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it would take 2.3 million years for Jeff Bezos to earn his $183.3b net worth working 24 hours a day at New Mexico’s $9/hr minimum wage.

i-wear-the-cheese

That’s 11.5 times longer than the human race has existed.

splend-42

Not long enough.

endreal

What if we gave it a twist? Rather than earning that amount of money, what if it was to save that amount while still paying bills and feeding himself?

architeuthisducks-blog

And since it IS hell, his car starts making a Noise about once a month.

endreal

That seems like just about the accurate schedule

hungwy

me any time someone says soup: oh have you tried potato-leek? its really good

them: i know, its really good

theocseason4

shades-of-kewl

??????

abercrombee

i'm the girl being honest with them

themoufofthesouth

You can tell by their snickering they really do have bad aura

odinsblog

cat-hoarder

Great idea until you have 7th graders in Florida picking your president…. I’m not sure that the people that actually agree to this idea understand that kids would just vote how their parents would because no seventh grader has more than two brain cells. I was in seventh grade when the 2016 election happened, and holy fuck you do not want those kids picking your President, let alone having rights in general

odinsblog

So then maybe, as was the point of this post, maybe the court system shouldn’t be executing 7th graders (most of whom are disproportionately black and brown people)? Because if you don’t think they’re mature enough to vote and pick a president, then I’m guessing that they aren’t mature enough to be tried as adults and then executed???

scottandhiskind

bringina

“let alone having rights in general” is. is noone worried about that line

thatmissannie

Imagine: Its 2025. You're getting pulled over. A community representative approaches to let you know you have a taillight out. They don't need your license and registration, they don't write you a fix-it ticket. You're back on the road in less than five minutes. You swing by the store and grab a new light, not because you're afraid of what the city will do to you, but because you respect your community and know that having all your lights working is part of the driving privilege.

Your neighbors got into a loud spat a few weeks ago and without fear or hesitation, called a domestic assistance number. A counselor arrived and was able to talk the couple down and suggest solutions for their disagreement. No one was hurt, the kids participated in the discussion, and it's been quiet ever since.

Your friend has been struggling with addiction and you fear they might be a danger to themselves or others. You call a substance abuse specialist and they talk you through ways to help your friend get treatment. They offer to send an agent out to speak with your friend directly and provide information on harm reduction centers in your area.

Black and brown people are no longer being exploited through tickets and fines to pay for police. Trust is slowly being fostered in the community.

Teachers are being paid a living wage and students are being given more time, attention, and education. Books are up to date and classrooms are optimized to keep up with technology.

Trump is out of office.

It’s been a very long time since the name of a murdered black person was used as a hashtag.

Casual racism is no longer tolerated. The KKK has been classified as a terrorist organization. The Confederate flag isnt flown and has been removed from any official state flags or insignias. Most Confederate monuments have been taken down and placed in storage or museums.

You trust the investigation force to deal with crime the same way you trust firefighters to put out fires.

That's what 'defund the police' looks like. What we've seen in the last few weeks shows how overreaching and power-drunk many officers are. We asked too much of them and then called them heroes despite evidence to the contrary. We let them think that they could get away with anything, including murder. Its time for change.

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homopower

Read this post, then reread it again.

kjuw89

Signal boost

ahnsael

It’s not about the end of “to protect and serve.” It’s about bringing it BACK to “to protect and serve” as opposed to “act as judge, jury, and executioner and violate peoples’ rights because cops are scared people with power who are dealing with things they were never trained to deal with, or who were trained WAY wrong on how to deal with it, or who are just assholes to begin with.

“Some people” are just mad that cops would no longer be randomly arresting/killing people who those “some people” see as lesser beings.

meangirls2004

the energy in this video is unparalleled

900wounds

Good morning

sartorialadventure

The Himba (singular: OmuHimba, plural: OvaHimba) are indigenous peoples with an estimated population of about 50,000 people living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene Region (formerly Kaokoland) and on the other side of the Kunene River in Angola. The OvaHimba are a semi-nomadic, pastoralist people, culturally distinguishable from the Herero people in northern Namibia and southern Angola, and speak OtjiHimba, a variety of Herero, which belongs to the Bantu family within Niger–Congo. The OvaHimba are considered the last (semi-) nomadic people of Namibia.

The Himba often cover themselves with otjize paste, a cosmetic mixture of butterfat and ochre pigment, to cleanse the skin over long periods due to water scarcity and protect themselves from the extremely hot and dry climate of the Kaokoland as well as against mosquito insect bites. The cosmetic mixture, often perfumed with the aromatic resin of the omuzumba shrub, gives their skin and hair plaits a distinctive orange or red-tinge characteristic, as well as texture and style. Otjize is considered foremost a highly desirable aesthetic beauty cosmetic, symbolizing earth’s rich red color and blood the essence of life, and is consistent with the OvaHimba ideal of beauty. The OvaHimba are also accustomed to use wood ash for hair cleansing due to water scarcity.

Hairstyle and jewelry play a significant role among the OvaHimba, it indicates age and social status within their community. An infant or child will generally have his head kept shaven of hair or a small crop of hair on his head crown. This soon is sculptured to one braided hair plait extended to the rear of the head for young boys and young girls have two braided hair plaits extended forward towards the face often parallel to their eyes. This style is called ozondato, the form of wear being determined by the oruzo membership (patrilineal descent group). The style remains during preadolescence until reaching puberty. Some young girls, with exception, may also have one braided hair plait extended forwards, which means they are one of a pair of twins.

OvaHimba girl

OvaHimba girl dancing

OvaHimba boy

OvaHimba girl, one of a set of twins!

OvaHimba children, both boys and girls, removing ticks from goats.

From pubescence, boys continue to have one braided hair plait.

A young man wearing a braid known as ondatu. Namibia. Photo by Nigel Pavitt

Once they reach puberty, OvaHimba girls will have many otjize textured hair plaits, some arranged to veil the girl’s face.

This girl is going through puberty, a fact made plain by her hairstyle, which has been designed to cover her face and help her avoid male attention. The puffs at the bottom are either goat hair or synthetic.

(In daily practice, the hair plaits are often tied together and held parted back from the face.)

This girl’s braids are arranged to reveal her face, indicating that she’s ready to be married.

Women who have been married for about a year, or have had a child, wear an ornate headpiece called the Erembe, sculptured from sheepskin, with many streams of braided hair, coloured and put in shape with otjize paste.

Married women wearing erembe

Unmarried young men continue to wear one braided hair plait extended to the rear of the head. When Himba men marry, they start wearing turbans, which they never take off unless someone in the village dies. After a death, their heads are shaved. Because the turbans are never removed, things can get a little itchy underneath, so men carry pointed arrow-like instruments to scratch it with.

Married OvaHimba men. #s 1 and 3 wear a scratching implement in their turbans.

Widowed men will remove their cap or head-wrap and expose un-braided hair.

Himba widower. The habit of using a head-scratching implement is hard to break.

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baldbeauxs

Wow this is the first time I’ve seen a culture where men are required to wear a headdress after marriage.

thechronicleofshe

every single person in this post is absolutely stunning

jenniferrpovey

Nnedi Okorafor’s novella trilogy Binti has a Himba main character. Otijze is even a plot point.

witchaj

gojosgoddess

This is the first time I’m seeing my culture on Tumblr and I feel so proud!!! 🥺🥺👏🏾👏🏾❤❤

captainbigdy-deactivated2021032

It’s always fascinating to learn more about different cultures. And this one is beautiful 👏🏻

krxs100

Calls for Justice for Aurora’s Violinist Elijah McClain Grow

Elijah McClain was a kind and gentle 23 year old who worked as a massage therapist in Aurora, CO. On his lunch breaks from work, Elijah would go to the animal shelters and play violin for the animals because he thought that they were lonely in their cages and thought that the music would calm them.

In August 2019, Elijah went to the gas station to buy some iced tea for himself and his cousins. Because he suffered from anemia he would often wear a ski/ runner mask over his face to stay warm. On his way home, the Aurora Police department were called to reports of a “suspicious man.”

(Warning: for violent description) Elijah was apprehended by a group of three cops, despite committing NO crime and being unarmed. A struggle occurred, and he was held in a very dangerous carotid hold around his neck while he cried for help, cried out that he couldn’t breathe, cried out that he was nonviolent and couldn’t even kill a fly, and was repeatedly throwing up. Elijah weighed a mere 140 pounds. You can hear on the audio footage, an officer instructing another to move their body camera out of view.

While 3 Aurora Police Dept officers violently restrained him they called Aurora Fire Dept, who injected him with ketamine (a powerful drug used to tranquilize horses or in surgeries by a trained anesthesiologist and illegal to be administered by anyone else) even though he was already cuffed and calm.

He went into cardiac arrest , slipped into a coma, and his family was advised to take him off life support 6 days later.

The cops were transferred to another department but never received charges.

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babyanimalgifs

Florida man casually bringing his pet, shirt-wearing alligator back into his shop

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#oh to be florida man #carrying my alligator clothed with a yellow t-shirt back into my lime coloured key lime pie themed dessert place.

kaijuno

Hmm maybe if the LGBT community wasn’t so sexualized, asexuals would feel more comfortable with aligning themselves with the community.

Maybe if the only LGBT spaces weren’t bars and clubs you’d have more asexual people participating in the community.

Maybe if people, hetero or otherwise, stopped making the LGBT community so sexualized, you wouldn’t get assholes that think “asexuality isn’t part of the LGBT community”.

MAYBE I’m getting fucking sick of asexual people getting excluded from the LGBT community because they’re not “gay enough”

kaijuno

This is making people that don’t think asexuals belong in the LGBT community mad keep reblogging it

sonicthehedgegod

maybe if people didnt literally murder us for being sexual we wouldnt need spaces to do it safely

its not that you arent “gay enough” its that you’re not fucking gay. period.

and you’re policing our fucking spaces to boot

actualvetra

Except that the most common LGBT places are actually over sexualized, aside from the fact ace people ARE part of the LGBT community there are also CHILDREN in the community. Kids who are underage, who DONT/CANT have access to these places (unless you want to expose kids to sexual situations which is a whole new problem on its own).

I, a transwoman, should not have to go to a bar or a club to interact with other LGBT members in public. I, a transwoman, WANT non-sexualized LGBT places to be a more common thing for kids, people who are ace, people who just don’t want to be in an overly sexualized place because it makes them uncomfortable.

Stating and acknowledging that the oversexualization of LGBT places is not policing them, its acknowledging that it’s a problem in more than one way.

monsterkissed

putting all the asexual stuff aside for a moment (i know, it sounds weird when it’s me saying that) we have got to, as a community, stop responding to valid criticisms of widespread issues with kneejerk defensiveness.

like here: admitting that there is a disproportionate number of sexualised spaces to non-sexualised spaces for lgbt people is not confirming what the cishets think about us or w/e, it’s protecting our youth and other vulnerable members, as well as just improving our support and community spaces overall. “cishets think we’re sexual perverts, therefore any discussion that mentions sex in the same sentence as negativity must be shut down” gets people hurt.

time and time again intra-community discussions are shouted down because “idk that sounds like something a cishet might say” and it’s tiresome. this is not how we assess the legitimacy of complaints.

and if you’re honestly gonna be like “well if having the vast majority of lgbt spaces revolve around sex, hook-ups and drinking keeps the asexuals out, then i’m all for it lol” then congrats on throwing minors, abuse survivors, recovering alcoholics and anyone who just wants to hang out with their community away from insufferable music and drunk people under the bus just to spite us, i guess.

damn, knew i couldn’t keep it up for the whole post.

warriorsdebt

As a lesbian survivor of rape and sexual abuse, this is absolutely a topic that needs to be talked about within the community. I am deeply uncomfortable in spaces that are centered around sexual encounters, I am deeply uncomfortable in places that are implicitly or explicitly framed as places to meet sexual partners, and I am deeply uncomfortable in spaces that center liquor consumption, especially as a prelude to the aforementioned sexual encounters. This all means that I am excluded from the VAST majority of lesbian/SGA spaces in my city. There is ONE local group I know of [well, two, but one of my abusers hangs out at the other one] that has non-sexualized, all-ages meetups, mostly at cafes, and they happen approximately quarterly. Outside of Pride, which is a beast all to itself in terms of appropriate levels of sexuality, that means that I have access to 3-4 queer-specific events PER YEAR. How isolating is that? Hint: very. And isn’t it funny that there are multiple posts on tumblr about this very issue with hundreds of thousands of supportive notes between them, but as soon as you bring aces into it–and most of the ace people I’ve seen who are concerned about this are trans or SGA aces–it’s suddenly The Worst Idea Ever and everyone is willing throw survivors, minors, recovering addicts, sex-repulsed or celibate people, and other vulnerable trans and SGA folks under the bus as long as it keeps the aces out. Nobody’s saying shut down all the gay bars and gay clubs and sexualized LGBT spaces. We’re saying supplement them with other, non-sexual spaces that are safe and accessible for all the members of the community. [Oh, and, for the record? Nobody’s shitting on your right to have SGA-only spaces, either. Just stop pretending that every LGBT+ space is SGA-only, because you’re still throwing members of the community under the fucking bus just to spite aces and it’s shitty]

ichigokage

I’m sure I’m straight and I’m even going ‘what the fuck?’ The LGBT community wants equality but the aces can go fuck themselves? Pretty sure not everyone wants a hook up. Maybe more cafes or something Jesus.

kaijuno

To add more to the acephobia in the LGBT community, do you have any idea how often I’ve been called a “homophobic bitch” for this post? And for some reason everyone that comments on this post negatively assumes that I’m asexual heteromantic and cisgendered (or even just a cishet in general) and that says a lot about the current state of the LGBT community here on tumblr. I’ve made a valid criticism and the first response is “you’re uncomfortable in LGBT spaces because you don’t fucking belong there so stop trying to force yourself into the community you homophobe”. As if it were somehow impossible for a member of the LGBT community to be critical of it. That is a very dangerous mindset to have, that a member of a group must think the group is perfect and must never be critical of it.

According to tumblr: I, an asexual panromantic agender person, don’t belong in the LGBT community because I criticized the oversexualization of the LGBT community and talked about how it doesn’t make some aces (or children) comfortable. And that also somehow makes me homophobic.

ravenclaze

Ok guys this is the fucking thing I couldn’t stop thinking about four days ago and I didn’t know how to express it So plz read

teathattast

bakwaaas

saw someone say ‘a lot of men don’t actually want to participate in raising their children, they just like the aesthetic of having a family’ and god that is so true

golvio

Sex with women, marriage, and children are symbols of masculine coming-of-age. A lot of men get upset if they can’t access these things because it makes them feel unmasculine in the eyes of other men, but I don’t think a lot of these insecure guys have asked themselves whether relationships or fatherhood are things they actually want, or if they’re emotionally prepared for the reality of participating in these things. They see it like buying a car or a house, and are shocked when there’s a whole different person and a set of responsibilities attached.

awed-frog

Uhm, none of those things happen by choice, you know. Men are trapped in this bullshit framework the same way women are. When I see posts like these I always think about that guy friend of mine who tried to train as a primary school teacher and was accused of being a creep and a pedophile for two years (meanwhile, no one questioned why his female classmates were interested in the job). I also think about that other guy friend of mine who wanted to be a nurse and how everyone told him he should man up and be a doctor. Or that other guy friend who’s got a much younger sister and people were half-praising him half-ridiculing him for being ‘so good’ with her. And that other guy friend who decided to stay home with his baby because his wife liked her job a lot, so that worked best for them, and the shit he went through because of that.

Acting like women are somehow weak enough to be brainwashed by the system while men are just their strong individual selves who randomly end up becoming absolute scumbags doesn’t help anyone.

black-rose0205

The patriarchy hurts men too.

babyfairy

tumblr posts be like “omg he’s my tiny gay baby i love him so much fbsuhriwn” and you look who it is and it’s a 34 year old straight white dude who’s married to a woman