good ghosts

Hey, this is Angela, old URL, new blog.

[mossworm]

It’s World Bee Day today (May 20)! I made a little infographic as practice.

Plant native flowers! Lawns are lame! Wasps are just as important!

[hashtagloveloses]

Comrade Vine died for Workers Rights™

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

This is a very crucial lesson about many social media and content sharing platforms. No matter how much work is done, content creators are viewed as free labor by those holding the platforms, and expectations of getting paid are viewed as a bug, not a feature.

[micdotcom]

Watch: The most wonderful moment of joy came when he entered a Nazi guard bungalow.

[nerapalooza-blog]

We are the last generation who can hear from these survivors directly. Do not take that lightly. Do not waste that opportunity. Do not forget your freedom isn’t infinitely guarenteed. And do not, do not, let it happen again.

[healingdoesntcomequickly]

Really truly, watch the video, reblog it. Teaching about the holocaust is so necessary for our generation before it slips under the rug and people forget about it.

[switchbladesounds-deactivated20]

Jay Pharaoh’s John Mulaney impression

[butchmachine]

Holy shit

[thetaxidermy-ofyouandme]

That wasn’t an impression John Mulaney possessed him

[schneidery]

j a n e t s

[zellah7]

bye i love this

[landunderthewave]

Man: Siri, what is 1 trillion to the tenth power? Siri: Calculation. The answer is one zero zero zero zero zero [continuing] Man: *starts beatboxing to the rhythm. Woman 1: *joins in* Woman 2: *starts singing to the rhythm*

[blonde-vulcan-deactivated201608]

This is sO GOOD

[ricetwink-deactivated20190113]

never gets old

[ghazal67]

[teamnowalls-deactivated20180918]

this is literally how i dance

[askinfresh]

This went from “wow that’s pretty neat” to “WTF ITS ALIVE” real quick

[excima]

she did that

[tenderlesbian-deactivated201807]

SOS I told the girl I like that I want a butch gf and she said "I'm butch" and I got really flustered and went to go make dinner for us (bc I'm at her place tonight)

uhh are you sure y’all arent on a date right now?

[tenderlesbian-deactivated201807]

i don’t even know what to say

[thecyborgstagemanager]

this is why we’re all single

[indya-moore]

[aspiring-translator]

I remember a teacher telling me how Archaeologists would hack off the noses of statues they found in order to remove any indication that it was of a black person or any POC. It hurts me to think of all the art we’ve lost and damaged because of historical revisionism and flat out racism.

[littlebearie]

I…wasn’t taught this. Only about penises being broken off as censorship.

[thirstygirlclub]

When I was in primary school (around 8 or 9) I asked why none of the Egyptian statues had noses. They lied to us and said that they broke off because they were a really fragile bit of the statues so when I learnt the real reason (years later) I was so pissed off with teachers for lying to millions of school children around the world. It’s disgusting and needs to be taught properly.

[gotyourbackbabe]

To be fair, the teachers who taught those lies probably believed it because that’s what they were taught in school. Unless they studied art history, they wouldn’t have any opportunity to learn otherwise. It’s still shitty and wrong tho.

[unusualrussia]

The beautiful side of Russia: Tomsk.

[haxyr3]

Old Siberian cities are so beautiful!

[liache]

i love that we and cats share pareidolia (seeing patterns where they dont exist), but instead of seeing faces in everyday objects like us, they see snakes

that computer cord? snake. string? small snake. cucumber? short fat straight snake

[yiffmaster]

snake pareidolia is one of the strongest things in human minds too! people report freezing mid-stride before being consciously aware of a snake in front of them, and the same happens with coiled rope, etc. in humans and other primates. it’s even been proposed that the need to detect snakes was a factor in the development of primates’ insanely good color eyesight

[ehlbee]

It’s because snakes are wonderful and we must stop and admire them at any cost

[elder-moss]

Same david, same

[boringangel]

A Good Thing To Know!

[vvaterling]

https://www.tribecafilm.com/stories/the-truth-according-to-darren-wilson-a-narrative-ferguson-mike-brown

"The Truth According To Darren Wilson" Directed by Ezra Miller and Sol Guy | Tribeca

This narrative scene was inspired by Darren Wilson's first and only television interview. This film is the premiere of Tribeca's new series

[levourdalak]

He made it with filmmaker and BLM activist Sol Guy and you wouldn’t know from the title, but it’s actually a short film, not a documentary, about Darren Wilson being a fucking liar.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Tumblr completely erasing the work of a Black activist/artist while simultaneously finding ways to slander an LGBTQ Jewish person at the same time due to literally not bothering to find out what the film was about in the first place? I’m shocked.

[cryptidquinn-deactivated2021071]

when im playing out a daydream scenario in my head and i catch myself trying to rush to The Good Part™:

[8bitnatsuki-deactivated20200525]

hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year

[taragrimface]

(from a 2015 interview)

i hope she’s comfortable

[hella-gay-trash]

Please don’t forget the best one so far^^^

[eiruriofidkewoeeifjjdis374738-d]

another example of Koko’s humour by Jane Goodall:

[autumngracy]

Nothing pleases me more than to learn the fact that apes also will look at a thing and go “it me”

[chimericaloutlier]

#hardsame

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Aboriginal women say they were sterilized against their will in hospital

An aboriginal woman in Saskatoon alleges she experienced forced sterilization at a local hospital. And she's not alone. Today, we hear those stories and how they are part of a too-common pattern in our country's history.

“I’m laying there, scared enough, not wanting this done, telling her I didn’t want it done. All of a sudden I smell something burning. If I could’ve moved my legs I probably would’ve kicked her.”- Brenda Pelletier on being sterilized against her will

Brenda Pelletier checked in to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon five years ago to give birth to her baby girl. She left, with her tubes tied. The tubal ligation procedure happened, she says, after she was pressured into it by hospital staff, while she was in a vulnerable state.

And as a Métis woman, Brenda Pelletier’s experience appears not to be an isolated case.

At least three other aboriginal women have come forward to say that they too were pressured to be sterilized at the Saskatoon hospital in recent years.

Continue Reading.

[happily-morgan]

Ok but this is true!!! I was 19 years old when i went into the hospital to give birth to my first child and while i was laying in bed reading and signing consent forms i came across one that woukd give them.permission to tie my tubes. The nurse kept telling me i didnt have to read them all that they were all about my stay in the hospital and intake forms and when i began to read that particular form the nurse came to me laughed nervously and said well we put that in there just in case you wanted to get your rubes tied. I then asked if they always gave them to woman giving birth she said no, the doctor had asked for thematic be put in there “just in case” I didnt want any future children. The nurse then went on to ask me about my future and if i was really sure i wanted to have more children or not. Until my mom came intimate room to check up on me and the nurse then took all the papers from me and left. For the rest of my delivery the nurses refused to give me medication for the pain or an epidural saying it was too early for that and it might stop my labour. I honestly think they withheld pain medication and the epidural to show me how hard child birth can be. Afterwards when they were releasing me the nurse asked me again if i was sure i didnt want to get ny tubes tied. Which i said no to. She then went on and explained thaf if i did i woukd just have to make an appointment with my doctor and i would be in and out in no time at all. That is my experience with the Canadian healthcare system and being a native woman. It is wrong that anyone would try and force something like that on a 19 year old. Please share. Let it be known what is happening to native woman. We have rights just like any other woman and shouldn’t be pushed into suxh decision at such a young age.

[rosslynpaladin]

Hey white folks with uteruses who do not want or should not have kids, 

you know how you’re outraged about how hard it is to get a Doctor to agree to sterilize you even to save your life? 

Guess what else they do? Double your outrage.

[twodotsknowwhy]

And those two issues are not unrelated. White supremacy pushes an idea of who should be having kids and who shouldnt. White, abled women are prioritized especially ones who arent poor, they should have many kids, to further white supremacy, while those deemed “undesireable” (people who arent white, people who are disabled, people who are poor and uneducated and especially people who are more than one of those things) should be kept from having children for the good of society.

So when doctors refuse to sterilize white, educated women who want it, they are functioning within the same thought process as when doctors sterilize non-white women against their will.

[feltelures]

Since this article came out in 2016, a class action lawsuit has been filed by two of the victims.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/canada-indigenous-women-sterilisation-lawsuit

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) has reported on the results of the internal review of the Royal University Hospital.

http://aptnnews.ca/2017/07/27/long-awaited-review-into-forced-sterilization-of-indigenous-women-at-saskatoon-hospital-finds-covert-and-overt-racism-among-staff/

APTN has also done an investigation focusing on a few of the stories of the women who were sterilised against their will.

http://aptnnews.ca/2017/01/27/aptn-investigates-against-their-will/

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Update in 2018: STILL HAPPENING:

Indigenous women still being coerced into sterilizations across Canada, Ontario senator says

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[yelyahwilliams]

She continues to rule

[drchelsearar]

in case you need to be reminded to be kind to yourself today.