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spanglishbullshit

lulz-time

what happened when i entered the internet world

I can’t not reblog this, it’s my life in a gif.

pettycentral

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This might be my favorite post hahaha

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I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD YO BECAUSE DON’T THEY KNOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE THERE???

conceptualsolitude

concept: it’s been raining for years. there are fish in the offices and whales in the streets, yet strangely the trees are still thriving. it’s very pretty but no one knows what to do, really

yesterdaysprint

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, April 23, 1924

yesterdaysprint

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, April 7, 1924

slothgender-backup

1920s shitposting

demonhunting-timelord-in-221b-d

When one of my family members asks why I don’t have a boyfriend

halcyeonix

what i mean when i call a character perfect is “wow look at how flawed you are, how broken and three dimensional and well written. look how much of a disaster you are and how you are constantly torn between right and wrong and you make so many mistakes along the way wow look how human you are”

so basically when i say they are perfect what i mean is thank god they aren’t

dragonofenergie

“Why do you flinch so hard?”

Maybe there was a time when someone wasn’t kidding when they swung at me.

featherdark

yup. right up there with “why do you get so panicky when people raise their voice?”

forestfairey

This.

brujaculture

Or why are you such a prude? I barely even touched you? Maybe I didn’t have a choice the last time someone put their hands on me.

did-you-know

endcetaceanexploitation

Washoe was a chimp who was taught sign language.

One of Washoe’s caretakers was pregnant and missed work for many weeks after she miscarried. Roger Fouts recounts the following situation:

“People who should be there for her and aren’t are often given the cold shoulder—her way of informing them that she’s miffed at them. Washoe greeted Kat [the caretaker] in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps. Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing “MY BABY DIED.” Washoe stared at her, then looked down. She finally peered into Kat’s eyes again and carefully signed “CRY”, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees don’t shed tears). Kat later remarked that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.“ [23]

Washoe herself lost two children; one baby died shortly after birth of a heart defect, the other baby, Sequoyah, died of a staph infection at two months of age.

sonyvegaspro12

more about Washoe:

after the death of her children, researchers were determined to have Washoe raise a baby and brought in a ten month chimpanzee named Loulis. one of the caretakers went to Washoe’s enclosure and signed “i have a baby for you.” Washoe became incredibly excited, yelling and swaying from side to side, signing “baby” over and over again. then she signed “my baby.”

the caretaker came back with Loulis, and Washoe’s excitement disappeared entirely. she refused to pick Loulis up, instead signing “baby” apathetically; it was clear that the baby she thought she was getting was going to be Sequoyah. eventually Washoe did approach Loulis, and by the next day the two had bonded and from then on she was utterly devoted to him.

*information shamelessly paraphrased from When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson.

georgiejohn

Even more interestingly, after Washoe and Loulis bonded, she started teaching him American Sign Language the same way that human parents teach their children language. It only took Loulis eight days to learn his first sign from Washoe, and aside from the seven that his human handlers learned around him, he learned to speak in ASL just as fluently as Washoe and was able to communicate with humans in the same way she could.

death-limes

now if y’all don’t think this is the tightest shit you can get outta my face

alltheladiesyouhate

second favorite part of 2005 pride and prejudice is when lizzy tells darcy that lydia ran off with wickham and he’s like “can i help” and she’s like “no” and he’s like “then i have to go do something unrelated immediately” and she totally falls for it