Humans are fucking weird

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 28 2020 - Protesters in LA demanding justice for George Floyd burned a flag, and smashed the windows of a police car when it drove into the crowd. One protester was injured when he fell of the hood of the escaping police car, after which the crowd attacked another cop car nearby. [video]

[littlebair-deactivated20220916]

MLK would’ve done it differently..

[kropotkindersurprise]

Hey, what a coincidence! MLK wrote something about you specifically:

[stopwhiterailing]

MLKJR IS NOT YOUR TOY CUDGEL AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE

[generalblogging]

Y'all include the full quote.

"A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that White America isn't hearing, and still refuses to hear..."

[dearest-rebecca]

TRAYVON MARTIN was walking home with an iced tea and Skittles. He was shot by George Zinneman, who was found not guilty.

KEITH SCOTT was sitting in a car, reading. He was shot by a police officer, who was not charged.

ATATIANA JEFFERSON was looking out her window, and was shot by a police officer, who is still under indictment for murder.

JONATHAN FERRELL was asking for help after an auto accident. He was shot twelve times by police, case ended in mistrial.

JORDAN EDWARDS was riding in a car and was shot in the back of the head by a police officer, who was found guilty of murder.

STEPHON CLARK was holding a cell phone, and was shot 8 times, 6 in the back. The officers were not charged.

AMADOU DIALLO while taking out his wallet, 41 shots were fired by four different officers. They were all acquitted.

RENISHA MCBRIDE after an auto accident, she knocked on someone’s door for help. The homeowner was found guilty of second-degree murder.

TAMIR RICE was playing with a toy gun, and was shot by police officer arriving on scene. Officer was not charged.

SEAN BELL was hosting a bachelor party. 50 rounds were fired by police officers who were found not guilty of charges.

WALTER SCOTT was pulled over for brake lights, and was shot in the back by a police officer who pleaded guilty to civil rights violations.

PHILANDO CASTILE was pulled over and told officer he had a legally registered weapon in car. Officer acquitted of all charges.

AIYANA JONES was sleeping and was accidentally shot by an officer in a raid on wrong apartment. Officer cleared of all charges.

TERRENCE CRUTCHER needed help when his vehicle broke down. Was shot by a police officer who was found not guilty of manslaughter.

ALTON STERLING was selling CDs, and was shot at close range while being arrested. No charges filed.

FREDDIE GRAY was beaten to death by officers while being transported in police van. All officers involved were acquitted.

JOHN CRAWFORD was shopping at WalMart, holding a BB gun that was on sale—police officer was not charged for his murder.

MICHAEL BROWN was shot twelve times by an officer, including in the back. No charges filed.

JORDAN DAVIS was killed because he was playing loud music. Shooter found guilty of first-degree murder.

SANDRA BLAND was pulled over for traffic ticket; was tasered and then arrested. Suspicious “suicide” while in jail. No charges.

BOTHAM JEAN was fatally shot in his home, which female officer ¿mistook for her own? (Which I’ll never understand.) Officer found guilty of murder.

OSCAR GRANT was handcuffed and placed face-down, officer then shot him in the back. Officer found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

COREY JONES was waiting by his car which was broken down, and was shot three times by police officer, who was found guilty of murder.

AHMAUD AUBREY was jogging. He was shot by two racist men who claimed they suspected him of burglaries. Both men were charged with murder and aggravated assault.

GEORGE FLOYD was suspected of alleged fraud. He handcuffed and pinned to the ground by an officer’s knee. He begged for mercy and he was ignored.

ERIC GARNER: Stopped for selling cigarettes on a nyc street and choked by a cop in broad daylight. Complications of the stress put on his throat by the hold caused his death; Openly said “I can’t breathe” several times and pretty much died while three other cops watched their compatriot kill a man. Eric was well known for just trying to sell goods as a side hustle and never actually hurt anybody.

These were all murders. They were not accidental. All of these innocent people: men, women AND children. Were murdered because they were black. Not because they were violent. Not because they were threatening, but because they were black. Something has to change. We have to MAKE a change. Black lives matter. Black men. Black women. Black children. Non-Binary blacks. Trans blacks. Every single one of their lives matter. Your friends. Your neighbors. Your teachers. Your brothers. Your sisters. We are the change.

[aubrey-plaza]

[ariminiria]

I CAN’T BREATHE

[yinqors-deactivated20141206]

[nesft-deactivated20180108]

#CROW NO

Crow: CROW YES!

[notcuddles]

It’s actually impossible to measure how many fucks a corvid give because there is no device sensitive enough to register such a tiny amount.

[pardonmewhileipanic]

science/animal side of tumblr… explain to me the birb thing

[red3blog]

Tail Pulling is a behavior noted in many corvids. The practical application is to create a distraction that will allow the birb to make off with the target’s food. Imagine being in the lunch room and a large fellow has a Twinkie you covet. You can’t just take it from him because he’ll defend his Twinkie. But if you thwap him on the back of his neck and then dash around to snag the Twinkie while he investigates, you stand a decent chance of enjoying spongey goodness. This is basically that in birb form.

Except corvids don’t only do this as a distraction. Sometimes they seem to just being doing it to mess with other animals/birbs. But to use my lunch room analogy, there are times you might thwap someone sneakily on the back of the neck just for amusement. Primates exhibit behavior that appears to be just be annoying other animals for amusement. Given how intelligent crows are, its not unlikely that this is a manifestation of an innate desire to just fuck with someone else for the fun of it. Such as this from the link above:

[pardonmewhileipanic]

THANK YOU FOR THE BIRB KNOWLEDGE

[whitmerule]

BECAUSE IT IS FUN

[queenbloo-blog]

This speaks to me on a molecular level.

[askfordoodles]

birbs just wanna have fun

[huntersonthewingarchive]

Sorry to hijack a little, but to put it bluntly, corvids are also pretty BALSY. They are more than prepared to harass other huge birds of prey which could deal them a lot of damage. There’s plenty of cases of corvids ‘riding’ other birds as well. It’s often to harass the larger bird out of the area, but as @red3blog said, they quite often (in layman’s terms) enjoy fucking shit up for fun.

‘Where the hell is the seatbelt on this thing?’

I mean they deserve a medal for having such huge bird balls imo

Literally no fucks are given by corvids. Ever.

[daniels-ramblings]

@neurodivergent-crow

[neurodivergent-crow]

I haven’t seen this post in ages but it’s my fave corvid post.

[thespectacularspider-girl]

Intelligence is rooted in how much of a dick you can knowingly be.

[thegoldensoundtwice]

@raphcrow

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[morticious-delicious]

Adam, Savage. 

[generalblogging]

What a fucking legend

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

  The front page of The New York Times for tomorrow (Sunday, 24 May 2020). These are the names of 1,000 persons who have died of Coronavirus – just one percent of those who have died so far, just in the United States.

[generalblogging]

Holy shit. They're not just names.

[treeofcups]

Matt: So as part of tonight’s Battle Royale, a couple of things that I want to put out there. One: because we’re at higher power levels, it may go quickly. If it goes quickly, we may do a second round. Which, keep in mind, whatever alliances or betrayals you endure that first round will probably be remembered for the second.

Laura: Wait wait wait. Wait. Were we supposed to make alliances?

Sam: Oh yeah, we all made alliances. [Gestures to everyone except Laura] We all made alliances, Laura.

Taliesin: They have to happen.

Sam: It’s all four of us against you.

Marisha: Table Right!

Travis: Yeah, raise your hand if you’re on Team Right.

Matt: Laura, have you played Risk?

[treeofcups]

Marisha: Okay. Oh my god. This is so scary.

Taliesin: You have that thing you can do.

Marisha: I do have that thing I can do.

Sam: Oh, the Kill Everyone spell?

Marisha: Yeah, that Kill Everyone spell…It’s time.

Keyleth then turns into an adult black dragon.

[apropensityforcharm]

Siri has performance anxiety.

[ot3-old]

what ‘academia is inaccessible’ means: much academic writing is financially difficult to acquire and also a lot of it builds on context and area of study-specific vocabulary that the author expects you to already be familiar with, making it difficult to ‘break in’ 

what y’all think it means: if you expect me to have any sort of background knowledge for what i’m talking about or want me to read a word with more than three syllables you want all poor disabled people to die

[stunningpicture]

Moving out of the apartment

[cecilyjeanne]

This is, without a doubt, the saddest photo I have ever seen in my ENTIRE LIFE.

[synebluetoo]

STORY TIME!

So in undergrad, my bestie lived in a true shithole of an apartment. When he moved in, he threw a housewarming party and brought out a bunch of washable markers and let us all draw on the walls. Being a tribe of feral assholes, we started competing to see who could draw the most obnoxious/offensive things. IIRC, there was George Bush frenching Ronald Regan, a skeleton with tits, some very rude portraits of the pope, etc etc.

now one of our friends who I hope to god has gone to therapy since then shut himself up in the walk in closet and painted the entire back of the door. He wouldn’t let anyone see it til he was done, and guys, I had nightmares about it. He’d driven a lovecraftian monster like you wouldn’t believe. It had eyes where it shouldn’t have eyes, teeth where it shouldn’t have teeth, and no matter where you stood it looked at you. We were all suitably impressed and horrified.

Anyway four years later bestie moves out and repaints the entire apartment.

Years and years later, I was talking to him and brought up the closet door monster. he visibly paled and confessed “oh god, I forgot to paint the inside of the door”

[henrycavilledits]

HENRY CAVILL ‘Man of Steel’ Live Q&A with Zack and Deborah Snyder (May 20, 2020)

[generalblogging]

Not at all related, but I want to draw everyone's attention to Henry's body.

This is what a massive muscular dude looks like when they're NOT starving themselves of water and food. This is the same guy as when he was on set as Geralt, using the same work out routine (because they were under the impression they'd be filming right now).

He's not "out of shape", he's fucking eating and drinking and not on the brink of death like studios expect guys to be.

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

[clockwork-hobbit]

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

[neon-classical]

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

[dr-dendritic-trees]

This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner. 

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

[need-a-new-reality]

I say this as a financial advisor but $6 million isn’t a lot of money in the big picture. As an actor Boyega will probably have months even years between jobs. His earned income will have to support him between these long stretches and his next job has no guarantees of making the same income or even any income. It’s common for actors to invest their own personal money into the movie they’re making and if it bombs they could be out for thousands even millions. (Great Example of this is Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool. He almost went bankrupt trying to got the film make and if it had flopped it would have been the end of his career)

They also have to invest thousands into hair/skin/exercise/makeup/clothing because there face and body is there resume.

They also have to live in certain expensive citys (usually LA or New York) rent/ mortgage is not cheep in these places. You can’t live in Buckwheat, Kansas and also be a movie star.

They also are required to go to certain party’s in order to both advertise themselves and meet the people who are in charge of making films. Every part of these nights require a certain look to make good lasting impression that means a nice car, a good well tailored suit/dress that’s in current style and hair/makeup perfectly done. All this isn’t going out and having fun for most actors this is as stressful as a job interview.

Finally they can lose everything in a single moment. One badly reviewed movie. One contverical political opinion. Simply getting to old. Can end a stars career immediately and there is a long list of people just wait for there big break and will gladly step on the back of an old actor to get it.

6 million is nothing in the world of acting and entertainment.

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

[clockwork-hobbit]

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

[neon-classical]

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

[dr-dendritic-trees]

This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner. 

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

[notemily]

Put it this way: We, people without a lot of money / living paycheck to paycheck / not paid a living wage, are WAY WAY WAY closer to John Boyega than John Boyega is to Jeff Bezos.

Like if John Boyega is the moon, hard to visit but not impossible, Jeff Bezos is, idk, Alpha Centauri or some shit. We can see him, but we're never going to get to where he is in our lifetimes.

[ifitistobeitisuptous]

6 million in assets doesn't even put you in the top 1%. Will John Boyega get to the 1% (10mil)? Sure he will given that he's still young and has good earning potential. Will he get to be a billionaire? Nope. Not unless he changes career to "evil capitalist". 1 billion is 167x more than the 6 million John Boyega has. When Bezos hit a trillion he will have 167000x more than Boyega. Anyone who has over $36 is closer to Boyega than Boyega is to 1 Trillion.

[callmearcturus]

This should be real fucking simple. You can earn a million dollars. You cannot earn a BILLION dollars, you can only steal it. Please learn and understand just how much more a billion is than a million because I promise its more than you think.

[generalblogging]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[vaervaf-deactivated20160101]

[dat-soldier]

[beefbroganoff]

I’m pretty sure that’s called reality

[aeralis]

*rolls d20* I die of polio.

[generalblogging]

At this point just play another game. DnD is based around magic items.

[theemotionmachine]