A young British boy reading outside the ruins of a bookshop after suffering bomb damage during the Blitz.
London - October 8, 1940.
Book lovers will survive!
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British royal family refused to flee London during the Blitz, instead choosing to endure the horrific bombings and support the common people during a time of crisis. The Buckingham Palace suffered 9 direct hits, and the royal family earned adoration and respect from across the country.
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Here’s a fun fact and reminder that I am not gonna stop posting about as long as I keep seeing this bullshit:
Dear Americans, identifying as a communist is just as offensive as being a literal nazi in a very big part of the world. The hammer and sickle is an offensive symbol that is banned in many countries, just like the swastika. Likely more people died under communist oppression than nazism, and there are people still alive who can tell you about it.
And no, don’t come at me with all this “but the core ideology was good!!” or especially “here we do not have this connotation so it’s not offensive!”. Your media, culture and standards are forced on the entirety of the rest of the world, and whatever you post in english is understandable for everyone else, if I am decent enough to care about issues like blackface (that literally have zero history in eg. my entire country which was never a colonizing nation), you should be decent enough and not make a hip cool internet trend about an oppressive ideology whose victims still remember the horrors and still suffer the consequences :)
Thanks and don’t be surprised if you see this reposted by me again, chances are I saw another fucking idiot who thinks communism is cool uwu it was just never done right, Lenin was a bae uwu glitter rainbow hammer and sickle :3
my grandmother fled with her 4 year old and a fistful of jewelry because the communist regime in hungary was literally that bad
“ohhhh but communism is about EVERYONE being able to go to fancy restaurants!” they actually shot a bunch of peaceful student protesters in front of the capital’s university over the living conditions but sure
i don’t have patience for these assholes anymore
The Russian communist party took the entirety of my ethnicity, forced them out of their homes at gunpoint, locked them in unheated train cars in the middle of winter, and forced them to “””resettle””” in Kazakhstan. Between the trip and first few years of starvation and disease, roughly one hundred thousand died, about half of which were children.
They then let us return to our homeland 12 years later….
and treated us like second class citizens; they took our land, our generational wealth, our culture, our freedom, our families, and future economic and educational opportunities.
Much to his surprise…
Siegfried Meinstein, a 94-year-old World War II vet, just wants to pay his taxes. The IRS won’t let him though. They say he’s dead, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Siegfried Meinstein discovered that he was dead in April. He seems to be handling the news well.“It isn’t really a problem in my daily life,” he said, sitting at a table in his Upper Arlington assisted-living facility. “Everybody accepts my money.”
This probably requires a little more explanation, so here it is: The Internal Revenue Service thinks 94-year-old Meinstein bought the farm, bit the big one, took a permanent vacation.
Meinstein has taken the news of his death with a bit of humor.
And despite his family’s best efforts, the IRS hasn’t changed its mind.
“If they keep insisting, what is it you say?” Ron Meinstein asked his dad. “‘Eventually, they’ll be right?’”
The debate over Meinstein’s existence began when an accountant attempted to file the elder Meinstein’s taxes online in April. The return was denied. The Social Security Administration had listed the filer as dead, the IRS said.
Sure, Meinstein is a little worse for wear, nursing the hip he broke while emerging from a swimming pool. But the man sitting at the table, the German-born World War II vet with the carefully parted silver hair, hasn’t conceded anything.
“He’s very much alive!” says a fellow resident in the senior community where Meinstein keeps an apartment full of pictures of his late wife.
Meinstein has still been unable to prove to the IRS he is, in fact, alive.
oh my god
You look me in the eye and tell me this isn’t important
That jaguar is so tall compared to the ocelot. So cute!
I need to know if these cats are being sold into the the pet trade or not
Nope! These little kitties are from black jaguar white tiger foundation, a big cat rescue and sanctuary, and the man in the video is Eduardo Serio. He regularly gets orphaned cubs and cubs rescued from the pet trade, when the zoos don’t have enough room. He doesn’t normally socialize with them like this but the margay and jaguar cubs here had already imprinted on humans and can no longer survive in the wild, so he’s been raising them
OHHHHHH CUTIES….
booklingnerd asked:
Hey! I just saw your comments on the octopus video, and was not entirely aware that some octopus change colour! You mentioned white was generally a fear reaction, but I would like to know any other colours they change to! Like when they’re happy, sad, excited and curious ect! Thank you!
bunjywunjy answered:
that’s a question with a complicated answer, stand by!
so the thing about octopuses is that they have not only one of the most powerful color-change abilities on the face of the planet, (they can become almost ANY color/pattern, thanks to skin cells called chromatophores that act like pixels on tv screen!) but they ALSO have the ability to change their skin texture or entire fucking shape thanks to their nature as a boneless mollusc. they use these abilities together to become the greatest stealth master on Planet Earth, the phantom of the sea!
but aside from using this chameleon superpower for absolute ninja bullshit, the octopus’s color changing seems to have an emotional component! though it’s hard to tell exactly what an octopus is feeling, because they’re so different from us apes over here in Homonidae that they might as well be fucking aliens.
however, decades of first-hand observations have given us some clues as to what’s going on in there.
if an octopus suddenly turns dark, it’s an expression of AGGRESSION/ANGER
and conversely, if an octopus suddenly turns pale/white, it’s an expression of FEAR/DISTRESS
(tentacles curling up is also a sign that an octopus is Having A Bad Time.)
we don’t know all that much about these badass little goop dudes, but we’re learning more everyday! (in the meantime, BE NICE TO YOUR LOCAL OCTOPUS and PLEASE DO NOT HURL THEM INTO BOATS, thank you.)
Thank you! I’m just generally interested in these cute lil (sometimes big) bags of brain, and they’re very interesting! I’m not qualified at all or even have that much knowledge about them, but they’re still a fave for me! Thanks for letting me know about distress and anger! Here’s a gif of what I assume is an octopus being curious-ish! (Bc no black or white!)
yeah that is tentative curiosity! octopuses are at least as curious about us as we are about them. who knows what they think of us?
Audrey Hepburn’s bio reads like someone’s OC “her mother is a baroness, she collaborated with the resistance during WWII as a teenager and escaped arrest from the Nazis by hiding in an empty basement for a month, she was discovered by a super famous director and won an Oscar for her first movie, she became America’s sweetheart and fashion icon overnight, she’s best friends with Hubert Givenchy and Gregory Peck, she danced with Fred Astaire, she has a pet deer, she speaks five languages, and she completely devotes herself to helping indigent children on personal tours”
Time to play a game of “SJW” or “Nazi”
“Don’t mix races.”
“That doesn’t belong to our culture, don’t use it.”
“The world would be better without that race, honestly.”
“That race is responsible for every massive crime in the world.”
I’m going to guess “Donald Trump” for all of them.
Reblogging again because you can never have enough Nazi flag ripping on your blog.
petalier