THAT'S ONE HANDSOME COWBOY.

personal ramblings of a clumsy traveling model backpacker, sweets lover professional kitty wrangler. just a tiny person that loves history, food, the wilderness, and telling stories with the human anatomy. [email protected] donations to afford travel!

[calengor]

@tinyvoss Baltimore, MD OCT2017.  Mucha inspired crop.

[palestinianliberator]

I don’t think I’ve seen any posts that went over what the water system in Palestine was like for each house, so I’ll try to go over it as best I can without any pictures -

Israel controls all of our water resources, and has allocated the resources of the Jordan river in an 83%/17% split, meaning that Israelis get 83% of its water while Palestinians are only allowed the remaining 17%.

Israel also routinely shuts of Palestinian water in order to supply Israeli settlements, which feature lavish swimming pools and well-kept community gardens - something we as Palestinians cannot have due to our limited water allowance and uncertainty regarding water availability.

What this leads to is a situation in which farmers cannot expand their crops or grow their gardens, because to do so would require time, money, and most of all, water. Because water is only allocated to us in an infrequent basis, how is a farmer to know that he has the water security required in order to expand his crops without worrying about having his water shut off for two weeks as all his crops die?

Each house in Palestine generally contains either a beir [well], large plastic containers, or both, meant to hold water. These are automatically filled when Israel turns on our water, with the house itself using the Israeli water before tapping into the beir or the other water reserves.

Motors in the house pump the water into the wells when Israel turns the water on, and then another motor pumps the water of the well into the house.

What makes things even worse is that if there’s no electricity and your well is empty, then it’s not going to fill with water, and if the well is full and there’s no Israeli water or electricity, then the water is not going to make it from the well to your house.

Aside from cutting off our water and only supplying it to us on set days, Israel also frequently cuts out electricity, especially on the hottest days of the year when Israeli settlers are blasting their ACs and creating a huge spike in electricity demand. 

This is just one small aspect of life under Israeli occupation that I feel many don’t actually realize or consider. 

When we say that Israel controls every aspect of our lives, we mean it in the absolute most literal sense. We can’t shower unless they turn on our water, we can’t plant our crops unless they turn on our water, we can’t visit neighboring cities unless the soldiers at the checkpoint are feeling generous, we can’t pray at our holy sites in Jerusalem without special permits that they rarely hand out, We can’t build up our own infrastructure without them tearing it down and claiming it’s a “security concern”. We can’t build on our OWN land without getting approval from them first. We can’t use mobile data services because they continue to deny us the equipment and mobile spectrum required for it, so while Israelis and Israeli settlers enjoy all the 4G they want on their phones, Palestinians are still stuck with having text and the OCCASIONAL “Edge” signal on ours. 

And the list goes on, and on, and on.

[garfieldxraven-bbrae]

Art by: @gabriel-picolo

[tinyvoss]

homeward bound

sarah voss // jovannie savinovich

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[blackfashion]

BLACK MAGIC | Instagram Easyb

[tinyvoss]

all smiles 

with cam and jov

see the full video here

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[girlwhorpsalot]

I needed this.

[mentalmentalhealth]

Thank you to all the people who posted this so I ended up seeing it. I really needed this right now. Thank you!

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[official-north-korea-blog]

Minimum wage: $7.25

$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290

$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160

In every Southern state (didn’t have time to look at the rest of the country) you can find some sort of studio apartment for around $500 per month, sometimes less than that. Why bother lying about something so easily disproven? 

[father-of-hope-and-fury]

Because Bernie Sanders supporters aren’t going to fact check him, and they’ll ignore any contrary evidence that’s presented to them anyways.

[fartsandprayers]

Things like this really tick me off and It’s not political or anything but it’s the fact that you think all that money is there. Here’s what I mean;

That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88.  Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so let’s double it to get the budget. $543.75. That’s GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so we’ll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, we’ll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2  = $839. 

Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.

But again, you seem to think that’s fair. So let’s proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work. 

Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesn’t despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.

Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 you’re lying.

You are so focused on rent that you aren’t thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and it’s not possible to live off that in 2017 America. 

And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably won’t qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they won’t help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month. 

Why does it bother you that people deserve to live above the poverty line?

[thelittlestonedfox]

SAY IT LOUDER for the ASS HATS in the back

[fatcowboys]

me: ok time 2 sleep!! my brain on repeat for hours: two Bros chilling in a Hot tub five feet apart cause there Not Gay

[thelittlestonedfox]

rituals

see the full video here

video by gnz films

[nubbsgalore]

photog by weerapong chaipuck on li river, near xingping in guangxi province. for thousands of years, fishermen have used domesticated cormorants  to fish the rivers and lakes of china.

they spend years training the seabirds to catch large fish which they return to the boat in exchange for smaller fish. it’s believed that cormorants can keep an approximate tally of the fish they catch and if they aren’t sufficiently rewarded for their efforts, they stop diving after fish for the fishermen.

thanks to large scale industrial fishing, the practice, however, has now all but died out, with only a handful left to keep the tradition alive. 

(as an aside of interest to probably no one else but me, some scholars speculate that the lack of mention by marco polo of cormorant fishing in his famous travelogue is proof that he never did actually venture to china. others - and again, this is probably of interest to no one but me - counter that it’s not that surprising an omission.)  

[t3chn0ir]

[jilkos]

“COUP D’ETAT” Maida Ghide, Ishmil Waterman by Ishmil   Fashion by Theodora Bak and accessories by Angostura. See full exclu @fgukmagazine

[negromanticshade-deactivated201]

@herfleur im dead this killed me

[ithotyouknew2-deactivated201710]

I’m gagging at Jeffree Star posting an anti aging video like Bitch you’re thirty you shouldn’t have wrinkles like isn’t Jackie Aina only a year younger than him and she looks young af

white people wild

[evee2point0-deactivated20180611]

that’s because white people age in dog years.

[thelittlestonedfox]

its true, we do

[humansofnewyork]

“I didn’t even really like animals. But my daughter said she wanted a pet. So I brought home this kitten, and told my daughter: ‘It’s your responsibility. I’m not going to get involved.’ But now the kitten loves me more than the girl. I call him JJ. He’s always the first one to greet me when I come home. When I leave for work, he lays on my flip-flops by the door. He always wants to be with me. Right now we’re coming back from a trip to the store. My daughter is a little jealous. She’s always trying to steal him from me.” (Medellín, Colombia)

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