Same same but different

Just dance, gonna be okay.

[likebells]

REMINDER/MEMO: Fat-shaming Beyonce is fucked up becuase

FAT SHAMING IS FUCKED UP. 

NOT because we want to overlook the violent policing and other-ing we aim at fat people and other folks whose bodies are deemed ‘unacceptable’ in some way by society.

Also, LET’S REMEMBER THIS REGARDLESS of how pregnant/powerful/talented Beyonce or anyone else is.

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

Beyoncé is being fat shamed while pregnant — and the Beyhive is not about to let that stand

follow @the-movemnt

[likebells]

REMINDER/MEMO:

Fat-shaming Beyonce is fucked up becuase FAT SHAMING IS FUCKED UP. 

NOT because we want to overlook the violent policing and other-ing we aim at fat people and other folks whose bodies are deemed ‘unacceptable’ in some way by society.

LET’S REMEMBER THIS REGARDLESS of how pregnant/powerful/talented Beyonce or anyone else is.

[ithelpstodream]

[tiny-turtle-duckses-deactivated]

Be a hard worker like Leslie Knope. Be a caring person like Ann Perkins. Dream big like Tom Haverford. Be straightforward like Ron Swanson. Have fun like Andy Dwyer. Be in charge of yourself like April Ludgate. Accept failures like Jerry Gergich. Be reasonable like Ben Wyatt. Find the bright side of everything like Chris Traeger. Love yourself like Donna Meagle.

[observando]

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Carl Sagan (via observando)

"A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

[thedragoninmygarage]

[likebells]

I'm so glad that one of my favorite activities of all time is finding science magical.

[brutereason]

A lot of people are surprised to learn that back in 1800, 90 percent of American teachers were actually male. Today we know that actually 76 percent of [them are] female, so how did this huge flip happen? The answer is that as school reformers began to realize in the 1820s that schooling should be compulsory — that parents should be forced to send their kids to school, and public education should be universal — they had to come up with a way to do this basically in an affordable manner, because raising taxes was just about as unpopular back then as it is now. So what we see is this alliance between politicians and education reformers in the early 19th century to redefine teaching as a female profession. They do this in a couple ways: First, they argue that women are more moral in a Christian sense than men. They depict men as alcoholic, intemperate, lash-wielding, horrible teachers who are abusive to children. They make this argument that women can do a better job because they’re more naturally suited to spend time with kids, on a biological level. Then they are also quite explicit about the fact that [they] can pay women about 50 percent as much — and this is going to be a great thing for the taxpayer.

A Lesson In How Teachers Became ‘Resented And Idealized’ : NPR (via brutereason)

[sci-universe]

[planesdrifter]

These spiky little bunches of ice, called frost flowers, form on thin and new ice in the Arctic Ocean. (Photos by Mattias Wietz)

[kjpoems]

I said I wanted to die but honestly I just wanted to feel alright.

- (89/366) by (KJ)

[adventuringasnotagrownup-deacti]

[untamedcomets]

This is important

[memory-machine]

IMPORTANT. BOOST.

[broccoliveins]

[hellanne]

…if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (via celestial-mirth)

[laviesepoursuit]

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

Kurt Vonnegut (via laviesepoursuit)

[ink-pedia]

[likebells]

I wanna get this as a friendship tattoo with Tina Belcher because we both have a lot of feelings.

[workingamerica]

The minimum wage hasn’t gone up in 5 years, but costs certainly have.

Tell Speaker John Boehner to take the Minimum Wage Challenge so he better understands the lives of low-wage workers: http://bit.ly/1rChdiz

(Graphic via U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez) http://ift.tt/1nFSMyd

[msnbc]

Rachel Maddow reports on an expected executive order from President Obama that would bar discrimination based on the sexual orientation or gender identity of Americans working for federal contractors.

[likebells]

This is a piece of chicken shaped like michigan.