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anti-faschismus:

“Jews did not join the partisans as a normal act of choice. We were forced to fight the Nazis to save ourselves from extermination. We took the gun in our hands in a desperate situation, when our parents, brothers and sisters were murdered, when children were grabbed from their mothers and sent to their gruesome death. We fought in order to survive; we fought against fascism, which was our enemy, the enemy of all democratic forces and the enemy of Lithuania.

The activity of the Jewish partisans was self-defense — in the face of the most overwhelming instance of genocide in human history. In contrast to Lithuanian collaborators, who volunteered to put to death their unarmed civilian Jewish neighbors, and Soviet collaborators, who also volunteered to kill and oppress the Lithuanians, the Jewish partisans’ aim was not to kill anyone, not to ‘inherit’ the property of a murdered people, but to fight our common enemy.”

-Sara Ginaite, a native of Kaunas, was incarcerated in the Kovno (Kaunas) Ghetto and lost almost her entire family in the Holocaust. She escaped into the forests and joined the anti-Nazi partisans. After the war, she was a professor of political economy at Vilnius University for almost twenty-five years before emigrating to Canada in 1983. She published ten books in Vilnius and another two in Toronto,where she taught social science at York University. She was instrumental in arranging for Yad Vashem to honor a Lithuanian family that saved a Jewish child during the Holocaust and has recently negotiated exchange student agreements between Vilnius and Toronto Universities. Her best-known work on the Holocaust is Resistance and Survival: The Jewish Community of Kaunas, 1941-1944 (2005).

#history #holocaust #WWII #badass women of history

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okay americans i gotta ask because as an European i grew up with lots of american shows and cartoons and in a lot of them there was an episode where they give the protags a doll or an egg or a bag of flour or whatever and told them pretend to be its parents or something

#I’m Canadian but I know at least one school here gave students those dolls with sensors in them #because back in when my house was a rager house party hotspot someone came with one of the dolls and it became a group project #it was very funny to watch a bunch of extremely drunk and high teens try to stop this stupid doll from crying #only time I saw someone bring homework to a rager #polls

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Dolphin playing with bubble rings

#dolphins

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#been smoking since I was I think 17? fairly sure I started before I ever drank and didn’t do that til half an hour before I turned legal #which is 18 here #so like for 12 years but only full on addicted for eight #don’t smoke or whatever #polls

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#elephants

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#SPACE #I was pretty psyched when I heard it was working again ngl

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#four times if you count the correspondence courses I tried to do one semester #I dropped out of 9th grade repeatedly #I’m neurodivergent but that was only like… 45% of why the rest was my physical health #polls

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x

#Buffy the Vampire Slayer #Buffy Summers #Faith Lehane

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Photograph of a sketch of Upper Fort Garry by an unknown artist. The photo is dated 1872, but the date of the sketch itself, and the scene it shows, is unknown

#Winnipeg #art #history

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my all-time favorite etymological discovery is that brunch dates to the 1890s

my second-favorite etymological discovery is that they also had "blunch," which, despite their pleas, we have Forgotten

#it’s really good I never heard the word blunch as a child or my whole family would now exclusively call it that #history

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#I go with ‘I have 14 grandparents’

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#nah #polls

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The building of rage

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Aerial view of Portage and Main, 1979. Taken by Hugh Allen. Photo via the Winnipeg Archives

#Winnipeg #history

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before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

#mutual and I have obviously reblogged #polls

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If you are watching a TV show, it can be live action or animated.

But not when you're reading a book. Much to think about.

#I cannot picture things beyond an impression in the vague shape of what I’m thinking of and that takes effort #but I do have a very good audio imagination I guess so characters get their own distinct voices that I invent #polls

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That fucking island. Makes you do shit you don't wanna do. How is it we haven't figured that out by now? ★ ANNE BONNY

#Black Sails #Anne Bonny