into the void

like did you know that trees lower the surface temperature by up to 19° and grass by up to 24°... access to green space is access to safety in a climate crisis and it is a massive site of inequality because poorer areas tend to have less green space and thus get hotter. urban trees are an equality issue as well as a climate issue. sorry it's not a magic bullet that solves everything but sometimes you need to pick an issue that helps a bit and focus on that. this might not be yours. it's likely going to be mine in the future when my health issues allow me to take it on. if we each pick a thing we can make a difference

Basically, if you say "this historical thing is a human universal", ask yourself, did it also happen in the Americas? Because the Americas developed thousands of years of civilization completely independent from Eurasia. Many of those broad claims about earliest "human" history and civilization are based on the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Not even China or India are considered most of the time, let alone Africa or the Americas or Oceania, which had multiple different independent origins of agriculture and social organization.

id suggest adding australia specifically as another essential component of any complete anthropological history, since its cultures were more or less self-contained for many, many thousands of years before colonization and developed all sorts of systems and lifestyles that conflict with a euro- or eurasia-centric view of history

sources say there are muscles in the back of my neck. and they want to kill me

not only are most people completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in the americas, most people are completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in europe. never mind occitan, they don't know about basque! it's wild! bleak! existentially horrifying!!!

did you know france has celtic languages? breton is the only celtic language spoken outside of the british isles. did you know france has germanic languages? alsatian, for example, is spoken in the east of france, unsurprisingly in alsace. it's not even the only french germanic language. did you know france has a number of languages and dialects known as langues d'oïl closely related to french? norman and picard, for example, are spoken in the north of france. did you know that france has gallo-romance languages? franco-provençal (which has a number of dialects) is spoken in the east of france, as well as parts of switzerland and italy. did you know that france has a language most closely related to catalan, the langues d'oc? occitan is spoken in the south of france and has a rich literary history. did you know france is home to basque, or rather euskara, a language isolate which predates indo-european languages? romani dialects! corsican! so much more than just french! there are even extinct jewish dialects of occitan! extinct langues d'oïl like angevin! so much linguistic diversity and all anyone talks about is french.

I firmly believe had they added 5 or 7 minutes to the second half of the extra time instead of just three, cabo verde would have tied the match u.u

okay Egypt….you must carry the flame

ghana i don’t even have the words right now but like you actually genuinely HAVE to kill yourself for africa

vozinha should have just taken that ball down the field and scored it himself

cabo verde worked argentina straight down to the bone and had them scrambling for their lives until the very end of overtime. even though they didn't win i am so happy for them bc i know people will be talking about this match and the team's overwhelming tenacity for the rest of the cup

Tonight, we are all Cabo Verdeans