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ithelpstodream

pissed-off-californian

It’s not racism

It’s called having shitty parents

ithelpstodream

or maybe it’s because from the day they are born they have to deal with racism and the growing threat of white supremacy. maybe it’s because they see young kids like themselves murdered by police and the officers walk free. maybe it’s because white people have tainted the image of black people in such a way that society percieves them as a threat even though it’s the whites who have committed horrendous crimes against black people. maybe it’s because they can’t achieve anything without people assuming it’s because of affirmative action. maybe it’s because of the fact that thousands of black boys are serving unimaginably long sentence for possession of a small amount of weed. maybe it’s because while they are called “thugs” and “hoodrats” for embracing their culture, white people are praised for appropriating it.

🤔

sixpenceee

Pretty awful placement.

honeyphantomhive

thats my kind of a playground

kim-jisoo

Where’s this man’s Emmy? (Captian Holt’s best bits)

romanoffsbite

it’s already on his mantle for Homicide: Life on the Street :)

youngwarlock

derp-kitty

i hate when u are being a fun and zesty texter and the other person is a slice of damp bread i cant carry this conversation alone i have very little upper body strength

sideraclara

do u ever feel like ur pulling an academic icarus flying too close to your deadlines on wings of deeply flawed time management

beautymehndi

1gorlarchive

thursday

dirtyberd

friend-called-boxcar

who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmilky…’

skajador

scientist: (gazing up at space) scientist: ……….. it sure is a milky boy

freshfriedtrash

NO

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

ASTRONOMERS ARE THE SHITTIEST EVER AT NAMING THINGS I KID YOU NOT.

When it came time to name the two theoretical particle types that might be dark matter THEY INTENTIONALLY CHOSE THE NAMES SO THAT THE ACRONYMS WOULD SPELL “WIMPS” AND “MACHOS” I SHIT YOU NOT

THEY ARE FUCKING TERRIBLE AT NAMING ANYTHING

braincoins

I just listened to a talk by Neil deGrasse Tyson himself LAST NIGHT and he went on about this more than once.

“I’m walking down the street and I’m like ‘ooh pretty rock…’ and some Geologist is like ‘actually, that’s anorthosite feldspar’ and I’m like ‘Nevermind, I don’t want it anymore.’ Any biologists in the audience? [some clapping] Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. The most important molecule in the human body, what did you name it? It has NINE SYLLABLES and it’s so long that even YOU GUYS abbreviate it as ‘DNA’!

But astrophysicists and astronomers? No, man, we call it like we see it. Star made of neutrons? NEUTRON STAR. Small white star? WHITE DWARF. You know that big red spot on Jupiter? Know what we called it? JUPITER’S RED SPOT.”

devil-in-red-deactivated2019010

okay i’m glad you mentioned the biologist nonsense bc their naming methods are the bane of my existence

gallusrostromegalus

I see your astrophysicists-are-shit-at-names and raise you Marine-Biologists-Are-Fucking-Maniacs.

See this beautiful creature?

It’s a carnivorous deep-sea sponge that lives off of Easter Island and never sees the light of day, as it’s about 9000 feet down. Those delicate-looking orbs are covered in millions of tiny hooked spines, which latch onto anything unfortunate enough to bump into it, and hold it in place as it is digested alive by the sponge’s skin. Amazing, beautiful and profoundly creepy. They could have given it so many cool names. Could have drawn on mythology (I think Scylla would have been an appropriate reference), the region it was found in, the textured skin, PHAGOCYTOSIS, anything!

You wanna know what they called it?

PING-PONG TREE SPONGE.

Good job, marine biologists.