I am light.

Lyn. 20. NYU.

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[nonbinary-hawke-deactivated2021]

Reminder that “tard” and all variations of it (“fucktard,” “libtard,” etc) are literally just a “PC” way of calling someone a r*t*rd and I’d really appreciate it if my mutuals stopped putting words like that on my dashboard.

[animatedamerican]

I had to get schooled on this one myself a while back; I’d mistakenly assumed it was meant to evoke “bastard”. But nope!

As ever, we learn better, we do better.

[commandtower-solring-go]

The same is true for the ‘reeeeeee’ noise.

[always-bookgasming]

^Important addition

Most of the people who say these things absolutely know what they mean, and choose to say them anyway. On the off chance that someone truly does not know what they mean, here’s your chance to learn and do better.

[island-delver-go]

Source

[themaskedhero]

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[probablyasocialecologist]

“Those working-class Londoners sheltering in tube stations during World War II? They weren’t supposed to be there. In fact, the British government of the late 1930s built far too few municipal shelters, preferring to leave that to private companies, local government councils, and individuals and when the first bombs first fell, the hardest hit areas were poor, immigrant, and working-class communities in the East End with nowhere to go. Elite clubs and hotels dug out their own bomb shelters, but the London Underground was barricaded. On the second night of the Blitz, with the flimsy, unhygienic East End shelters overflowing, hundreds of people entered the Liverpool Street Station and refused to leave. By the time the government officially changed its position and “allowed” working-class Londoners to take shelter down among the trains, thousands were already doing so — 177,000 people at its most packed. Eventually it was adopted into the propaganda effort and became part of the official mythos of the Blitz, but the official story leaves out the struggle. It leaves out the part about desperate people, abandoned by their government, in fear of their lives, doing what they had to — and what should have been done from the start — to take care of each other.”

— Laurie Penny, Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness

[hasufin]

Huh.

Just like how the Covid mythos will inevitably include praise for the Americans who stepped up and sewed masks for themselves and others - without at all mentioning that the reason we had to make our own PPE is the utter ineptitude of the Republican government to refill our stockpiles, have more proper PPE made, or properly distribute what exists.

We often speak highly of those who rise to adversity, but we neither admonish those who caused the adversity, nor praise those whose efforts prevent it.

[ilsa-fireswan]

We often speak highly of those who rise to adversity, but we neither admonish those who caused the adversity, nor praise those whose efforts prevent it.

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[izzymar]

Disney Fine Art: “Ohana means family“ by Heather Theurer:)

(Source: disneyfineart.com)

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Nobody on the left ever wants to hear this, but a large part of the reason we keep losing elections is that we have chased away moderates and constantly act like their very presence is poison. There’s a persistent delusion on the left that we’re some kind of silent majority and it’s just not true. We’re not a large group, and we do need to loop someone else in if we ever want to form any kind of government at all. Elections are not protest movements for a reason. They are in fact a terrible time for such a thing. Especially in a multi-party system where there is always another potential choice just around the corner and nobody is obligated to buy what you’re selling, no matter how convinced you are the only moral option is what you believe. If you want to convert someone to the cause it has to happen long before that. And if you can’t, but they are willing to stand with you this time? Then that’s gonna have to be good enough. They don’t have to be your best friend. They don’t have to be your comrade.

I saw a woman on twitter who’d just joined the Democratic Socialists of America talking about how if she hadn’t gone to an in person meeting she never, ever would have done it because their online presence fucking sucks, filled with frothing keyboard warriors constantly screaming about guillotines and violence and brutal revolution. And then she went to a meeting and it was all sensible, helpful people doing things like paying off parking tickets for those in need or arranging for necessities like food or rent to be covered. I think about this a lot, how bad the left’s advertising is. We can’t spit contempt in everyone’s face and then expect their help when the time comes. That’s not how human nature works. And yes, the internet has definitely made this phenomenon worse.

I don’t care about the revolution. The revolution does not exist. I care about getting useful politicians into a position where they might help somebody. I care about practicality. All these glorious and correct ideas mean dick shit if nobody ever gets to actually use them.

[findingfeather]

We can’t spit contempt in everyone’s face and then expect their help when the time comes. That’s not how human nature works.

[doomhamster]

And this goes for ANY form of alliance and allyship. I know how things SHOULD work, but that’s not how they DO work, and if you want people’s help now, you need to be willing to meet them where they ARE now. Only then can you hope to influence their thoughts going forward.

[loosesealbluths]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bocceclub]

wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….

[trickstertime]

“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”

This was in place till 1973.

[commie-cosmo]

Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy

[brokensmolders]

#come through baba

[im-god-now-fight-me-deactivated]

Hey guys if you haven’t this movie its called The Breadwinner and last I checked it could be streamed off of Netflix. It’s an amazing film about a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family, who is living in Afghanistan during a dangerous political climate. It’s beautifully animated and incredibly well-written. Me and my younger sister (she is ten years old) thoroughly enjoyed it. So did my mom and dad when we watched it with them later. 

[bloodytales]

It is based on a book of the same name. I read the book when I was in Elementary school. It is great. I also encourage you ne read it.

[gaphic]

It’s also made by the studio responsible for Song of the Sea and Secret of Kells, both of which are phenomenal. Unfortunately they also weren’t very profitable. These people really deserve a lot more recognition for their amazing, beautiful work, and if you think so too you should definitely keep your eye out for their upcoming project, Wolfwalkers 

[thefloatingstone]

They were also behind the song sequence in “The Prophet”

The studio is called Cartoon Saloon and they’re based in Ireland.

[xxtc-96xx]

I’m a simple person, I see anything praising cartoon Saloon, I reblog. Support these guys!!

[oberynmartell]

some of the best tweets from the last few days

[tidapencil]

On this day Breonna Taylor would have turned 27. Please remember her. She and many others still do not have justice.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[gingersofficial]

[candiikismet]

Life path unlocked. He’s a scientist now.

[prolifeproliberty]

If your dad is telling you in great detail about something he’s passionate about, you’re going to be hooked even if you don’t understand a word.

[by-grace-of-god]

He tells us more…

So now I have to deliver a quiet lecture on the Standard Model every night. He loves lists of things, like all the streets home from daycare, or the train stations between here and Central, so he loves hearing the list of leptons and quarks and bosons.

Anyway, I made this poster for him, based on the CPEP ones we used to have at uni . 

Alas I ran out of room for antimatter, colour charge and confinement, but hey, maybe there can be a second poster later.

It’s funny though — on the surface of it, it seems like it must be far too advanced for a 3yo. But when you think about it, quarks and leptons are no more or less real to him than, say, dinosaurs or planets, and he loves those too. And he recognises the letters on the particles.

I am absolutely overwhelmed by the kind and sweet things people are saying about this, thanks everyone ❤️

Addendum: he has really grasped onto the “everything is made of atoms” part of this, so tonight he listed just about every object he could think of and asked if it was made of atoms.

“And my bed?” Yes, and your bed. “And that wall?” Yep. “And the armchair?” Yes, the armchair too. … … “And… the book case?” Y—

“And my home?” Yep, the whole apartment block. “And your home? Oh wait, your home is my home.” Haha, it is. … … “But is it made of atoms?” Yep. “And… [best friend]’s home?” Yes, it is. And [other friend]’s home, and [third friend]’s home.

“Is [yet another friend]’s home?”

Update from the other night:

“Is my… is… [extremely long pause] is my atoms poster made up of atoms?” —Yes! Yes it is.

I have never heard such a contemplative silence. I think the next poster will have to be on the philosophy of referential language.

Update from this morning: after listing everything in sight (mummy? daddy? fridge? milk? cereal? table? etc.) he asks “is [baby sister] made up of atoms?”

yep!

*runs over to her on the floor* *puts face up real close to hers* “HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”

[arcticfoxbear]

@radioactivepeasant @themagdalenwriting @iusedtohaveanaccount

“HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”

[the-strongest-decoy]

[slimetony]

I sincerely cant remember the last time that staff rolled out a feature that improved this website in any way

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When they moved the reblog button to the bottom of posts

[slimetony]

Where was it before?

[catparazzi]

at the top we had to scroll all the way back up in order to reblog

[slimetony]

Wh

[slimetony]

What the fuck

[mememaster]

Reblog if you were here for top button

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[vetmedirl]

It’s the little things

[everythingfox]

Sleep buddies

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[switching-to-glide]

Can’t reblog this enough.

[bluestatesaint]

Not the way I figured it would turn out, but I learned something here.

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

This is called Trophic Cascade in ecology.

[mierac]

This was controversial when they released the wolves, as I recall. There were complaints about the wolves being dangerous to tourists, that they would actually damage the park and kill so much wildlife no one would want to go anymore.