Heres some stuff that I like

cool stuff.

[shencomix]

What’s the game?

http://shencomix.com/post/169045194324/in-2013-a-small-dev-team-called-team-cherry

[shencomix]

[comradesaucegay]

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[comradesaucegay]

in these trying times, it’s my pleasure to announce that this blog is 100% pro getting rawed by bowser

[iguanamouth]

idea: bath bombs but when they r done doing a fizzle, there’s a tiny sea monster/creature instead of the prizes they sometimes do

ive never even used or eaten a bath bomb before thank you so much

[sonatagreen]

A tradition

In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short. A ruler with long hair is held in great esteem, for defending the peace. The traditional declaration of war is for the ruler to send their cut-off hair to the enemy ruler. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair: to receive long hair says that you have angered one who is slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken.

[wakor-rising]

Violent war-mongering leader frantically and aggressively tries to shave just a LITTLE hair off the top of their head into an envelope.

A faraway king receives a heavy wooden crate filled with a coil of the longest hair he has ever seen.

A despised ruler finds hundreds of pounds of cut-off ponytails at her castle entrance, each one belonging to her own people. 

A young emperor refuses to cut their hair and insists on trying to make peace with invaders. The enemy leader steps forward, draws their blade, and cuts the emperor’s hair themselves.

Hellen cuts her hair off and throws it in Cathy’s face at her son’s soccer scrimmage. 

[mathed-potatoes]

“I’m bad at math.”

I hear this a lot. You probably do, too. H*ck, you might even say it, some of you ( though, I really hope not). I’ve heard it from countless people, and I have never once observed it to be true. That keeps me asking the same question: “What is the education system doing to people that makes them keep saying this, and (for god’s sake) WHY?”

I think a big part of it is that math is taught bassackwards. I’ve been righteously indignant from the moment I learned that all groups are the same thing. Vector spaces and addition of integers and multiplication of reals and putting square pegs in square holes are all EXACTLY THE SAME. Matrices and polynomials? Might as well be the same sentence in different fonts. I could put shapes in matching holes before I could speak, so why did I have to wade through seemingly disjoint topics in mathematics for 10 years before we brought up D_n? I had the prerequisite knowledge for the dihedral group when I was 4 years old, but I didn’t get to learn about it until I was in my 20′s. And that’s not okay. 

I want to figure out why the educational system obfuscates mathematical topics to such an unreasonable extent as to teach them as separate topics. I want to figure out why and then I want to stop it forever. No wonder grade school kids struggle with a subject where they’re taught, say, four methods per topic to approach four topics - that’s 16 things to learn about ONE STATEMENT. No wonder that great abstract thinkers like Newton and Einstein and Franklin disliked the earlier years of school and reportedly received poor-to-average grades. Of course students are puzzled when they inherit snippets of mathematical knowledge like parts proffered at auction with no hint as to what the whole machine could do when assembled. And no wonder why they ask statements like, “what will we ever use this for?” I don’t know, kid. I’m not allowed to tell you because the school board believes abstraction will cause a lawsuit. It makes me want to cry.

So, in summation, here’s what I say when someone tells me they’re bad at math: “You’re not bad at math. Your school board is. Your legislators are. And you don’t have to agree with their goddamn opinion because they’re no sort of authority on that topic.”

[suchearlysummershowers]

i have no idea

[romancingalbion]

[the-goddamazon-deactivingsoon-d]

LOL man.

[wakeupslaves]

never forget white people did nothing first neither the best, they sleep and eat false propaganda,

[wingleader]

Ugh, why the shit does that have to turn into a race thing? Why does EVERYTHING have to turn into a race thing?

[potootagath-deactivated20150202]

because white people have made sure that everything is about race

as proved by the fact that when you say explorer, you think of a bunch of white guys walking the world and discovering it ~exotic wonders~ even though Zheng He travelled through Asia, to the Middle East, and even East Africa. But you’d likely never heard of him before.

Same reason you never heard of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, an Arab traveller who, as early as the 10th century, went to the Volga area for diplomatic reasons. He wrote about it, much as Marco Polo would do later for his own travels, and is one of our sources on what viking were like (and by all accounts, he wrote about them more accurately than western scholars of the same period did)

Oh, or Ibn Battuta who travelled throughout Africa long before europeans did, and even went to Europe himself.

And that’s just some example of Muslim medieval travel writers

Everything is about race because white people keep telling everyone that their race is the only one who every got anything done.

[chickwithmonkey]

i have heard of precisely zero non-european explorers ever in my life, and that fucking sucks. this exhibit is amazing and i need to learn more.

[deducecanoe-deactivated20161213]

That boat is a frickin aircraft carrier comparatively. Holy crap. And no. Never heard a peep.

[ourobous]

Zhenghe went to over 40 countries in Asia and Africa and probably went even further, but I didn’t encounter that in history books before. He brought gifts from China to every country he went to and everyone loved him. It was just like “Hey, I’m here with a water-helicarrier and a gift,” and the kings of every country were lilke “holy shit son well here have a giraffe.” There are paintings depicting him leading a giraffe as well. Check him out guys, he’s really cool

[deducecanoe-deactivated20161213]

That is so awesome. Fuck western history. This is the real shit.

[thepushyqueenofsluttown]

I only heard about Zheng He when I took a Chinese History class in college. He wasn’t even mentioned in my Asian History class. Western students miss out on an enormous amount of history that is ignored or whitewashed in our textbooks. It’s a travesty.

[frislander-deactivated20220305]

And the best bit about Zheng He for me is that he was a Hui Muslim by birth (if not so much when he grew up).

[byzantinefox-deactivated2018120]

Of course the Chinese treasure ships of that size were probably only used for Imperial propoganda and the actual exploration vessels were much smaller; but you keep eating up Chinese government talking points to bash the evil white devils

[nightbringer24]

I can’t really imagine a ship like that being able to go further than Japan from China, or even reaching Japan. 

And it’s funny how the whole thing about non-whites being important has to devolve in to how much a minority they are (although you can’t really call the Chinese a minority in the world).

[byzantinefox-deactivated2018120]

It’s an Imperial powerplay have the super-duper ships in port or near land to impress population and diplomats, then have fleets of more practical ships doing the work. Speaks to immense power and resources of 14th century Imperial China that such a plan was feasible

[kyonko802-deactivated20181217]

Me: Hey that’s a cool fucking ship, badass!

The Tumblr Gremlins, Emerging From Their Lair of Filth and Feces: Hey fuck white people.

[liquid-greyshades-deactivated20]

>when you dumb af but still trying to figure shit out

[thehikingastronomer]

Physics time!

I was gonna do my laundry but when I turned the corner and saw this on the ground I stopped what I was doing and decided to make a snapchat story of science (I’m @thescalex on snapchat, if you want my username)

*cue Charlie Brown soundtrack of kids cheering*

There’s your science for the day. Go try it out for yourself!

[payasoz-deactivated20161121]

trinity

the father

the son

the Holy spirit

[chillywilly1126-deactivated2019]

Pffft, what cute dogs.

[writing-prompt-s]

It is the end of days. God and Lucifer stand before the last human being. You are the first neutral soul who is neither good or evil enough to pass into a afterlife and thus must be judged personally. Unknown to them, you are Death and have come for them instead.

[writing-prompt-s]

[writing-prompt-s]

It occurs to you in the shower that you’ve just turned 32 and haven’t gotten a single wrinkle. None of your family members have aged past a certain point - even your dog should be long past gone by now. You tell your friend, and she just laughs incredulously. “You’re in a coma, dumbass.”

[blurrypicturesofthegamegrumps]

[gravegospel]

“it’s my first time”

[cremia-deactivated20210626]

who the fuck do you thin youa re