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Katie. 22. New Zealand. Studied English and Classics at Uni. Now doing Museum and Heritage Studies. Likes include Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, Ghost Adventures, and British Comedy.

[notanightlight]

So I just now learned that museums on Twitter were having a battle over the best bum around! I am delighted!!!

I mean, just look!

[wtfzeus]

WHY DID NOBODY FUCKING INFORM ME

[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

reverse horse girl movie where the horse girl is the feral one and the horse is the calm and collected individual who tames said horse girl, except it’s about roman emperor caligula and his spoiled horse incitatus

[jextaime]

The fallen Angel Lucifer and the Moon on March 31 2020

[radcybergoth]

This is the only post I ever want to look at ever again

[mentally-homeless]

This person: *takes photo of moon surrounded by clouds* Ah yes, I know exactly which mid-19th century painting of a biblical winged nude beefcake this reminds me of

[ghost-type-dan]

[sixpenceee]

This incredibly colorful fluffy bird is called a white-browed tit-warbler (by Hiuying Tse). 

[e55equamvideri]

Looks like a fluffy little rainbow❣️

[maaarine]

Guardian News: “‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,’ climate activist Greta Thunberg has told world leaders at the 2019 UN climate action summit in New York.”

[somecutething]

[vanjalen]

This is so fucking funny he did great

[cloudfreed]

he didn’t do anything wrong

[hellish-undeath]

On a job application: “What is your preferred name and gender, we value diversity, so be honest.” Me: 

[dyslexicpoodle]

I don’t know what this means.  I’ve never filled out a form that said that.

[teddytheebear]

they’re asking you to disclose if you’re transgender. legally, they can’t ask or consider someone’s gender in hiring someone, so they get around it by giving you the option of telling them yourself. if you “volunteer” the information, that’s legal.

its like when they try to figure out if you’re poor by asking if you have “reliable transportation,” hoping that ppl will explain that they dont have a car without actually being asked. things like that.

its a scummy thing to do, especially in this case where theyre presenting it like a “diversity” thing.

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

^^^^ Never answer those questions honestly if you actually want the job.

[amthsts-remade-deactivated20191]

My managers have personally told people that anyone who puts anything like that outside of just “male or female” gets their application tossed immediately. Btw if an interviewer asks if you have reliable transportation, don’t say anything but “yes I do” that’s it!!!!! Don’t say another word don’t say you take the bus or walk or bike or get rides or uber don’t say anything!!!!! Just say yes and that is it they cannot require any sort of proof of transportation.

[gitgey-deactivated20171125]

Shit. I didn’t know that about transportation but I'mma start doing it now.

[archionblu]

I just took a class where one of the things we had to go over was interviewing to hire. 

The entire process was super gross and made me feel scummy and unethical. SO!

Here is an article (that we used in class) that covers 30 Interview Questions Potential Employers are Not Allowed To Ask You (and what they might ask you instead). 

Be on the look out for any of these questions. 

[programmerhumour]

Programmers are the greatest browsing community (SO mostly)…We can singlehandedly save the planet.

[tealishfish]

I use Ecosia and let me tell you, Google has nothing on this search engine.

It’s easy to free up your cache and delete cookies. The option is immediately viewable in settings instead of hidden away in the alcoves of who knows where.

Unless you favorite a page, it automatically clears it after 7 days, which is awesome if you hate clearing tabs like I do.

They plant trees everywhere.

Ecosia updates you on their progress- not with annoying update notifications, but with a button you can click as you type up your search if you’re curious.

The tree count is shown just beneath the search bar.

It is an app too and only takes up 18.2 MB. That’s the equivalent of nine live pictures on your phone.

You can view your own tree count. Mine’s 2,475 trees. I have had the app for six months. Do you know how much acreage that is? It’s a heckin’ ton of acres.

It has a safe search mode that actually works.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

It’s true!

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Boosting because this looks really cool! It doesn’t have the wildcard capabilities I need for my job, so I probably can’t use it that much, but maybe others can!

[sphinxofgrease]

this is such a strong opening paragraph for an article about a medieval cookbook

[tiktoksithinkarefunny]

[bowsersex-deactivated20220424]

This is better than any found footage horror film ever made

[like-10-bees]

I love :

1. How you can hear them all trying not to laugh

2. The shear amount of friends he had to get together to make this

3. The one who goes “you want a cripe sanberry?”

[beeefy]

me, grade 5, explaining to my friends that my bratz doll left her husband because her husband joined a gang against women with short hair so she broke up with him, got a haircut, and found another bratz doll with short hair and they own every single my littlest pet shop animal i have and she is much happier now. but then her ex came back with another woman and tried to make her jealous but the other women looked exactly like her and it turns out they were long lost twins separated at birth so her newfound sister breaks up with him too because they have twin powers but then the ex kills her in a rage but wait she didnt actually die but she has a scar on her face and she’s out for revenge and now she has a knife and i called the story ‘the knife the angry wife and the ex in strife’

all my friends at the sleepover:

[studentlifeproblems]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I've been following this story for days before it went viral and most media outlet picked it up with sensationalism, and let me just throw some things out there before you start making "Orphan" movie jokes.

- Kristine and her now-ex, Michael Barnett, who are the adoptive parents of the girl in question, adopted her from Ukraine in 2010

- since the girl, Natalia, did not have a birth certificate, she was taken to MULTIPLE doctors who had estimated her age to be around eight

- another doctor examined her in 2012 and determined she was around 11

- Natalia has a bone-growth disorder and is a little person

- she is not the first child the Barnett's had adopted

- their older adopted son is autistic and got into Purdue University at 12

- Kristine wrote books about raising him in which she claimed that before she started tutoring him at home, he wasn't speaking nor communicating with people in any way and was thought to be incapable of it

- his story brought the family fame, television appearances and money, gaining them a segment on 60 Minutes in 2012

- that same year, the Barnetts had Natalia's age legally changed to 22 in court, after allegedly obtaining a letter from a doctor claiming she is an adult

- in 2013, the whole family sans Natalia moved to Canada, leaving her alone in a rented flat with no money

- during her time alone, reportedly a neighbor took her in after she got evicted in 2014 for not paying rent, but according to multiple sources, Natalia can no longer be located, and questions are raised about her well-being

- another couple tried getting custody of her in 2016, and the Barnetts filed an objection to that

- while Kristine told the police and the public outrageous claims about Natalia's time with the family, Michael Barnett had something completely different to say

- he has stated that he always believed Natalia was indeed a child, and that his ex had coached Natalia into telling anyone who asked why she was on her own, that she was an adult who looks younger due to her condition

- Kristine claims Natalia never grew, among other things, which she says also proves that she is an adult because both average height and little people grow until adulthood, but her own family photos disprove those claims since Natalia is visibly bigger and older on the most recent ones

- even if Natalia showcased all of the behavioral issues that Kristine claims she has, surely there is a better way to go about the situation than what this ex-couple did

- the movie Orphan came out in 2009, giving Kristine more than enough time to get "inspired" by it

- a couple of weeks ago, Kristine and Michael were charged on two counts of felony neglect of a defendant, and released on bail

- according to the case against the Barnetts, experts carried out bone density tests on Natalia in June 2010 and concluded she was eight year old

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I have some questions for Kristine Barnett and her supporters - if Natalia is a grown woman born in 1989, a sociopath (K. Barnett's words) who tried to kill her adopted family, smeared blood on their walls, put poison in their drinks, jumped out of moving cars (would she even be able to do so and get away uninjured/alive, especially considering her bone condition and small stature?), and so on, why wasn't the police called on her? If she was a danger to society, why was no one informed of that? Why was she left to her own devices? Why did the Barnetts go about the situation this way? Surely, changing her legal age and leaving her alone somewhere without ever looking back was not their only option. Kristine Barnett claims Natalia was insitutionalized in 2012, I'd like to see the proof of that. So far, everything she has stated came without any backing, they're just empty claims at this point and until she starts providing real evidence, I choose to doubt her side of the story. Even if she is telling the truth, she isn't in the clear, she did too many questionable things not to be held accountable. Michael too, but especially Kristine.

Just to add: I'd rather be wrong about this situation than to know a troubled little girl who went through so much was abandoned because she didn't fit into her adoptive mother's precious perfect family story.

[deletingtomorrowsmh-deactivated]

Wow wish I had a cool gf

[innocentcitizenthings]

man’s dating a village wise woman and complaining 

[oweeeeendennis]

Listen to the sound of wikipedia

This is a way to listen to changes to wikipedia. You are literally listening to knowledge being added to the world.

Pluck sounds are an addition, strings are subtractions, and the pitch says how how big the edit is. My heart shudders at this I love it so much.

[libraford]

This is so relaxing. 

[smidgeonink]

I COULD LISTEN TO THIS FOR HOURS THANKS

[thesupremesourcream]

People who say bi erasure doesn’t happen need to realize Freddie Mercury is known as the most famous homosexual man when he identified himself as bisexual. If that’s not bi erasure I don’t even know.

[stupiduglyfatcunt]

Also PoC erasure, most people don’t know he was 100% Indian

[daggers-drawn]

Specifically he was Parsi. Also raised Zeroastrian.

[avaazeman]

*zoroastrian 

[cornflakepizza]

#i dont think the white boys can handle a queer brown guy being their god

[karis-the-fangirl]

^^^ centuries of religious art featuring white-skinned blue-eyed Jesus have made that pretty clear

[joycevbyers-deactivated20191228]

His real name was Farrokh Bulsara. He was born in Zanzibar.

[binkeljuice]

Okay but why is “farrokh bulsara, from Zanzibar ” more inspiring and better sounding than “Freddie mercury from England ”?

[smokyquartz323]

Can I add this tidbit I found?

[autogynephiladelphia]

Farrokh Bulsara from Zanzibar is honestly the coolest shot I’ve ever heard