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Every website uses a language called JavaScript; long story short it’s a website language that allows developers to do the crazy shit you see on websites. Now the easiest thing to do is to disable JavaScript to stop them from knowing you have an adblocker:

Oh no! I’m blocked from viewing the website. It would be a terrible shame if I were able to right click and select the “inspect” feature

Click the three dots in the top right and open the “Settings” Menu

And then scrolled down to “Debugger” and checked the “Disable Javascript Option”

And then just refreshed the page

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

you might have heard about the amazonian rain forest in the news lately. maybe not, maybe so. most likely the former, because the media has decided to neglect to show that the forest that provides us 20% of the oxygen we breathe has been on fire for more than three weeks straight. são paulo, brazil’s largest city that’s over 2,000 kilometers away from the amazon, have seen massive black smoke and ashes clouding over their city, and its only going to get worse from here.

the president of brazil, who is outright ignoring what has been going on, has been funneling money towards lobbyists and industrial companies, and in turn draining from the environmental agencies that protect the rainforest. president bolsonaro had the director of the INPE fired after he defended scientific proof that deforestation was 88% higher in june that it was last year, claiming he was telling “lies”. he’s done nothing in response to the fires. no funds. no nothing.

greenpeace petition to protect indigenous lands

change.org petition to start an investigation to discover the cause of the fire

rainforest action network’s ‘protect an acre’ program

worldwide fund for nature (wwf) program against climate crisis and towards protecting species

rainforest trust

amazon watch

amazon conservation association

amazon conservation team

here’s also an article you might find useful if you know very little about what’s going on.

please spread this. pressure governments into taking action. force the media to cover the news. donate if you can and reblog anyways. send the petitions links to everyone you know. do something.

@rhombu I try to be careful not to share identifying information about the professors whose shenanigans get shared on this blog. Since his name is on his book, and names are kind of identifying, I checked to make sure it was okay to tell y'all:

HERE IT IS.

The Diverging Family Tree of Indo-European Languages.