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Liberia Made 🇱🇷 IG: _king_ang_ mr_innis _theeise1

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Beyoncé interviews Pink [MTV Movie Awards]

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me: don’t catch feelings 

me: *catches feelings* 

me to me: 

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Watch: ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Trailer

Watch: ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Trailer

Jimmy Kimmel was first to premiere the worldwide exclusive trailer debut for Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, check it out above. The film arrives in theaters May 2016, and stars Chris Evans as Captain America, who finds himself feuding with Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, a tension that leaves the Avengers in turmoil.

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petition to rename the usa ‘south canada’

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You Know You Grew Up on Disney Movies If…

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Nola was born in the southern savanna woodlands of Sudan. In the mid-1970s she was captured to protect her from poachers, and in 1989 she moved to the San Diego Zoo. She shared her enclosure with buffalo, giraffes and gazelles, and enjoyed daily belly scratches. 

In 1990, a male rhinoceros named Angalifu joined Nola in San Diego, but she wasn’t interested in him. After hormone treatments, she mated with another male named Saut, but never became pregnant.

Saut died in 2004. Angalifu died last year. Nola was getting older, and suffering from a bacterial infection. Yesterday the zoo announced:

In the last 24 hours, Nola’s condition worsened and we made the difficult decision to euthanize her. We’re absolutely devastated by this loss, but resolved to fight even harder to #EndExtinction.

With the death of Nola this weekend, the northern white rhinoceros inches closer to true extinction. But it became extinct in the wild 2008, and the remaining rhinos have all been to old to breed for several of years. Still, there are plans to resurrect the subspecies using a preserved egg and sperm. The San Diego Zoo’s Institute has pledged $2 million to this difficult project. 

And there is reason to be hopeful. A cousin subspecies, the southern white rhino, has seen its population blossom from 20 to 20,000 in the last century thanks to the intervention of humans. 

Want to learn more? Check out this article by my friend (and housemate) Sarah Kaplan.

Image credits: Jeff Keaton, Make it Kenya, Ernst Schäfer, Colin P. Groves et al, TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images 

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People seem to forget...

Aries: That you are friendly, you're the one that runs up to someone you love just to hug them, you give the best bear hugs! You put your whole heart into it, and friendliest person at first impression, enthusiastic? Hell yeah, friendly? Yes most definitely.

Taurus: That you are wise, like an owl peering out hiding behind this sweetness, I know you are I've heard you talk, you're wise! You have such a thoughtful way of looking at things and thinking, and so patient, that is wisdom.

Gemini: That you are loving, that when you let someone into your life you love them with every part of your body, you care and you treat them with respect, any person who becomes a part of your life should know how special they are.

Cancer: That you are brave, that your sensitivity is not just to what people say but to how much you feel! So much more then most people, and you deal with it you push through it, you are strong and you are brave for going through this everyday, for allowing to feel what you feel, that's bravery.

Leo: That you are genuine, that you don't just run around playing games all day, you aren't just a show off you aren't just careless, when someone receives a compliment from you, you mean it you don't say it just in spite of them, you are a genuine person you care genuinely for those around you, you are so much more then just someone craving attention.

Virgo: That you are sweet, one of the sweetest in fact, you can be critical you can be judging but I know you listen better then anyone and I know you care more then most, you have a huge sweet spot for those near and dear to you and you would never try to hurt them, you only come from a space of love that sometimes comes off harsher then intended.

Libra: That you are elegant, I'm not sure why this isn't remembered because you have a beautiful grace to the way you move, you are not just a flirt you are a flower dancing along, a treasure a thoughtful sweet beauty who moves with intention and grace, I promise you are a lovely one with so much more to you then just making others smile.

Scorpio: That you are emotional, you carry so many emotions, you are thoughtful and loving, you don't show it often, and I get why! Emotions are terrifying but you have them there and when you share it it comes out so thoughtfully, so dark and heavy with how much you've been holding. Whoever gets to hear your deepest thoughts and feelings is the most important person in your life.

Sagittarius: That you do love, though it is hard for you because freedom and independency is your life, your family is immensely important to you and if you ever give your heart to someone they will have you for life, you may not trust or attach to people often, but when you do it is the strongest form of love.

Capricorn: That you are kind, that you always try your best when giving an honest answer to tell them kindly, that when you talk to someone you try and talk kindly, softly, lovingly, you have a hard time expressing it because you have such a tough exterior but you have such a soft spot for love, and you care for others, strangers or not, you don't want to hurt them.

Aquarius: That you are an artist, it doesn't mean you paint or draw or write, but that your mind is a piece of art that you see the world in a whole other form, you are art, you have a creative way of doing everything, and anything you choose to do you will do it artistically.

Pisces: That you are honest, that though you are one of the sweetest signs you hardly ever lie, you give the most sincere and honest answers to the those who ask, to those who are close and you love, honesty is your policy you only want to give the most thought out and truthful response you can, I think people forget you are honest because it comes off so nice it doesn't sound like an honest truth it just sounds like a kind response.

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I crave touch, yet I flinch every time someone is close enough.

I have become rather fearful I suppose. (via cactuslungs)

this quote makes me cringe, because it’s so relevant.

(via yellowmodelchiiick)

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