To note:

FR: concentrer /EN: focus

FR: écureuil /EN: squirrel

FR: pingouin /EN: penguin

FR: câlin /EN: hug

the “PINE-GUINE” fucking killed me asfgashasfg

Google Translate: focus

This man, with extreme amounts of self-confidence: fUCK US

Fun fact: the reason wearing seatbelts became common in the US was because kids were trained to in school, and would constantly bug their parents to wear their own seatbelts. In my mom’s words, everyone was shamed by little children into behaving safely.

This is how I got my mom to quit smoking,,, by annoying the everloving shit oughta her at age 7

My 8 year old looked at a man in the airport (when I had to fly her to her Dad’s for the summer) and the sass came out in 3 ways.

First: She would constantly ask why someone wasn’t wearing a mask, loudly. “It’s not like it’s hard.”

Second: Standing in line to get food she noticed ome guy behind us wasn’t adhering to the 6 feet guidelines. She turned to him. “Six feet please.” He was so surprised he stepped back automatically. But then glared at me as I shrugged. “Rules are rules dude. She did say please.”

Third: A woman sneezed on the other side of the terminal waiting area. She was joined by a couple other kids for this one. “If you cough or sneeze, use your elbow please.” Honestly half of us were trembling to keep in the laughter and the others were just shocked to hear kids speak up like that.

hearing a five year old yell across the yard that the neighbors were having a party and “its illegal!” is hysterical. 

an explanation is not owed

i want to show this to everyone i know

This is soooo important

“Unless we’re talking heteronormativity and having to hide who you are in order to be accepted, because that doesn’t sound like much of a privilege to me.”

(Gifs are from A Little Bi Furious by @claudiaboleyn)

The police have literally just threatened and intimitaded the staff of a private company until an ad campaing they didn’t like was shelved, but sure, we don’t at all live in a police state 🙄

The advertising drive was launched to raise awareness of what the company described as the “ongoing undercover policing scandal where officers have infiltrated the lives, homes and beds of activists”.

SIGN THIS RIGHT THE FUCK NOW

why not heterosexual UNawareness month

pretend heterosexuals don’t exist for the WHOLE month

“het…hetrosexual? wtf is that I’ve never heard of that. like c’mon stop faking your sexuality for attention jeez special snowflake much?”

I’ve read tons of posts about dress codes in US schools. Recently I even read an article about a girl who was sent home for having a top without sleeves. It’s so weird that our online magazines have started to cover it. And all of this seems like a dystopia to me.

Here’s a thing: Finnish schools do NOT have any dress codes. Like, at all. Nothing. As long as you have all legally demanded parts covered. Also, teachers might sent home a note if they notice a young child not wearing a hat or a jacket in winter (it’s FREEZING but hats are not cool yo).

I attended this elite high school (no, not EXPENSIVE, education is free in Finland, elite as in nerds and good teachers). All kids in there had the best grades of our entire country. It’s also a very old, traditional school that has produced many artists, politicians etc. for us (Finland is a small village but compared to that, those people are great). And what did I wear to this fancy school?

Leather skirts, so short everyone saw my garters. Skin thight red tops so open that you could see the color of my bra. Fishnet stay-up socks. Leather boots with stiletto heels. And I also sat on my desk most of the time, so all boys behind me could clearly see all the glory of my high-heeled legs. I admit, I was bit of a goth kid then.

Guess what? Everyone passed the classes. I did not cause all the boys in our year to fail. Actually, they got used to it so quick nobody even noticed my clothes. And nowadays I attend a respectable office job where I dress in a modest (altough personal) way. Because in Finland we let kids be kids. I had plenty of time to learn professional dress code after I’d had my fun.

TLDR; Dress codes for kids are weird and unnecessary and not having them will not make the world burn.

“When I first moved here I was living with my uncle in Brooklyn. He lives in a Jewish neighborhood. I accidentally set off his alarm one night when I came home. I couldn’t defuse it. The alarm kept screaming: ‘Burglary! Burglary! Burglary!’ I was the only black person in the neighborhood at the time, so I panicked. I knew it didn’t look good. And I didn’t want to die in this movie. So the first thing I did was call 911. The operator was like ‘What’s your emergency?’ I told her: ‘I’m staying at my uncle’s house, and the alarm is going off, and I need you to tell the responding officer to expect a black man.’ And she said: ‘Is your uncle black too?’ And I said: ‘Ma'am, all of us are black.’ Then I fixed up a bowl of macaroni and cheese, turned on all the lights, stood in the middle of the living room, and waited for the knock.”

This hurts

The truth often does

This is honestly so terrifying and makes me want to cry..

It’s absolutely horrible we live is a society people have to do this or think of this. But this is crazy smart and I’m reblogging to spread the knowledge.

Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.

Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom

Honestly just reblogging for that last one

Probably not historically backed but fuck yes

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote love letters to Lorena Hickok

Love letters Hans Christian Anderson wrote to Edvard Collin contain elements that appeared in The Little Mermaid, which he was writing at the same time

Several people who knew James Dean have talked about his relationships with men 

Letters and poems allude to a romance between Emily Dickinson and at least two women 

Nikola Tesla was adverse to touch. He said he fell in love with one women but never touched her and didn’t want to get married 

Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender) 

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots

Florence Nightingale refused 4 marriage proposals and her letters and memoir suggest a love for women 

Leonardo da Vinci never married or fathered children, was once brought up on sodomy charges, and a sketch in one of his notebooks is 2 penises walking toward a hole labeled with the nickname of his apprentice 

Condivi said that Michelangelo often spoke exclusively of masculine love

Jane Austin never married and wrote about sharing a bed with women (Jane Austen At Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley)

Hatshepsut took the male title Pharaoh (instead of Queen Regent) and is depicted in art from the time the same way a male Pharaoh would have been

“Alexander was only defeated once…and that was by Hephaestion’s thighs.” is a 2,000 year old quote

I want to hire you to follow me around and defend my honor with meticulous research

Crayola beauty is here….it’s over for u other makeup brands lmao

Actually this shit is really cute and the artist in me wants all of these

I just wanna know if I can use the sharpener from my 96 pack on these

PLEASE STOP SHARING AND PROMOTING THIS. A black woman called Supa @supa_cent already came out with something very similar last year and Crayola is trying to steal her concept. Crayola didn’t think of doing this till Supa did it🙄. Support @thecrayoncase instead. That is the original.

BOOST!!!

My version of back to school shopping

republican: guns are human rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! owning guns are a human right!!!!!!!!!!!!! dont let the government tread on you!!!!!

me: so do u support people arming themselves against the police who have proven to be unconcerned with basic human rights to a point of endless murdering of innocent lives, especially innocent black lives?

me: you know like what the black panthers did back in the day to protect people from being killed by the cops?

republican: no. u must respect the police, if they think u shouldn’t have a gun then theyre right.

My favorite thing about dealing with white gays is when they try to say a term isn’t AAVE because “it was created by the LGBTQ community”, like actually lemme correct y'all, black LGBTQ coined this, not y'all, we did. Things like “slay”, “wig”, or “thot” is AAVE, and just because nonblack LGBTQ finally caught on later it does not mean it’s “gay lingo”, it’s still AAVE and you’re still appropriating the terms from us, k bye.

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Is this how you roll?

The first time you see how cashew nuts grow, you’re gonna think somebody’s posting a joke picture or a weird art installation.

ok but you say this….then don’t give us pictures 

LOOK AT THESE RIDICULOUS THINGS

And it gets even weirder!

The shell of the nut itself:

contains a resin that’s so toxic just touching it causes burns to the skin, similar to poison ivy. Which is why cashews are never sold unshelled, because processing them requires safety measures like this:

How humanity ever figured out to eat this nut is beyond me.

In case you ever wondered why cashews are so expensive. Now you can wonder why they aren’t more expensive.

what i’m wondering now is how anybody ever found out that you could eat cashews

OK but you seem to underestimate how scarce food could get for people, and how desperate they become to try anything. If eating it raw kills you? try cooking it because we’re gonna starve to death anyway. Cooking it kills you? Try cooking it a different way. Touching it is painful? Try washing it, or extracting the inner bit and washing that.

There’s this plant that’s eaten by aboriginal people of australia around where I live. Only certain parts of this plant can be eaten, and even then only if those parts are cooked exactly right, kept at a certain temperature for a certain amount of time. And it has to be exactly that amount of time as both undercooking it AND overcooking it are deadly.

The history of food is a history fraught with countless, terrible deaths because we are so stubborn that when faced with starvation, we will fucking eat poison again and again until it’s not poison anymore.

Some Paleolithic chef “I know like five people died already, but I think I got it this time.”

Some different, starving, Paleolithic person “fuck it bro. Gimme the nut.”