L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

[tralillian]

[aicosu]

AHHAHAHHAHAHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHH MY GOD

[svinto]

the signs as this video

aries: tim taurus: fuckin hell gemini: the elf cancer: the new liberal democrat party leader leo: the aeroplane virgo: the zooming libra: president putin and obama shooting hoops scorpio: the worst day of their professional life sagittarius: the news presenter capricorn: the faulty earpiece aquarius: the dicks pisces: doctor who aka the australian prime minister

[thesaintlysin]

Bernie Sanders marching behind Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1963 March on Washington DC.

[bando--grand-scamyon]

I like that seeing him everywhere in historic photos is like playing Where’s Waldo

[officialflowergirl]

settle this for me once and for all

is “chai” a TYPE of tea??! bc in Hindi/Urdu, the word chai just means tea

[505--503--4455-deactivated20161]

its like spicy cinnamon tea instead of bland gross black tea

[officialflowergirl]

I think the chai that me and all other Muslims that I know drink is just black tea

[childbully]

i mean i always thought chai was just another word for tea?? in russian chai is tea

[officialflowergirl]

why don’t white people just say tea

do they mean it’s that spicy cinnamon tea

why don’t they just call it “spicy cinnamon tea”

[breadpocalypse]

the spicy cinnamon one is actually masala chai specifically so like

there’s literally no reason to just say chai or chai 

[tvalkyrie-deactivated20200617]

They don’t know better. To them “chai tea” IS that specific kind of like, creamy cinnamony tea. They think “chai” is an adjective describing “tea”.

[startedwellthatsentence]

What English sometimes does when it encounters words in other languages that it already has a word for is to use that word to refer to a specific type of that thing. It’s like distinguishing between what English speakers consider the prototype of the word in English from what we consider non-prototypical.

(Sidenote: prototype theory means that people think of the most prototypical instances of a thing before they think of weirder types. For example: list four kinds of birds to yourself right now. You probably started with local songbirds, which for me is robins, blue birds, cardinals, starlings. If I had you list three more, you might say pigeons or eagles or falcons. It would probably take you a while to get to penguins and emus and ducks, even though those are all birds too. A duck or a penguin, however, is not a prototypical bird.)

“Chai” means tea in Hindi-Urdu, but “chai tea” in English means “tea prepared like masala chai” because it’s useful to have a word to distinguish “the kind of tea we make here” from “the kind of tea they make somewhere else”.

“Naan” may mean bread, but “naan bread” means specifically “bread prepared like this” because it’s useful to have a word to distinguish between “bread made how we make it” and “bread how other people make it”.

We also sometimes say “liege lord” when talking about feudal homage, even though “liege” is just “lord” in French, or “flower blossom” to describe the part of the flower that opens, even though when “flower” was borrowed from French it meant the same thing as blossom. 

We also do this with place names: “brea” means tar in Spanish, but when we came across a place where Spanish-speakers were like “there’s tar here”, we took that and said “Okay, here’s the La Brea tar pits”.

 Or “Sahara”. Sahara already meant “giant desert,” but we call it the Sahara desert to distinguish it from other giant deserts, like the Gobi desert (Gobi also means desert btw).

English doesn’t seem to be the only language that does this for places: this page has Spanish, Icelandic, Indonesian, and other languages doing it too.

Languages tend to use a lot of repetition to make sure that things are clear. English says “John walks”, and the -s on walks means “one person is doing this” even though we know “John” is one person. Spanish puts tense markers on every instance of a verb in a sentence, even when it’s abundantly clear that they all have the same tense (”ayer [yo] caminé por el parque y jugué tenis” even though “ayer” means yesterday and “yo” means I and the -é means “I in the past”). English apparently also likes to use semantic repetition, so that people know that “chai” is a type of tea and “naan” is a type of bread and “Sahara” is a desert. (I could also totally see someone labeling something, for instance, pan dulce sweetbread, even though “pan dulce” means “sweet bread”.)

Also, specifically with the chai/tea thing, many languages either use the Malay root and end up with a word that sounds like “tea” (like té in Spanish), or they use the Mandarin root and end up with a word that sounds like “chai” (like cha in Portuguese).

[iviarelle-deactivated20181217]

So, can we all stop making fun of this now?

[elliotpdaily]

[thatwasasmalltown]

Taylor literally cannot win. She is dragged for not publicly supporting Kesha, then she does privately and is dragged for making it about her or how a tweet would’ve shown more support, rather than money to actually help Kesha pay for legal representation since her label has billions of dollars to use against her. She’s attention seeking if she does and a bitch if she doesn’t. People are impossible. Stop using Kesha’s sexual assault to play America’s Next Top Feminist!!!

[cryforce]

[micdotcom]

Watch: Colbert then challenges Bernie on his “false solutions.”

[latinalesbi]

Under Water

[ukendeavour-deactivated20250621]

I am so in love with the way that Lena is holding her Stef. Stef looks like she’s about to break and Lena is so there for her. 

[latinalesbi]

Yes, she’s finally letting her take care of her. I am so thrilled to see this, just in this way. Stef can let go, if only for a bit.

[ukendeavour-deactivated20250621]

This is so worth waiting for. They look so lost in each other. amazing. 

[cumleak-deactivated20210627]

“i’ll be speaking with my lawyer” is the adult version of saying “im telling mom”

[generally]

you know sometimes it shocks me too but google really is free and it’s right there in your hands

[the-vaudevillain-deactivated202]

I love that this post is both a really wide-eyed appreciation for the amazing time we live in and a really sarcastic passive-aggressive way to tell people to just fucking google shit

This post feels like my heart

[bellaxiao]

that would actually make a difference

[64mb]

[shiny-shock-deactivated20190217]

gets an adrenaline rush from contributing to class discussion

[weloveshortvideos]

[sourisms]

adorable

[amoying]

This such pure ™ content

[cheese24k]

This girl is insane, I think

> It gets stranger and stranger as it goes.

> Her neighbors must hate her.

[arealtomato]

IT’S BACK

[fangirltothefullest]

This would be ideal if she wanted to show someone an acting portfolio.

[little-miss-guided]

not to mention she also has singing versatility and video editing skills

[fairylills-deactivated20190514]

always reblog

[ilovepeppers-deactivated2019122]

I’m the one in the sequin skirt

[becausebirds]

Chicken agility course. 🐓 The ending is the best! [via Facebook]

[viergacht]

I’m dying. BOING

[funkycodex]

NYPD Cop Wins $15M After Fellow Cops Falsely Arrested & Beat Him at His Daughter’s Birthday

After suing his fellow officers for savagely beating and falsely arresting him at his daughter’s birthday party, an NYPD cop was awarded $15 million by a federal jury on Wednesday. Although he identified himself as an officer, his colleagues viciously struck him with batons and fired pepper spray into his face before bothering to check the badge and ID in his pocket.

On August 22, 2010, NYPD Officer Larry Jackson was off-duty at his daughter’s birthday party in Queens when an unidentified man with a gun appeared in the street breaking a bottle. Although Jackson did not have his gun with him, the off-duty cop confronted the armed man and asked him to leave while Jackson’s wife called 911. As Jackson attempted to calm down the armed man, a crowd of roughly 15 to 20 men armed with bats and sticks began to approach them.

Instead of attacking Jackson or the armed man, the crowd immediately dispersed as a marked patrol car arrived in front of Jackson’s house. Even though Jackson’s wife told dispatchers that her husband was a cop and Jackson immediately identified himself as a fellow officer, the cops ignored him while trying to assess the situation. Hearing an argument from inside Jackson’s home, one of the officers suddenly ran into his house without a search warrant.

After striking one of Jackson’s friends with a police baton, the officer ordered Jackson to step back. Standing his ground, Jackson again identified himself as a cop and informed the officer that they were in his house. Instead of requesting to see Jackson’s police ID or badge, the officer slammed the baton against Jackson’s throat and shoved him into the living room.

While repeatedly punching Jackson in the face, the officer accidentally tripped over a cooler leftover from the birthday party. As Jackson attempted to help the officer up, another cop placed Jackson in a chokehold. Unable to speak, Jackson tried to pull his police ID out of his pocket but another officer restrained his hands.

Falling backwards, Jackson and the cop choking him landed on Jackson’s 82-year-old mother-in-law, briefly knocking her unconscious. As the officer released his chokehold, Jackson again informed the cops that he was an NYPD officer when another cop struck him in the head with an ASP tactical baton. After stumbling down the front steps, Jackson remained on the ground as a group of bloodthirsty officers began beating him with their batons and pepper-spraying him in the face. While placing him in handcuffs, the cops repeatedly kicked his body and kneed him in the back.

Following the brutal assault, the officer who initially attacked Jackson asked him, “Yeah, you motherfucking dirt bag, if you are really a cop, where is your ID?”

“My ID has been in my front pocket the whole entire time,” Jackson responded. “I told you that in the house.”

After finally checking his pockets, the crowd of cops immediately dispersed upon the realization that they just brutalized one of their own without justification. Despite the fact that he had his police ID and did not commit a crime, Jackson was detained at the police station for 20 hours before being transported to a local hospital. According to his medical records, Jackson’s face and torso were covered in large bruises while his right hand was fractured due to numerous baton strikes.

SOURCE

The story shows the lack of trust to black people, the stupidity and recklessness of police and finally the lack of justice. NYPD Officer Larry Jackson got $15 million (!) while families of other victims of police are still fighting for compensations or receiving lower amounts of money. That’s America!

[brownies4myybrownie]

Wow……..wow

[twodotsknowwhy]

Jackson clearly deserves every cent he got, but it’s sad that he only seemed to get any justice by being a police officer.

[shut-up-hippie]

This is proof that the police don’t fucking care.