Fast times. Radventures.

Everything must belong somewhere, I know that now, that's why I'm staying here. Very fond of cats, Latin America, New York City, boys who never grow up and television. I am rad but not cool and that works for me. Last of the Amazons. Vegan. Runner. Book Worm. Writer. Wanderer. Teacher. Do-Gooder. Fun Seeker.

[mithraxx]

watching history repeat itself as the united states and countries across the world descend into fascism in an all too familiar pattern of events

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star wars (1977)

[gogomrbrown]

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

[punkrockradio]

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

[robotsandfrippary]

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

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Makes me happy to see people learn about the culture of my country :D

[fieldbears]

Also, please remember that the idea of a nomadic or semi-nomadic culture being “less intelligent”, “less civilized” (and please unpack that word) was invented by people who wanted to make a graph where they were on the top.

Societies that functioned without 1) staying exclusively in one location or 2) having to make complicated, difficult-to-construct tools to go about their daily lives… were not somehow less valid than others.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

This is why I fucking hate it when Europeans make jokes about how they have “more history” than the Americas. “This church is older than your country hahaha.” Actually, it’s older than the country you put there, massacring millions in the process, but go off, I guess. 

[eggsaladstain]

on a scale of 1 to john oliver commissioning a competing picture book about mike pence’s rabbit with a storyline about same sex marriage and democracy and tolerance, releasing that book a day before the release of mike pence’s picture book, and then donating proceeds from the book to the trevor project and aids united, how (righteously) petty are you

[georgeluccas]

the got finale becomes 100 times funnier when you realize that the reason bronn left the dragon pit was because lena and jerome used to be together and now their contracs say they cant do scenes together lmao

[tomboyfemme]

Tweed Run

[beckysaysrawr]

…what if I dressed like this every day

[calamitoustales]

Then you would be even more of an inspiration to me.

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Do you ever just see something and go “wow I am really not straight”

[househunting]

*screams at the top of my lungs*

$185,000/4 br

Burlingame, KS

[ssaisstopsexualassaultinsch-blog]

Consent Education.

[the-psychlife]

THIS IS IMPORTANT.

[unedited-spoonie]

And please note that there are no specific pronouns. Consent is ALWAYS required from ALL individuals, regardless of gender, sex, relationship, et cetera.

[babypinkb1tch]

Idc if this doesnt match my theme

[pink-nympho]

Consent is so important to know about!!

[flipface4]

I know I avoid any sexual content on this blog but this is insanely important.

[asexualautistic]

This post is important and the pillow comment is funny

[ajleanon5]

CONSENT!!!!!!

[fallontonight]

[ahhthelegend]

DING DING DING

[swagintherain]

Johnny Cash’s first wife was black. Totally erased in the movie.

[jumpingjacktrash]

the Man In Black was not having your racist bullshit, and his children won’t let you piss on his grave.

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

I just

He’s the Man in Black. He was a vocal proponent of prison reform and prison rights. Half of his catalog is social justice. Why do you think he toured PRISONS it wasn’t just Folsom!

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Johnny Cash was Punk As Fuck

[professorjawn]

Man In Black by Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash always wore black clothes, and he wrote this song to help explain why: “I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, but is there because he’s a victim of the times.”

Johnny Cash literally wore his protest.

[micdotcom]

Teen Vogue took on white supremacy over Teen Choice Awards. We spoke to their editor about the decision.

Also, here are the donation links to the medical fund, UVA black student alliance and BLM chapter.

[berniesrevolution]

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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN VENEZUELA? // long post, but worth the read.

So, it’s official. The Constituent was approved. In the past 18 years, aka since Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela, the government has altered election results to their benefit so it really isn’t strange to us that they would do it this time. However, we didn’t think they would be so shameless as to alter them this much. According to Tibisay Lucena (President of the Electoral Power) there was a total of 8.089.320 votes in favor of this Constituent, and these numbers simply don’t add. This past 16th of July a referendum was held where voters would have to answer to 3 questions about whether or not they agreed to move forward with the Constituent; the results? 6.492.381 votes made in Venezuela and 693.789 votes outside the country, meaning a total of 7.186.170 against the Constituent. While these two results add a total of 15.275.490 votes that fit under the 19.805.002 of venezuelans summoned to vote, here’s why yesterday’s number makes no sense:

 8.191.132 votes in favor of Hugo Chávez (Presidential elections of 2012). - While these numbers were most certainly altered, it’s no lie that at the time Chávez had a huge group of supporters, called Chavistas.

7.505.338 votes in favor of Nicolás Maduro (Presidential elections of 2013). - These elections were made because of the recent death of Chávez, who knew he didn’t have much time left so he decided to brainwash all of his supporters to think Maduro was the best option for president. May I add, Nicolás Maduro doesn’t have any kind of educational degree, he literally was a bus driver before becoming president. Totally unqualified man. All his votes were bought or made up.

5.599.025 votes in favor of the PSUV (Parliamentary elections of 2015) - PSUV stands for Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela and would roughly translate to “United Socialist Party of Venezuela“, I think. These elections were a big deal to the oposition (represented by the MUD aka “Democratic Unity Roundtable”), because we owned the National Assembly with 112 deputies (67%) and 7.707.422 votes (56,2% of the total votes)

I think I’ve made my point as to why yesterday’s result of 8.089.320 votes is nothing but blatant lies, except that’s not all! Turns out that, in these past days between the referendum (July 16) and yesterday (July 30), any person making a buy that required a fingerprint scan or using a “carnet de la patria” (an id recently made to “ease the access to social programs”) would count as a vote in favor of the Constituent. This government spends so much time looking for ways to stay in power because they know that the majority of the country is against them, and obviously they won’t acknowledge that they’re not as “loved” as they used to be, or else they wouldn’t ignore the protests that have been going on for the past 121 days with at least 128 confirmed deaths (17 of them happened only yesterday).

Now I’m going to explain why this Constituent being approved is literally confirming we’re living under a dictatorship.

Venezuela becomes a communal state.

Private enterprise will be eliminated.

All private sector employees become public employees.

The right to private education will be eliminated. From preschool to universitary sector, including adoctrinamiento político on all levels of education.

Means of social communication will be at the service of communist power.

University autonomy will be eliminated.

Municipalities will be eliminated.

The president of the republic is the only one able to choose governors and mayors, without taking into account the opinion of the people.

The presidential term will last between 20 and 30 years, with chance of indefinite reelection, applicable to the current president.

The movement of citizens inside of the country will be limited, meaning you’ll need an official permit to travel around Venezuela.

International departures will be limited, meaning you’ll need an official permit to get out of the country.

All powers, public and private, disappear.

The armed force disappears, becoming fighting bodies integrated into the government’s party.

All political parties will be eliminated.

The right to protest will be eliminated.

Opposing or thinking differently than the government will be a crime of betrayal to the motherland, meaning freedom of speech disappears.

Article 350 of the actual Constitution, that establishes you can disown the authority when the Constitution is violated, will be eliminated.

Authorities can break into your house without a warrant.

People’s houses can’t be sold or inherited, becoming propiety of the state.

Life guarantee will be restricted, the regime has now custody of people’s lives.

This is really serious, and I wish more people were talking about it because what I’m doing right now will be literally considered a crime as soon as the National Constituent Assembly enters in action. I know you guys may think that reblogging, retweeteting and regraming some posts is not gonna help us, but trust me, they will. The government is putting up an act of “everything’s fine, we’re the same 1st world country we were +20 years ago” and we’re not. We’re being killed, tortured, starved, lied to and so much more horrifying things are being done to and against us. Let the world know what’s really happening in Venezuela, and who’s the real villain in the story.

[itsybittle]

I’m not gonna add more to this because it explains very well what’s going on in Venezuela.

My mom wrote to me today and told me “you and your brother can never come back.”

We managed to get my brother out a month ago and I’ve never been more grateful. He was so close to staying behind and I’m just crying because I don’t know if I’ll ever see the family and friends that didn’t have that opportunity.

[micdotcom]

Malala is spending her 20th birthday fighting for girls’ education in Iraq

It’s been a big week for Malala Yousafzai.

On Friday, the women’s rights advocate announced from her newly launched Twitter account that she’d graduated high school.

“Graduating from secondary school … is bittersweet for me,” she wrote. “I’m excited about my future, but I know that millions of girls around the world are out of school and may never get the opportunity to complete their education.”

Yousafzai, not one to waste any opportunity, is already at work trying to help other girls have the same chance. 

On Tuesday, she celebrated her 20th birthday a day early in Iraq by way of her “Girl Power Trip,” an initiative that involves Yousafzai traveling around the world to talk to girls who have struggled trying to access education. Read more (7/12/17)

[frootpouch]

Prideful Plant Puns!!!

I’ve been working on these since pride month, and I feel bad they weren’t finished in time but I’m so happy with how they turned out! These basically happened because I called my best friend a lesbean-sprout and she loved it so much I decided to draw the first one, and things kinda,,, escalated. 

I really hope you guys love them as much as I do!

They’re all available on my redbubble!!

Please don’t repost/steal!

[theinturnetexplorer]

Hide and Seek

[jehovahhthickness]

You can’t force people to appreciate you.

[jehovahhthickness]

You can’t force people to be loyal to you.

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You can’t force people to treat you right.

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You can’t force people to be honest with you.

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You definitely can’t force people to love you.