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This Instagram Account Puts Drake Lyrics On Cakes
We make it our mission to sort the wheat from the chaff and bring to you only the best Drake fan creations. Yeah, there are a bunch more Drake cakes. I hope you’re hungry, horny or sad.
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HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE
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the first post ever on tumblr
I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK
reblog this because it shows up every blue moon
I FOUND IT ✊
I WAS SO SCARED IT WOULDNT BE THE ORIGINAL
Who first posted this?
So you know what I don’t get? Why people repeat words. (x)
Grammar time: it’s called “contrastive reduplication,” and it’s a form of intensification that is relatively common. Finnish does a very similar thing, and others use near-reduplication (rhyme-based) to intensify, like Hungarian (pici ‘tiny’, ici-pici ‘very tiny’).
Even the typologically-distant group of Bantu languages utilize reduplication in a strikingly similar fashion with nouns: Kinande oku-gulu ‘leg’, oku-gulu-gulu ‘a REAL leg’ (Downing 2001, includes more with verbal reduplication as well).
I suppose the difficult aspect of English reduplication is not through this particular type, but the fact that it utilizes many other types of reduplication: baby talk (choo-choo, no-no), rhyming (teeny-weeny, super-duper), and the ever-famous “shm” reduplication: fancy-schmancy (a way of denying the claim that something is fancy).
screams my professor was trying to find an example of reduplication so the next class he came back and said “I FOUND REDUPLICATION IN ENGLISH” and then he said “Milk milk” and everyone was just “what?” and he said “you know when you go to a coffee shop and they ask if you want soy milk and you say ‘no i want milk milk’” and everyone just had this collective sigh of understanding.
Another name for this particular construction is contrastive focus reduplication, and there’s a famous linguistics paper about it which is commonly known as the Salad Salad Paper. You know, because if you want to make it clear that you’re not talking about pasta salad or potato salad, you might call it “salad salad”. The repetition indicates that you’re intending the most prototypical meaning of the word, like green salad or cow’s milk, even though other things can be considered types of salad or milk.
My inner linguistics nerd just woke up and it was Christmas morning.
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i was 14 and i was walking through a mall by myself at 12am after my shift at coldstone creamery lol and a bunch of men started whistling and meowing and getting really close to me and they kept asking me questions and i kept not answering until i didn’t know what else to do so i said “i’m only 14” and almost in unison they said “we don’t care” i was so fucking scared i didn’t know what to do and they kept talking about how i looked and how my body looked and what they would do i was on the verge of tears i was all alone in a huge mall i knew i couldn’t outrun them all i felt totally hopeless until a maintenance worker came up to all of us with a huge industrial broom in her hand, i thought she was going to yell at all of us for being in the mall after hours bc she probably thought we were all friends but instead she cursed all of them out in spanish, threatened to press a panic button on her belt and then proceeded to walk me to the basement garage and waited with me until my mom got there to pick me up she had a death grip on her cart the whole time and a face of steel she looked so strong and i just kept saying thank you and she kept saying not to thank her because she had to stop them.
that was the moment i realized women were the most important beings on this planet and we have to protect each other bc nobody else is going to, she didn’t even know me, we couldn’t even communicate that well because of the language barrier, she could have lost her job for waiting with me in the parking lot but she looked out for me when she didn’t have to, she had nothing to gain from it, i’m 21 now and i tell everyone this story even though it happened 7 years ago, what she did that night helped me form and shape lot of my beliefs early on.
i was at a grocery store really late one night and some old guy kind of eyed me as i walked out of the store next to this other lady. She and I made eye contact and i knew she was scared too. we loaded up our groceries into our cars as fast as possible and I had way more bags than her so she got done faster than me. I panicked because i was sure she was going to leave so i just hurried faster, shaking a little, and then i noticed she sat in her car, watching me and making sure nobody came near. She waited not until all my groceries were loaded, or until my cart was put away, or until I got into my car. No, she didn’t drive away until I drove away.
And that was the moment that I realized how much women need other women. That we can’t win this war without each other and we have to be looking out for each other, every second.
my last year in new york city, i got off the subway around 9 or 10p.m. i only lived about 5 blocks from the f train, but i hadn’t gotten more than two before a woman’s hand suddenly touched my arm.
“that guy behind us is following you,” she said. “he was watching you leave the train car and followed you up.”
i hadn’t noticed him, or at least not noticed him following me. when we stopped outside a grocery store, he stopped half a block back and loitered. the woman linked her arm with mine and walked me several blocks out of her way to my front door and made sure i got inside safely.
another time, nocigar and i were walking home and at a stoplight a stranger grabbed my arm when i wouldn’t respond to him and tried to physically drag me over to him. she—who is, by the way, not a very physically imposing girl—ripped his hand off my arm and snarled, “don’t fucking touch her.”
protect your friends. protect strangers. there are good men in the world, but don’t wait for them to do something if you can do it yourself.
I was at a club once and my friend left with her boyfriend so I finished my drink and was heading out to the parking lot when three girls came up to me and basically surrounded me.
“Those guys behind us were talking about following you. We can walk with you.”
I have MMA training but have never in my life had been offered the protection and sanction of my own gender. This is so important.
GIRL CODE. FUCKIN’ GIRL CODE. LEAVE NO GIRL BEHIND. EVER.
Girl Code. Help your sisters out.
I'm crying in my bed because these are great amazing women. Thank you
Watch: Trevor Noah slams GOP hypocrisy on abortion in his first great ‘Daily Show’ moment
Behold: Knowledge for the people who say #BlackLivesMatters’ tactics are counterproductive or ineffective. If you look around — especially at the response to every police-involved black death — you’ll see the movement is working.
A new study has found that the world is so easy on white dudes that they just don't know what to do when negative stuff comes around -- meaning they often fall into depression when faced with tough life events.
Three members of the Harvard University debate team competed against three inmates who were convicted of violent crimes. The inmates won the debate, proof that prison isn’t always the end of the line for some people.
The inmates, who are held at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in the Catskills, are part of the Bard Prison Initiative, which offers higher learning to inmates. The three men are serving prison terms for manslaughter.
Inmates are prohibited from using the internet for research in preparation for such debates, and the Harvard team was stunned by how well-prepared the inmate team was. Judge Mary Nugent took special note of the inmate team’s performance. She said it might seem tempting to favor the prisoners’ team, but the three judges have to justify their votes to each other based on specific rules and standards. “We’re all human,” Nugent said. “I don’t think we can ever judge devoid of context or where we are, but the idea they would win out of sympathy is playing into pretty misguided ideas about inmates. Their academic ability is impressive.”
The prison team had its first debate in spring 2014, beating the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Then, it won against a nationally ranked team from the University of Vermont, and in April lost a rematch against West Point.
Nugent also said that society at large tends to have a pretty condescending attitude towards prisoners. It’s easy to think that just because someone is incarcerated that they have no value. The inmate debate team from Eastern New York proved otherwise.
For more on this story, visit the Daily Kos “Harvard debate team loses to prison debate team”
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How To Support Legislative Action to End Gun Violence in America
274 days. 294 mass shooting events. (Source: Shooting Tracker: not yet updated to reflect Oregon today at the time that I’m writing this.)
We’ve begun to accept this as our norm. That every day, there will be a mass shooting in America. That America is where we think about where we sit in a movie theater, in case a shooter comes in. That America is where churches must lock their doors and check strangers for weapons, because shooters shoot people with their eyes closed in prayer. That America is where people legally obtain weapons to kill kindergarteners. First graders. To slaughter children. To slaughter each other. Where men with grudges against women shoot up a sorority. Where white supremacists kill Black worshippers one year, shoot up a JCC the next year. Because guns are so prevalent.
Because guns are treated as more valuable than human life.
In 1791 when the Bill of Rights was passed, muskets were front-loaded, single ball weapons. It was a process to load a gun. There were no automatic weapons. The Founding Fathers didn’t know what the future would bring us. I can’t say much for their practices and value of all human life, but I like to think they’d be pretty horrified that years after Sandy Hook Elementary School became a gravesite for children, we still haven’t done anything.
It’s easy to feel apathetic. And it’s easy to feel hopeless. So here are things you can do.
Support This Legislation:
Click each link and it’ll take you to Open Congress. You can click “Support this Legislation” on the right and it’ll find your representatives for you! Nifty! Easy!
TRACE Act (HR 3395) to make dealer inventory of guns required, so each gun has a serial number and is tracked, and so that data is not destroyed: https://www.opencongress.org/bill/hr3395-114/show
Fix Gun Checks Act of 2015 (HR 3411) : to make a national database of people prohibited from buying a firearm and to require a background check for every firearm sale. https://www.opencongress.org/bill/hr3411-114/show
Good Neighbor Gun Dealer Act: (H.R.3569): to create a code of conduct for gun dealers to avoid trafficking, ensure background checks, and encourage positive relationship with law enforcement: https://www.opencongress.org/bill/hr3569-114/show
Responsible Transfer of Firearms Act (S.2016): to hold gun dealers responsible for selling a gun to someone prohibited from owning a firearm: https://www.opencongress.org/bill/s2016-114/show
HR means it is in the House of Representatives. S means the Senate. OpenCongress will know what rep you need to contact!
If you want to email them, you can use the following form email, filling in your representative’s name and the bill number, and signing it with your name.
Dear [REPRESENTATIVE],
I am a constituent in your district who is deeply alarmed by the gun violence in the United States. The Oregon community college shooting is the 294th mass shooting event in the US this year. That is unacceptable and Congress must act to protect our communities.
I am writing in SUPPORT of [BILL NAME/NUMBER].
I believe strongly that legislative action and your support is the first step toward building safer communities in the United States and ending gun violence. Thank you very much. Sincerely,
[YOUR NAME/YOUR CONTACT INFO]
I hope this is helpful!
Hey, US Tumblr followers who actually have voting congressional representatives they can contact–do this thing! Notice how none of them seek to repeal the Second Amendment. So, y’know. Don’t argue against these bills on the basis of something they do not actually advocate.
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Texas Student Sent Home for Wearing #BlackLivesMatter Shirt: Dean of Students Hurls Personal Attacks on Her
Harmony School for Advancement senior Fatimah Bouderdaben wanted to participate with the city-wide tribute to the recently murdered Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth by wearing a blue shirt to school last Friday, but she also wanted to remind people that the issue of police brutality was still under debate. So she inscribed her blue shirt with “Black Lives Matter” as well as the names and ages of victims like Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Bouderbaden says she was sent home from school for refusing to change out of her shirt or turn it inside out.
“Many of my friends were upset about the implications of wearing blue so I made t shirts with the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the front and the names and ages of 26 victims of police brutality on the back,” says Bouderdaben. “We were told by the administration to either cover it up / take it off or be pulled from class and sent home. My friends chose to change but I refused to because I was not breaking dress code.”
Bouderdaben, 17, said she and three other students were addressed in their first period class by Dean of Students Meredith Millspaugh about how their shirts were disrupting the school environment. According to Bouderdaben the phrase “all lives matter” was also used, a phrase frequently seen by supporters of the BLM movement as an attempt to shut down conversations about the disproportionate number of blacks that have fatal encounters with the police. A recent investigation by The Guardian showed that blacks make up 29 percent of people killed by police despite being only 13 percent of the general population. Of those killed 32 percent were unarmed.
Bouderdaben says that during her next period class, she was taken into the hall by Millspaugh, who told her she had to change or be sent home. Bouderdaben says that when she refused, Millspaugh began yelling at her until the teenager started to cry.
“She was blaming me for pretty much everything going on in the school,” says Bouderdaben. “She told me that she heard some kids were calling her a racist and that had never happened before I put on the shirt so it was my fault people were calling her that. I don’t think it was very professional of her to yell at me because of my beliefs.”
Mustafa Tameez with Outreach Strategists LLC, speaking on behalf of Harmony, says the problem with Bouderdaben’s shirt was not the “#BlackLivesMatter” painted on the front, but rather the list of dead people, mostly black men, on the back.
“We had complaints from students that are sons and daughters of law enforcement that came to the administration and they were quite upset by it,” Tameez told the Press. “They had names of African Americans that, according to them, were killed by white officers.” School administrators, Tameez confirmed, told the students to turn their shirts inside out. They’d decided the list of people who died at the hands of police was deliberately controversial and too provocative for the classroom environment, he told us.
“The issue is that if you’re coming into the school to provoke stuff and other kids are offended by it, then our policy is you can’t offend other people,” Tameez said. “We’ve got a bunch of other kids. We don’t want fights in the school. We were trying to contain and handle her as delicately as possible.”
Tameez also pointed us to the dress code section of the school’s general guidelines which states: “Garments will be free of holes, tears, inappropriate language, logos, messages or advertising.”
Bouderdaben was picked up by her mother, who was supportive of her daughter’s actions. The family is very politically active. Bouderdaben has previously attended protests, including ones against Israeli actions in Palestine and marching in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade.
The school took no further disciplinary action against Bouderdaben, and she did not receive an official reprimand. She says she’s annoyed that being sent home cost her attendance in two AP classes and a science course. Bouderdaben says Millspaugh ultimately apologized to her and her mother for any personal attacks, and said the school is looking into setting aside a day to address Black Lives Matter.
“At least that’s what they told my mom on the phone,” says Bouderdaben. “This is something I completely believe to be important. It’s hard to stand up for your beliefs, but it’s more important to speak than stay silent.” (FULL ARTICLE SOURCE)
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This is near my home. I’m so sad about this. :(
yeah… other students calling the dean a racist because one girl wore a tshirt about black lives mattering?
fire the administration. fire them all.
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Ladies, gentlemen, and nobility of other genders, may I present to you the literal perfect casting choice for Li Shang in Mulan: Yoshua “Yoshi” Sudarso.
Some fun facts about Yoshi:
Was born in Indonesia, but is ethnically Chinese
26 years old (b. April 12, 1989)
Worked as a stunt double on the Maze Runner
Also worked as a model for several years
Has martial arts training
Currently starring as Koda on Power Rangers Dino Charge
Is a massive nerd and fan of Disney (Big Hero 6 especially), Free!, Spider-Man, and Power Rangers
Said in response to fancastings: “I’ll make a man, out of you! Waking up to all your fancastings and kind words really made my day. Of course it would be amazing to portray such a strong Male Asian lead, but I would be humbled to at least score an audition for Li Shang. So thank you for spreading the word and giving me such amazing exposure, maybe Disney will take notice, I love you all! And remember you must be swift as the coursing river!”
If none of that convinces you, then maybe this picture will:
In summary, Yoshi Sudarso for Li Shang 2k15.
Can you cast him as my boyfriend
Sign me up for the next war
[Mulan voice] would u like to stay for dinner
[Grandma voice] WOULD YOU LIKE TO STAY FOREVER?
