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• Women's boots with red lacing.

Date: ca. 1900

i spilled pasta in my backpack and got so mad that i made a traumacore edit about it

Okay I know accessibility devices are never one-size-fits-all and that there’s a use case for these somewhere, but I can’t stop imagining trying to talk to someone at a party and they look at you and move the level down a few ticks

I was told we were all going to see it.. I don't know how much would be revealed

An education for sure .. I only knew that ford kept stealing and sabotaging other people's automotive inventions but not this too

Africa's Path to Economic Independence

After half a century of decolonization, Africa remains mostly dependent on its former colonial powers for economic sustenance and assistance. Political independence has yet to materialize into economic independence. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah famously once declared "Africa must unite or perish." History has shown what he said many decades ago to be true. He believed that if the continent were to survive, Africa must become a united force under the sentiment of national progress. Some have argued the time has never been this ripe, since Africa's post-independence leaders dreamed of continental unity. Between 1965-1985 there were sixty successful military coups in Africa, that is an average of two every year. Today, democracy, however currently flawed and imperfect in some regions of the continent is increasingly the norm. The integration project which generation after generation of people on the continent have long cherished should no longer remain an elusive goal. There are two main obstacles preventing Africa from entering the phase of self-reliant development: Irrational fragmentation from a casual dividing of the continent into incoherent real estates of the Africans and dependence on foreign donors to finance development. People on the continent today understand better than ever before that their small economies can only improve and compete if they permit free movements of people, goods, services and knowledge through their borders. The fact is that none of the countries in post-colonial Africa is economically, socially, and politically standing steady and making the sort of progress one could describe seriously as developmental, so reason behooves continental and economic integration. The only way Africa can become a force to be reckoned with is to bring together its vast resources and dismantle its artificial boundaries. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah referenced this issue in his address to his fellow comrades that just as they understood the shaping of their national destinies required each of them their political independence, so they must recognize that their economic independence resides in their African union and requires the same concentration upon the political achievement. In other words, political independence is not enough to rid the continent of the consequences of colonial rule. The existing boundaries of 54 nation states in Africa today, are by and large a direct product of the machinations of the Berlin Conference of 1884, which partitioned the continent among the European powers. It is a great folly for people to continue to cherish and embrace such artificial boundaries drawn to serve the political and economic interests of others. Africa is still a sleeping economic giant despite its many decades of being exploited by other forces. Africa is the future because it has its natural resources almost virgin unlike other parts of the world. The detractors who take the continent's gold and diamonds in exchange for guns are busy exploiting to the extent of foolishly committing atrocities in some regions of the continent. If Africa remains divided or balkanized, the exploitation will continue. The hoi polloi on the continent can see hope in fighting abject poverty, corruption and mismanagement by bringing their vast resources together. Leaders on the continent who feel too important to relinquish political power to give way to unity have outlived their usefulness. The masses must speak for unity and push aside such decadent leaders.

Source: Africa's Path to Economic Independence

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Just watched a spider try and fail to spin a centipede. Best wishes girl

The enemy of my enemy?? Wow

Got reminded again of my old coworker who was a massive misogynist but also trans inclusive. Told me he believed trans women are indeed women because "only women would be stupid enough to want to be women"

I wonder what he's doing now

“Get his ass” Is so unreasonably funny to me. A huge win for the English language. Today’s version of “seize him” imo

Lol the unspoken

I love this

So valuable

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

In Ancient Rome, there were four types of poisons.

Poisons I, II, and III were deadly, but Poison IV just made you really itchy.

Loft talk Pt. There's only one bed 🐦‍⬛🎨

Sylus, in Rafayel’s bed: Morning… how’d ya sleep last night?

Rafayel, knocking Sylus off: WHAT THE HELL?!

Sylus: Ow—

Rafayel: What were you doing in my bed? You were supposed to sleep on the air mattress on the floor!

Sylus: I had a nightmare.

Rafayel: You had a nightmare? What are you, five years old?

Sylus: Listen, I needed to feel comfortable and I was getting this perverse power dynamic vibe from me sleeping on the floor and you sleeping up there-

Rafayel, in a royal accent: Why yes, how high and mighty I am up on my twin XL!

Sylus: That is not what I meant—

Rafayel: Silence in the presence of your king, who sleeps a lofty twelve and a half inches above the ground!

Sylus: Listen, I’m not ashamed. I slept comfortably when I got up on your bed and I’m sure you did too.

Rafayel: Yeah, okay-

Sylus: You know what? I wanna know. How’d you sleep last night?

Rafayel: …That was the best I’ve slept in a while.

Sylus, gasping: The king slept comfortably with a peasant in his bed!

Rafayel: I did not consent to this-

Sylus, dramatically: But my liege, our love is forbidden!

Rafayel, on the phone: Hi, is this the front desk? Yeah, there’s a bed bug in my room and he’s six-foot-two, he’s got white hair.

I want to tell a story to the artists and would-be artists out there.

When I was 19, I made a large oil painting of the nerd I would eventually marry. I poured all my attention and care into this painting. It's the only art I have from back then that still holds up as a work I'm proud of today.

I entered it into a judged show at the local art center. It got an honorable mention. I went to see the show with my beloved model. One of the judges came up to talk to me, and highlighted that all the judges really liked the painting. It would have placed, except, you see, the feet were incorrect. They were too wide and short, and if I just studied a bit more anatomy-

I called over my future wife, and asked her to take off her shoe. Being already very used to humoring me, she did. The judge looked at her very short, very wide little foot. Exactly as I'd lovingly rendered it. I would never edit her appearance in any way.

The judge looked me in the eye, and to his credit, he really looked like he meant it when he said "Oh I'm so sorry."

Anyways the moral of the story is that all of those anatomy books that teach you proportions are either showing you averages, or a very specific idea of an idealized body. Actual bodies are much more varied than that.

So don't forget to draw from observation, and remember that humans aren't mass produced mannequins. Delight in our variation. Because it's supposed to be there.

When the thing you like is also killing you

The second time this happened, MC is prepared.

MC, at Sylus' funeral: I need a moment with him.

Everyone: Of course. *They leave*

MC, leaning over Sylus' coffin: Okay, listen here you little shit. I know you’re not dead.

Sylus: Yeah, no shit.

I went there while I could so I didn't have to wonder after I left. It was somehow everything I had hoped and less than I expected.

Sometimes you dont know..you just know you can..and you can't tell people before hand

Genius cat

I gave up.. I stopped pretending I wasnt in constant consort with nature. That she asked the trees to tell me about the sunset so I would go and see it .

That she told the wind to tell me I'd need a jacket

I stopped pretending I didnt see and hear and I started taking her advice

And it felt like a relief.

Stopped resisting the love

The help

the comfort.

I started saying thanks

How can I help

😅

Damn boy, are you a piñata?

Because I’m going to need a blindfold to hit that

reading the wiki for the american psycho movie every single thing it’s saying about christian bale has me in tears …….. he literally wanted the role so bad he got that buff in two weeks, rejected every other offer for 9 months while the producers tried to get dicaprio to be patrick bateman bc bale knew dicaprio would chicken out, went to dinner with the director and the guy who wrote the novel IN CHARACTER apparently scaring the shit out of the novelist, took the role for $50k, and then made all his costars think he was a giant freak bc he never fucking broke character, and APARENTLY LITERALLY HAS CONTROL OVER HIS SWEAT GLANDS AND USED THIS IN THE BUSINESS CARD SCENE

On its own

Number one #trees #poppy

Gratitude

Take your pictures as if they are the first of many to come. Not the last

A really huge muscular guy with a bad stutter walks up to a counter in a department store and asks,

“W-w-w-where’s the m-m-m-men’s dep-p-p-partment?”

The clerk behind the counter just looks at him and says nothing.

The man repeats himself: “W-w-w-where’s the m-m-m-men’s dep-p-p-partment?”

Again, the clerk doesn’t answer him.

The guy asks several more times: “W-w-w-where’s the m-m-m-men’s dep-p-p-partment?”

And the clerk just seems to ignore him.

Finally, the guy storms away in anger after not being answered.

The customer who was waiting in line behind the muscular guy asks the clerk, “Why wouldn’t you answer that guy’s question?”

The clerk replies, “D-d-d-do you th-th-th-think I w-w-w-want to get b-b-b-beat up?!!”

Blossom Buddy

Rocked me to sleep..fully recommend

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