slay.

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fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

I don’t know if this guy has been submitted already, but if he has, he deserves to be submitted again.

Simo Häyhä lived in Finland and was a farmer and hunter for most of his life. He served in the military for a year, then went back to his farming life. He was known for his marksmanship and was said to have many awards for it. Sounds like your average guy, right?

Wrong.

Soon, the Winter War started between Finland and Russia. Now, the Finns in general were total badasses in this war, coming out victorious even though they were vastly outnumbered, but Simo really stood out from the rest. Simo signed up and became a sniper; in fact, he became one of the best snipers history had ever seen. It has been confirmed that he killed 505 people, though some estimates put this total closer to 700. The Soviets staged entire missions to kill this man, but he usually ended up killing them first. They started throwing bombs where they thought he was; the most they did was tear his coat as he continued shooting.

Finally, one near-fateful day, he was shot with an exploding bullet in the jaw. Fellow soldiers described his wound as looking like he had lost half of his face. His injuries caused him to fall into a coma. 2 weeks later, he woke up on the same day that the Winter War ended. He went back to a quiet life of farming and hunting and lived to be 96 years old.

I mean, let’s face it, who doesn’t love a badass? OK, his face was perminently deformed from the bullet wound, but that doesn’t change anything :3

he is all that is man!

stfuconservatives:

bjorkubus:

stfuconservatives:

This is Janet Liang. She has been fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since August 2009. Her doctors told her she needs to find a bone marrow donor by April.

Liang is Chinese-America. Currently, only 25% of the people registered in the National Bone Marrow Registry are racial minorities. Watch her heartbreaking video and please, please, please sign up for the Be The Match Registry. Sign up online and they’ll send you a kit in the mail. All you need to do is send them a cheek swab.

Here’s some information about donating. Basically, they remove some bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells with a needle. Your body will grow back whatever they take, and most people can expect a full recovery from the outpatient procedure in 2-3 weeks.

I’ve been a member of the registry since 2005 and I’ve never been matched as a donor. So don’t worry—it’s not like you sign up and you’ll be in the hospital the next day. You can always update your membership with them and/or ask to be removed from the registry if you change your mind. But imagine being able to save someone’s life with the stuff your body grows naturally. It’s an incredible gift to give. My friend Kevin is alive today because of a stranger who donated marrow. Janet is a friend of a friend from college, and she’s hoping social media can save her life.

Please consider signing up, especially if you’re a POC. And please reblog this to help find a match for Janet and thousands of other people waiting for a miracle.

-Jess

I’ve been on the registry for over 5 years and I get to read amazing stories about people who’ve received donations and have donated their marrow. It could take 5 days for them to match you, it could take 15 years. But I do it because someone out there, like Janet, needs it.

Like Jess said, technology has advanced so far that donating marrow can be an outpatient procedure. It’s worth looking into. :) Don’t worry about anything: costs, hospital stay, nothing. All that is paid for you. They just want your marrow.

More cool story bro: Two years ago I was selected to be a donor, but it was a preliminary screening. Basically they took out more blood and a swab. I think it’s said that 1 in 8 of the preliminary will be a match, but the odds could be less likely. Sadly, I wasn’t a match. But I hope whoever needed that donation got it.

Best of luck to Janet, I hope she’s matched with a donor soon!

tl;dr: REBLOG THIS PLEASE.

Reblogging for anyone who didn’t see this earlier today. Please hop over to Be The Match and register. And please reblog this! There is such a wonderful community of people on Tumblr, and it’d be so great if we were able to find a match for Janet or any of the other 10,000 people who need a life-saving marrow transplant.

-Jess

stfuconservatives:

di-atribe:

So this just happened on my dash

Heh, neat.

-Joe

pantslessprogressive:

“Of course, it’s not enough for us to increase student aid.  We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money.  States also need to do their part, by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets.  And colleges and universities have to do their part by working to keep costs down.  Recently, I spoke with a group of college presidents who’ve done just that.  Some schools re-design courses to help students finish more quickly.  Some use better technology.  The point is, it’s possible.  So let me put colleges and universities on notice:  If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. 

Higher education can’t be a luxury – it’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.” - President Obama

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