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in order to retain the respect and goodwill of my beloved mutuals i made an asoiaf sideblog @longclawliker420

update its @weirwoodsugar now actually

i hate when stores have signs that say “smile! you’re on camera!” like they think the panopticon is cute and funny

remember when u were a kid and the movies you could watch were limited to like. whatever was on tv at that moment and the like 4 VHS tapes you had. do not miss that

rb this and put in the tags what movie u watched over and over and over again as a kid. mine was the lion king

“Marge everything is corrupted by capital. Have you ever sat down and read this thing? Technically the way we close a car door is fascist.”

Storm over Silbury Hill, 2008, David Inshaw

Timeline.

Stage 1: A poisoning.

Stage 2: A poisoning.

Stage 3: A poisoning.

People die at every stage of the process: during the original extraction; during the use of the extracted material; and then during the eventual waste disposal.

1. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned, during the initial extraction and mining of uranium, living in the site worst affected by poisoning of groundwater, radiation, and mining. (Majority of US uranium mines in Four Corners region; radioactive soil; hundreds of unrepaired mines; poisoned streams; largest single radioactive waste disaster in US in 1979 located on Navajo land.)

2. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned during atomic bomb testing, living in the site worst affected by radiation after radioactive materials have been processed and manipulated. (Majority of nuclear weapons testing fallout and iodine-131 poisoning in Four Corners region.)

3. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned,  during the disposal of radioactive waste, living in the site worst affect by radiation after the uranium has been processed and profited from and then returned to mills in the Four Corners region. (Majority of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive uranium waste, even when processed or used elsewhere across the continent, is then shipped back and stored in Four Corners region.)

Meanwhile, none of the profit/“wealth” is shared with people living in the region, where access to groceries, drinking water, utilities, etc. is extremely limited.

Some “unrelated” maps just tossed together:

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Desert ecoregions get designated as empty “wastelands” and therefore available for domination and extraction. Then people die. People die at every stage of the process: during the original resource extraction; during the refining and use of the extracted material; and then during the eventual waste disposal.

Just my impression, idk.

[ID: Each map is of the United States, and has the Four Corners region (the meeting of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico) circled and/or emphasized on it by the data indicators. The map titles in order are: “Iodine-131 Deposits from 1953 A-Tests”, “Overlapping sites of both (1) uranium extraction and (2) exposure to the worst radiation from nuclear weapons testing”, “American Indian and Alaska Native Population”, “Radioactive waste storage sites” (2 maps here: first map is of the entire US, second map is zoomed in closer on the Western US), “Navajo Nation”, “The Uranium Legacy of the Western U.S.” (which is a map of abandoned uranium mines and ‘mine features’), “Activities of I-131 Deposited Per Unit Area of Ground: Test Series: Upshot-Knothole” (2 maps here: first map is labeled ‘Test: Harry’, second is labeled ‘Test: Simon’), “Uranium Resources of the United States”, “Per capita thyroid doses for the population of each county”, “More than a third of Americans are at risk of losing affordable drinking water”, “County Poverty Rate for the Untied States: 2013-2017”, “Approved Radioactive Waste Shipments for White Mesa Mill: 1993-2018”, “Radiation exposure from atomic weapons testing (Total, 1951-1970)”. End ID.]

I’m Christian and respect the order of creation as God intended it but I’m not gonna lie if I could take a massive vat of agar and grow an alive shopping mall made out of red blood and meat and feed it living human bodies to make it expand larger with more shops and amenities, Without hesitation, Without question I would do exactly that

i just feel at home on this website

ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.

“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole

i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok 

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that: 

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56 

- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:

“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380

- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441

- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:

“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71

- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source

- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:

“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here 

- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:

“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source

- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:

“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145

So to recap: 

Draw your own conclusions. 

Orange cats need to be named ‘just some guy’-esque names. I see orange cats that are named Patrick or Dave or Bob and I’m like “yeah, exactly”. My orange cat is named Tommy even though she’s a girl because she’s truly a Tommy.

Henry Croutons…..

trying not to bawl in class over henry croutons

Reuben Wilson ☝️

*sniffles* he is so beautifully remarkably silly

Cape black-backed jackals (Lupulella mesomelas mesomelas) Okavango Delta, Botswana

Photos by Scott Ableman

goop!!!

who are the most beautiful people you've ever seen and why are they your parents in pictures from when you were a baby

the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post

T Count: 15

Letter Count: 198

Your T Percentage: 7.58%

Average T Percentage: 6.95%

You used the letter T 1.09 times as much as average!

YOU EXIST???

Sometimes you create a guy and it turns out they already exist

Sometimes that guy has skills beyond your comprehension @identifying-cars-in-posts

1993-1997 Mazda 626

I love all the fun kinds of autism we get here

Frog hunter

The Spider by Nikolaos Gyzis (1884)

ged and tenar sketches

spotify users!!! tell me the fourth song in your second daily mix playlist... mine is bbyong by saturday hehehe