life according to DARBY

This is a record of all the tips and tricks and the pain old stupid thoughts I have learned or had throughout the years as a DAB

[micdotcom]

Watch: George Takei sends a message in Spanish about how we can defeat Trump

[wilwheaton]

George is doing such important work right now. I’m so grateful he’s speaking out.

[iamyourpathos-deactivated201608]

“…but it’s fine, dogs are alright.”

Iwan Rheon on Ramsay’s death.

[coffiend-jackalope]

The brain is an organ. Mental illnesses are illnesses of that organ. Brain scans show that there is a physical difference between a healthy brain and a sick brain. Telling someone “You’re not really sick. It’s all in your head.” is like telling someone with asthma “It’s not real, it’s all in your lungs.” The brain is an organ that can malfunction as much as any other organ.

[its-syrupp]

PLEASE READ THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER

[fit-for--travel-deactivated2020]

So important 👍🏻

[psychofactz]

[micdotcom]

Watch: Poet Porsha Olayiwola heartbreakingly reminds us all that black women’s lives matter too. 

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ALRIGHT AMERICANS TODAY WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A THING.

How to make sure our pal Bernie Sanders wins the primaries so he can be our president: 

1. First of all, what are primaries? 

Well friends, it’s a preliminary election that decides the presidential candidates for each political party. If Bernie loses the primaries, he will NOT be able to become our next president. So for that reason it’s INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT that we all get our butts to those polls when the time comes. Here are the known or expected dates for the 2016 Democratic Party Primaries:

February

Monday, February 1: Iowa

Tuesday, February 9: New Hampshire

Saturday, February 20: Nevada

Saturday, February 27: South Carolina

March

Tuesday, March 1: Alabama; Arkansas; Colorado; Georgia; Massachusetts; Minnesota; North Carolina; Oklahoma; Tennessee; Texas; Vermont; Virginia

Saturday, March 5: Louisiana; Nebraska; Kansas

Tuesday, March 8: Mississippi; Michigan

Tuesday, March 15: Florida; Illinois; Missouri; Ohio

Tuesday, March 22: Arizona; Utah

Saturday, March 26: Alaska caucuses; Hawaii; Washington

April

Tuesday, April 5: Wisconsin

Tuesday, April 19: New York

Tuesday, April 26: Maryland; Connecticut; Delaware; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island

May

Tuesday, May 3: Indiana

Tuesday, May 10: West Virginia

Tuesday, May 17: Kentucky; Oregon

June

Sunday, June 5: Puerto Rico

Tuesday, June 7: California; Montana; New Jersey; New Mexico; South Dakota

Tuesday, June 14: Washington, DC

2. Okay cool, now I know when I need to vote!

But do you know in some states you can ONLY vote for Bernie if you are a registered Democrat?

STATES THAT ARE OPEN PRIMARIES (you do NOT need to be a registered Democrat to vote for Bernie):

Alabama

Michigan

North Dakota

Arkansas

Minnesota

Vermont

Georgia

Missouri

Wisconsin

Hawaii

Montana

STATES THAT ARE CLOSED PRIMARIES (you MUST be a registered Democrat to vote for Bernie):

Delaware

Maine

New York

Florida

Nevada

Pennsylvania

Kansas

New Jersey

Wyoming

Kentucky

New Mexico

STATES THAT ARE TOP-TWO PRIMARIES (you vote on candidates regardless of their party affiliation so you do NOT need to be a registered Democrat to vote for Bernie):

California

Nebraska

Louisiana

Washington

STATES THAT ARE HYBRID PRIMARIES (these vary between open and closed, and often depend on the current party, so if you live in one of these states you WILL need to find out the protocol for the 2016 presidential primaries):

Alaska

Maryland

Rhode Island

Arizona

Massachusetts

South Carolina

Colorado

Mississippi

South Dakota

Connecticut

New Hampshire

Tennessee

Idaho

North Carolina

Texas

Illinois

Ohio

Utah

Indiana

Oklahoma

Virginia

Iowa

Oregon

West Virginia

3. Okay, so how do I register to vote/as a Democrat?

Worried because your state has closed primaries or you’ve never used your constitutional rights to vote before and you think registering will be a terrible, vigorous, process?

DON’T WORRY FRIENDS.

Registering to vote is so easy, let me walk you through it.

Here is an online form you can mail in (available in multiple languages) that also gives you step by step instructions depending on your state. If you live in New Hampshire, North Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands, unfortunately you can NOT use this method.

For any state, you can check the following places to register in person:

State or local voter registration and/or election offices

The department of motor vehicles

Public assistance agencies

Armed services recruitment centers

State-funded programs that serve people with disabilities

Any public facility that a state has designated as a voter registration agency

Here is another link of states where you can register online, if you’re an anxious nugget like me.

EACH STATE HAS A SPECIFIC DEADLINE TO REGISTER IN TIME FOR PRIMARIES. IF YOU NEED TO REGISTER, MAKE SURE YOU FIND OUT WHEN THAT IS AND REGISTER BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

If you do end up having to register in person, do not be afraid friends! You are doing a very important and brave thing.

4. Alright, so I know when I have to vote, I am registered to vote, and if my state has closed primaries, I registered as a Democrat! I’m done now, right?

Nope, there’s one last thing! If you’re like me and unable to get to a voting poll, whether or not it’s due to school, work, your health, or being out of your state/country, you need to fill out an ABSENTEE BALLOT FORM!

This link contains not only the absentee ballot forms of every state, but some even have more voter registration forms as well!

DON’T FORGET. DEADLINES EXIST.

Write it in your planner, your calendar. Post it on your ceiling. Write it in ketchup on your burger. Tattoo it to your arm. Whatever helps!

AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, WHATEVER YOU DO:

Do not brush this off. Do not assume, well I’m just one person, what is one vote going to do? Bernie can win without little old me.

That’s wrong. You and your vote is so incredibly important. Bernie cannot win without you. Without us.

So please. Read this. Spread this. Register. Get ready to vote. Bernie promises to do his best to better America. Let’s do our best to get him there.

#Bernie2016

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#FeelTheBern ❤️ VOTE.

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Iowa was the narrowest fucking vote my baby Americans, like you guys can honestly do this and every vote seriously counts!!!

[kraizynkonfuzed]

This some preemo fuckboi type shit.

You mad cuz she a stripper?

Nigga was really that skeptical that he had to try and find some “dirt” to dig up lol…Bet his Black ass woulda been tippin her if he had the money

Let this lady and her daughter prosper. She’s obviously doing well enough to provide, sheesh

[kathereal]

All these hatin ass men and women can have several seats because your fave could never.

[onlyblackgirl]

What do we think now about what? A women working and getting an education for her and her daughter? Yes. How dare she. How dare she make money and feed her child.

Fuckboys so bitter.

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THIS

[kuroba101]

She’s such a monster for…feeding a child…

Wait…

[betterthankanyebitch]

[micdotcom]

Finally, some empirical proof that the “pink tax” exists.

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[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

why are people even questioning obesity in america

[merlinsbearditsthedoctor]

why is your tea liquidised?

[american-auror-story]

….. Where exactly do you live that the tea isn’t liquid?!?

[merlinsbearditsthedoctor]

ENGLAND. WHERE IT IS IN A BAG AND YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF.

like what do you do with already liquid tea? Microwave it?

[asmallvillageincanada]

No it’s sweet tea you drink it cold

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WHO DRINKS COLD TEA???

[randomthingieshere]

HAVE YOU NEVER HAD ICED/SWEET TEA BEFORE?!?

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so i reblogged this from a british person and i’ve been laughing at their tags for 600 years

[cloudyobsession]

England, you stole tea from China.  You’ve had it a mere 4 centuries compared to their 30+.  Don’t play like you’re some kind of authority.

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[skeletons ooh-ing]

[saveoursestras]

Shots fired. World War Tea has officially begun.

[myfriendscallmemaury]

#INTO THE HARBOR

[theanimangagirl]

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

Englad doesn’t own anything

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except that time we owned most of the world

[dangerbooze]

[micdotcom]

That’s Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Every 16-year-old in Sweden is going to get a copy of her landmark feminist book 

[sleep-with-monsters]

If male self-destruction is seen as opening up meaningful questions about great existential truths—Don’s alcohol binges in “Mad Men,” Walter White’s coming to terms with his own mortality in “Breaking Bad,” female self-destruction is still perceived as self-indulgent. The female depressive is seen as self-involved and attention seeking, empty-headed and silly. Seeking meaning in sex and drugs is seen as morally weighty when a man does it, but when a women grapples with nihilism, it’s still perceived as merely acting out for male attention.

Arielle Bernstein on Lana Del Rey  (via jolinxo)

[kokokitty]

It amazes me that the capture of the person making threats at black Mizzou students is being written off because “they weren’t near campus” or whatever.

The threat was still important. The threat still worked. You think all those white people just up and randomly decided to chant white power and make signs and shit? Like they were shocked to see someone else came? Fuck no. They were people acting upon the presumed threat on black lives. They were racists who felt they were backed up by these threats. They were people who used these threats to rally behind. It gave them their push to make their racism and hatred vocal.

Black students still had to undergo multiple accounts of terror last night. They have to continue going to a campus where students mobilized under the threat of their very lives in support of death to black people. Black students will have to continue to go to school with people who publicly chanted “White Power” and made signs that said “Black Lives Don’t Matter”.

At this point i really don’t care if the shooting threat was valid or not. The person got what they wanted and white racists felt their hatred validated. That’s still effective terror.

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The absence of women in history is man made.

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How petty

[skeptikhaleesi]

just look at babe ruth’s face tho

so confused

so lost

i love it

[whatbigotspost]

Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of. 

[urulokid]

From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:

“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”

Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.

A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”

TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard

[naamahdarling]

These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”

They gave up.

They couldn’t handle it.

Losers. 

Teenage girls are amazing.

[damegreywulf]

Here’s a friendly reminder of why the big leagues of sports aren’t co-ed.

It’s not to “make it fair” on women. It’s because men are scared of being beaten by women.

[thewittiestpartition]

She’s from my home town! And after all the baseball games I’ve been to here, no one ever mentioned her at all. I only recently looked her up online.

Men are the fragile ones.

[kansastexas]

Jensen for Best Sci-Fi Actor There ain’t no us, if there ain’t no you.

[lifeaccordingtodarby]

In a society where I am told everyday I am not good enough simply because I am a women I am choosing to love myself! #wcw #adorbs #love #feminism #selfietime #differentlookssameperson

[wocinsolidarity]

History Professor Denies Native Genocide: Native Student Disagrees, Gets Expelled From Course

Vincent Schilling, 9/6/15

“The whole thing started on Wednesday,” [Chiitaanibah] Johnson told ICTMN. “He was talking about Native America and he said the word genocide. He paused and said ‘I don’t like to use that word because I think it is too strong for what happened’ and ‘Genocide implies that it was on purpose and most native people were wiped out by European diseases.”

Johnson, who was offended, did not at first respond to the professor’s comments.

“I wrote it down. I was enraged for what I felt were obvious reasons. I didn’t say anything (on Wednesday) because I knew that if I didn’t have anything specific to back it up in terms of tangible or solid evidence that he would not take my comments into consideration,” she said.

On Friday, Johnson presented her research to the professor after his discussion on the Iroquois Confederacy and the Portuguese expeditions.

“He made it a point to say indigenous people were not peaceful. I was upset for obvious reasons. he’d mentioned how the French and the Dutch were allies and made it a point to say native people were killing each other before white settlers arrived.”

Johnson says that she understands that there were native conflicts before settlers arrived, but when the professor talked about the bravery of Portuguese expeditions without emphasis on the slave trade she again grew upset.

“On Friday, I raised my hand and I said, ‘I understand why we’re talking about the Portuguese people because it explains how they got to America. but I do not think it is fair to talk about Portuguese people as if they were only poor and brave.  They became rich by raping and enslaving the indigenous lands and people that they “discovered,” says Johnson.

Johnson says that when she asked why the Professor did not talk about any sort of Iroquoian technological advances or spirituality and then asked about her Professors stance on genocide, The Professor grew volatile and rolled his eyes several times.

“I told him, ‘you said genocide implies the purposeful extermination of people and that they were mostly wiped out by European diseases.” I said, “that is not a true statement.”

“He said, ‘Genocide is not what happened.’ I stood up and started reading from an article by the United Nations that said: Genocide is the deliberate killing of another people, a sterilization of people and/or a kidnapping of their children,” and he said, ‘That is enough.’

I said, ‘no. you have to tell the truth.’

He said, ‘if you want to come talk to me after class, now is not the time, you are hijacking my class.”

After a bit more discussion which Johnson says became heated, the Professor dismissed the class. Additionally, other students defended the professor.

“He said, ‘you know what class? I am so sorry to everybody that this is happening. Please everyone come back on Wednesday have a good weekend.’

After the class was dismissed, Johnson said she was expelled from the course by her professor.

“He said, ‘I do not appreciate this in my classroom.’ He began shaking his finger at me and said, ‘I don’t appreciate you making me sound like a racist and a bigot in my classroom. You have hijacked my lesson, taken everything out of context and I don’t care what kind of scholarship you have, or what kind of affiliation you have with the University, you will be disenrolled and expelled from this classroom.”

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