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This is just sad: More than a month after testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford is still getting death threats. Now, her lawyers said in a statement to NPR on Thursday, “Justice Kavanaugh ascended to the Supreme Court, but the threats to Dr. Ford continue.” Because of the abuse she’s receiving, Ford has had to move four times. She can’t go to work as a professor at Palo Alto University, and it’s unclear when she’ll be able to return, according to NPR. She needs a private security detail. Like so much about the hearings and their aftermath, the threats send a message to survivors, especially if they are women: If you speak up, you will be punished. It’s an old message, but one that’s just as powerful in the #MeToo era as it was for years before. The only thing more powerful might be the voices of survivors themselves.

Beethoven — Fur Chiken

You did this.

Marina & the Diamonds performing at the YouTube At Coppertank SXSW Showcase at The Belmont on March 19, 2015

literally how can you hate this masterpiece 

omfg

Akanksha Gajria: 2016 Festive Collection

HONK HHOOOOOONK!

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And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

the lion king 2: simba’s pride (1998) soundtrack