[snvk-deactivated20190105]

☠️

[tiredstripper]

yasss

[humansofnewyork]

Shortly after arriving in Lagos, my guide showed me a story that was being passed around Nigerian social media.  There was a woman who’d been stopped in traffic behind a crowded prison truck, and she witnessed a food vendor running alongside, shoving his food between the bars of the window, into the hands of the prisoners inside. By the time he was finished, he’d given away all his food.  The man was himself in desperate circumstances.  He was sleeping outdoors.  But despite having hardly anything to give, he gave away all his merchandise.  Amazingly, my guide Kola was able to locate the man.  His name is Ibere Ugochukwu.  And this is his story:   

“A few years ago I worked as an apprentice in a cosmetics shop.  I was supposed to receive a payment at the end of my term.  But I was warned by the other employees that the owner would find a reason not to pay me.  He’d always invent reasons to fire his boys right before their payment.  So I made the decision to quit.  But when I told him, he dragged me to the police.  He told them lies about me.  He told them I’d stolen so much money.  And they tortured me.  They tied my hands and legs and they hung me from the ceiling.  They beat me.  I went deaf from all the slaps.  For ten days I was given no food.  My fellow prisoners would share little bits of their meals when they were finished.  But some days I saw nothing.  Honestly I was about to die.  And I started to pray to God.  And on the tenth day, the guards decided that it would cause too much trouble to let me die.  They told my employer: ‘After what we did to him, he must be innocent.  Because he’d have confessed if he was guilty.’  They released me into the world like a madman.  And I’ve carried the memory ever since.  I promised myself that if I ever found someone in a similar situation, I would help.  So when I learned that prisoners pass down this road, I chose to hawk in this location.  I waited until I finally saw the truck, and I pushed all my food through the bars.  My fellow vendors couldn’t believe it.  They asked me who would pay me for the food.  I told them: ‘I didn’t do it for any man.  I did it because of what God did for me.’”  (Lagos, Nigeria)

[ziaforlan]

What an absolute legend

[mangopapi-deactivated20210928]

Damnn this guy is real af

[teenagerposts]

[4aminlondon]

Reed is a bad friend.

Don’t be like Reed.

[eiruvsq]

Artist:

Greg Ruth 

“Pretty Polly”

Graphite on Paper

9" x 12"

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[jayce]

[jessiexnim]

B E V E R A G E

[memecage]

[angelbabyspice]

…what???

[stagmage]

this is a universal experience because education is chronically underfunded across the world

[zibaldoni-elzapoppin]

September

[the-shy-fox]

[the-collegiate-catholic]

kimberly yam summing up what it’s like to live as a POC kid in America and making this Asian Latina cry

[reddit-tales]

What secret will you take to your grave?

In Dutch, when you boil an egg and then place it into cold water to make it easier to peel an egg, it’s called “to scare” the eggs.

One day when I was about 6 or 7, my mom asked me to “scare” the eggs. So, little joker I was, lifted the lid of the pan and yelled “BOOO!”

My mom cracked up and has been telling this story ever since, for over 20 years. She’s come to love the story and still truly thinks that I wanted to really “scare” the eggs. Truth is I knew what “scaring an egg” meant and only wanted to make her laugh because she was in a sad place and time back then.

It’s made her laugh for over 20 fucking years, that means it’s the best joke I’ve ever pulled off and I’d die before I’d let her find out I was just kidding.

[bitofanink]

_Hot Tattoo Blog_ Zach Black via Tumblr

[fotosoaxaca]

Huevos al comal

Guelatao de Juárez, Oaxaca 2013

[babyanimalgifs]

“YOU DID THIS TO ME”

[hold-muh-beer-yall]

I should not have laughed that hard at this…

[the-privateer]

the god damn comedic timing on this

[invalleumbraemortis]

This dog has better comedic timing and presence than Amy Schumer

[prasejeebus]

I’m so stoned and this tweet is all I can think about

[cctinsleybaxter]

i do feel bad for the writers on bojack and rick and morty because they know they have shitty male fans that idolize and identify with their mains, so they’ve both now made explicit episodes that are like ‘stop idolizing them. they’re not the hero they suck.’ and every fan has just been like ‘no i got it. they’re the antihero which is even cooLER’

[sfdfddfsfd-deactivated20181001]

[2000ish]

*dramatically opens 2006 flip phone*

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[covid-69]

note that whenever I say huge amounts of wealth can’t be gained through ethical methods this is what I’m talking about

[autumntides]

To explain just a hair more, if a landlord can use someone’s rent to buy a new property, and use tenants in a new property to buy yet more property, it means every person who pays rent could have also eventually bought a property outright and not had to have such a constant drain. But, no renter could: for lack of upfront funds, for a lack of access due to racism or ableism or classism, for lack of trust given by financial institutions, etc. Put plainly, a landlord contributes no value or service but uses someone else’s funds to compound a landlord’s own riches and get more human livestock to bleed, simply because of a moment of permission granted by more powerful groups. How many people are suffering and struggling to keep an ex-nurse afloat in luxury? What is being contributed?