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Oh, it seems you have tripped and fell into a black abyss, that is my blog. Thanks for coming you beautiful human, you.

[mwagneto]

some movie character resting their head against the bus window: sad, lost in deep thought, staring into the world passing by, sorrowful music……

my head when i attempt to rest it against the bus window:

[theshitneyspears]

2017: dumb bitch

2018: sad bitch

2019: bad bitch

[radomnicestuff]

LET’S GO

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

me as a kid, bored out of my mind, grazing my hand across those old school TVs and feeling the layer of static crackle on the display and pretending like I was an undiscovered supermutant

[aspire-langua-deactivated201912]

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[b99gif]

[stephassupersnowball]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a gift.

[realxmadrid]

autumn. 

[jumpingjacktrash]

“i don’t like either candidate so i won’t vote” what are you thinking, if enough people wuss out we’re going to have President None Of The Above? hey we’re counting the votes and ten percent of voters stayed home and jerked it to their own ideological purity, guess we just won’t have a president and all the executive level decisions will be made by a magic 8-ball for the next 4 years

[jumpingjacktrash]

i wrote this 2 years ago and – yeah. look, let’s just learn, ok? midterms coming up, pull up your big citizen pants and go do the thing.

[the-thrill-be-damned-deactivate]

today in “things i’m disproportionately emotional about”:

it’s facial reconstructions of prehistoric humans!!

like, look at this part-homo sapiens, part-neandertal man from well over 30,000 years ago:

doesn’t he just look like a dude you’d wanna hang out with? like he probably washes dishes in the kitchen with you, and has excellent weed

what a charming fellow. what stories he probably has to tell. i’d definitely go shoot the shit with him on Contemplation Rock after i’d finished my day’s work carving a bone flute for the autumn hunting ceremony, or whatever

people have been people ever since people first became people, i tell you what

they all had lives and histories and families and friends and dumb gossip and games they played and total bullshit in which they believed wholeheartedly

they all argued about the nature of the world, and of themselves

they all sang songs

they all drew pictures

they all buried their dead in graves, and they buried their dead in graves well before they did a lot of that other stuff. they buried their dead with flowers, with panther claws, with the bones of animals they’d killed, with the bones of family members who had died at the same time or earlier. they buried their dead with their arms folded across their chests

they fell in love

they took care of their old and their sick and their disabled, even when it cost them

they made new things, and worried about what the new things meant for people everywhere, as a whole

[creekfiend]

Oh I like him he looks like he would appreciate my jokes

[systlin]

This dude would have great stories at a get-together and would bring some really great homemade dip. 

[hungry-hungry-hobbit]

I feel like he really digs Lo-Fi Music

[kaijutegu]

This guy was sculpted by Alfons and Adrie Kennis, and their Neanderthal reconstructions are all delightful. 

I love the kid in the last picture a lot- they look like a kid, just a little kid who’s done some mischief and is trying not to laugh about it.

I also adore their Lucy- they’ve struck a wonderful balance between the falling angel and the rising ape.

And their Turkana boy- there’s something precious and wistful in those eyes. 

But my favorite has got to be their reconstruction of H. floresiensis.

Just look at her. That’s a face of someone who’s lived and seen a lot, but also a face that’s known love and joy and laughter. That’s a face with a soul. 

[cricketcat9]

They are all beautiful

What an amazing work, Kennis & Kennis! 

[jeza-red]

why… why is Lucy looking at me like she’s my granny?…

[kaijutegu]

she is your granny.

[elmesza]

[stephassupersnowball]

warner: i kissed you and then you shot me

juliette: but did you die

[simy-patel]

[tom-from-acquisition]

This is in another language but this conversation is universal, so we understand ever word.

[56blogsstillcrazy]

Black women something amazing 

[rynofslytherin-deactivated20211]

Okay, but what professor was such an asshole that they wouldn’t let a woman in labor do a makeup exam? You know someone said some shit and she felt like she HAD to do that exam, labor or no.

[writingjenna]

OK true story from one of my professors: She got pregnant while getting her PhD. Not planned, but it would work out that she would do her lit review (where she had a massive list of books she had to spend two hours talking about) a month before her baby was due. Plenty of time, right? Well, her daughter came a month early. On the day that she scheduled her lit review. So she’s in labor with a baby that’s four weeks early, she calls up her male professors that are going to be doing her lit review, and they say that squeezing a human being out of your vagina isn’t a good enough reason to cancel. She can’t reschedule, they’ll just fail her. And my professor will have none of that. They agree to have the lit review at the hospital, but they kick out all nurses and doctors because you can’t have anyone else in the room. (like the nurses are really going to be secret undercover English professors who will whisper to her answers about Virginia Woolf). So for two hours while my professor was in labor, these male professors are hounding her about early 20th century British literature and the nurses are just about losing it and as soon as it’s finish they rush back in to make sure everything is okay. And the best part of it is that my professor was so focused, so determined to pass and not let her 5 years of work end in a failure, that she says she didn’t feel any pain for those two hours. WHILE IN LABOR.

[the-freckled-feminist-deactivat]

Fucking men. Seriously.

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

Men are fucking demons

[thebigblackwolfe]

Literally every woman in academia with kids I know has had to deal with some fuckery from the men in their departments during their grad school years. It’s disgusting.

[theyoungandthemelanin-deactivat]

@badlucklaura13

[taco-bell-rey]

“I loved them before they got popular”

[spookyoubliette]

IM LAUGHING LIKE A POTATO

[dominicmatthewjackson]

In third grade I had this teacher who would give every student the same grade on each assignment. After the A at the top of the paper, she’d mark all the wrong answers with a red pen, and then would come by each student’s desk to talk to us about where we went wrong. Together we would fix each sentence or math problem until it was right.  At Parent night, one of the dad’s complained that his daughter worked hard to get her A, and that some of the other kids deserved to fail. The teacher allowed him to finish talking, and then responded in the same polite tone she always used in the classroom. “I’m not teaching your children how to pass test… I’m guiding them on how to learn.” Months later our teacher posted everyone’s final grade on the board, and at first, no one was surprised to see we all had A’s. But after looking closer at our papers, and book reports, and our final assignments, we didn’t see any red ink on them. I don’t think we should lie to children and tell them they got it all right if they didn’t. That doesn’t help anyone. But I also know that if you keep telling a child they are a failure; they messed up; or they did a bad job, after a while they’ll start agreeing.

Learning to Learn (via dominicmatthewjackson)

[thepigeongazette]

Viva la ramen~~~