My latest wikipedia rabbit hole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_criminal_tattoos

Hi comrades, how was your year?

What are your thoughts on the year 2023?

Feel free to discuss anything that happened this year in personal life, art, culture, world historic events and so on

Santa Claus is an anarchist confirmed

Hi gamers, what did you play this year? What was your favourite game?

bonus question - Are you going to grab anything at the Steam winter sale?

What are your thoughts on Atlantropa? I haven't really thought about the implications or consequences, I just think we should do it because it would be cool as fuck

This list conclusively proves that democracy needs to be destroyed and replaced by a one-party totalitarian Maoist government

from the author of the map:

"Alkebu-lan: If Africa Was Never Colonized By Europe

Alkebu-lan is the oldest name for Africa. In Arabic, it means “The Land of the Blacks.”

Hi, my name is Nikolaj Cyon and I am an artist from Sweden who has worked with precolonial Africa as a theme in my art for over a year. I have, as a mind experiment, made a map of what Africa could have looked like in the mid 19th century if Europe had never become a colonizing world power. In order to do this I have tried to construct an alternative historical time-line in which Europe was much harder struck by the plague in the 1350’s and never recovered. Therefore African nations would have gotten the opportunity to flourish unhindered.

But the project is really about real historical precolonial African nations, and I have tried to form a map of the most prominent of those that existed between the 15th and mid 19th century, by looking at historical maps like the one found in UNESCO’s “A General History of Africa”, linguistic regions and natural boundaries."

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I just want to look at cool ass maps without having to go to the wretched hive of scum and villainy called r/MapPorn

Please join me in my map posting, post your maps comrades

Eurasian Magpie, my favourite bird

Italian cat