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This Black History Month, reflect for a moment on the fact that George Washington Carver, famously "the inventor of peanut butter and more than 100 industrial uses for peanuts" wasn't, like, Doc Brown fucking around in his garage because he really liked peanuts but was specifically trying to introduce larger use of a nitrogen fixing legume into crop rotations against cotton monoculture which was destroying yields, livelihoods and the biosphere, and how most agribusiness farming now just destroys that topsoil on purpose and continues to grow a cotton monoculture (or soy or corn or whichever local monoculture is profitable) using petrochemical derived fertilizer, which is one element driving climate change

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.

WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that "the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars" was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.

I feel like so often when we look at Black History Month so much of it is driven by factoids but when taken as history in context its about a direct line from decades and centuries to what is happening right now.

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guy sitting in front of me in class was vandalizing wikipedia and i kept reverting his edits as soon as he made them and he couldn't figure out why it was happening

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Here’s a good one

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my watery friend... are you too brushed with the pattern of the dappled light...?

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The Randomizer

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hey just a heads-up im gonna be overhauling some of my tags for your blacklisting pleasures etc.

ive been on tumblr so long that a few of my tags are aimed at tumblr savior (which, to the best of my knowledge, no longer exists)

so now whenever i post with a tag like "snakes for ts" it looks like im saying snakes for taylor swift which, as hilarious as that sounds, is not the intent behind the tag

so going forward all of my warn tags are gonna simply end in cw for "content warning"

so for example it will say something like "snakes cw"

please adjust your blacklists accordingly if it's needed

that's all!

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Warding off the oncoming depressive episode by reading about very old tortoises

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love when a mutual has a new blorbo and they keep putting posts on my dash that are completely incomprehensible. it's like watching a friend win a game show in a language I don't speak. I don't have a fucking clue what's happening to you but it's nice to see you happy

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OPEN RP

“Hey guys, I picked up some snacks from the corner store today. Would anyone like some.“

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Three Swans in Flight by David Lloyd Evans

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Not to be that person, but if you remember this, how's that newfound back pain going for ya babe

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travis fucking with matt while passing his character sheets to tal