Imagine dancing on the horizon's floor.

Once you've had the best, you can't do better. Baby I'm the best so you can't do better. ♥ This is my outlet. I post personal things here for emotional relief. This is me in my entirety, as ugly and as beautiful as I get.

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

[hopeful-weirdo]

Wow I don’t understand math at all

[handsomedogs]

bought costa a bowtie at the christmas market the other day!!!!

[rocktheholygrail]

rahulkohli13: I’ve been making the effort to pronounce my name the Indian way, no more silent H crap I used to pull when I was prat. I’m ashamed to admit that since I was at school, I’ve distanced myself from my culture and heritage in order to fit in and be accepted. For me, being Indian was something to be embarrassed about and the more western I appeared, the more I thought I was fitting in. This is an act I’ve done for almost 20 years and even now I catch myself doing it but I’m slowly undoing this conditioning. I am an Indian man, with an Indian face, an Indian family and one of the most Indian first names you could have. I’m proud to be a British Indian and I’m tried of “hiding” it and I intend to spend the next few years learning more about my culture/people.

[blackwoolncrown]

Are straight white people okay????

What is this?!

[squeezemetillipop]

People like this exist. Interesting.

[feliicityrampant]

this story has a part 2

[doctormemes]

THERE IS A PART 3 WITH GUEST RESPONSES I REPEAT THERE IS A PART 3 THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[bullyfemme]

[glorious-scumbag]

I thought things couldn’t get more horrifyingly amusing than the woman who wanted people to pay $1000 each to go to her wedding so she could “feel like a Kardashian for a day” and had a Facebook breakdown about it saying she was gonna go backpacking in Peru to “find herself” after being “betrayed” by her friends who didn’t want to partake but here we are

[caffeinatedcorvid]

I thought it was the same person ngl.

[imsuchacapricorn]

I’m in the wedding shaming group and saw both this and the Peru post before it went viral. Love it.

[imsuchacapricorn]

THERE’S AN UPDATE

[a-melior-ate]

Stephanie is a true hero.

[thatbitofskirt]

The most disgusting part of this is the fact that the fat people are representing the aura of the devil that they must SHOO AWAY.

Whoever this is is a hateful, gross person.

[showerthoughtsofficial]

A college class is like Dora the Explorer. The professor asks a question, stares blankly for a few seconds, then answers his own question.

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

do kids these days even know what endless 8 is

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

all you young anime fans with your attack on titans and your maid dragons will never know the sheer hell of the time The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya went in to a time loop story arc and made the same episode 8 times and broadcast that same episode 8 weeks in a row

they didn’t just air the same episode eight times

they made the same episode 8 times in slightly different ways

different camera angles, different shots, different outfits

eight times

eight weeks

the same episode

[shrineart]

this is a bit of anime history that i’ve never heard before but sounds horrendous.

[guywhoisnotevil]

heads up before you spend $$ on pillowfort, especially note the paypal thing. the io domain concern does not seem carefully enforced but is in the TOS so 🤷

[jestermolly]

These are valid concerns but like. Have we tried not making a call out post to promote hate against a brand new company made by fandom for fandom? This is the same shit that has been pulled on AO3 this year. Contact them and ask them to clarify their content moderation. Ask them about their concerns about Paypal – they’ve already mentioned on their Twitter that they’re changing domains because of the adult content ban on .io domains. They’ve been nothing but open and honest about everything since they were first announced and far more patient than is reasonable with the amount of questions they receive. And the site was down because it was fixing security issues in order to make the site safer for users. They’ve been absolutely transparent about this issue, which is unheard of these days.

Pillowfort will only survive if we support it. We need our own space that isn’t going to get sold out. Do you think Twitter is gonna allow NSFW content forever? Instagram doesn’t give a shit about fandom. And while Dreamwidth would be great, it would be a total culture shock to a lot of people – they have a 500mb cap for images, a tag limit, and communities decentralize fandom unlike Tumblr’s ability to just look at all of the posts under a single tag.

[talixagain]

I’ve been looking into Pillowfort a lot. Obviously, there have been lots of tumblr-adjacent projects that haven’t worked out in the past, so it’s reasonable to be cautious. However;

Pillowfort has existed in beta for months now, with a fairly small user base. They created, funded, and closed their kickstarter over 3 months ago- you can check, it’s dated. They earned $57k, reasonable to get started, but not enough to create a fully operational social media site in 3 months. And unless they’re psychic, their site was clearly NOT created to take advantage of users fleeing tumblr, but rather out of genuine desire to create a platform that addressed the concerns of tumblr users.

With the money they earned, they have been working on the site, and the site being down was SCHEDULED (posted about before and while it was happening, keeping registered users updated on why it was taking so long and when it would be up again) maintenance to, you know, work on the site like they promised they were going to. It is literally in beta.

Again, unless they’re psychic, they had no idea tumblr was going to drop this bombshell while they were doing their maintenance (and again it’s in beta, ie the time when the site is SUPPOSED to be under maintenance!!)

They address the .io domain on their twitter (plan to change) and their FAQ addresses their business plan and how they plan to implement it. Plans to on board moderators are discussed on their FAQ.

So yeah, I get being cautious, but you should actually DO the research on this instead of knee-jerk reaction deciding it’s a scam. I’m not saying it IS going to turn out like everyone is hoping, but I have scoured all the info on their kickstarter, social media, and website; i have checked out the demo version of the site; I like what I see and so far everything checks out. So yeah I’m willing to bet a whole $5 on this site.

[viostormcaller]

Okay reblogging this for misinformation

[teachwithjamandbread]

After 4 days, the historic first charter teacher strike has ended!

The Charter-School Teachers’ Strike in Chicago Was ‘Inevitable’

The move could signal a shift in the long, contentious relationship between teachers’ unions and these privately run schools.

As an Acero teacher, it was an intense, beautiful, draining experience. They just announced the tentative agreement, and I am at my emotional capacity right now, but more thoughts to come!

[windycityteacher-deactivated202]

Way to go, Acero teachers!!!

[monstermonstre]

“If you want to stay alive, go home!”

A policeman talks to an independent journalist who just got his headgear stolen by police (8th of december 2018).

[Full transcript:

Policeman, to the journalist: “That won’t do… 3 weeks that you’ve been a pain in the ass!” *pauses to listen to the journalist (can’t make out what the journalist is saying exactly but it sounds like he’s arguing police shouldn’t confiscate his equipment)* “If you want to stay alive, go home! You have fucking nothing to do here.”

Journalist, to the policeman: “If I want to stay alive I have to go home? What is that supposed to mean?”]

[thatbitofskirt]

Where is this?

[nakaze]

[thatbitofskirt]

Protesters Are Shutting Down an Alabama Town After a Police Shooting

On Thursday night, parents in Hoover, Ala., couldn’t take their children to the city’s annual Christmas Tree lighting because one group

A black man was killed by police after a mall shooting on Black Friday. It was later revealed that he was not the shooter, and was wrongly killed. Now protesters are trying to spread awareness, but the media are being very good at keeping the protests contained within the local news.

[bigboyscry]

[kirabook]

Dear people planning to move to pillowfort:

As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.

Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that. 

Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult. 

If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there. 

If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably. 

We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more. 

Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations. 

[sarapsys]

yes this

most of the criticism i’ve seen of pf so far ultimately come back to this

is it an alright platform with a good community? yes. does it have a lot of potential? yes. does it have a lot of problems still being worked out? yes.  are the staff open and responsive? absolutely. do i recommend it? yes, if you’re willing to live in a house while it’s being built.

but it’s not a ready-made replacement for tumblr.  set your expectations accordingly.

[thatbitofskirt]

Protesters Are Shutting Down an Alabama Town After a Police Shooting

On Thursday night, parents in Hoover, Ala., couldn’t take their children to the city’s annual Christmas Tree lighting because one group

A black man was killed by police after a mall shooting on Black Friday. It was later revealed that he was not the shooter, and was wrongly killed. Now protesters are trying to spread awareness, but the media are being very good at keeping the protests contained within the local news.

[ohlexa]

I learned a secret…

[pietriarchy]

from now on the system is gonna skip from 68 notes straight to 70 just to be safe

[theliberalstookmydrills]