JJ 🧡

social worker / dog mom /cdn

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[sesamie-moving]

it's a good day to remember that "indigenous people" does not just include native north americans! it includes aboriginal australians, sámi people in sápmi (around norway, sweden, finland, and russia), adivasi in india, janajatis in nepal, indigenous south americans, and many MANY others. when you support and celebrate indigenous people, look a little further than america!

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”

— Paulo Coelho

[comicsareforkids]

Fourth in a series I of comics about protesting safety tips I made with @this.is.ysabel . This one is about the dangers of police surveillance and how to avoid it if possible. Keep being safe when you go out. Don’t get snatched!

[yeoul]

Incheon, Korea (1/3)

[1stavenuejones]

I’m not even married and yet, post-divorce Tik Tok really has me up @ night.

[nprfreshair]

Howdy.

Valais Blacknose Sheep from Switzerland

Photo via redscharlach

[end0skeletal]

When you can see their faces they are very cute!

via Zoo Tierpark Berlin

[babyanimalgifs]

Sunset walk 

(via)

[nishkaadendam]

I was not aware I'd love something so much it made my heart hurt, yet here we are.

[everythingfox]

The godly tool

(via)

[yellowplumfruit]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

[sheisraging]

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Keynote Address at ADL’s 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate

[socialistexan]

“I’ve searched my conscience, and I can’t for the life of me find any justification for this, and I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument”

[ruffboi-mags]

I… have to admit i was kind of gobsmacked to realize that’s the borat guy, but his point is eloquent and good so keep kicking ass, dude.

[j-sillabub]

Despite being known best for his comedy characters, Sacha Baron Cohen is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he earned a history degree after writing his undergraduate thesis on the American civil rights movement. His mother’s family were German Jews and his father’s family were Ashkenazi Jews; he is also the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. He understands this issue all too well.

[kuttithevangu]

Someone I know not well enough to voice my opinion on the subject said something like why didn’t God make potatoes a low-calorie food so I am here to say: God made them like that because their nutrition density IS what makes them healthy. By God I mean Andean agricultural technicians. Potato is healthy BECAUSE potato holds calories and vitamins. Do not malign potato

[w1zrad]

For all evolutionary history, life has struggled against calorie deficit… So much energy goes into finding food that there is no time for anything else. Our ancestors selectively bred root vegetables to create the potato, so that we might be the first species whose daily existence doesn’t consist of trying to find the nutrients necessary for survival. One potato can rival the calorie count of many hours of foraging… Eat a potato, and you free up so much time to create and build and connect with your fellow man. Without potato where would you be?? Do not stand on the shoulders of giants and think thyself tall!!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I nearly teared up reading “Andean agricultural technicians” bc fuck yes! these were members of Pre-Inca cultures who lived 7 to 10 thousand years ago, and they were scientists! food scientists and researchers and farmers whose names and language we can never know, who lived an inconceivably long time ago (pre-dating ancient civilizations in Egypt, China, India, Greece, and even some parts of Mesopotamia) and we are separated by millennia of time and history, but still for thousands of years the fruits vegetables of their labor and research have continued to nourish countless human lives, how is that not the most earthly form of a true miracle??? anyway yes potatoes are beautiful, salute their creators.

[cricketcat9]

There are approximately 4000 varieties of potato in Peru. I’ve seen an incredible variety of corn and tomatoes, and root vegetables I’ve never seen before, on the local farmer markets. Yet some expats insist on buying only imported, expensive American brands of canned veggies… 🤷🏼‍♀️ Peruvian potatoes 👇🏼

[i-just-like-commenting]

It is long since time for us to start viewing plant domestication as the bioscience that it is. Because while the Andeans were creating potatoes, the ancient Mesoamericans were turning teosinte into corn:

And then there’s bananas, from Papua New Guinea:

These were not small, random changes, this was real concerted effort over years to turn inedible things into highly edible ones. And I’m convinced the main reason we’re reluctant to call them scientific achievements is, well, a racist one.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Happiness will come to you when you let go of the hurt that is holding you back.”

— Unknown

[catchymemes]

[k-itt--y]

this is real. absolute queen shit.

[eversoslightlybitter]