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Vintage wind-up toy bear (USSR, 1920s-30s)

#i look like this

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every single of my spotify daylists is some variation of this like they really called me weird as fuck lonely and sad and grieving . sure whatever

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Banyan Tree with an attached 16th Century Terracotta Temple, Antpur, West Bengal, India

photo by Laura McPhee

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these are my two favourite books about the history of south asians in malaya/malaysia, the first focusing on south asian migration and settlement in malaya and the latter focusing on sikh migration and settlement across southeast asia. my family are 5th gen malaysian sikhs so both of these books have been really influential to me

the first book focuses a lot more on the tamil and other south indian communities of malaya (naturally, given that they are the majority of malaysian indians) while detailing the places where the status of various north indian communities in malaya were similar and different to those of south indians due to a variety of colonial economic practices. malaysia as an independent country was established in 1957 and this book was published in 1969 so as expected it doesn't go much into post-merdeka life.

the second goes into not just punjabi sikhs in malaya but across seasia, detailing histories and experiences of sikh communities in indonesia, thailand, laos, cambodia, philippines, and elsewhere. reading about sikh communities in other southeast asian countries and noticing similarities and differences between us is really cool. of course, the chapters on the malaysian sikh community are particularly fascinating to me.

first title is 'indians in malaya: immigration and settlement 1786-1957' by kernial singh sandhu and the second is 'sikhs in southeast asia: negotiating an identity' edited by shamsul ab and arunajeet kaur

#ive only ever found these at irl bookstores in malaysia #i have no idea what it would be like trying to get these outside of seasia #but if u are seasian or sikh or whatever and want a chapter from any of these msg me and i can try to scan them for you

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#police brutality #medical abuse

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The Night of Counting the Years. Dir. Shadi Abdel Salam. 1969.

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All the reports coming from Rafah from the early hours of April 29 are literally identical: "Israel targeted the house of [family name]"

The same title, over and over again.

All within a couple of hours last night, three family homes in Rafah have been struck, killing at least 20, the majority of whom are women and children.

We now know about Project Lavender and we know about Israel's constant surveillance of Gaza so when I tell you that Israel had targeted civilian homes last night in Rafah, you know that there is absolutely no room for questioning Israel's intent here and always.

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Coats of some British and Icelandic sheep breeds:

Greyface Dartmoor; Cheviot; Icelandic; Beulah; Cotswold; Welsh Mountain; Suffolk; Southdown; and British Milksheep.

#icelandic and greyface dartmoor 🤎🤎🤎 #i luv longwools

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picturing a roman empire equivalent of reactionaries who say "if you don't like it here then move somewhere else"

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i’ve been known to tilt my head like a puppy so what

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ok i’m curious

#🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎 brown heart fuck u guys #0.3%....

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My family visited me and we went to the coast

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Someone messaged me to tell me they had small boobs and then blocked me

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"late stage capitalism"?

You mean imperialism?

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HELPGAZACHILDREN!!!!!

Med @fairuzfan’s blog got terminated by tumblr which is obviously unjust for all the people who rely on them for resources on Palestine, but it now leaves Hussam’s helpgazachildren donation drive without a point of communication, and has deleted all previous information Med had shared about the drive.

Please remember to keep donating to helpgazachildren as Hussam’s hard work getting resources to families in Gaza should not have to be hindered while Med is working on getting their blog back 🤍🇵🇸

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Untitled by Yasuhiro Zama