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Here, take these

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SMALL-HEADED FLY SMALL-HEADED FLY 👀

Maybe Pterodontia sp? I'd never seen any small-headed flies before, and there's only 3 Florida sightings in the family on iNaturalist. Absolutely bizarre chonky creature. Basically no head. Evolution can't keep getting away with this.

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Just opened my fic document and found this

Thanks, past me. Incredibly helpful.

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I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.

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Someone doesn't like it when she isn't the center of attention.

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This amazing dragon statue was outside a thrift shop here but NOT for sale. Has anyone seen this design before?? It was huge and heavy!

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Autism stronger than a Midwest tornado I know that’s right

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flea [affectionate]

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Spiny Slender Toad (Ansonia spinulifer), family Bufonidae, Sarawak, Borneo (East Malaysia)

photograph by http://OrionHerpAdventure.com

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list of mammals that are bugs

1. jerboa.

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Spirit: Stallion of The Cimarron & the Indian Boarding Schools/Residential Schools allegory

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artists on tumblr stop fukcing lying to yourselves you never draw those sticks and circles when you sketch stuff out you just die and you know it

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Congo: The Genocide that implicates us all

Heavy fighting erupted in 2023 between the Congolese Army and several armed groups, most notably the M23 militia, escalating an already disastrous situation. Thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. At present, there are 7.1 million displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Violence of this scale is not without precedent, with the conflict in Eastern DRC leading to an approximate 6 million deaths since 1996.

In November 2023, an unidentified man in the capital Kinshasa set himself on fire while holding a sign reading “Stop the Genocide in Congo.” Another man, Cedrick Nianza, did the same in 2011 while shouting Congo na nga, Congo na nga (my Congo, my Congo).

Violence and conflict inflicted on the people in the Congo is not new. Over a century ago, one of the worst atrocities in recorded history occurred with King Leopold II’s genocide of 10 million African people to control the rubber trade during his colonial rule over Congo from 1885 to 1908.

The modern conflict includes ethnically motivated killings, which have been a frequent reality in Congo since the spillover from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi people occurring in their neighbor country Rwanda. Thirty years later, the M23 claims to defend the Tutsi from further acts of genocide.

Along with the ethnic divisions, the modern conflicts are fueled by a diverse constellation of internal, regional, and international actors with the essential factor driving the violence being control over resources.

Almost all new technology, especially what is described as ‘green tech,’ requires materials such as lithium, cobalt, copper, and tin. The Eastern regions of the DRC are rich in these materials – as well as in diamonds and petroleum – and are thus subject to fierce contestations by local militias, backed by foreign governments (such as Rwanda in the case of the M23 militia), and international capital. Those that mine for these materials experience horrible conditions, with many accounts of slave labor and child labor. These same minerals are bought by international companies and create technologies such as smart phones, laptops, electric vehicles, solar panels, ear pods, speakers – basically anything with a battery.

Many activists are calling for a boycott of new tech and insist that the transition to green technology – a phrase used to indicate a switch to more ecological forms of energy production – cannot be built with the blood of Congolese men, women, and children.

This is the third in a series visualizing genocides across the globe created by Hisham Rifai and Ayman Makarem. See the first two specials, Resisting Starvation in Gaza and ‘Zaghrouda’ in the Midst of the Sudan War below.

The artistic duo has also created the Revolution in Every Country comic series on revolutionary movement events and ideas in the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region.

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I will gift you the number 45 for dnd ask

45. Fengar of Thornhide

Race: Gnoll

Class: Life Cleric of the Suncatchers

Identity: Cis male, he/him/his/himself

Age: 26

Successor of Priestess Khevrish, sent away to train himself on the land and deepen his connection with the Suncatchers.

His mother gifted him her old war axe as a gift to protect himself, despite him being a hunter/gatherer all his lie and never really receiving any formal training with weaponry. He trains every day, and hopes that he's getting better at it to make her proud.

Being chosen as the priestess' successor has brought him a lot of stress, as his clan's clerics are traditionally all female, and he was chosen after he had already passed his coming of age ceremony. He constantly wonders if he's supposed to be the right choice.

He longs for the cranberry marshes, it was his favorite thing to take care of back home.

He doesn't regret letting someone who crossed him and his best friend walk into their own death.

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reblog for sample size !!