Miles to Go

We're all mad here. White cis bi female. she/her/hers.

[sacred-dwellings]

In Search of Forgotten Colours | Sachio Yoshioka and the Art of Natural Dyeing

“Sachio Yoshioka is the fifth-generation head of the Somenotsukasa Yoshioka dye workshop in Fushimi, southern Kyoto. When he succeeded to the family business in 1988, he abandoned the use of synthetic colours in favour of dyeing solely with plants and other natural materials. 30 years on, the workshop produces an extensive range of extremely beautiful colours.”

Film by: NHK Enterprises, Inc. and Art True Film

[ughjosie]

relatable

[theweirdwideweb]

[k-lionheart-deactivated20171126]

Reblog if you’re a petticoated swashbuckler and would stab a man with a hairpin

[swolerbear]

honestly I love history that reminds us that the assholes of today are exactly like the assholes of yesteryear

[hmsindecision]

Shoutout to every woman who has ever seen a stranger crying and stopped to help her. To women who pretend they know someone at a bar to get her away from a creep. To women who stay with a stranger who is scared and too drunk in the bathroom. To women who have put their body between a girl and someone out to harm her. To women who get a friend home after she has been roofied. To women who have been in a fistfight when a man won’t keep his hands to himself. To women who are scared but send in their friend, the bartender, the bouncer. To the fact that each of those is a woman I know, most of them several women.

My friends and I saw a man chasing a woman and screaming at her. My friend who was driving pulled over hard and we threw open the door and said, “get in!” And she looked at a group of women and threw herself in, on our laps, crying and cold. We said we would take her home. She said he was telling her how he’d rape her since he bought her a drink at the bar.

If I hear one more time that getting free drinks is a privilege I will fucking scream.

[thlayli-rah]

It’s time for me to tell you a story. A story I didn’t really want to tell but I’m going to tell anyway. My friends and I frequently go to this pub, a divey little place nearby our work, to have dinner and a drink. So this one time I went with my group, and while we were sitting at the table, I got sent a drink.

I’m eighteen. Not old enough to (legally) drink. To be fair, I don’t look eighteen, especially when I come from work, but anyway. I got sent this drink from this guy who was sitting at a bar. It was pretty obvious that he was about thirty or so, and when I looked up at him he waved. I felt slightly disconcerted, but reasoned that he probably didn’t realize that I was so young. So I made the mistake of going to the bar.

“Hi there,” I said. “I appreciate the compliment, but I’m actually only eighteen.” And that was when he grinned and said “Wow I really did luck out” “I’m sorry, I’m really not interested.” He gave me that look– you know the one, the one where there’s the flash of anger that suddenly disappears behind a predatory smile. “It’s rude to not accept a gift.” Unsettled, I went and sat back down. He continued to stare at me for the rest of the evening but thankfully because I was with my friends I figured he wouldn’t bother me.

I went to the bathroom (it’s just a single room, not a group of stalls), and I hear someone knock on the door. I say, “Just a minute.” and then the doorknob jiggles. “Hang on a second,” I say. I finish my business, open the door, and then I get shoved back into the bathroom by the guy from the bar. I didn’t wait, I didn’t hold on, I didn’t pause– I just let loose a full-pelt scream. Almost immediately, the bartender, a young woman about twenty-five, throws open the door and just fucking bodychecks the bar guy, grabs my hand, and hauls me out of the bathroom.

He didn’t get the chance to lay a hand on me, but it’s pretty obvious what he was looking to do. And if it hadn’t been for the fact that the bartender had been keeping an eye on him from the moment he sent me a drink that night, seen him go to the bathroom after I did, and been on high alert– well I’m not sure what would’ve happened. I’d rather not think about it.

Girls protecting girls is the most important thing

[cecaeliawitch]

oh my god

[cocksmasher69]

Gals don’t just spring into action once you’ve heard or seen something. Actively be on the lookout for women who may be in danger. A lot of the times males are silently predatory; if your gut tells you something is off, listen to it. Men don’t give a fuck about us, we have to look out for each other

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

http://columbusasas.org/

We can’t even pay teachers properly in the first place

The American education system is broken

[hpslutcraft]

[radicalanarchism]

Off-Duty Cop Kills Baby After Smashing into Car Going 94mph—Mom Charged with Homicide

A cop has been on paid vacation while a grieving mother is arrested and charged with homicide in an accident that the officer caused by driving at 94mph while off duty.

Baton Rouge, LA — A mother has been grieving the loss of her baby for the last few months after an off-duty cop—recklessly driving 94 mph—smashed into her car, killing her daughter and injuring all the other occupants. Now, months after this officer took the life of her child, his fellow officers are charging HER with homicide.

Brittany Stephens, 20, was arrested on Tuesday on charges of homicide—in spite of the fact that the officer caused the deadly crash. According to police, Stephens did not have the straps at the correct level in the car seat—something parents across the country are likely ‘guilty’ of—so she is responsible for her daughter’s death.

Police said the “lack of securing the seat to the vehicle and the loose straps are a contributing factor in the death” of the child and “show gross negligence” on the mother’s part, according to the Advocate.

What’s more, Stephens was not the driver of the vehicle. However, she told police that she was the one who strapped in her daughter, so now she is the one facing charges in her death.

Stephens—whose baby’s life was ended by a reckless cop—was booked into the Baton Rouge prison on Tuesday on one count of negligent homicide and a seat belt violation.

According to the report, three other adults were in the car and were all cited as well.

As the Advocate reports, the crash occurred around 8 p.m. Oct. 12, 2017, when a Baton Rouge Police officer — driving his Corvette 94 mph while off duty — struck the Nissan carrying the four adults and four children. Officer Christopher Manuel was driving north on Airline Highway and crashed into the passenger side of the Nissan, which was turning left onto Florline Boulevard at a green light.

[anarchistphilosophy]

I hate my state

[advanced-procrastination]

Cops.

[thedarkestlovee]

I hate the way the police force moves in this country.

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

Proving criminal negligence in Louisiana is “extremely difficult.”

It means proving “beyond a reasonable doubt that an individual’s conduct is more than a mere deviation from the standard of ordinary care; it must be a gross deviation below the standard of care expected to be maintained by a reasonably careful person under like circumstances,”

Then the state must also prove that deviation caused the death in question.

This charge needs to be dropped immediately, there is no way to say the infant would have survived the impact of being hit @ 90+ mph even if properly constrained in the car seat.

[blacksinhistory-deactivated2018]

[psychedelicfelon]

If this isn’t the realest shit ever.

[hoomie]

Aka all Muslim households

I have never been able to wear shorts or a tank top around the house if my dad was home, and then my teenage brother when he became a teen. When you’re indoctrinated with that your whole life it doesn’t seem weird but when you stop and think about it for two seconds, I mean….

At some point during college I started hanging out w my bro, watching tv or even studying, in a short short sleeve tee or a tank and my mom was like WTF NO and I was like o k b u t w h a t a r e y o u a f r a i d o f

And she stopped telling me to knock it off.

[halfsquaretriangles-deactivated]

@KathleenMRooney Most mind-blowing fact I’ve encountered all month, scurvy-related or otherwise.

[greynasdire]

O____O

[argumate]

jesus christ this was a fact I could have happily gone to the grave not knowing

[argumate]

certainly gives me more enthusiasm for eating oranges, knowing that my body could just up and explode if I don’t

[ms-demeanor]

I actually kind of love this because it means that citrus is the only thing standing between a civilized society and a mass of moaning zombies constantly dripping ichor and stinking.

[bidonicart]

(The other mermay posts that I didn’t share on tumblr)

[disteal]

Friendly reminder: if your government representatives sell you out for a handful of silver coins it’s okay to construct guillotines on their front lawn

[disteal]

Okay I’ve been sorting through the ratfuck of information this past hour because fiscal conservatives deserve to drown 

A bunch of weird amendments got tacked onto the end of a very exploitative tax reform bill that is a complete eyesore to read and about 400 pages long. I’m gonna try and sort some of that relevent info into digestable and understandable nugs

You can read most of this better in an NYTimes article 

Deductions are mostly gone, with the exception of charity donations, mortgage interest and retirement savings. It eliminates most medical expense deductions as well as state and local tax deductions (This will suck hard for anyone in a high-tax area like NY.)

It’ll eliminate deductions for interest payments on school loans, theft, and moving expenses. This is huge for anyone who is a student or lives in an area with crime. This bill is making being poor harder.

The plan will eliminate personal tax exemptions (claiming for people in your family) but DOUBLE estate tax exemption (primarily used by top 1% income holders)

The plan lowers max corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent.  It’s going to cut taxes on profits earnt in other countries and incentivise work in the U.S. This is generally great for business but amazingly bad for U.S. workers.

In the long run you can see taxes rising on folks earning less than $30 000 a year.

Amendments:

The GOP literally scrawled a bunch of bullshit into the margines of this plan a few hours ago so some dodgy stuff wiggled it’s way through (this is just what I’ve found so far):

- A wildlife preserve has been OK’d for oil drilling

- A conservative private college in michigan has dodged the deduction cuts

- Life is now officially recognised as beginning at conception

Some pissed off thoughts:

This tax plan is the republican wishlist from hell. 

The groups affected by these policy changes will be the disabled, LGBT and non-nuclear families, PoC (notable a huge part of the black community), students, women and young people. Anyone who was already struggling in the economy is going to have an even tougher time. 

The obscenely wealthy will be like pigs in shit. 

I know I usually just shitpost and draw but this is literally class war and all of you without rich dads should all be very pissed.

[commune-or-nothing]

Why Young Americans Are Giving Up on Capitalism

Should we really be surprised that young people are rejecting the economic status quo?

Imagine that you’re twenty years old. You were born in 1996. You were five years old on 9/11. For as long as you can remember, the United States has been at war.

When you are twelve, in 2008, the global economy collapses. After years of bluster and bravado from President George W. Bush — who encouragedconsumerism as a response to terror — it seems your country was weaker than you thought.

In America, the bottom falls out fast. The adults who take care of you struggle to take care of themselves. Perhaps your parent loses a job. Perhaps your family loses its home.

In 2009, politicians claim the recession is over, but your hardship is not. Wages are stagnant or falling. The costs of health care, child care, and tuition continue to rise exponentially. Full-time jobs turn into contract positions while benefits are slashed. Middle-class jobs are replaced with low-paying service work. The expectations of American life your parents had when you were born — that a “long boom” will bring about unparalleled prosperity — crumble away.

Baby boomers tell you there is a way out: a college education has always been the key to a good job. But that doesn’t seem to happen anymore. The college graduates you know are drowning in student debt, working for minimum wage, or toiling in unpaid internships. Prestigious jobs are increasinglyclustered in cities where rent has tripled or quadrupled in a decade’s time. You cannot afford to move, and you cannot afford to stay. Outside these cities, newly abandoned malls join long abandoned factories. You inhabit a landscape of ruin. There is nothing left for you.

Every now and then, people revolt. When you are fifteen, Occupy Wall Street captivates the nation’s attention, drawing attention to corporate greed and lost opportunity. Within a year, the movement fades, and its members do things like set up “boutique activist consultancies.” When you are seventeen, the Fight for 15 workers movement manages to make higher minimum wage a mainstream proposition, but the solutions politicians pose are incremental. No one seems to grasp the urgency of the crisis. Even President Barack Obama, a liberal Democrat — the type of politician who’s supposed to understand poverty — declares that the economy has recovered.

[kenyatta]

I know stuff like this has been a topic of conversation on my dash for years but this bit was a nice articulation:

Capitalism, in other words, holds less appeal in an era when the invisible hand feels like a death grip. Americans under 20 have had little to no adult experience in a pre-Great Recession economy. Things older generations took for granted — promotions, wages that grow over time, a 40-hour work week, unions, benefits, pensions, mutual loyalty between employers and employees — are increasingly rare.

As a consequence, these basic tenets of American work life, won by labor movements in the early half of the twentieth century, are now deemed “radical.” In this context, Bernie Sanders, whose policies echo those of New Deal Democrats, can be deemed a “socialist” leading a “revolution”. His platform seems revolutionary only because American work life has become so corrupt, and the pursuit of basic stability so insurmountable, that modest ambitions — a salary that covers your bills, the ability to own a home or go to college without enormous debt — are now fantasies or luxuries.

[elsinore-snores]

some really beautiful african architecture because honestly this site is so western-centric

mako

unknown

cameroon

burkina faso

mali

Ndebele

burkina faso

please add more if you can!

[ayeshapoptropica]

these are SO BEAUTIFUL

[nish-xiii]

So freaking BEAUTIFUL!!!

[quasi-normalcy]

So does anyone know what function is served by the sticks in the walls of the Malinese and Burkinabe architecture?

[swagintherain]

it seems that they violated 5th an 6th amendments but it doesn’t bother anyone in this country.

[joshua10nbed]

PLEASE retweet this and share this. I understand that due maybe cant make bail becuz its high but 10 years with out trail IS VERY VERY FUCKING unconstitutional. THIS IS THE REASON SOO MANY. POOR PEOPLE AND BLACKS JUST PLEAD GUILTY too shit. They should have ATLEAST SCHEDULED A BOND REDUCTION. AND THEY LET U SET MOTION FOR BOND REDUCTION EVERY MONTH. SO 12 MONTHS TIMES 10 YEARS. COME ON NA THAT BOY BOND SHOULD BE 10 dollars. Im sorry negative -10 dollars.

[kekesdarkmind]

Wow

[thatadult]

The Stanford prison experiment tapes were so stupid when I watched them in AP psych and so stupid when I watch this film about them. Literally they could’ve all sat and played cards and got $15 a day to tell ghost stories all day and be best friends. But masculinity and whiteness and power created this violent irrationality that positioned young ass men to be met with brutality and trauma and disrespect even when it was obviously taken too far. and it makes no sense. If someone put me in a room with Black girls and said I would get paid $90 a day (that’s the equivalent apparently) to be a prison guard, do you know how fast I’d be sitting with them and learning about them and exchanging Instagrams and like.. sleeping.. like what the fuck was the point of any of that…

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

My psych teacher introduced us to this study and literally before she showed us was like “don’t ever confuse a study based on one type of person (white men/boys) to be an example of an Everyman situation. There is strong evidence that if this was recreated with diversity, or even just with girls, that the results would have been drastically different. This is an example of bias and sexism in the medical research community.”

[redmagus77]

“Other, more subtle factors also shaped the experiment. It’s often said that the study participants were ordinary guys—and they were, indeed, determined to be “normal” and healthy by a battery of tests. But they were also a self-selected group who responded to a newspaper advertisement seeking volunteers for “a psychological study of prison life.” In a 2007 study, the psychologists Thomas Carnahan and Sam McFarland asked whether that wording itself may have stacked the odds. They recreated the original ad, and then ran a separate ad omitting the phrase “prison life.” They found that the people who responded to the two ads scored differently on a set of psychological tests. Those who thought that they would be participating in a prison study had significantly higher levels of aggressiveness, authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and social dominance, and they scored lower on measures of empathy and altruism.” http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-real-lesson-of-the-stanford-prison-experiment

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

The thing about this study is that whether or not it’s generalizable to the public is debatable at best.

But it’s certainly generalizable to the population of people who tend to be drawn to prison system and law enforcement jobs because that’s exactly the demographics that tend to show up in those positions.

[jessiejjones]

no more ‘vampires who correct history books’

more vampires who don’t remember more vampires saying ‘i don’t fucking know man, google it’ more vampires not remembering important historical figures more vampires not recalling centuries worth of history more vampires saying ‘ that was at least 300 years ago, how the FUCK could i remember that detail?’ more vampires whose brains work like human brains

[acertainmaybe]

More vampires who 300 years later can’t remember what was the truth and what was the lie they told to get out of trouble.

More vampires who are like, “I don’t know, man, I spent most of that decade in an opium den.”

More vampires who weren’t paying attention because they didn’t think it would be important.

More vampires who don’t know because there was lot of conflicting gossip and they don’t want to point any fingers.

More vampires who are just bad at dates. “Back in 1620, or was it 1645, wait, what year is it now?”

More vampires who were on a totally different continent when it happened, so get off their back and stop asking them questions already.

[therainingkiwi]

YES to all of this but also consider: vampires who only remember the most trivial stuff.

“Oh yeah, the only thing I remember about the American Revolution was this nice candlemaker I met sometime, and she was wearing this really cute red shawl…”

“Uhhh I don’t remember much about the fall of Rome but there was this one fucking cobblestone right outside the coliseum…”

[mothmo]

Also consider: vampires who realize three or four hundred years after the fact that they knew someone famous.

Just sits up in bed one night screaming “THAT WAS GEORGE GODDAMN WASHINGTON”

[gaylor-moon]

This is the FUCK TRUMP fairy god mother, ,,good luck and tidings will come to you but only if you comment FUCK TRUMP

[sunshineoptimismandangels]

Okay but you’re missing this best part! This is the Texas woman, Karen Fonseca, who was threatened by the local Sheriff, Troy Nehls, that she could be arrested for this bumper sticker. She responded with a bumper sticker that read, “Fuck  Sheriff Troy Nehls and Fuck you for voting for him”. Meanwhile, the “Fuck Trump” sticker sales in the county where she lives have sky rocketed.  Please just read the whole story.   x 

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Karen Fonseca has fucking had it.