California Ducks

I love California, the Anaheim Ducks, coffee, animals (especially cats), and funny stuff.

[breadloco]

stopppp everyone absolutely needs to see this

[ogaferoga]

It’s super effective!

Bonus:

[homunculus-argument]

a child with an undiagnosed mental illness: I think I need help. I struggle with things nobody else seems to be struggling with.

a parent who never got diagnosed for the exact same mental illness: Oh sweetie. EVERYONE struggles with that :)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[eugeniedanglars]

I [250M] allowed myself and my friends [954M, 951M, 6732F] to be captured and used as lab rats by a pharmaceutical company because I thought it could end disease and also find a way to finally kill us. AITA?

[captainlgordon]

And this is why they banned you from the group chat for a century.

[hell-propaganda]

*ends my father’s bloodline*

[myspacebabe2007-deactivated2021]

<3

[ips-n-caliban]

[vulcanette-deactivated20260506]

How is this tweet SO specific?????????

[sanjerina]

The Algorithm has found me, guys, I had a good run

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

yes 2020 has sucked like a ravenous kirby but in november we finally get to vote that hateful orange turd out of office so eyes on the prize ya’lls

[you-cant-expect-me-to-adult]

Ok but.. who are we voting in??? Both candidates suck. Gaud help I’ve never voted before.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

ffs will someone PLEASE explain why voting in another shoddy white male liberal is VASTLY DIFFERENT from allowing a fascist republican to remain in office?

basically you’re voting for the ADMINISTRATION and the PARTY not the person. also: Biden is crummy. Trump is actively killing hundreds of thousands of people. There is a fucking difference. Not recognizing that difference is what got us Trump in the first place. It’s the difference between a landlord who refuses to perform repairs, and one who ACTIVELY SETS YOUR HOUSE ON FIRE. Do not let let the republican propaganda machine convince you they are the same. 

Register To Vote.

[prince-atom]

Biden believes in the system. He’ll staff the State Department and release his tax returns and listen to his daily briefing.

He won’t send anonymous stormtroopers to snatch people off the street and hold them for hours.

He won’t spend all his time every day on Twitter and react poorly to every single word that isn’t glowing with praise.

There are SO MANY differences between them.

[lyricwritesprose]

If your choices are half an onion in a baggy that’s been in the fridge a bit too long and developed some mold, and a napalm-filled flaming dumpster that is barrelling at ninety miles an hour towards an elementary school playground, you have the moral obligation to vote for the moldy onion.

And then you support the fresher onions in the Onion House and Onion Senate, and do activism to make the moldy onion scrape some of its mold off, and by the way the fact that people were supporting fresher onions in the onion primary is already paying off in that the moldy onion’s policies have noticeably less mold than they might have a few years ago … look, this analogy has thoroughly gotten away from me, but I hope the first part was clear enough.   Moldy Onion 2020, let’s go.

[virgomoon-caregiver]

Moldy Onion 2020

[antique-scarecrow]

Moldy Onion 2020

[biglawbear]

Friendly reminder that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 87 years old and has cancer for the fifth time and whoever wins in November will likely get to appoint her replacement who will sit on the Supreme Court for the next 30-40 years

Biden has committed that he will appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court

Trump appointed a rapist who wants to overturn Roe v Wade (among other things)

Y'all want a badass Justice like Sonia Sotomayor or another rapist who wants to destroy your rights?

You’re not just voting for a President for four years, you’re voting for judges for the next forty

[bemusedlybespectacled]

“oh but my PRINCIPLES demand that I don’t vote for anyone who’s the lesser evil! I shouldn’t have to vote for any evil!”

if your principles don’t involve harm reduction (or involve INCREASING harm in the vain hope that one day maybe people will realize they’re being harmful and change things), then your principles are crap

if your principles allow for stuff like armed coups but not for voting for a moderate, then your principles are crap and you’re also a hypocrite

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

[onlyherc-deactivated20221222]

if i bite my lips it’s not to flirt, i’m just ripping the skin off my lips because of stress

[superunfriendlyreminder]

Literally didn’t know this

[meeplewar]

the police was literally formed from slave patrol

[endofsuccession]

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis Are Prisons Obsolete? 2003

The New Jim Crow

The 13th Documentary discussion guide (from what I can find the film’s only available on netflix)

[theatsymbol-deactivated20210220]

The 13th amendment in no way outlawed slavery. It just redefined how it is to be done

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

“EXCEPT AS PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME”

[colloquial-vignettes]

Arkansas is trying to get an amendment on the ballot for this election that would make slavery as punishment illegal.

[furry-mussels-deactivated202104]

[crtter]

[blueskrugs]

wait

[rythyme]

[vivalatinamerica-deactivated201]

can someone please explain how it’s possible that every single month this year ended as quickly as it started and yet this whole year has felt like an eternity

[cmonandhauntme]

[chronicowboy]

[yaushie]

this year has just kind of felt like that all star remix where “the years start coming and they don’t stop coming” loops on infinite repeat

[kayforpay]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[kayforpay]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[unclebeanbag]

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

[wombat-annihilator-deactivated2]

[charlesoberonn]

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

[fallen-gravity]

Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed

[naryrising]

This is the book you want: The Timetables of History - going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.)  Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.

[ittybittytatertot]

Learning about concurrent history is especially useful for busting the myth of constant forward progression. That isn’t how history or humans work, and at the same time someone is inventing a new math someone else could be forgetting how to make concrete. If you want something maintained in the future, you must maintain it in the present.