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The French Netflix uploaded this on twitter…….
this is by far the most powerful thing I’ve seen since Trump won and everyone needs to see this
I don’t care if you unfollow me for this #signalboost
If you dont see the clear as day parralel then you arn’t trying to
What weighs more than 87,000 tons and is twice the size of #Texas? The Great #Pacific Garbage Patch, according to a study published Thursday.
In the report, @TheOceanCleanup estimates this soup of trash in the northern Pacific contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic — enough to give every person in the world 250 scraps of this debris.
To put these numbers in perspective, the #garbage in the patch weighs about as much as 1.7 billion plastic bottles, 43,000 #cars or 600 blue #whales. #science #environment #pollution
oh no, the gov’t tries to ruin lives of our younger generation AGAIN.
source The rule supposedly gies into effect in 2020
“Under a new plan to prepare them for life after high school, Chicago Public Schools students would have to show an acceptance letter to a university, community college, apprenticeship, trade school, internship, or the armed services.”
So more poor kids will join the military to ensure they get a high school diploma or they’ll be held back. *dystopia instensifies*
You’ve heard of the school to prison pipeline. Meet the school to war pipeline.
“i’m sad and idk how to feel better”
“i don’t know what to draw”
“i always mess up”
“BUT I SUCK”
LISTEN TO BOB ROSS.
Bob Ross was paid $0 to make his series. He made a living giving lessons IRL and later selling his own line of paints and brushes.
I apologize for not reblogging him as much but everyone needs this on their dash daily. Seriously everyone needs this on their blog or wherever. Do they rerun this anymore or no?
Words of wisdom!
Faux Shopping
A few weeks ago, I cleaned out my closets (ha ha I only have one closet) and wrote out a list of clothes that I have and clothes that I want. So far, I haven’t bought any new clothes but I have been on websites like Fortress of Inca, Universal Standard, LiveFashionable, Madewell and Anthropologie. Plus Nordstrom Rack and Nordstrom. The clothes and shoes from most of these websites are far more than I would usually pay but I have decided that less is more. I want less clothes that are higher quality. A lot of my clothes tend to pill. Like I bought a couple cute tshirts from Uniqlo and HomePlus and after 3 weeks in Malaysia they looked like I had them for a good year or 2 instead of a few weeks. I wore a bookbag most days so the back of the shirts were pilled. Sigh. And I did pack light. I bought 3 tshirts total but still...
Anyway, I have been looking at the clothes but I still haven’t bought anything and I don’t want to resort to buying a bunch of cheap clothes that I will be upcycling shortly. The last time I cleaned out my closet I made a rag rug and gave it to my bf. He uses it as a seat cushion. Anyway, that was just 6 months ago. And here I am again.
Almost October
I was gonna say this year has flown by but that’s not really true. Sometimes, it felt so glacial. At the same time, it seems like a couple months ago I was saying something along the lines of 2016 will be my year! LOL. Has it been my year? The short answer is no. Some great things happened like our trip to Malaysia and finally feeling more settled about money. When I was in college my Economics professor told me that I should have at least one year’s salary saved up. That has always stuck with me. I have never been able to pull it off. But it’s prob the best advice I ever got. You never know what will happen and money gives you options.
I won’t make a new year’s resolution (since it’s too early ha ha) but I am making a promise to myself to save up one years salary and then some bit by bit.
I was looking up restaurants in the town my brother lives in to figure out somewhere nice to go to lunch when I visit him in September. Tripadvisor has a list of the supposed ‘best’ restaurants. Number 7 on that illustrious list is Pizza Hut….
Oh TripAdvisor. I had a horrible experience at a guesthouse that was rated #4 on TripAdvisor. It was not clean and there was a frog in the shower drain (wet bathroom) I am still stunned by the (recent!) glowing reviews. Now I know to take TA with a grain of salt.
Global Entry/SES
I highly recommend US Global Entry and it's Korean version, SES. There is nothing like sliding in and out of immigration at the airport. Noooothing! The SES office at Incheon Airport is in the Departure area (Zone F) and wasn't crowded when I stopped by. Took 10 mins to take photos and fingerprints and I didn't have an appointment. (Initially applied online but had issues with the SES website so ended up completing the process in person. Though I had the same speedy experience in the States. And no matter you have to go to the airport for the final step anyway) I used SES the same day to breeze through immigration. #bam
This job is too good to pass up so I have to share
If only my contract ended earlier and I didn’t have my Osaka tripㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
There’s a job posting over at ESLRok for anyone with an F-series visa, a degree from a top tier US university, and able to commit for 2 years.
Teaching AP English at a top high school in Seoul, four days a week, two 70 minute classes from 4 to 7:30. Starting August 23.
Wait for it: 300,000 won a day.
That’s a monthly salary of 4,800,000 won before taxes.
If you match the requirements, APPLY.
And you’re welcome.
You should still apply. Why not? If you're offered the job they might be willing to push the start date or you could shorten/reschedule your vacation. No harm in applying. Go for it!
Holy shit, fellow Americans, the won is at 86 cents—SEND MONEY HOME!
Dear sisters,
be whatever the fuck you want. today and forever.
be as carefree as you want
be as sexy with that booty as you want
be as incendiary as you want
be as much like a princess as you want
be as revolutionary as you want
be as natural as you want
be as fearless as you want
be as unapologetically excellent as you want
be as angry as you want
be as loved as you want
Happy international women’s day to all the black women out there struggling, mothering, loving, breathing, praying, dancing, resisting, laughing and BEING.
You are loved, you are worthy, you are magic.
Special Journey to the West 孫悟空!
Torajiro the cat as Songoku 孫悟空 & his friend Kikuchiyo the Shiba inu as Sanzo Hoshi 三蔵法師 celebrating the monkey year with Magaibutsu 磨崖仏 at Yokosuka Takatoriyama 横須賀の鷹取山, and Nokogiriyama 鋸山, Chiba prefecture 千葉県, Japan - January 2016
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Oh my gosh. I just heart this!!
Thousands of protesters think the NYPD is using this Chinese cop as a scapegoat
Chinese Americans Protest Conviction Of NYPD Officer Peter Liang
Thousands accused he wouldn’t have been convicted if he were white.
Such a mess
A huge fucking mess.
I’m sitting here laughing because otherwise I would just get very angry. In what world do they find it reasonable to not want him to be held accountable for killing someone?? Whether or not he’s being “scapegoated” (bahahahaha) is irrelevant since HE KILLED SOMEONE and should be brought to justice for it, regardless of whether or not others who did similar things were also brought to justice. But nah, he should get a pass, and the victim’s family can just… live with it, I guess? Sickening.
I agree. Sorry not sorry, justice was served. Injustice? It’s injustice that an officer responsible for the death of a man is sentenced? Oh, are we ignoring the fact that he walked away from the dying man while the man’s girlfriend was attempting to keep him conscious? He supposedly cried after finding out he shot a man, but didn’t call for an ambulance? Am I supposed to feel sorry for him? The trial showed me a rookie cop who cared more about maintaining his career than about the man with a bullet in his heart. I wouldn’t argue that the scapegoat issue is irrelevant as I do think it points to the fact that white officers are not held to the same standard of punishment (police officers rarely get indicted in NYC, so, yeah, it’s really rare that this happens, and I do suspect that his case was looked at more harshly because it happened, what, three months after Garner was killed at the height of anti-NYPD sentiment), but if these protesters wanted to fight for equality before the law when it comes to police misconduct, they should be shouting for the white officers who got off with not even a slap on the hand to stand trial for their actions, not that Liang should’ve gotten off for killing a black man like white cops before and after him. Other than that, yeah, second-degree manslaughter and police misconduct for leaving the scene sounds about right.
This is indeed a mess. David Shih did a great blog post entitled “You’re the Model Minority Until You’re Not” including Peter Liang’s case, last year and I think it still holds up.
Useful Korean apps
These are for Android, but I’m sure you can find similar apps for iOS too.
좋은글모음 Play Store link This one gives you a 명언 ‘wise saying’ everyday. It also has a widget function so you don’t have to open it everyday. I write down each day’s saying in my notebook. The app’s interface is clean and really pretty. Search for ‘명언’ or ‘ 좋은 글’ to find similar apps!
마시멜로 이야기 Play Store You can set a 목표 ‘goal’ and everytime you complete it, it gives you a marshmallow. Or more, because you can set the number of marshmallows you’ll receive for completed goals. You can set more goals, due dates…and it also has a widget function, which asks you if you completed the goal for today, if yes then you receive marshmallows! If not, they take the same amount of marshmallows you would have received. :( Search for ‘ 목표달성’ or ‘ 습관 만들기’ to find similar apps!
씀 Play Store This one gives you two titles a day, and you can write you thoughts about it. You can check the previous titles too. This is great if you would like to write but you have no idea what to write about. You can read other’s writing too. This app’s interface is really clean, but if you want to read other’s writings you have to wait since it tends to be a bit slow.
띄어쓰기 Play Store 띄어쓰기 means ‘spacing words‘. You have to learn how to properly space words when writing Korean. You can learn&play at the same time with this app. It gives you a sentence with two words highlighted. You have to decide whether they belong together or they need a space between them. Then it shows whether your answer is right or wrong, then the full sentence written correctly, and an explanation in Korean. It saves your answers so you can go back and check what you did wrong. Check this app’s developer, they have some nice apps! You can find similar apps if you search for ‘ 띄어쓰기 ‘. Also search for ‘ 맞춤법’ which means orthography, the rules of spelling!
Viral star Brendan Jordan comes out as a member of the trans community
The first time you saw Brendan Jordan, he struck poses and fierce dance moves on local TV. The video was viewed more than 4 million times. In an inspiring speech at the HRC Foundation’s Time to Thrive Conference Sunday, he came out as a member of the transgender community. Jordan was also there to introduce another big transgender role model.
good job, baby. reppin bigender awareness and las vegas!!!
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Be you!
Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to America. But you’ve certainly heard a lot about gun violence in the U.S. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week. You wonder if you could go there and get stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, a problem-solver, a lifesaver. How hard could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to go to America after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organization that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30. Sound hopelessly naïve? Maybe even a little deluded? It is. And yet, it’s not much different from how too many Americans think about social change in the “Global South.” If you asked a 22-year-old American about gun control in this country, she would probably tell you that it’s a lot more complicated than taking some workshops on social entrepreneurship and starting a non-profit. She might tell her counterpart from Kampala about the intractable nature of our legislative branch, the long history of gun culture in this country and its passionate defenders, the complexity of mental illness and its treatment. She would perhaps mention the added complication of agitating for change as an outsider. But if you ask that same 22-year-old American about some of the most pressing problems in a place like Uganda — rural hunger or girl’s secondary education or homophobia — she might see them as solvable. Maybe even easily solvable. I’ve begun to think about this trend as the reductive seduction of other people’s problems. It’s not malicious. In many ways, it’s psychologically defensible; we don’t know what we don’t know. If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems. There is a whole “industry” set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S., many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda — encompassed so fully in the patronizing, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.”
“The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems” by Courtney Martin
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