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Just a Ginger in Braids

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A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting. Welcome to my world, take a load off.
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nubbsgalore

photos by gerry ellis from the david sheldrick wildlife trust, a nursery and orphanage for elephants in kenya’s tsavo east national park. here, fifty five keepers are charged with being around the clock parents to an elephant. the elephants, however, are the ones who chose their caretakers; it is the keepers who must ingratiate themselves to the elephants and earn their trust.

when elephants first arrive at the orphanage they are often traumatized from having witnessed the slaughter of their mothers and family by poachers. grieving can last several months, and they often lose the will to live. but as dame daphne sheldrick, founder of the orphanage, explains, a caretaker is charged with “persuading an elephant to live when it wants to die.”

approximately 35,000 elephants are killed by humans every year. with an estimated 350,000 elephants left in the whole continent of africa, they will be gone in the wild within ten years.

cbc’s the nature of things did a program on the elephants and their caretakers. you can foster an elephant with the david sheldrick wildlife trust online here. for more on the emotional lives of elephants, as well as the david sheldrick wildlife trust and other human efforts to save the animals, check out these posts

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…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn’t that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.

Dr. Bettany Hughes on women’s absence from history, and the ways historians need to actively put women back into the narrative.  (via thepoliticalnotebook)

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museifushindoushugi

the truth is out there, and its in the heart of downtown toronto

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because-im-freaking-greed

what the actual fuck

this is toronto’s cultural pride and joy and it is slowly being consumed by an alien spacecraft

A significant portion of the city looks like this actually. Toronto’s aesthetic seems to be “real old buildings being devoured by real new buildings.” And like sometimes you have houses that look like a 12 year old’s first minecraft build sorta jammed between Victorian era stone houses it’s real fuckin weird

I feel like ocad and the ago should be added to this because holy shit toronto’s buildings are weird as fuck

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brambledboneyards

THESE LOOK LIKE VIDEO GAME GLITCHES ARE WE SURE TORONTO ISN’T SECRETLY A GIANT GLITCH IN THE MATRIX??

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ayellowbirds

What i’m getting from this is that Toronto is home to Missingno.

speaking of bad buildings

they seemed to have not centred the u of t sign in the glass, decided to just say screw it and extend it off the building and then add a solid O at the end just to add to that toronto aesthetic™

realtalk it looks like someone took a counter strike map and just started adding random brushes everywhere

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