ThePrettiestOne

achromatiq:

csidesuicide:

arse-thetic:

#justiceformuslims

I love every single person who reblogged this

I don’t think people realize how much of an impact this kind of support can have, I don’t think everyone knows what these little things can mean to us.

It may just be me, I don’t know. But every single time I see this on my dash or on someone’s blog or anywhere else, I kind of just breathe a sigh of relief. That’s one more person who cares. That’s one more person who doesn’t hate me.

Because it means so much, especially when all the media is spewing out is that I’m a terrible person and no one wants people like me near them. It means so much because I’m tired of people who won’t sit next to me in class, or who choose to join the longer line at the grocery store because they don’t want to be beside me and my family. It means so much when I have to lift my head any time someone says the words Islam or Muslim because I’m scared that they’ll say something that’ll hurt, when I have to pay attention to the news because who knows what so and so is saying now, who knows which of my people are being attacked now, who knows what’s going to happen to me now.

It means so much because I’ve been given the idea that the world is against me. And a huge part of it may be, but at least I’ve been reminded that some of it, just a small group of people, acknowledges that I’m a person too. That people like me are just that, people.

Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But now you do, so thank you for believing that I’m human when so many people don’t.

The governor-appointed Flint Water Advisory Task Force released its 116-page, 44-recommendation final report Wednesday. It’s a scathing document that concludes the drinking water disaster plaguing the Michigan city and poisoning its residents was an instance of "government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction and environmental injustice." Paul Egan and Matthew Dolan report:

Though it puts most of the blame on the state Department of Environmental Quality, the report also singles out for blame the governor's office [...]

The DEQ "caused this crisis to happen," the report said. "Moreover, when confronted with evidence of its failures, (it) responded publicly through formal communications with a degree of intransigence and belligerence that has no place in government."

The report, whose preliminary conclusions last year pushed the DEQ’s director to resign in December, also concluded that several government offices and officials contributed to allowing the disaster to happen and delaying moves to fix it. Included in this cascade of incompetence and inaction were the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Genesee County Health Department, the City of Flint, and governor-appointed emergency managers.

While the task force addressed past failure, the crisis has not ended. As the progressive website Eclectablog has noted, it’s been 173 days since Gov. Rick Snyder announced that lead had contaminated Flint residents’ drinking water. Since then, writes website publisher Chris Savage, “ZERO lead water service lines have been replaced in Flint through the actions of the Snyder administration.”

The arrogance and shamelessness of his administration has drawn the wrath of Rep. Elijah Cummings and other members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and ought to be grounds for prosecution. But that arrogant shamelessness has yet to attract prosecutors.

Please join us in calling for federal prosecution of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder for his part in the Flint water crisis.

thedailyshow:

Donald Trump comes under fire for unknowingly tweeting a Benito Mussolini quote, and he may have more in common with the fascism founder than he realizes.

armadillobear:

goblinparty:

I’m constantly torn between the ‘be kind to everyone’ and the ‘fuck everyone you owe them nothing’ mentalities 

Do no harm but take no shit

anaikns:

star wars   +  community.

in-fi-ni:

brain: weghggghghhhhhhhhhgfeeghh nobody loves you and you have no redeeming quali-

me: *squirts a spray bottle* shut up I’m trying to do something

Can you find the Trump in the tribbles?

why-i-love-comics:

Alias #6 - “B Level” (2002)

written by Brian Michael Bendis
art by Michael Gaydos & Matt Hollinsworth

spitandvinegar:

Ok so we all know that the answer to “Where did Captain America learn to steal a car?” is “Nazi Germany” but I think the more pressing question here is when the fuck did this complete maniac get a driver’s license

Because ok, Mighty Mouse 1.0 is too poor to own a car, too short to reach the pedals, has vision problems, and is a goddamn New Yorker in the motherfucking 1930s, why on earth would he ever have learned to drive?

So this little bastard can’t even tell the gas from the brakes, he gets all beefified, he goes on tour with the USO. Unless one of the showgirls coached him through stalling out a car all over some Hollywood back lot, he still can’t drive. He goes to Europe. At some point, some genius looks at him and thinks “this strapping specimen of American hunkhood obviously knows his way around a vehicle, let’s give him a motorcycle,” and Steve “no parachute” Rogers is like “how hard could this be?” and promptly wraps himself around approximately eight trees at the same time.

So then he’s kickin’ ass, fightin’ Hydra, and it’s just months of Bucky being like “give me the goddamn keys, Steven,” and Dum Dum and Morita endlessly encouraging his fucking insane Fury Road bullshit, like the Howling Commandos just use “grenade” as code for “Rogers” when they’re reporting why yet another truck has been destroyed beyond recognition. Yes, sir, another grenade, I agree, sir, it’s very odd that we keep losing vehicles in the same way, that’s the third this month alone

So then he’s in the future and SHIELD is sorting his shit out, and they’re not going to force Captain goddamn America to wait in line at the DMV, they’re all in complete awe in him and they’ve seen the old reels of him on his bike, so when they issue him his driver’s license without any type of road test they go ahead and give him a motorcycle license too

and steve is like …neat.

Ok so then Bucky is back, shit is settled down, everyone’s heading somewhere and Steve gets in the driver’s seat and Buck’s like WHOA WHOA WHOA are you people out of your goddamn minds?! Why is Steve driving, is this some kind of mission, are we heading into a combat zone, is the plan for the vehicle to get blown up?? GIVE ME THE GODDAMN KEYS STEVEN

And Sam is all “what are you talking about, Steve’s a great driver, I saw him jump his bike over a car once”

And Buck is all “yes but have you seen him use a turn signal?”

And Steve’s like, “Listen, we never needed to ‘signal’ our ‘turns’ in Nazi Germany.”

And after that Bucky always drives.

Fin.

tastefullyoffensive:

Cockatoo goes Godzilla on a cup tower city. [video]

lemonsharks:

What’s the point of a character being a white able-bodied heterosexual cisgender man aged 18-38? Do any of those characteristics affect the plot in any way? Is his whiteness a Chekhov’s gun? His able-bodiedness, his orientation or gender or class?

The presence of all of these traits stacked one on top of another for no apparent reason is distracting–and there are just so many of them in books and movies and on television. They’re everywhere, even in completely made-up worlds that have nothing to do with earth and that bear only the very slightest resemblance to our own historical periods, places where we’re willingly suspending disbelief for dragons and werewolves and faster-than-light-travel and bipedal walking carpets and sapient tentacle-people who talk through glowy orbs and vast far-reaching government conspiracies involving alien abduction and supersoldiers, haunted hotels and small towns in maine with very bad diet pills.

Because if the answer is, “well, that’s the majority/default”: No, it isn’t. It isn’t, and it does not reflect reality that this be the fictional default, and when every characteristic has to mean something it is not reasonable to place that condition on every character but those who are white able-bodied heterosexual cisgender males aged 18-38.

misbehavingmaiar :

sebastian-bond :

but-the-library-of-alexandria :

the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that

Tolkien had the time apparently

LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted. 

basedgodtookmyusername:

I’m passionate about Bees, fam.

“Real talk, you not cool if you kill bees. We cant be friends, i’m sorry. I’ve never been in a situation with a bee where i couldn’t just move. I had bees land on me, crawl over me, and never got stung. and i’m allergic. Now i have seen a pack of Memphis hornets. Memphis hornets, their different. They got thumbs. I have seen a pack of Memphis hornets take a dude, flip him upside down, take his lunch money, take his girl, take his credit card and buy a condo out in LA. And i’m thinking to myself “this dude’s credit must have been amazing.” But DONT COME AT BEES

the sorting hat: you can go in Slytherin or Ravenclaw, which do you want?
me: which will make people trust me unquestioningly?
the sorting hat: the answer is Ravenclaw but because you asked that way you're going in Slytherin
me: that's fair.

Ahahah that last gif

wikdsushi:

softmotherswimming:

thepeacockangel:

Like men are able to get away with never expressing of requesting help with their feelings because women are trained from a very young age to observe men, watch for signs of emotional need and environmental stressors and deal with them without being asked.  It’s why women worry constantly about emasculating the men in their lives but men never worry about “efeminating” the women in their lives.

Men are “stoic” only because they don’t have to communicate in order to get their emotional needs met.

i….

…….have never read something that explains my family dynamic so well

This describes the past several MILLENNIA, including why so many men only really communicate with their bros.

aliceinpunderland:

elrondbaggins:

tardis-mind-palace:

ruthyless:

when i was younger i had a really bad fear of danny devito when i was going to sleep so my older brother gave me a watch that he set to like 8 hours ahead so that it was always daytime on the watch when i was asleep and he told me it would confuse danny devito and he would think it was daytime and get scared of the sun and leave me alon

Your brother is the best

Who the fuck changed this from vampires to Danny devito

the real question is why I was completely ready to accept that this person had a debilitating childhood fear of Danny Devito

oldmanstephanie:

oldmanstephanie:

im_too_ace_for_this.jpg

I am seeing this being reblogged without my little blurb and I’m just a little upset. Like, I have absolutely no problem with anyone who’s not ace or aro reblogging this, because I think it’s important that others get to realize that being ace/aro isn’t weird, and our predicaments are relatable. Like, I never see comics and posts by ace/aro people that aren’t posts specifically about visibility or education and I think it’s important that others get to see the fun and funny and relatable parts of our lives, so people can see that we do exist as more than just articles explaining our orientation.

That is why I feel that reblogging this without the context that this is a situation common to ace/aro people feels like stifling this little bit of representation that I created as an ace/aro person primarily for ace/aro people.

The context of this comic matters very much to me. You don’t have to remove the context of the comic to be able to relate to it and reblog it, and I would really really prefer that you didn’t.

aceshouseofcards:

I needed a little pick me up doodle before I go into this next coming week while simultaneously telling myself I don’t need to have everything in my life figured out right now.  Hopefully this motivational koala is helpful to some of you guys too.  

starwhalesandfogfish:

shitrichcollegekidssay:

if you’re worried about people cheating the system for disability money, maybe you should ask yourself what the fuck is wrong with our system that makes people want to go through that hell-ordeal for less than whats generally considered a livable income.

^^^ 

(and while you’re at it, maybe question your standards of “really disabled”)

By J.F. Sargent  Published: March 22nd, 2016 

constant-instigator:

mellopetitone:

autisticju-pi-ter:

escaliars:

dingdongyouarewrong:

thewriterkid:

dream-fortress:

ubercharge:

ghoulsjw:

zephror:

sizvideos:

Free yourself from your phone when having some time with your family and friends. More information here

oh shut the fuck up

pretending that mom and dad don’t have to booze the fuck up just to spend time with their dead eyed children

thanks banksy

“connect with the human race” what do they think people are doing on their phones?? texting aliens?? because if someone is texting aliens sign me the FUCK up

I love the idea that you have to spend money on a Product in order to not use your phone at inappropriate moments… like there’s no way you could ever judge for yourself when it’s rude and when it’s cool to be on your phone, you have to have the Responsibility Box to take your Evil Device out of your Weak Hands until you’ve learned to repent for your Millenial Phone Addiction

Bad and naughty phones get placed in the Milennial Wiggler to atone for their sins.

I didn’t have internet until I was 18 years old. No qwerty pagers until I was maybe 22 years old. Hence I place a lot of value on face to face interaction and it’s rude being on an internet connected device when you are with someone else who wants to spend time with you.

Apparently the Milennials disagree?

okay see the problem is that there’s this ridiculous assumption that millenials don’t know when to put their damn phones down, and 99% of us do in fact know it’s rude to be looking at your phone and not paying attention to someone who’s talking to you. we’re not unaware of that. and as far as i’ve noticed, most of these devices are designed by people who are NOT millenials, yet they always show millenials in their commercials and ads lol. like yeah it’s great that you place a lot of value on face to face interaction to the point that apparently you would never ever pull out your phone to get rid of a notification during a conversation with someone else, but you’re not a millenial, and culture changes as time goes on. what’s rude for a 40-something person may not be rude to a 22 year old. its to the point where people over a certain age find it rude to respond to “thank you” with “no problem” instead of “you’re welcome,” whereas millenials tend to use “no problem” and find “you’re welcome” to be a bit rude. 

that’s just the way things are, and it’s super fucking annoying when older people look down on us and treat us like we’re all rude, entitled fuckheads for our culture not being exactly the fucking same as theirs lol.

I think a box that only opens on a timer could be useful in several ways. I also think it was a terrible decision to envision this as the “Self help for those fucking millennials” box.

What gets me is WHO complains about millenials “always on their phones”. The thing is, if I want to talk to you, I’ll look up. If I’m looking at my phone it might mean I don’t think you’re entitled to my fucking time, random guy on the lightrail/in the cafe/on the street.

I think the issue is less millenials being addicted to their phones, and more younger people being saturated at all times with contact of people they are not choosing to interact with. Piles of research has been done about how younger generations have every second of their time scheduled for them. That they have less time to be around peers without being supervised. That the adults of my generation work absurd hours/week. The phone allows for self-soothing and private communication in a forced-communication-saturated world, and puts the choice of who you interact with back in your own litteral hands. 

If your kids don’t want to talk to you, maybe the phone isn’t the problem. Maybe you need to give each other some flippen space and give your kid some chance to communicate without watchdogs on their every step.

Ted Cruz never misses a chance to use the phrase "radical Islamic terrorists” and today's tragedy in Brussels was no exception. Oh, and as you already know, the attack was all President Obama's fault. Here's vintage Cruz:

Our hearts break for the men and women of Brussels this morning. Make no mistake -- these terror attacks are no isolated incidents. They are just the latest in a string of coordinated attacks by radical Islamic terrorists perpetrated by those who are waging war against all who do not accept their extreme strain of Islam.

Radical Islam is at war with us. For over seven years we have had a president who refuses to acknowledge this reality. And the truth is, we can never hope to defeat this evil so long as we refuse to even name it. That ends on January 20, 2017, when I am sworn in as president. We will name our enemy -- radical Islamic terrorism. And we will defeat it.

… Oh sorry, just checking on some Canadian real estate after that mention of Cruz being "sworn in." By comparison, John Kasich's statement seems fairly reasonable. 

When people (especially your parents/caregivers) tell you “well, you need to just stop [being autistic]”

The past 20 or so years of television have been lauded as a “Golden Age” in terms of quality, which moved television toward putting the audience in the shoes of morally compromised people. In many of the top-tier programs during this period, the protagonists have usually been antiheroes characterized as white men frustrated by their circumstances. For these characters, the world isn’t working the way they think it should. They’re not the rock star, football hero, billionaire playboy, or even husband or father they believed they would be. Instead they slowly realize their lives to be pathetic and their relationships as not everything they could be. They’re working jobs they hate, either waiting a table or slaving in a cubicle with a white collar and a clipboard, wondering what happened to their dreams and why they can’t be happy. And thus, the stories become power fantasies where angry white men attempt to break free in the worst possible ways from a paradigm they believe is not of their own making.

Because if playing by the rules only gets you so far, why bother? If one thinks society, the universe, God, or whatever isn't playing fair, why should one play fair with it? Why not rage against the heavens and let it all burn?

It’s interesting to compare the popularity of this TV formula to the current state of politics. Donald Trump’s rise as a candidate has been built upon support from people who are often white, male, and without college degrees. In surveys, members of this group are more likely to say they’re angry than other demographic groups. They also feel their financial situation is not what they thought it would be when they were younger, and think their current lot in life is a function of circumstances beyond their control instead of wrong choices they may have made. 

In short, it’s a group ripe to hear a power fantasy about how life can be made “great again” and things can be the way they should be, if only we’d do some things in the worst possible ways.

liberteaandjusticeforall:

Nancy Drew has given me unrealistic expectations about the number of secret passages that exist in the world