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songs that make me die and flowers bloom over my grave

at the gocey store: i don't need snacks

after putting all the gocey away: this would be a great time to have a snack.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

tonysopranoproskater69420

once you notice half of all memes are just a picture of a black person with unrelated text over them you really cannot unsee it

#when the meme punchline is that theres a black person to laugh at :heart_eyes:

random-brushstrokes

Rudolf Swoboda - Shanker Girr (1886-1888)

This is one of over 40 portraits of people from the Middle East and South Asia painted at the request of Queen Victoria. Shanker Girr was a Fakir (an ascetic holy man or mystic) from Malabum, Nepal, aged 23 at the time of his sitting for Swoboda. He wears the orange robes traditionally associated with Buddhist monks, but his long, shoulder-length hair has not been shaved close to the scalp. Rudolph Swoboda sailed for India on 7 October 1886. Queen Victoria paid for his passage and gave him £300 to cover his travelling expenses. In return he was to provide the Queen with sketches worth £300. The Queen gave Swoboda specific instructions: ‘The Sketches Her Majesty wishes to have – are of the various types of the different nationalities. They should consist of heads of the same size as those already done for The Queen, and also small full lengths, as well as sketches of landscapes, buildings, and other scenes. Her Majesty does not want any large pictures done at first, but thinks that perhaps you could bring away material for making them should they eventually be wished for.’ When Sir Howard Elphinstone, a contemporary, saw some of the sketches in 1888 he observed: ‘They are very clever indeed, most characteristic of the different types, & drawn with wonderful vigour’. When Queen Victoria received them she was very pleased and thought them ‘such lovely heads… beautiful things’. (source)

youngadultread

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it.

(via iamayoungfeminist)

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there’s a t-shirt that says “I survived a bad day and all I got was the rest of my life” and yeah I still think about it

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Satoshi Kawamata aka 川又聡 aka Kawamata Satoshi (Japanese, b. 1978, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) - Leopards, Japanese Paintings: Sumi-e Ink, Mineral Pigments