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    Alive, Anaconda, and Animals: i-should-be-writing-rn:

inlovewithaleheather:

thecuckoohaslanded:


gerbthenerd:

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thelizardprincess:


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swaglexander-the-great:


#That’s a#That’s a blue ringed octopus#You’re going to die do you realise that#It is literally one of the most deadly animals in the world#Not just in Australia or just in the ocean in THE WORLD#Put it DOWN#And go to a hospital jfc via platonic-rabbit 
me tryna find out if this fool died


“The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill twenty-six adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in.[8] No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean.”
Holy shit


And this is why I don’t go in the ocean anymore


Also the blue rings literally only show up when it is distressed so this person has angered it!!! You are in danger friend!!!


Actually this guy keeps them as pets they’re on his instagram (william_exotique) and he frequently holds then and I just? Don’t know why? And also every picture or video he posts of them shows the blue rings so they’re always in distress I just do not understand why he’s doing this



#AMY EXPLAIN HOW DUMB THIS GUY IS 
I mean OP pretty much covered it.  A blue ringed octopus is almost on the level of CONE SNAIL on the list of things you ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PICK UP UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
But ask and you shall receive,  On this episode of “Fun Facts With Cuckoo,” DEAD.  YOU’RE DEAD.  EVERYTHING IS DEAD AND YOU SHOULD NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING IN THE OCEAN EVER AGAIN.
There are many things that will kill you.

[citation needed]
There are fewer, but still many things that will kill you FAST.
There are yet fewer things that kill you fast and by such an overwhelming margin of overkill that nervous laughter is our only solace in the dark of this terrible, surprisingly Lovecraftian world of unearthly horrors that we live in.
Of the things that I know about which will kill you fast via just plain insultingly potent venom, which is a not insignificant number of things because I know a not insignificant number of things, there are about 3 things in the ocean – IN THE WHOLE OCEAN – which are so insanely, mind-bogglingly deadly that there is pretty much no possible hope for survival (I mean you CAN, but god help you if you’re ever in that situation, because god’s just about damn near the only thing that CAN help you).  THE. WHOLE. OCEAN.
Those three things are the Irukandji (a tiny (1cm) species of box jellyfish, which has stingers not only on its tentacles but on its BELL, for reasons no one has definitively figured out, and is so toxic despite its size its sting can cause a severe brain hemorrhage), the cone snail (a group of carnivorous sea snails that is accepted to be the most venomous animals on earth, with a STUPIDLY fast acting and extremely powerful neurotoxin that has in at least one case killed a human ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY, because the swimmer who found two beautiful shells (unfortunately cone snails tend to have very pretty shells which makes people want to pick them up) was holding them up for a picture and ended up being stabbed in the neck by not one but TWO cone snails at the same time, and it is believed that she was literally dead before she hit the ground, I mean LITERALLY in a 100% non-fictional and non-exaggerated way, in between the time the two cone snails stabbed her and the time her limp body hit the sand, she was not alive anymore), and the blue ringed octopus.
It is POSSIBLE to survive any of these.  But not without immediate medical attention.  Of these three, the Irukandji is by far the most treatable, because Australia and other coastal regions (including Florida and other parts of the US) are kind of experienced in dealing with box jellyfish.
The blue ringed octopus will fucking kill you.  There’s no antidote for their venom, ONE COMPONENT OF WHICH (tetrodotoxin) is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide.  It’s a powerful neurotoxin (most of the worst venoms are because the species that produce them need to kill or at least paralyze their prey quickly, like jellyfish whose fragile tentacles could be damaged if their food doesn’t stop struggling) that attacks the sodium channels and causes muscle paralysis.  It doesn’t necessarily kill you quickly.  It PARALYZES you quickly, so that you can’t really call for help or describe the problem, and you will probably end up slowly suffocating from a paralyzed diaphragm.  Tetrodotoxin can be metabolized by the body in a matter of hours, but it can also kill you in a matter of minutes if you get a lethal dose (which isn’t much, the 

LD50

 or median lethal dose, the dose at which you have a 50% chance of survival, is only 8 MICROGRAMS per kilogram of body weight (as tested in mice)).  This is, by venom standards, not a large amount, which means the animal that is capable of putting this venom inside your body is very very good at killing the absolute shit out of you.
DON’T TOUCH THE BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS.
Now, because overkill is my motto, let me briefly explain why Conus geographus is the undisputed champion of YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE, AND FURTHERMORE FUCK YOU FOR THINKING OTHERWISE.
A cone snail walks into a bar.  You’d expect the bartender to ask, “what’s your poison,” but they were paralyzed before they could ask and OH LOOK they’re already FUCKING DEAD ON THE GROUND.
Conus geographus is about 4-6 inches long and nature’s equivalent of Avada Kedavra.  Cone snails literally have their own KIND of toxins named after them: conotoxin.  Not only is there no antidote, but their venom AGGRESSIVELY RESISTS our ability to find a cure, because we barely understand how it works AND conotoxins are so internally varied, even within a single species, that any one antidote isn’t going to help because they’re constantly mutating and evolving their venom to prevent their prey from evolving a resistance to it.  Plus their venom is like, a bunch of different venoms all at once JUST IN CASE any one of them wasn’t good enough.
I want you to read these two sentences from the wiki page on conotoxin:
“Conotoxins have a variety of mechanisms of actions, most of which have not been determined.”


“The LD50 of conotoxin is 50 ng/kg.”
Remember how the 

LD50 of tetrodotoxin is 8μg/kg?  Conotoxin is 160 times more potent.  FIFTY NANOGRAMS PER KILOGRAM HAS A 50% CHANCE OF KILLING YOU. A 220-POUND HUMAN HAS A 50% CHANCE OF SURVIVAL AGAINST JUST 5 MICROGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN.  
I DID SOME MATH.  
IT WOULD TAKE 7-9 MILLIGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN TO KILL A BLUE WHALE, THE HEAVIEST ANIMAL TO EVER LIVE. (based on weight estimates from 300-400,000 lbs.)
Conus geographus is so fucking deadly that “In two cases of envenomation, only 0.0002-0.0005 mg resulted in severe paralysis.”
THIS THING KILLS STUFF SO HARD THAT BEFORE YOU HEAR THE FIRST “MORTAL KOMBAT” IN THE MORTAL KOMBAT THEME, THERE’S PROBABLY ALREADY BEEN A FATALITY.
And guess what?  Cone snails don’t do that NOOB SHIT with the superficial biting or stinging.  Your wetsuit or gloves won’t protect you.  Because homeboy didn’t bring teeth to evolution’s knife fight.  Oh no.  It brought a motherfucking radula POISON HARPOON.  It’s lightning fast and has way more piercing power than some silly little cnidocytes or salivary bacteria.
Another component of their venom is being researched for its potential as a pain reliever.  “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT????” you might reasonably ask.  And you would be right to do so, because science has gone too far and has surely sinned against the very image of Mollusca Kedavra.  Well, it turns out the answer is “Research shows that certain component proteins of the venom target specific human pain receptors and can be up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine without morphine’s addictive properties and side-effects.”  That’s right, the part of their venom that SPECIFICALLY DOESN’T HURT YOU is up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
Also, Conus geographus (along with one other cone snail species, C. tulipa) is the only known non-human animal to weaponize insulin.  In addition to the normal insulin that the snails produce for their own use, their bodies manufacture an ADDITIONAL insulin molecule that is similar to the kind produced in fish (which they eat) for the sole purpose of stunning their prey through hypoglycemic shock.  BECAUSE APPARENTLY THEY DON’T FEEL LIKE THEY’D KILL YOU HARD ENOUGH OTHERWISE.
IF you are going to survive the ALMIGHTY CONE SNAIL, WHO KNOWS NO FEAR, TRIUMPHANT HEDGEMON OF THE MOLECULAR ARMS RACE, TRUE BORN HEIR TO THE SCYTHE OF DEATH ITSELF, FISHSLAYER, GOD AMONG MOLLUSKS, WHOSE WRATH IS MERCIFUL ONLY IN ITS BREVITY, ADMIRABLE IN ITS BEAUTY AND UNSULLIED BY THE UNWORTHY TOUCH OF MORTAL HANDS OR SCALES OR REALLY ANYTHING IN RANGE OF ITS RADULA HARPOON, then literally the only thing that’s going to save you is for you to be kept alive artificially (externalizing your respiratory functions to force your body to continue breathing, basically) until the effects of the venom wear off.  And because of how quickly this venom acts, you need to get that medical attention VERY, VERY FAST.
And if you don’t get it, you will still be conscious while the paralysis slowly suffocates you to death.
Don’t touch the pretty shells.


I’ve never been so intrigued to learn how easily I could be fucking exterminated from existence by the overpowered sea creatures of the world. You’ve done a better job at keeping my attention then any of my teachers ever have.


You know what I’m putting this on the writing blog cause I personally can see potential in some fantasy villain attempting to weaponise cone snailsIn which case, all hail snail king 🐌 
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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#That’s a#That’s a blue ringed octopus#You’re going to die do you realise that#It is literally one of the most deadly animals in the world#Not just in Australia or just in the ocean in THE WORLD#Put it DOWN#And go to a hospital jfc via platonic-rabbit 
me tryna find out if this fool died


“The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill twenty-six adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in.[8] No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean.”
Holy shit


And this is why I don’t go in the ocean anymore


Also the blue rings literally only show up when it is distressed so this person has angered it!!! You are in danger friend!!!


Actually this guy keeps them as pets they’re on his instagram (william_exotique) and he frequently holds then and I just? Don’t know why? And also every picture or video he posts of them shows the blue rings so they’re always in distress I just do not understand why he’s doing this



#AMY EXPLAIN HOW DUMB THIS GUY IS 
I mean OP pretty much covered it.  A blue ringed octopus is almost on the level of CONE SNAIL on the list of things you ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PICK UP UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
But ask and you shall receive,  On this episode of “Fun Facts With Cuckoo,” DEAD.  YOU’RE DEAD.  EVERYTHING IS DEAD AND YOU SHOULD NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING IN THE OCEAN EVER AGAIN.
There are many things that will kill you.

[citation needed]
There are fewer, but still many things that will kill you FAST.
There are yet fewer things that kill you fast and by such an overwhelming margin of overkill that nervous laughter is our only solace in the dark of this terrible, surprisingly Lovecraftian world of unearthly horrors that we live in.
Of the things that I know about which will kill you fast via just plain insultingly potent venom, which is a not insignificant number of things because I know a not insignificant number of things, there are about 3 things in the ocean – IN THE WHOLE OCEAN – which are so insanely, mind-bogglingly deadly that there is pretty much no possible hope for survival (I mean you CAN, but god help you if you’re ever in that situation, because god’s just about damn near the only thing that CAN help you).  THE. WHOLE. OCEAN.
Those three things are the Irukandji (a tiny (1cm) species of box jellyfish, which has stingers not only on its tentacles but on its BELL, for reasons no one has definitively figured out, and is so toxic despite its size its sting can cause a severe brain hemorrhage), the cone snail (a group of carnivorous sea snails that is accepted to be the most venomous animals on earth, with a STUPIDLY fast acting and extremely powerful neurotoxin that has in at least one case killed a human ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY, because the swimmer who found two beautiful shells (unfortunately cone snails tend to have very pretty shells which makes people want to pick them up) was holding them up for a picture and ended up being stabbed in the neck by not one but TWO cone snails at the same time, and it is believed that she was literally dead before she hit the ground, I mean LITERALLY in a 100% non-fictional and non-exaggerated way, in between the time the two cone snails stabbed her and the time her limp body hit the sand, she was not alive anymore), and the blue ringed octopus.
It is POSSIBLE to survive any of these.  But not without immediate medical attention.  Of these three, the Irukandji is by far the most treatable, because Australia and other coastal regions (including Florida and other parts of the US) are kind of experienced in dealing with box jellyfish.
The blue ringed octopus will fucking kill you.  There’s no antidote for their venom, ONE COMPONENT OF WHICH (tetrodotoxin) is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide.  It’s a powerful neurotoxin (most of the worst venoms are because the species that produce them need to kill or at least paralyze their prey quickly, like jellyfish whose fragile tentacles could be damaged if their food doesn’t stop struggling) that attacks the sodium channels and causes muscle paralysis.  It doesn’t necessarily kill you quickly.  It PARALYZES you quickly, so that you can’t really call for help or describe the problem, and you will probably end up slowly suffocating from a paralyzed diaphragm.  Tetrodotoxin can be metabolized by the body in a matter of hours, but it can also kill you in a matter of minutes if you get a lethal dose (which isn’t much, the 

LD50

 or median lethal dose, the dose at which you have a 50% chance of survival, is only 8 MICROGRAMS per kilogram of body weight (as tested in mice)).  This is, by venom standards, not a large amount, which means the animal that is capable of putting this venom inside your body is very very good at killing the absolute shit out of you.
DON’T TOUCH THE BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS.
Now, because overkill is my motto, let me briefly explain why Conus geographus is the undisputed champion of YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE, AND FURTHERMORE FUCK YOU FOR THINKING OTHERWISE.
A cone snail walks into a bar.  You’d expect the bartender to ask, “what’s your poison,” but they were paralyzed before they could ask and OH LOOK they’re already FUCKING DEAD ON THE GROUND.
Conus geographus is about 4-6 inches long and nature’s equivalent of Avada Kedavra.  Cone snails literally have their own KIND of toxins named after them: conotoxin.  Not only is there no antidote, but their venom AGGRESSIVELY RESISTS our ability to find a cure, because we barely understand how it works AND conotoxins are so internally varied, even within a single species, that any one antidote isn’t going to help because they’re constantly mutating and evolving their venom to prevent their prey from evolving a resistance to it.  Plus their venom is like, a bunch of different venoms all at once JUST IN CASE any one of them wasn’t good enough.
I want you to read these two sentences from the wiki page on conotoxin:
“Conotoxins have a variety of mechanisms of actions, most of which have not been determined.”


“The LD50 of conotoxin is 50 ng/kg.”
Remember how the 

LD50 of tetrodotoxin is 8μg/kg?  Conotoxin is 160 times more potent.  FIFTY NANOGRAMS PER KILOGRAM HAS A 50% CHANCE OF KILLING YOU. A 220-POUND HUMAN HAS A 50% CHANCE OF SURVIVAL AGAINST JUST 5 MICROGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN.  
I DID SOME MATH.  
IT WOULD TAKE 7-9 MILLIGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN TO KILL A BLUE WHALE, THE HEAVIEST ANIMAL TO EVER LIVE. (based on weight estimates from 300-400,000 lbs.)
Conus geographus is so fucking deadly that “In two cases of envenomation, only 0.0002-0.0005 mg resulted in severe paralysis.”
THIS THING KILLS STUFF SO HARD THAT BEFORE YOU HEAR THE FIRST “MORTAL KOMBAT” IN THE MORTAL KOMBAT THEME, THERE’S PROBABLY ALREADY BEEN A FATALITY.
And guess what?  Cone snails don’t do that NOOB SHIT with the superficial biting or stinging.  Your wetsuit or gloves won’t protect you.  Because homeboy didn’t bring teeth to evolution’s knife fight.  Oh no.  It brought a motherfucking radula POISON HARPOON.  It’s lightning fast and has way more piercing power than some silly little cnidocytes or salivary bacteria.
Another component of their venom is being researched for its potential as a pain reliever.  “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT????” you might reasonably ask.  And you would be right to do so, because science has gone too far and has surely sinned against the very image of Mollusca Kedavra.  Well, it turns out the answer is “Research shows that certain component proteins of the venom target specific human pain receptors and can be up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine without morphine’s addictive properties and side-effects.”  That’s right, the part of their venom that SPECIFICALLY DOESN’T HURT YOU is up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
Also, Conus geographus (along with one other cone snail species, C. tulipa) is the only known non-human animal to weaponize insulin.  In addition to the normal insulin that the snails produce for their own use, their bodies manufacture an ADDITIONAL insulin molecule that is similar to the kind produced in fish (which they eat) for the sole purpose of stunning their prey through hypoglycemic shock.  BECAUSE APPARENTLY THEY DON’T FEEL LIKE THEY’D KILL YOU HARD ENOUGH OTHERWISE.
IF you are going to survive the ALMIGHTY CONE SNAIL, WHO KNOWS NO FEAR, TRIUMPHANT HEDGEMON OF THE MOLECULAR ARMS RACE, TRUE BORN HEIR TO THE SCYTHE OF DEATH ITSELF, FISHSLAYER, GOD AMONG MOLLUSKS, WHOSE WRATH IS MERCIFUL ONLY IN ITS BREVITY, ADMIRABLE IN ITS BEAUTY AND UNSULLIED BY THE UNWORTHY TOUCH OF MORTAL HANDS OR SCALES OR REALLY ANYTHING IN RANGE OF ITS RADULA HARPOON, then literally the only thing that’s going to save you is for you to be kept alive artificially (externalizing your respiratory functions to force your body to continue breathing, basically) until the effects of the venom wear off.  And because of how quickly this venom acts, you need to get that medical attention VERY, VERY FAST.
And if you don’t get it, you will still be conscious while the paralysis slowly suffocates you to death.
Don’t touch the pretty shells.


I’ve never been so intrigued to learn how easily I could be fucking exterminated from existence by the overpowered sea creatures of the world. You’ve done a better job at keeping my attention then any of my teachers ever have.


You know what I’m putting this on the writing blog cause I personally can see potential in some fantasy villain attempting to weaponise cone snailsIn which case, all hail snail king 🐌 
                
            

            
            
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    Africa, Bilbo, and Empire: GUIDE TO FIGURING OUT THE AGE OF AN UNDATED WORLD MAP
 (ASSUMING ITS COMPLETE, LABELEDIN ENGUSH, AND DETAILED ENOUGH)
 DO ANY OF THESE EXIST?
 INDEPENDENT CANADA
 US TERRITORY OF ALASKA
 TOKYO
 ISTANBUL OR CONSTANTINOPLE?
 DOES THE SOVIET
 UNION EXIST?
 THE HOLY ROTIAN EMPIRE?
 NO
 5 MOST OF EST AFRICA
 A GIANT FRENCH BLOB?
 SAUDI
 805 OR EARUER
 THE MODERN IDEAOF
 A COMPLETE POLITICAL
 MAP OF THE WORLD
 GaSHARD ToAPPLY
 DDES THE OTTOMAN
 EMPIRE EXIST?
 ZAIRE?
 OR HONG KONG (UK)
 922-1932
 UNION?
 SOUTH AFRICA?
 NO
 HOW MANY VIEINAM5
 ARE THERE?
 TWO ONE
 SAINTNORTH KOREA?
 SERBIA/MONTENEGRO ARE.
 IS JAN MAYEN PART OF
 THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY?
 THE UNITED
 RHODESIA?ALBANIA?
 HOU SURE ARE
 YOU THAT THIS MAP
 lSİN ENGLISH?
 EAST TİMOR? | | HOW MANY SUDANS
 THAT ONE UP
 ARE THERE?
 CAN YOU SEE
 THE FAMIUAR
 CONTİNENTS? /
 972-75
 าร19-23 1924-29
 997-2001 2002-06
 910-12 1913-18
 | HOW MANY GERMANS ARE THERE? ) | 011BODA?
 THIS S00NDS LIKE
 A PHYSICAL MAP OR
 ONE
 ONE, BUT ITS HUGE
 OR
 TUO
 46-47
 DANGER
 EXCLUSION ZONE-AVOID?
 PARTOFSLEDENF) I SATELLIEPHOTO
 FLORIDA IS PARTOF.
 YES, THATS IT
 2012-13
 RER SRON PERSIA OR IRANEA PARTOF
 18%-1905
 1906-09
 OR
 952-53
 DOES THE UARNING
 930-3435-40
 JMMY CARTER IS...
 BENGATTACKED BYA T FNE
 VENEZUELA
 S BOLIMA
 CHAD MISSING?
 MENTION THE SPIDERS?
 THE UNITED
 2022 2023 ORUATER
 CAIR PARAVEL?CAD . ARABR
 APRIL 20, 1979
 1806-10 181-17
 884-95
 818-29 1830-33
 954-57 1958-60
 THE SINAI 5 PART OF WHAT COUNTRY?
 ISRAELIMOSTLY ISRAEL MOSTLY EGYPTEGYPT
 976-79
 IS THE ARAL
 BUDA AND PESTSEA MISSING?
 970s-90s 2000st
 MORDOR?
 I5 THE AREA SOUTH OF LAKE VICTORIAn
 198
 DOES RUSSIA BORDER
 THE SEA OF JAPAN?
 OR BUDAPEST?
 961-61
 1965-7
 WHATS THE CAPITAL OF MICRONESIA?
 858-67
 873-83
 BELERIAND?NÚMENOR?
 IS THE WORLD ON THE
 BACK OFATURTLE?
 THE TOUWN ON I-25 BETUEEN
 ALBUQUERQUE AND EL PASO IS
 THE U5s SOUTHERN BORDER LOOKS...
 LATE
 FIRST
 VOLTA OR BURKINA FASO?
 948-49
 AGE
 851-56
 CALORMEN?
 ARE YOU SURE
 THIS IS A MAP?
 982-84
 HOW FAR EAST DO THE AMERICAN PRAIRIES REACH?
 INDIANA THE MISSISSIPPI NEBRASKAWHAT PRAIRIES?
 THE FOREST EASTOF THE
 MISIY MOUNTAINS IS
 IS IT TRYING
 TO BITE YOU?
 | (NUMBEROF YEMENS)+(NUMBER OFGERMANYS
 1989-EARLY 1990 MID-10 LATE1190-1m
 IF YOU LET IT GO WHAT DOES IT D0?
 MRKLJOOD1 THE WOOD OF
 BEFORE
 1830
 1830s Os
 EARLY THRD AGE FOURTH AGE
 DID YOU MAKE
 IS THERE A BIG
 THIRD AGE
 RECURSIVE
 LAKE IN THE MIDDLE OFI5 THERE A BIG LAKE IN
 SOUTHERN CAUFORNIA?THE MIDDLE OFGHANA?
 CREATED ON PURPOSE
 IS IT LARGER
 THAN A BREADBOX?
 RUNS AJPY
 AROUND THE RDOM
 ONE OF THE
 ITS VERY NICE.
 TREADER LATER BODOKS ATE
 8605-1700s 910s
 205-505
 60s-70s
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Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map.
No but take the time to actually read it because I lost like 15 minutes.

I have a friend who is really good at this type of thing.  He once found an old globe at a garage sale and he was able to pin the date of it’s making down to like a 6 month window, because it only would’ve been correct during a specific point in WWII.  
I was mad impressed, because I have no mind for geography.  I can barely remember my own state’s capitol.


THIS IS GOLD 😂😂😂

This is amazing. Take the time to actually read it.

Holy shit the super specific things towards the end 


Oh wow! 

I didn’t know anything about the giant lake in California being created by accident?!




I love how it differentiates the maps of Narnia based on which book you’re looking at 


I almost scrolled past this


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                Africa, Bilbo, and Empire: GUIDE TO FIGURING OUT THE AGE OF AN UNDATED WORLD MAP
 (ASSUMING ITS COMPLETE, LABELEDIN ENGUSH, AND DETAILED ENOUGH)
 DO ANY OF THESE EXIST?
 INDEPENDENT CANADA
 US TERRITORY OF ALASKA
 TOKYO
 ISTANBUL OR CONSTANTINOPLE?
 DOES THE SOVIET
 UNION EXIST?
 THE HOLY ROTIAN EMPIRE?
 NO
 5 MOST OF EST AFRICA
 A GIANT FRENCH BLOB?
 SAUDI
 805 OR EARUER
 THE MODERN IDEAOF
 A COMPLETE POLITICAL
 MAP OF THE WORLD
 GaSHARD ToAPPLY
 DDES THE OTTOMAN
 EMPIRE EXIST?
 ZAIRE?
 OR HONG KONG (UK)
 922-1932
 UNION?
 SOUTH AFRICA?
 NO
 HOW MANY VIEINAM5
 ARE THERE?
 TWO ONE
 SAINTNORTH KOREA?
 SERBIA/MONTENEGRO ARE.
 IS JAN MAYEN PART OF
 THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY?
 THE UNITED
 RHODESIA?ALBANIA?
 HOU SURE ARE
 YOU THAT THIS MAP
 lSİN ENGLISH?
 EAST TİMOR? | | HOW MANY SUDANS
 THAT ONE UP
 ARE THERE?
 CAN YOU SEE
 THE FAMIUAR
 CONTİNENTS? /
 972-75
 าร19-23 1924-29
 997-2001 2002-06
 910-12 1913-18
 | HOW MANY GERMANS ARE THERE? ) | 011BODA?
 THIS S00NDS LIKE
 A PHYSICAL MAP OR
 ONE
 ONE, BUT ITS HUGE
 OR
 TUO
 46-47
 DANGER
 EXCLUSION ZONE-AVOID?
 PARTOFSLEDENF) I SATELLIEPHOTO
 FLORIDA IS PARTOF.
 YES, THATS IT
 2012-13
 RER SRON PERSIA OR IRANEA PARTOF
 18%-1905
 1906-09
 OR
 952-53
 DOES THE UARNING
 930-3435-40
 JMMY CARTER IS...
 BENGATTACKED BYA T FNE
 VENEZUELA
 S BOLIMA
 CHAD MISSING?
 MENTION THE SPIDERS?
 THE UNITED
 2022 2023 ORUATER
 CAIR PARAVEL?CAD . ARABR
 APRIL 20, 1979
 1806-10 181-17
 884-95
 818-29 1830-33
 954-57 1958-60
 THE SINAI 5 PART OF WHAT COUNTRY?
 ISRAELIMOSTLY ISRAEL MOSTLY EGYPTEGYPT
 976-79
 IS THE ARAL
 BUDA AND PESTSEA MISSING?
 970s-90s 2000st
 MORDOR?
 I5 THE AREA SOUTH OF LAKE VICTORIAn
 198
 DOES RUSSIA BORDER
 THE SEA OF JAPAN?
 OR BUDAPEST?
 961-61
 1965-7
 WHATS THE CAPITAL OF MICRONESIA?
 858-67
 873-83
 BELERIAND?NÚMENOR?
 IS THE WORLD ON THE
 BACK OFATURTLE?
 THE TOUWN ON I-25 BETUEEN
 ALBUQUERQUE AND EL PASO IS
 THE U5s SOUTHERN BORDER LOOKS...
 LATE
 FIRST
 VOLTA OR BURKINA FASO?
 948-49
 AGE
 851-56
 CALORMEN?
 ARE YOU SURE
 THIS IS A MAP?
 982-84
 HOW FAR EAST DO THE AMERICAN PRAIRIES REACH?
 INDIANA THE MISSISSIPPI NEBRASKAWHAT PRAIRIES?
 THE FOREST EASTOF THE
 MISIY MOUNTAINS IS
 IS IT TRYING
 TO BITE YOU?
 | (NUMBEROF YEMENS)+(NUMBER OFGERMANYS
 1989-EARLY 1990 MID-10 LATE1190-1m
 IF YOU LET IT GO WHAT DOES IT D0?
 MRKLJOOD1 THE WOOD OF
 BEFORE
 1830
 1830s Os
 EARLY THRD AGE FOURTH AGE
 DID YOU MAKE
 IS THERE A BIG
 THIRD AGE
 RECURSIVE
 LAKE IN THE MIDDLE OFI5 THERE A BIG LAKE IN
 SOUTHERN CAUFORNIA?THE MIDDLE OFGHANA?
 CREATED ON PURPOSE
 IS IT LARGER
 THAN A BREADBOX?
 RUNS AJPY
 AROUND THE RDOM
 ONE OF THE
 ITS VERY NICE.
 TREADER LATER BODOKS ATE
 8605-1700s 910s
 205-505
 60s-70s
what-even-is-thiss:
galaxybrownies:

lastoneout:

ceiye:

jelloapocalypse:

chavisory:

mapsrgreat:

wildcardarcana:


littlethingwithfeathers:

cannibalcuisine:

dare-to-dm:

pyrrhiccomedy:

mapsontheweb:
Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map.
No but take the time to actually read it because I lost like 15 minutes.

I have a friend who is really good at this type of thing.  He once found an old globe at a garage sale and he was able to pin the date of it’s making down to like a 6 month window, because it only would’ve been correct during a specific point in WWII.  
I was mad impressed, because I have no mind for geography.  I can barely remember my own state’s capitol.


THIS IS GOLD 😂😂😂

This is amazing. Take the time to actually read it.

Holy shit the super specific things towards the end 


Oh wow! 

I didn’t know anything about the giant lake in California being created by accident?!




I love how it differentiates the maps of Narnia based on which book you’re looking at 


I almost scrolled past this


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    Africa, Bilbo, and Empire: GUIDE TO FIGURING OUT THE AGE OF AN UNDATED WORLD MAP
 (ASSUMING ITS COMPLETE, LABELEDIN ENGUSH, AND DETAILED ENOUGH)
 DO ANY OF THESE EXIST?
 INDEPENDENT CANADA
 US TERRITORY OF ALASKA
 TOKYO
 ISTANBUL OR CONSTANTINOPLE?
 DOES THE SOVIET
 UNION EXIST?
 THE HOLY ROTIAN EMPIRE?
 NO
 5 MOST OF EST AFRICA
 A GIANT FRENCH BLOB?
 SAUDI
 805 OR EARUER
 THE MODERN IDEAOF
 A COMPLETE POLITICAL
 MAP OF THE WORLD
 GaSHARD ToAPPLY
 DDES THE OTTOMAN
 EMPIRE EXIST?
 ZAIRE?
 OR HONG KONG (UK)
 922-1932
 UNION?
 SOUTH AFRICA?
 NO
 HOW MANY VIEINAM5
 ARE THERE?
 TWO ONE
 SAINTNORTH KOREA?
 SERBIA/MONTENEGRO ARE.
 IS JAN MAYEN PART OF
 THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY?
 THE UNITED
 RHODESIA?ALBANIA?
 HOU SURE ARE
 YOU THAT THIS MAP
 lSİN ENGLISH?
 EAST TİMOR? | | HOW MANY SUDANS
 THAT ONE UP
 ARE THERE?
 CAN YOU SEE
 THE FAMIUAR
 CONTİNENTS? /
 972-75
 าร19-23 1924-29
 997-2001 2002-06
 910-12 1913-18
 | HOW MANY GERMANS ARE THERE? ) | 011BODA?
 THIS S00NDS LIKE
 A PHYSICAL MAP OR
 ONE
 ONE, BUT ITS HUGE
 OR
 TUO
 46-47
 DANGER
 EXCLUSION ZONE-AVOID?
 PARTOFSLEDENF) I SATELLIEPHOTO
 FLORIDA IS PARTOF.
 YES, THATS IT
 2012-13
 RER SRON PERSIA OR IRANEA PARTOF
 18%-1905
 1906-09
 OR
 952-53
 DOES THE UARNING
 930-3435-40
 JMMY CARTER IS...
 BENGATTACKED BYA T FNE
 VENEZUELA
 S BOLIMA
 CHAD MISSING?
 MENTION THE SPIDERS?
 THE UNITED
 2022 2023 ORUATER
 CAIR PARAVEL?CAD . ARABR
 APRIL 20, 1979
 1806-10 181-17
 884-95
 818-29 1830-33
 954-57 1958-60
 THE SINAI 5 PART OF WHAT COUNTRY?
 ISRAELIMOSTLY ISRAEL MOSTLY EGYPTEGYPT
 976-79
 IS THE ARAL
 BUDA AND PESTSEA MISSING?
 970s-90s 2000st
 MORDOR?
 I5 THE AREA SOUTH OF LAKE VICTORIAn
 198
 DOES RUSSIA BORDER
 THE SEA OF JAPAN?
 OR BUDAPEST?
 961-61
 1965-7
 WHATS THE CAPITAL OF MICRONESIA?
 858-67
 873-83
 BELERIAND?NÚMENOR?
 IS THE WORLD ON THE
 BACK OFATURTLE?
 THE TOUWN ON I-25 BETUEEN
 ALBUQUERQUE AND EL PASO IS
 THE U5s SOUTHERN BORDER LOOKS...
 LATE
 FIRST
 VOLTA OR BURKINA FASO?
 948-49
 AGE
 851-56
 CALORMEN?
 ARE YOU SURE
 THIS IS A MAP?
 982-84
 HOW FAR EAST DO THE AMERICAN PRAIRIES REACH?
 INDIANA THE MISSISSIPPI NEBRASKAWHAT PRAIRIES?
 THE FOREST EASTOF THE
 MISIY MOUNTAINS IS
 IS IT TRYING
 TO BITE YOU?
 | (NUMBEROF YEMENS)+(NUMBER OFGERMANYS
 1989-EARLY 1990 MID-10 LATE1190-1m
 IF YOU LET IT GO WHAT DOES IT D0?
 MRKLJOOD1 THE WOOD OF
 BEFORE
 1830
 1830s Os
 EARLY THRD AGE FOURTH AGE
 DID YOU MAKE
 IS THERE A BIG
 THIRD AGE
 RECURSIVE
 LAKE IN THE MIDDLE OFI5 THERE A BIG LAKE IN
 SOUTHERN CAUFORNIA?THE MIDDLE OFGHANA?
 CREATED ON PURPOSE
 IS IT LARGER
 THAN A BREADBOX?
 RUNS AJPY
 AROUND THE RDOM
 ONE OF THE
 ITS VERY NICE.
 TREADER LATER BODOKS ATE
 8605-1700s 910s
 205-505
 60s-70s
what-even-is-thiss:
galaxybrownies:

lastoneout:

ceiye:

jelloapocalypse:

chavisory:

mapsrgreat:

wildcardarcana:


littlethingwithfeathers:

cannibalcuisine:

dare-to-dm:

pyrrhiccomedy:

mapsontheweb:
Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map.
No but take the time to actually read it because I lost like 15 minutes.

I have a friend who is really good at this type of thing.  He once found an old globe at a garage sale and he was able to pin the date of it’s making down to like a 6 month window, because it only would’ve been correct during a specific point in WWII.  
I was mad impressed, because I have no mind for geography.  I can barely remember my own state’s capitol.


THIS IS GOLD 😂😂😂

This is amazing. Take the time to actually read it.

Holy shit the super specific things towards the end 


Oh wow! 

I didn’t know anything about the giant lake in California being created by accident?!




I love how it differentiates the maps of Narnia based on which book you’re looking at 


I almost scrolled past this


Hello?

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Africa, Bilbo, and Empire: GUIDE TO FIGURING OUT THE AGE OF AN UNDATED WORLD MAP
 (ASSUMING ITS COMPLETE, LABELEDIN ENGUSH, AND DETAILED ENOUGH)
 DO ANY OF THESE EXIST?
 INDEPENDENT CANADA
 US TERRITORY OF ALASKA
 TOKYO
 ISTANBUL OR CONSTANTINOPLE?
 DOES THE SOVIET
 UNION EXIST?
 THE HOLY ROTIAN EMPIRE?
 NO
 5 MOST OF EST AFRICA
 A GIANT FRENCH BLOB?
 SAUDI
 805 OR EARUER
 THE MODERN IDEAOF
 A COMPLETE POLITICAL
 MAP OF THE WORLD
 GaSHARD ToAPPLY
 DDES THE OTTOMAN
 EMPIRE EXIST?
 ZAIRE?
 OR HONG KONG (UK)
 922-1932
 UNION?
 SOUTH AFRICA?
 NO
 HOW MANY VIEINAM5
 ARE THERE?
 TWO ONE
 SAINTNORTH KOREA?
 SERBIA/MONTENEGRO ARE.
 IS JAN MAYEN PART OF
 THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY?
 THE UNITED
 RHODESIA?ALBANIA?
 HOU SURE ARE
 YOU THAT THIS MAP
 lSİN ENGLISH?
 EAST TİMOR? | | HOW MANY SUDANS
 THAT ONE UP
 ARE THERE?
 CAN YOU SEE
 THE FAMIUAR
 CONTİNENTS? /
 972-75
 าร19-23 1924-29
 997-2001 2002-06
 910-12 1913-18
 | HOW MANY GERMANS ARE THERE? ) | 011BODA?
 THIS S00NDS LIKE
 A PHYSICAL MAP OR
 ONE
 ONE, BUT ITS HUGE
 OR
 TUO
 46-47
 DANGER
 EXCLUSION ZONE-AVOID?
 PARTOFSLEDENF) I SATELLIEPHOTO
 FLORIDA IS PARTOF.
 YES, THATS IT
 2012-13
 RER SRON PERSIA OR IRANEA PARTOF
 18%-1905
 1906-09
 OR
 952-53
 DOES THE UARNING
 930-3435-40
 JMMY CARTER IS...
 BENGATTACKED BYA T FNE
 VENEZUELA
 S BOLIMA
 CHAD MISSING?
 MENTION THE SPIDERS?
 THE UNITED
 2022 2023 ORUATER
 CAIR PARAVEL?CAD . ARABR
 APRIL 20, 1979
 1806-10 181-17
 884-95
 818-29 1830-33
 954-57 1958-60
 THE SINAI 5 PART OF WHAT COUNTRY?
 ISRAELIMOSTLY ISRAEL MOSTLY EGYPTEGYPT
 976-79
 IS THE ARAL
 BUDA AND PESTSEA MISSING?
 970s-90s 2000st
 MORDOR?
 I5 THE AREA SOUTH OF LAKE VICTORIAn
 198
 DOES RUSSIA BORDER
 THE SEA OF JAPAN?
 OR BUDAPEST?
 961-61
 1965-7
 WHATS THE CAPITAL OF MICRONESIA?
 858-67
 873-83
 BELERIAND?NÚMENOR?
 IS THE WORLD ON THE
 BACK OFATURTLE?
 THE TOUWN ON I-25 BETUEEN
 ALBUQUERQUE AND EL PASO IS
 THE U5s SOUTHERN BORDER LOOKS...
 LATE
 FIRST
 VOLTA OR BURKINA FASO?
 948-49
 AGE
 851-56
 CALORMEN?
 ARE YOU SURE
 THIS IS A MAP?
 982-84
 HOW FAR EAST DO THE AMERICAN PRAIRIES REACH?
 INDIANA THE MISSISSIPPI NEBRASKAWHAT PRAIRIES?
 THE FOREST EASTOF THE
 MISIY MOUNTAINS IS
 IS IT TRYING
 TO BITE YOU?
 | (NUMBEROF YEMENS)+(NUMBER OFGERMANYS
 1989-EARLY 1990 MID-10 LATE1190-1m
 IF YOU LET IT GO WHAT DOES IT D0?
 MRKLJOOD1 THE WOOD OF
 BEFORE
 1830
 1830s Os
 EARLY THRD AGE FOURTH AGE
 DID YOU MAKE
 IS THERE A BIG
 THIRD AGE
 RECURSIVE
 LAKE IN THE MIDDLE OFI5 THERE A BIG LAKE IN
 SOUTHERN CAUFORNIA?THE MIDDLE OFGHANA?
 CREATED ON PURPOSE
 IS IT LARGER
 THAN A BREADBOX?
 RUNS AJPY
 AROUND THE RDOM
 ONE OF THE
 ITS VERY NICE.
 TREADER LATER BODOKS ATE
 8605-1700s 910s
 205-505
 60s-70s
what-even-is-thiss:
galaxybrownies:

lastoneout:

ceiye:

jelloapocalypse:

chavisory:

mapsrgreat:

wildcardarcana:


littlethingwithfeathers:

cannibalcuisine:

dare-to-dm:

pyrrhiccomedy:

mapsontheweb:
Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map.
No but take the time to actually read it because I lost like 15 minutes.

I have a friend who is really good at this type of thing.  He once found an old globe at a garage sale and he was able to pin the date of it’s making down to like a 6 month window, because it only would’ve been correct during a specific point in WWII.  
I was mad impressed, because I have no mind for geography.  I can barely remember my own state’s capitol.


THIS IS GOLD 😂😂😂

This is amazing. Take the time to actually read it.

Holy shit the super specific things towards the end 


Oh wow! 

I didn’t know anything about the giant lake in California being created by accident?!




I love how it differentiates the maps of Narnia based on which book you’re looking at 


I almost scrolled past this


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lastoneout:

ceiye:

jelloapocalypse:

chavisory:

mapsrgreat:

wildcardarcana:


littlethingwithfeathe...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                




    Click, Empire, and Fall: Iceland
 Independence Day
 Komi Republic
 Text and graphics Theo Deutinger, Filip Cieloch and Lucia de Usera
 Faroe Islands shan
 Throughout history, the borders of Europe have constantly a. Basque Country
 changed. Unfortunately, shifting borders are usually the outcome LaRioja
 of conflict, as exemplified by the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Yet 6n
 armed conflict is avoidable, as shown by the emergence of the 7.Free County
 post-Soviet states and the peaceful divorce of Czechoslovakia in
 1993. Just a year ago, one might have thought that a more mature 10.Switzertand
 world was evolving - one in which the pursuit of sovereignty could 11.5ao
 be settled without gunfire- but in light of the war in Ukraine and 13. Liguria
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 the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and is based on territoriality and 19
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 Ireland
 Mordovia
 when it began to grow again. Today's world comprises 20andnk
 Wales Mercia
 Together with the rise of the modern state, the accuracy
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 Kazakhstan
 Germany
 surveying techniques (triangulation) and the consequent pro- 3Shlesaig-Holssein
 duction of highly detailed maps. Precisely drawn borders have 31. Karachay-Cherkessia
 not led to greater stability, however, but to even more sensitivityAbiahazia
 among nations. A study of the number and size of nation states 34. South Ossetia
 concludes that one result of democratization and economic 35. Ingushetia
 integration is ever more countries. As Marshall McLuhan points 37
 out in The Gutenberg Galaxy, literacy is another determining 38. Adjara
 Netherlands
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 Jersey
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 Brittany
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 factor, as most states that have formed over the past 150
 years Nagorno Karabakh
 Car
 ORostov
 Slovakia
 Ruthenia
 have appeared along language lines, and people who can read
 and write are aware of the cultural impact of word-based com-
 Austria
 Transnistria
 Russia
 The collapse of hegemonic empires has also served as
 Galicia
 Hungary
 Kr
 midwife at the birth of nation states. The end of the Roman
 Empire marked an increase in the number of European states,
 which had risen from 37 to 1 14 by 1300, a development compara-
 ble to the proliferation of sovereign states in East-Central Europe Portuga
 Occitania
 ia
 gauzia
 Croatia
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 ezgistar
 Romania
 since the fall of the Communist regime. The process of autonomy
 Monaco
 has slowed down but not halted; in Western Europe it is fed by
 subsidies from the European Union, a
 Marino
 Bul
 nd in Eastern Europe it is
 triggered by Russia's autocratic government. Both systems have
 an expiration date and should be prepared for a higher diversity
 o Valencia
 of sovereign states. It is to be hoped that, at the very least, the
 nations of Western Europe understand the concept of a peaceful
 divorce and the need to respect another's point of view.
 Andalusia
 Balearic Islands
 .Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore, On the Number and Sine of
 Sardinia
 Notions, The Quartery Journal of Economies, Vol. 112, Na.4 (Now. 1007)
 2. Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Golaxy The Making ef
 Typogrophic Mon, Univeesity of Toronto Press, 1962
 3. Chiu Yu Ko, Mark Koyama and Tuan-Hwee Sng, Unified China
 _
 Iraq
 and Divided Europe, June 2014
 ru
 Malta
land-of-maps:

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                Click, Empire, and Fall: Iceland
 Independence Day
 Komi Republic
 Text and graphics Theo Deutinger, Filip Cieloch and Lucia de Usera
 Faroe Islands shan
 Throughout history, the borders of Europe have constantly a. Basque Country
 changed. Unfortunately, shifting borders are usually the outcome LaRioja
 of conflict, as exemplified by the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Yet 6n
 armed conflict is avoidable, as shown by the emergence of the 7.Free County
 post-Soviet states and the peaceful divorce of Czechoslovakia in
 1993. Just a year ago, one might have thought that a more mature 10.Switzertand
 world was evolving - one in which the pursuit of sovereignty could 11.5ao
 be settled without gunfire- but in light of the war in Ukraine and 13. Liguria
 ISIL's desire for an Islamic caliphate, global sanity seems more 1. Tieino
 unachievable than ever,
 Jämtland
 O0ster
 Shetland
 Outer Hebrides Orkney
 Islands
 Udmurtia
 Sweden
 Estonia
 Tatarstan Bashkortostan
 The concept of nation-state sovereignty beganth euth tyrol
 Chuvashia
 Northumberland
 the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and is based on territoriality and 19
 of ManDenmark
 Friui-Venezia Giutia
 the absence of a role for external agents in domestic structures. 20.istria
 ber that had declined to about 70 at the end of the 19 century, Bonia Herzegovina
 eign states.
 Republika Srpska
 In 1648 the world consisted of some 80 sovereign states, a num-22. Croatian Rep of
 Ireland
 Mordovia
 when it began to grow again. Today's world comprises 20andnk
 Wales Mercia
 Together with the rise of the modern state, the accuracy
 of national boundaries increased as well, thanks to modern 28. Northern Epirus
 Kazakhstan
 Germany
 surveying techniques (triangulation) and the consequent pro- 3Shlesaig-Holssein
 duction of highly detailed maps. Precisely drawn borders have 31. Karachay-Cherkessia
 not led to greater stability, however, but to even more sensitivityAbiahazia
 among nations. A study of the number and size of nation states 34. South Ossetia
 concludes that one result of democratization and economic 35. Ingushetia
 integration is ever more countries. As Marshall McLuhan points 37
 out in The Gutenberg Galaxy, literacy is another determining 38. Adjara
 Netherlands
 Guernsey Isle of Wigh
 Jersey
 O P
 Brittany
 bourg
 factor, as most states that have formed over the past 150
 years Nagorno Karabakh
 Car
 ORostov
 Slovakia
 Ruthenia
 have appeared along language lines, and people who can read
 and write are aware of the cultural impact of word-based com-
 Austria
 Transnistria
 Russia
 The collapse of hegemonic empires has also served as
 Galicia
 Hungary
 Kr
 midwife at the birth of nation states. The end of the Roman
 Empire marked an increase in the number of European states,
 which had risen from 37 to 1 14 by 1300, a development compara-
 ble to the proliferation of sovereign states in East-Central Europe Portuga
 Occitania
 ia
 gauzia
 Croatia
 三
 ezgistar
 Romania
 since the fall of the Communist regime. The process of autonomy
 Monaco
 has slowed down but not halted; in Western Europe it is fed by
 subsidies from the European Union, a
 Marino
 Bul
 nd in Eastern Europe it is
 triggered by Russia's autocratic government. Both systems have
 an expiration date and should be prepared for a higher diversity
 o Valencia
 of sovereign states. It is to be hoped that, at the very least, the
 nations of Western Europe understand the concept of a peaceful
 divorce and the need to respect another's point of view.
 Andalusia
 Balearic Islands
 .Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore, On the Number and Sine of
 Sardinia
 Notions, The Quartery Journal of Economies, Vol. 112, Na.4 (Now. 1007)
 2. Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Golaxy The Making ef
 Typogrophic Mon, Univeesity of Toronto Press, 1962
 3. Chiu Yu Ko, Mark Koyama and Tuan-Hwee Sng, Unified China
 _
 Iraq
 and Divided Europe, June 2014
 ru
 Malta
land-of-maps:

Independence Day : what Europe would look if separatist movement got their wish [5335 × 3205]CLICK HERE FOR MORE MAPS!
                
            

            
            
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    Fucking, Internet, and Lol: tash
 @yeahstyles
 *
 Follow
 my uber driver just threatened to drive the car
 off a cliff help me

 Uber Support e
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 DM us your email address associated to your
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ok so I don’t usu reblog this stuff here but last year I had a horrible experience with an Airbnb host who threatened to bust my kneecaps, stalk me and murder me right? And not only did I GO TO THE POLICE before cancelling the reservation, but I also provided copies of that documentation to Airbnb customer service (I should mention after hunting down that number in the depths of the stupid internet and being on hold for an hour). Did they give me a refund for the months I’d paid in advance? No - they accused me of lying! 
A few weeks later in a fit of desperation, a coworker suggested I tweet to Airbnb. Ok. I have maybe 30 followers on Twitter, and didn’t really use it at the time, but I thought, fuck it. Nothing to lose now. I made a half assed attempt at an overly indignant tweet with plenty of capitalization, and you know what happened? 
Within the HOUR. It was taken down. I was DMed by a CSR. And I was given a FULL. REFUND. 
$1500 like THAT. 
I don’t know what kind of dystopic fucking reality we live in where police reports mean nothing and the PR value from a half assed tweet to 30 followers outweighs the safety of my kneecaps, but. Social media… Lesson learned, I guess.


Rebooting this addition because holy shit???

Corporations care way more about their brand than your safety. Exploit that.


I had to send an angry tweet at my power company. Within twenty minutes, I was getting a phone call, and my problem was fixed by the time I left the massage appointment I had. 

Okay so this is important and all but original post is a joke that’s literally a picture of Harry Styles lol

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Fucking, Internet, and Lol: tash
 @yeahstyles
 *
 Follow
 my uber driver just threatened to drive the car
 off a cliff help me

 Uber Support e
 @Uber Support
 Follow
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 @yeahstyles That is absolutely not okay. Please
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twlboaj:

verticalfrontalsomething:

yourpaperpal:

kirsty-not-kristy:

amoxli:


ok so I don’t usu reblog this stuff here but last year I had a horrible experience with an Airbnb host who threatened to bust my kneecaps, stalk me and murder me right? And not only did I GO TO THE POLICE before cancelling the reservation, but I also provided copies of that documentation to Airbnb customer service (I should mention after hunting down that number in the depths of the stupid internet and being on hold for an hour). Did they give me a refund for the months I’d paid in advance? No - they accused me of lying! 
A few weeks later in a fit of desperation, a coworker suggested I tweet to Airbnb. Ok. I have maybe 30 followers on Twitter, and didn’t really use it at the time, but I thought, fuck it. Nothing to lose now. I made a half assed attempt at an overly indignant tweet with plenty of capitalization, and you know what happened? 
Within the HOUR. It was taken down. I was DMed by a CSR. And I was given a FULL. REFUND. 
$1500 like THAT. 
I don’t know what kind of dystopic fucking reality we live in where police reports mean nothing and the PR value from a half assed tweet to 30 followers outweighs the safety of my kneecaps, but. Social media… Lesson learned, I guess.


Rebooting this addition because holy shit???

Corporations care way more about their brand than your safety. Exploit that.


I had to send an angry tweet at my power company. Within twenty minutes, I was getting a phone call, and my problem was fixed by the time I left the massage appointment I had. 

Okay so this is important and all but original post is a joke that’s literally a picture of Harry Styles lol

                
            

            
            
twlboaj:

verticalfrontalsomething:

yourpaperpal:

kirsty-not-kristy:

amoxli:


ok so I don’t usu reblog this stuff here but last year I h...