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Favorite 2020 Illustrations ヽ(• ‿ •)ノ
<3 I really needed this right now <3
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Bedtime never looked quite as sweet as at St Kitts. Who’s dreaming of dreaming under these sheets? This guy! https://instagr.am/p/CGRJDq3laCS/
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Can we support him please?!
comfygiant
I would love to share this with everyone who may happen to see this post. Please support this wonderful human being. He spent nearly a half century in prison for a crime he never committed. And the only thing that kept him going was his artistic endeavors. He deserves the best life can offer anyone ❤️
Source: abcnews.go.com
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I would love to see the anti immigration conservatives do this for at least 30 mins..
Friendly reminder that most farm workers are paid nearly nothing via loopholes (don’t have to follow minimum wage if you arent paying by the hour!)
And that “unskilled labor” isn’t an actual thing. It’s just used by desk jockeys who play on the internet all day instead of working so they feel superior to everyone who actually does the work they profit off of. And of course, to make themselves feel better for the abuse they dish out.
Source: twitter.com
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This is really quite a big deal. A tremendous amount of modern research ends up being sold to journals which require unreasonable payments to access it and only pay the original authors a pittance. It’s nice to see an agency like NASA deliberately widebanding its findings.
Not sure if people fully realize just how big of a deal this is. THIS is how science is advanced. Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars. But through open, uncensored and unrestricted public access to knowledge.
question-the-status-quo
^ There’s the direct link to all the studies.
NASA IS GOOD, NASA IS GREAT
aripuppy
osunism
NASA is the hero we don’t deserve.
This deserves every reblog.
crewdlydrawn
In the face of institutions being silenced, this is doubly huge.
I love seeing that, for once, there are more reblogs than likes
Keep passing on this info, guys. Good job
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I saw everyone on twitter tearing Emma Watson apart for saying she’s self - partnered instead of single and decided to watch her interview for British Vogue to know what the hell was she trying to say with that. I was very surprised to find a 30 minute video in which amongst other things she talks about the following:
- She felt undeserving when she was appointed as UN Women goodwill ambassador and sought out Gloria Steinem to learn about feminist activism.
- She thinks the criticism she received for being a white feminist was useful because it made her educate herself.
- She says there’s a desperate need to reform the education system in the UK to change the way they are taught the history of how Britain has been involved in foreign affairs and how they profited from slavery.
- She felt anxious about approaching 30 because there’s a lot of pressure to have a husband and a baby by then and she’s still figuring her life out.
- She was so young when she was casted in Harry Potter that she doesn’t remember much of her life before it and she went to therapy to deal with her issues with fame. She used to feel very guilty for being unhappy because she thought she should enjoy fame more.
- The interviewer is a transgender woman and they discuss transgender issues for a while. Emma is in regular contact with a trans child which makes the topic of trans rights emotional for her because she’s very anxious for this kid’s safety.
- She talks about her role as Meg March in the new Little Women movie and defends that unlike what many people say choosing to be a wife and a mother doesn’t make Meg a less feminist character and quotes a line from the movie, “Just because my dreams are different than yours it doesn’t mean they are unimportant.”
- She wishes more people would realize she’s not Hermione Granger but also understands why they want to see that in her because Hermione is a symbol for her too.
- She used to think she could never be happy without a partner and now that she has learnt to navigate that better and is genuinely happy single she’s started to think of herself as self - partnered in contrast to the time when she thought of herself as single = lonely.
Every media outlet decided to focus in an out of context quote from the three minutes she talked about her dating life when the actual interview had a lot of depth and way more important things were discussed. I’m sad and angry but not surprised.
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Don’t be afraid of failure
Source: instagram.com
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The French Netflix uploaded this on twitter…….
this is by far the most powerful thing I’ve seen since Trump won and everyone needs to see this
I got goosebumps....
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IMMIGRATION NEWS THREAD:
Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids (https://apnews.com/46da2dbe04f54adbb875cfbc06bbc615?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter)
- “Lawyers warn that kids are taking care of kids, and there’s inadequate food, water and sanitation for the 250 infants, children and teens at the Border Patrol station.”
- “Three girls told attorneys they were trying to take care of the 2-year-old boy, who had wet his pants and had no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him.”
Lawyers claim infants, children are in dangerous situation at border detention site (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/lawyers-claim-infants-children-are-dangerous-situation-border-detention-site-n1020016)
Trump Administration Argues Migrant Children Don’t Need Soap (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/safe-sanitary-no-soap-beds-court-migrants-trump-850744/)
Court Video: Justice Department Argues Against Providing Soap, Toothbrushes, Beds To Detained Kids (Feat. Sarah Fabian of the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation)
‘There Is a Stench’: No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/migrant-children-border-soap.html)
- “A chaotic scene of sickness and filth is unfolding in an overcrowded border station in Clint, Tex., where hundreds of young people who have recently crossed the border are being held, according to lawyers who visited the facility this week. Some of the children have been there for nearly a month.”
- “Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they’ve just met, the lawyers said. Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk.”
- “Most of the young detainees have not been able to shower or wash their clothes since they arrived at the facility, those who visited said. They have no access to toothbrushes, toothpaste or soap.”
- “In May, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security warned of “dangerous overcrowding” among adult migrants housed at the border processing center in El Paso, with up to 900 migrants being held at a facility designed for 125. In some cases, cells designed for 35 people were holding 155 people.”
- “’Border Patrol agents told us some of the detainees had been held in standing-room-only conditions for days or weeks,” the inspector general’s office said in its report, which noted that some detainees were observed standing on toilets in the cells “to make room and gain breathing space, thus limiting access to the toilets.’”
In El Paso, Border Patrol Is Detaining Migrants in ‘a Human Dog Pound’ (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/border-patrol-outdoor-detention-migrants-el-paso/)
- “…migrants who said they’d been held outdoors for weeks as temperatures rose to nearly 100 degrees.”
Nearly 900 migrants found at Texas facility with 125-person capacity: DHS watchdog (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/900-migrants-found-texas-facility-125-person-capacity/story?id=63404988)
Trump administration cancels English classes, soccer, legal aid for detained migrant children (https://www.texastribune.org/2019/06/05/english-classes-soccer-legal-aid-cancelled-detained-migrant-children/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1561047748&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
NO HUMAN BEING DESERVES TO BE TREATED THIS WAY––ESPECIALLY CHILDREN.
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Ok this was adorable, how can people hate her :3
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It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.
There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!
I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.
He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”
“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”
Several us nodded.
He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.
“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”
“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”
“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”
“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”
“No, of course not.”
“Then why lift weights?”
“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.
“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”
And I’ve never forgotten that.
THIS.
When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one. Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.
Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to. But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.
History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from. It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely. Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.
Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction. But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.
The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it. (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)
aryagreenapple
thank u <3
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thewallsofconcrete
RARE HISTORIC PHOTOS WE MIGHT HAVEN’T YET SEEN
An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
Job Hunting In 1930’s
German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967
Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter” more
herewaskendra
Wow
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travelimagezMy favourite work of 14 months shooting (and chasing storms) in the Philippines. While shooting my time lapse movie at Dedon Island Resort this ‘perfect storm’ appeared, I was not only at the right place at the right time, but I happened to be at one of the world’s most amazing places with 4 camera’s. I got to shoot this unreal storm, with not only the Milky Way in the background, but even with a bunch of red sprites! Red sprites are very rare huge electrical discharges above the thunderstorm. This footage was more than a dream come true, it’s achieving a photography goal that I thought would be so hard to do, that I’d spend the rest of my life pursuing it. And even if I would find the right conditions and magically be in the right location, with my camera and tripod, I didn’t think it would be possible to capture properly, exposure-wise. All the elements were just right this night. The storm stayed at the same location for over 4 hours, at the just the right distance and just the right light, so that I was able to capture the extreme difference in light (dark Milky Way vs bright lightning) in a single exposure. This is nature’s magic at its fullest. To capture a lightning storm, red sprites and the Milky Way all in one frame is beyond my imagination. (Music: Scorpio by Simon Wilkinson, www.thebluemask.com)
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Things are hard now for me here so I finally had to make the fundraiser campaign, please read, share, and if you can … contribute
“My name is Milton I’m a computing engineer and run the SuperheroesInColor blog and twitter account dedicated to Racial and cultural diversity in media.
Things have never been easier here in Venezuela but after almost 15 years of the same people in power, these last years have proven hardest than ever. Not only the severe economic crisis but also Venezuela has come to the top most dangerous countries in the world. Food has become really scarce the last couple of years and what can be found its usually a challenge to the little budget we have. There are no medical supplies (which I need since my two surgeries but haven’t been able to find or afford on the daily basis that I should)
Not only the food problem but just staying safe has become a challenge...“
