The lesson is to love yourself. To forgive yourself. To stop giving more than you have. To stop expecting too much from people. To find a way to live in light of your mistakes and preconceptions of love. To be open to what the future presents. To allow things to flow and fall. To break, crash, crumble. To rebuild. The lesson is to never undervalue the importance of self love. And, until you have mastered that, at least in part, to stay away from the things that damage you. I think I have finally understood where some of my pain has come from. I’m ready to move on. I’m ready for my next lesson.
actually its wild, people have been brought to delete over the pettiest shit here, but sixpence tried to make money practicing without a license and owned a child slave and they’re still out there, posting
Cree Summer was the original Meg in Family Guy, but was fired because Seth MacFarlane thought she sounded too black and didn’t want the character to sound like that. Wikipedia most recently since it came out a few years back twisted the story to; “The producers recast the part as they felt having a black woman voice a white character would be racially insensitive.” Seth was the main producer when the series was being made. Summer was later recast with Lacey Chabert, and Summer’s recordings were deleted and re-recorded. Lacey Chabert later quit doing the role and was replaced by Mila Kunis.
Cree Summer: “I was on Family Guy I was the sister on Family Guy and got fired for being BLACK!!! So… I feel so much better now that I’m being revered for my caramel colored…”
The worst part? They see nothing wrong with having white people play Cleveland, Loretta, Cleveland Jr., Tricia Takanawa, Consuela, Rollo Tubbs, and more POC characters.
An 11-year old boy, a 5-year old girl, their 36-year-old mother and her 22-year-old girlfriend were found murdered in their basement apartment in what police are calling "not a random act."
Two days after Christmas, the bodies of a Black lesbian couple and their two children were found brutally murdered in their home in Troy, New York. They have been identified as Shanise Myers, 5, Jeremiah Myers, 11, Shanta Myers, 36, and Brandi Mells, 22.
Police officials say that they don’t believe this was a random act. Another family of four was murdered in 2014 not far from the town where this took place.
According to a very small survey on niche.com, “62% of Troy residents say LGBT residents are somewhat accepted.” According to City-Data, lesbian couples comprise 0.6% of all households, and 47% of Troy residents voted for Trump in the 2016 election. There is an active LGBT community in nearby Albany. Lansingburgh is described as “fairly diverse,” a predominately working-class Irish neighborhood since the 1880s that is now 71% white, 17% Black, 9% Hispanic or Latino and 3% “other.”
“Only a person of savagery would do something like this,” police chief John Tedesco said at the press conference. “Nobody that’s been involved in this case is going to forget this.”
I’m speechless. This is horrific not just for this family’s loved ones, but for an entire community – for all of us. My heart is with all those who loved them. May they rest in peace and power. May nobody be hurt like this ever again.
Seriously refusing to eat honey is one of those well-meaning but ultimately terrible ideas. The bees make way too much honey and need it out in order to thrive (not being funny but that was literally a side effect in Bee Movie). Plus that’s the only way for the beekeepers to make the money they need to keep the bees healthy. Do not stop eating honey because somebody on Tumblr told you too.
excess honey, if not removed, can ferment and poison the bees. even if it doesn’t, it attracts animals and other insects which can hurt the bees or even damage the hive. why vegans think letting bees stew in their own drippings is ‘cruelty-free’ is beyond me. >:[
the fact that we find honey yummy and nutritious is part of why we keep bees, true, but the truth is we mostly keep them to pollinate our crops. the vegetable crops you seem to imagine would still magically sustain us if we stopped cultivating bees.
and when you get right down to it… domestic bees aren’t confined in any way. if they wanted to fly away, they could, and would. they come back to the wood frame hives humans build because those are nice places to nest.
so pretending domestic bees have it worse than wild bees is just the most childish kind of anthropomorphizing.
If anything, man-made hives are MORE suitable for bees to live in because we have mathematically determined their optimal living space and conditions, and can control them better in our hives. We also can treat them for diseases and pests much easier than we could if they were living in, say, a tree.
Tl;dr for all of this: eating honey saves the bees from themselves, and keeping them in man-made hives is good for them.
throwback to that time in my existentialism class where the professor asked ‘who thinks hell is other people’ and half the class slowly and meekly put their hand up
then the prof was like ‘…i mean who originally said it’
