The Emptiness and the Calm

Diana. 21 ASU I'm a slut for succulents, horror movies, and chopped

[thenatsdorf]

“Mmmuah!” [note: turn on sound]

[gif87a-com]

A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]

[eue]

THIS IS SO CUTE SHE JUST LANDS ON THE BILL AND IS LIKE :/

[sadmiyu]

that a look at this good boy playing his favorite game.

[birdaholics-anonymous]

Oh?? My god??

I am?? In love.

[tieltavern]

This may be the greatest thing I’ve seen all month

[hijerking]

im contributing to this meme

[catsofinstagram]

[weloveshortvideos]

[pikaichi-lion]

SOUND ON

[gaymathematics]

Me meeting a new white person: you’re on fucking thin ice, buddy.

[fiftyshadesofmacandcheese]

Where can I buy her album tho

[blackwaluigi]

that vibrato

[gimme10dollas]

SHE SOUND SO GOOD!!!!!

[nosdrinker]

[bangs9-deactivated20130723]

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE I AM

[snakeloch]

he looks like a villain from a movie where the protagonist is a dog

[imsorryforlogic]

DAMMIT RIGHT

[onlyblackgirl]

Didn’t know bowling was so serious

[carry-thefire]

@brettisafk

[tevruden]

[x]

[angelwalking]

#get with the program the new humor is benevolent surrealism (x)

[agentsnark]

I always wanted to know what to call it.

[froborr]

This is something I’ve been meaning to talk about, and I may do a full blog post at some point, but here’s a capsule version:

The Benign Violation Theory of humor, which is probably the best one out there, suggests that something is perceived as funny when it is simultaneously perceived as violating how the world “should” work and as benign. Something like the “gun” meme, for example, is funny because it violates our sense of how a joke should progress, and at the same time it’s harmless. 

Racist/sexist/etc shock humor violates our sense of how the world work–in either a “that’s not true!” or “you’re not allowed to say that!” way–and therefore whether you find it funny is based on whether you find it benign, which is to say either you think it’s harmless or you don’t care about the people it harms. (This is the root of the punch up/kick down distinction–jokes that punch up are funnier than jokes that kick down because the people they target are less vulnerable and therefore less likely to experience harm.)

So yes, science agrees that if you think racist jokes are funny, the reason is that you don’t care about the feelings of the people the joke is about. There’s a word for that.

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UMedics training teaches people how to care for shooting victims until an ambulance arrives. Caverl said the training now also includes lessons on how to treat those suffering from an asthma attack because asthma is another danger plaguing the African-American community.

This is a great thing. Black community is united as never before, people are ready to help and save lives. 

[finndamerons-archive]

[babyanimalgifs]

[babygvl]

someone probably getting their titties sucked rn and i’m here just…chillin

[sapphicsinthecloset]

you’re valid even if

you prefer boys you’ve never been in a relationship with a girl your orientation is because of trauma you’re in the closet you’re in a relationship with a boy right now you’re nonbinary 

don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

[deathmoth-deactivated20181229]

ART

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

This is a picture of the heroic students from the University of Virginia that stood up to hundreds of white supremacists in Charlottesville tonight. They were completely surrounded. They were beaten. They were maced. The police stood by and watched it all happen. But they stood firm, yelling “Black Lives Matter!” and “No Racists! No KKK! No Fascist USA!” until the Nazis left. They were then forcefully removed by the police, who called them an “unlawful assembly.” These college kids bravely stood up in the face of evil tonight. And they are a shining light on what was otherwise an extremely dark thing. Fuck fascism. Fuck white supremacy. Celebrate these fucking heroes.