Concrete Cowboys is a Philadelphia program that teaches inner-city kids responsibility and maturity by caring for and riding horses. 

“Being around horses takes the trouble off my shoulders. Like, when I’m having trouble at the house, this is where I come to think about things.”

“Sitting up top of there, taking your mind off things, it’s like meditation.”

“What I like is the rush. I feel like a different person when I ride.”

The kids can also offer $5 rides in a nearby park, pocket half the proceeds, and use the other half to buy the horses’ hay.

“I just think horses are beautiful animals. But it’s not going to take care of itself.”

“So if you wanna get it, you gotta be man enough to take care of it.”

“I grew up in a bad place and I’ve done some bad things in the past. I took some time off to think about everything, like, I’ll be 18 in two years, I got college right around the corner.”

“I gotta sit down, do what I need, and achieve what I always wanted to. I guess the horses just kept me on the right track.”

All quotes and photos via: Charles Mostoller/storehouse.co

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Saw a documentary on this place a while back. Such an awesome program.

ATTENTION WRITERS

Google BetaBooks. Do it now. It’s the best damn thing EVER.

You just upload your manuscript, write out some questions for your beta readers to answer in each chapter, and invite readers to check out your book!

It’s SO easy!

You can even track your readers! It tells you when they last read, and what chapter they read!

Your beta readers can even highlight and react to the text!!!

There’s also this thing where you can search the website for available readers best suited for YOUR book!

Seriously guys, BetaBooks is the most useful website in the whole world when it comes to beta reading, and… IT’S FREE.

HEY! BECAUSE OF OP, THEY CREATED A SPECIAL WELCOME IF YOUR FOUND THEM THRU A TUMBLR WELCOME, ITS A YOUTUBE VIDEO.

They also sent me this; which was super cool

*slams reblog button*

@findingtallahassee holy shit! This is cool!

“Authors retain all rights to works posted on BetaBooks, and can add or remove content at their discretion. BetaBooks makes no claim to any of the work posted on the site.”

Incase anyone was wondering

@judiops

Settler colonial mentality ain’t dead bc we got the richest of the rich who are investing in Mars colonization bc Earth is gonna get fucked from *their* resource mismanagement like how Europeans colonized the whole world bc they fucked up their own country’s resources.

Lemme say it again more clearly: the rich would rather colonize a whole world than pay a cent more to do anything to clean up their messes, or to limit their resource consumption if it threatens their profits even marginally ☕

Hey guys, just a warning because I feel like this bot is targeting LGBT tagged items. If you get a message like this one, you won’t be able to view the post if you click because it will send you to an endless log in screen or tell you you need to follow the person to see their stuff. It’s a dummy account.

The message is designed to be upsetting so you will want to click it and see the contents.

I was upset enough to click but luckily I was in the app so i knew it didn’t make sense to ask me to log in again. I then looked CLOSELY at the log in page and realized the url is fake. This is a phishing attempt and I don’t want any other lgbt people to be taken in by it. Be careful out there.

(People are saying that if you do indeed click and give your password, your account may be used to spread the virus, so be cautious of that as well)

Long but important post. Please share!

I know Tumblr tends to be very US-centric, but there is something happening in my country that I absolutely have to share.

Soon, Brazil will host presidential elections. These are the first elections since the impeachment of our last president Dilma Rouseff.

The leading candidate is currently Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro is a man who has made racist, sexist, and homophobic claims such as, “I would rather my son die in a car accident than be gay,” and, “my sons would not date black women as they were well educated.” He even said to a woman that she was, “so ugly” that she, “didn’t even deserve to get raped.”

A few decades ago, when Brazil was under a military dictatorship, the government tortured many people for speaking out against the regime. Bolsonaro has said that, “their only mistake was not killing those people.”

However, something incredible has been happening.

A movement called Mulheres Unidas Contra Bolsonaro (Women United Against Bolsonaro) has been surfacing. The hashtag #EleNão (#NotHim) has been getting popular and gaining international attention.

Yesterday, women all over Brazil (and the world!) protested against Bolsonaro.

Here are some pictures.

São Paulo, Brazil:

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:

Ilhéus, Brazil:

Cuiabá, Brazil:

Porto Alegre, Brazil:

Brazilians living abroad also joined the protests!

Zurich, Switzerland:

Madrid, Spain:

Melbourne, Australia:

New York City, US:

Protests occurred in over 62 cities around the world.

Even if you’re not Brazilian, please share this post! Show your support and raise awareness of the movement!

Striking ain’t easy but we’ve all gotta do it

As you may know, all public schools in the entire state of West Virginia are closed due to a teachers strike. As you may not know, those teachers have a fund going to keep them up and running while the strike is ongoing. You can donate here to help support the fight, and hopefully help inspire others to follow and take back control of our own goddamn lives.

If you want to donate/help, topos ( a professional non-profit Mexican rescue team) is helping rescue people from the collapsed buildings in Mexico due to earthquake. 🇲🇽❤️  How to donate:

Here is their twitter

I want there to be no confusion over this: if Teen Wolf ends with tragedy or an ambiguously unhappy ending for Scott McCall, I will make a 5 hour video essay about all the ways the show was utter shit and it will be full of piss and vinegar.

Me confronting the writers with everything they’ve done to Scott McCall

NASA and astronauts paying tribute to Leonard Nimoy. *Link to Buzz Aldrin’s op-Ed piece

What Pacific Islanders Want You To Know | “They insist they know more about myself than I know about myself.”

Shout out to all of us who have had feelings for a barista that became our friend. Some we may have known instantly; others, taking their time to grow on us. May we never forget our friends, no matter where we meet them.

Little in the middle, but she got much back. 

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*screams from down the block after bumping into a Corvega* DAMN SIR!! Dat ass a knick knack shelf!!