service to black people and were known as violent racists. His other bar seems to be having the same issues.

HOW YOU CAN HELP: Call county Attorney Don Kleine and Mayor Stotgert. Demand justice and demand Jake Gardner be held responsible for the murder!!

DON KLIENE: 402 444-7040

STOTHERT: 402-444-5555

OMAHA MAYOR HOTLINE: [phone] 

OPD: 402-444-5600

donate: Heres a GoFundMe link for his family 

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[commodorecliche]

DO 👏 NOT 👏 SIT 👏 THE 👏 2020 👏 ELECTION 👏 OUT 👏 JUST 👏 CAUSE 👏 YOU 👏 DON'T 👏 LIKE 👏 BIDEN 👏

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[etaleah]

Also there are more people on the ballot than just the president. When you stay home, you're also skipping out on votes for House, Senate, State legislatures, judges, and others, all of whom are also hugely important and influential.

Maybe Biden won't be that great. But he's bound to have a better cabinet than this one.

[insertgirlname]

Please reblog this.

[happifying-things]

[delicatebirdbouquetsworld]

[worldfastcararchived]

that boys got music in his soul

[echmoofy]

me: sees anything remotely cute, fuzzy, wholesome, and soft

my heart: !!!!!!!!!!

me:

me: 

[thenatsdorf]

Sweet cat rescued from the streets of Brooklyn, NY. (via flatbushcats)

[newtgeiszler]

bro, this cat is so loved and safe as fuck. this is beautiful dude

[logarto]

this blog is an idiot positive zone. if ur a dumbass thats ok. this is a safe space for people w half a brain

[inspivision]

Hey studyble community. At this current back to school season, could we maybe try and be more gentle and thoughtful towards the trees? Like maybe you can use a few of those half empty notebooks from last year. Or you can ask someone that graduated if they have any paper pads left. Maybe if you have to buy new stationary and can’t reuse anything - maybe buy one notebook for two subjects - if you run out of space - buy another one, sure. And if you already are buying new paper - perhaps buy recycled paper. Maybe make sure you recycle your paper and plastic. Maybe, if you can, make safer choises and promote doing the same on your lovely blog. We live in a crucial point in time. Be kind to mother nature.

[botanyshitposts]

one of the most important things ive learned from upper level biology education so far is that dna isnt the god-like all-powerful beacon of similarity between all living beings on the face of the earth as high school science textbooks will lead u to believe but actually is, in fact, the molecular equivalent of a smoldering dumpster fire that’s in a constant state of chaos and cellular scandal like some highlights: 

-the parts of dna that just casually detach on a physical level from the main strand, do some sick skateboard tricks in the cytoplasm, and land somewhere else with 43552342 copies

-the parts that would do A Thing if they wern’t physically spooled up so tightly that the Make Thing Happen machinery couldnt get to them

-the dna thats in ur mitochondria bc the mitochondria used to be a bacteria that our bigger, buffer cellular ancestors just vored in the primordial ooze 

-the dna that’s in chloroplasts in plants for the same reason

-rna….bitches be crazy like what is she gonna do next?? o she gonna act like a protein now and do shit?? im on the edge of my seat 

-sometimes u just gotta make more chromosomes man like sometimes u just be hanging out and u gotta make ur genome 64 sizes larger and then change ur mind only 100,000 years later and delete half of it and thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth

-random shit from like 5 BCE is just casually left over everywhere like no susan i told u to leave that gene alone we might need it to fight dinosaurs again u just never know!!!!!

dna is earth’s biggest and brightest train wreck and honestly i wouldnt trust a dna molecule to water my plants let alone run my body but here we fucking are 

[copperbadge]

I am feeling physically very unstable after reading this. 

[pineapplesquid]

I’m a genetics professor and everything here is true.

There’s a fern that has 1,260 chromosomes. That’s 630 pairs of chromosomes. No, we don’t know why.

[pineapplesquid]

Oh, and everyone should know that the person who first presented evidence for endosymbiosis (the official name for cells eating each other and then turning into mitochondria or chloroplasts instead of being digested) was this woman, Lynn Margulis, in 1967: 

 Her paper where she presented the theory was rejected 15 times before it got published. Over the next decade, her work was mocked and ignored. Now every biologist knows that she was right.

The bits of DNA that move around (“jumping genes”) were discovered by this woman, Barbara McClintock, in the 1940′s: 

Her work on them was ignored and derided for about two decades before some people started to take it seriously. In 1983 she won a Nobel Prize for it.

Something of a derail, but I feel strongly about talking about the contributions of these two women.

[mikkeneko]

it’s never not the time to learn about cool women in science