I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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NASA
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
noise dept.
if i look back, i am lost
Origami Around
trying on a metaphor
JVL
almost home
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@peculiardreamsfornow
listen to this when you're:
falling in love
running through an open field
going on a morning walk
in a car on the highway
being alone but not lonely
mentally in the 50s in New Orleans
getting ready for a night out
sitting with a friend near a lake
crying alone in your bedroom
heartbroken
winding down after a long day
going to college
partying in your bedroom at 1 am
going to a museum
missing the boyband era
do y’all realize just how beautiful it is that everything is interconnected in this universe like if you didn’t do that one thing then you probably would’ve never met certain people or if you decided to stay in that one place or didn’t read that one book then things could be so different that’s so crazy
you do know that when jewish and romani people say “never forget” we mean “learn about the holocaust so you can recognize the warning signs of facism and genocide” not “repeatedly bring up the holocaust whenever anything bad happens and exploit our pain and trauma to make people care about your cause” and when we say “never again” we mean “take action to prevent any stage of genocide on any scale by any means, hold collaborators responsible and don’t be complicit” not “only care about genocide when it’s too late”, right? or did you think it was just a fun catchphrase?
no actually reblog this
Green sea turtle snuggles into a sea sponge and lets out a big yawn before a nap
Source
Anemone song
happy 4th birthday to the best song ever uploaded to the internet
HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE
MAKE A WISH
the first post ever on tumblr
I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK
World Heritage Post
like actually though. i’m in AWE of the notecount.
when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c
#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line
it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired
THAT IS EXACTLY WHY
I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
um woah
I will always hit the reblog button so hard for Hallelujah but ESPECIALLY mentions of the elusive final verses which are just about my favorite lyrics ever. Why do people always omit the best part of the song??
[discovered]
[immediately mocked by scientists]
me as a discovery
How can you not include the video?
@lordcephalopod
THEY’RE ROASTING HIM
Nawww, I’m sure the scientists adore this little guy <3
thank you @agentliz
The Ocean created possibly the cutest creature ever
If you listen to the entire video, they definitely make some cooing noises, so I guarantee that the art is accurate if they could actually touch it.
Fucking superb you funky little cuddle fish
Do all sea explorations sound like the scientists are just on discord?
Watch the video, you won’t regret. XD
jesus fucking christ look at all these fragile pieces of shit who can’t watch a movie with women and poc in them I'm💀💀💀
everyone who’s commenting “haha wouldn’t that leave like 5 minutes of the movie then😂😂” is missing the point SO hard
no, it wouldn’t. cutting all the female characters, poc and gay “rep” is actually….pretty easy. this guy did it and it’s still a solid movie.
you guys are giving marvel WAY too much credit. They don’t give a shit about representation, they don’t give a shit about you - the only thing they care about is money and looking Woke™
they did that by advertising how “progressive” they are for adding the first openly gay character ever!! let’s see when we can get an openly gay main character. or at least, dare I suggest, one that has a name.
they did that by hyping carol the fuck up and then only using her for 3 scenes
they did that by putting all the female characters in one shot for a Girl Power UwU scene; “oh look at us! we have all these female characters in one shot! we don’t hate women” isn’t that sad? that you can fit all your girls into one single shot? that despite your claims, all the girls combined still only have 116 minutes of screentime while the men have almost 400? isn’t that fucking pathetic?
it is. and look at this douche, look at all the assholes out there, this doesn’t mean SHIT to them, they take half an hour out of their day and cut a few scenes and boom - everything marvel claims is “progressive” is gone. none of their fake wokeness is important to the plot.
the gay character? who even is he?
T'challa and his family? their ~ 1 minute of screentime is easily cut
Sam becoming Cap? Where will we see that? In the show? Right. This person cut the scene and did that change the plot of endgame? the answer is no.
Carol? not much to cut since she was barely there
Natasha? The only thing she was good for is to die
Pepper? housewife. All he needed to do was cut the scenes where Tony washes the dishes and talks to Pepper, and cut Rescue’s, what, 20 seconds of screentime? and boom. ideal female, right?
Valkyrie? Oh she’s there alright, in the background, doing jack shit until Thor calls her queen in one scene, but does that scene mean anything? Do any of her scenes mean anything? Not to them. 10 seconds is all it takes and her scenes are all gone.
Nebula? kidnapped. dead
Gamora? insignificant. cut
you can’t mock this dude because “haha he has no movie left now 😂”. you gotta mock, no, hate marvel because that’s just the thing - he does. not a single poc or woman or lgbt person did anything that, if they left it out, the movie would make no sense.
and that’s just what he did. and yes, he’s pathetic for it, but don’t think marvel gives a single fuck about you. they don’t.
Aaaand someone said it … every single time a dude can make such a cut and the movie still makes sense, the movie has failed.
New rule: If you can cut all minority characters and women without losing plot coherency it is a failure. We can call it the Rian-Russo effect.
Reblogging again for the Rian-Russo effect!
the fact that international celebrities are addressing the farmers protest better than the indian government never fails to astound me.
now the government considers that people talking about the farmers protests is a bigger problem than the farmers protest itself
indian “celebrities” are now talking about how “non-indians should not intervene” as if they or the government have been considerate about how the laws affect the farmers.
akshay kumar tweeted “let this not divide us and our nation”
so you think supporting the farmers against late stage capitalism and unfair laws divides us? fuck you.
kangana ranaut literally told rihanna to shut up. bitch you had the audacity. you WISH you were at her level.
rihanna is a humanitarian, and the news channels are now SLUT SHAMING HER and are talking about how much she paid for her fucking make up to portray that only “shameful women/people support farmers” while our “pious kangana ranaut is on the right side”
the thing is, people in india view the government to be this divine authority and we must accept what it does.
and like that is the total opposite of what a democracy is.
people don’t know that governments are supposed to be criticized, that a government is supposed to cater to the people’s needs, that our prime minister isn’t a fucking god and criticizing the government doesn’t make you an “anti-national”
the CAA protests (which was against a blatantly islamophobia law) was ignored and covid 19 caused the protests to stop, and nothing happened, nobody talks about it.
fuckers like kangana ranaut obviously called them terrorists or anti-national. the islamophobia in india is so rampant that apparently being a muslim makes you less of an indian.
the government expected the farmers protests to blow over, like the caa one. but it didn’t. they couldn’t stop the protests due to covid this time.
70 farmers died because of protesting. this was because so many of them were old and couldn’t handle the climate outside. people are labelling FARMERS as terrorists or anti-nationals.
the parallel between the farmers protests and blm is pretty clear. blm protests in america were peaceful and nobody wanted to listen to them?? and once it became violent, racists labelled blm protests as violent and don’t deserve to be listened to?? even if they haven’t been listened to since the very beginning??
its pretty much the same here.
the largest workers protests have been going on here and the government is trying to label the farmers as terrorists or too illiterate to understand the farm laws
and the police are building a wall in the capital to stop the protests. even some of the indo pakistani border isn’t this thick
greta thunberg extended her support and i am so so grateful for that, she also shared a toolkit to help the protests, (which unfortunately is deleted now)
and the indian news channels are trying to convince us that she doesn’t care about the farmer’s protests and she apparently wants to “dismantle the indian democracy”
india isn’t even a democracy anymore. the government now wants to obstruct freedom of speech by warning twitter of penal action if it doesn’t block the accounts which tweet about the protests.
please, this needs more attention. india is descending into fascism. “democracy” is just a blanket covering the chaos underneath.
here’s a petition to help
also thank you to the people who signed the UK petition to support indian farmers, now that the uk parliament is considering a debate on it.
(via @rudeness-sarcasm-and-cytoplasm)
All these bollywood celebs saying wE sHoUlDnT lEt pRoPaGaNdA dIvIdE uS have a special spot in hell. India against propaganda, it seems. There are people dying, and they’re sitting in their homes that are paid for by bjp. And the supporters are shaming Rihanna for being a victim of abuse and supporting Chris brown because they’d rather praise the perpetrator of a crime than a person trying to speak up about human rights issues. I’m just so angry at our fucking government and the people who think all the bullshit modi is pulling is okay
WHAT THE FUCK?? the media, modi and his fucking supporters are all bullshit. i am so angry.
How fucking delusional does one have to be to believe that RIHANNA. RIHANNA was paid to tweet about the protest. That GRETA THUNBERG is part of an “international conspiracy” to divide India. The audacity of right wingers never ceases to amaze me. They reach new lows every. single. day.
What else can you expect from them whose leader, our beloved Prime Minister- follows trolls who give rape threats to women- on Twitter.
India is on a path to ruin. Intolerance is at an all time high. FIRs are filed against tv shows, comedians are arrested for jokes they didnt make, acts of sedition and UAPA are slapped on student activists and journalists to keep them in jail and stop them from speaking the truth.
The mainstream media is rotting everyone’s brains, vilification of anyone who speaks against the govt reins supreme, and I am terrified. I am terrified of the future, scared of the people around me, and feeling extremely desolate.
Speak up, please. Raise your voice. Support the farmers. Our democracy has been in danger for while now, we need to step up before it’s too late.
Speak up.
non-indians can reblog this. we’d really appreciate it if you’d help spread the word.
To all my freshman babies who are panicking right now about how much your college textbooks cost: Yeah, you’re right, that’s some highway robbery. No, you don’t have to lie down and take it. You have options. Follow my advice and fly on your own debt free wings.
1. Forgoe the bookstore entirely. Sometimes you can get a good deal on something, usually a rental, but it’s usually going to be considerably more expensive to go through official channels. Outsmart them, babies.
2. Does your syllabus call for edition eight? Get edition seven. Old editions are considered worthless in the buyback trades, so they sell for dirt cheap, no matter how new they are. It’s a gamble, sure; there might be something in edition eight you desperately need, but that never happened to me. However, I’ve only ever pulled this stunt for literature/mass comm/religious studies books, so I don’t know it would work in the sciences.
3. Thriftbooks.com, especially for nonfiction and fiction. Books are usually four or five dollars unless they’re really new, and shipping is 99 cents unless you buy over 10$ in books, in which case shipping is free.
4. Bigwords.com. It will scan every textbook seller on the internet for the lowest price available, and will do the same to find the highest price when you try to sell your books back at the end of term. Timesaver, lifesaver.
5. In all probability, your library offers a service called interlibrary loan which is included in your tuition. This means if your library doesn’t carry a book you can order it for free from any library nationwide in your library’s network and it will be shipped to you in a number of days. Ask a librarian to show you how to search for materials at your library as well as though interlibrary loan; you’ll need to master this skill soon anyway. If you get lucky you can just have your required reading shipped to you a week before you need to start reading, then renew vigorously until you no longer need to item. I’m saving over 100$ on a History of Islam class this way.
You professors might side-eye you for bringing an old edition or a library copy, but you just smile right back honey, because you can pay your rent and go clubbing this month. You came here to win. So go forth and slay.
Can I add to this? 6. Find PDFs of your book to store on your computer. I managed to find an up-to-date edition of my textbook for sociology by doing this, and other books for other classes. It may be risky to have to look high and low for them, but it’s a godsend trust me
Other things to help college-bound kidlets:
Get Windows Office free.
If you’re having a panic attack.
When you’re writing a term paper.
Cheap school/college things. (Not all links are active, but still.)
College tips.
Cheap or free college books
Hobbies. (Because sometimes you need to turn off your brain.)
Libre Office. (Because Windows sucks.)
Practice in case you’re attacked.
If you have to deal with cops. (Especially important for POC because racism is still alive, sadly.)
also, you know those offers you sometimes get from youtubers for a big discount on a VPN subscription? take it, and use it.
just don’t use it for illegal torrenting and don’t get familiar with sites like the pirate bay. piracy is bad mmmkay.
this is going to sound ridiculous but guess what saved me $300 on ONE book for a fucking LIT class during my final quarter in college:
The library at your school PROBABLY has a copy of your textbook or of a recent edition. Wait until you’ve got your syllabus, go to the library, photograph the pages required for your class. If you’re only assigned 70 pages of a 300 page book it’s worth the hour you’re going to spend in the library to just go take photos on your phone.
And if you’re feeling exceptionally saucy, do the same thing in the campus bookstore.
(Less saucy than that but the library doesn’t have a copy and you can’t afford it? Split the cost with, like, 3 people from the class, photograph the pages from the syllabus, and return the book to get your shared cash back - usually you’ve got a day or two grace period in case you drop the class)
I know a lot of classes require a textbook that has a login code or some similar bullshit and this won’t help with that, but hopefully it will help with some of what you’re dealing with.
Also if you’re taking lit classes generic editions are almost always fine EXCEPT for Riverside and Norton editions. It’s generally not going to really matter if you get a $2 used penguin edition of Pride & Prejudice for a 200 level class; it IS going to matter if you get something other than the Riverside Chaucer or the Norton Hamlet for a 400 level class.
When it comes to pearson textbooks where you’re supposed to have a one-time login code for the class… Often enough your professor or TA will go “that’s absolute bullshit” and just straight up give you the online content. Especially if your class is having technical difficulties with logging in.
Bookfinder.com
The prices there include shipping
I get pdfs on lib genesis. Look it up, they even had 50yo books I needed for archaeology
Cis people fucking with gender is good for trans people, actually.
It normalizes these breaks from gender expectations, it promotes acceptance of it, and it helps us expand resources that help trans people if cis people are using them, too.
Imagine a world where binding is a common fashion choice; where nearly every major fashion company makes and sells them, where nobody bats an eye when someone wants to flatten their chest.
Imagine a world where people can go on HRT just because they want to; where more clinics provide it, more doctors learn how to administer it, and more researchers research the effects.
Imagine a world where “GRS” surgeries are open to anyone who wants them; where you don’t need letters and assessments and specialists and therapists to determine you’re sufficiently miserable in your body without them.
“Appropriating transness” my ass. We have a lot more in common with disability activism than marginalized ethnicities and cultures, yall. Not because this is a disorder or a disability, but because the “culture” you’re referring to is just a collection of needs that a lot of us have in common.
The more normalized it is to meet those needs, the more widely-available those resources will be.
It’s called the “curb cut effect” and OP is entirely correct.
PSA
*screams this*
WELP.
Little girl teaching her cats how to draw a flower
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they’re? just? sitting there ???
it makes it 100% better that i can’t understand her, i feel like i’m hearing what cats hear
Heh, she’s speaking Portuguese! Here’s what she’s saying:
*baby voice* “… and if you have any questions, just ask me! And now… yeah. And now you draw the roots. You draw them all twisted up! Got it? A flower? Now draw it. Did you get it, Luis Roberto? Did you get it, Jurandir? Look. Did you get it? That’s how you draw a flower.”
Luis Roberto and Jurandir are people names (Jurandir is especially a name associated with older men) so it’s extra funny that the cats are named that, heh.
