Who The Fuck Is Awkwafina?

Victories to celebrate.

I started with asking an innocent question

The answers were unanimously “no” but the explanations were a bit puzzling

That sounded made up so I doggedly persevered

I understand that there is conceivably one.

The answers offered several admissible distinctions:

I knew that!

I did not know that

the more explanations I read, the less I understood the sun as a concept

???

eventually, my unflinching investigation of the sun brought me to this page and it was like, this is not what I asked but finally an answer that makes sense:

wait this wasn’t about that parks & rec clip? this is real life?

collab #2 ! words by Frieda Temper, art by me

Warsaw makes history tonight as millions of women revolt against the government’s control of female bodies.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

This has been getting a lot of notes but if you can reblog the version with the link to donate that would be appreciated!

Remnants of the British Black Panther’s Lost Legacy

Britain’s black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians

The Cambridge academic Robin Bunce said: “There is a fundamental danger of erasing the very notion of a struggle at all. I’ve been researching this for four and a half years and there have been so many occasions when people have said to me: ‘There was no black struggle in Britain. You’re thinking of South Africa or America.’“

The narrative that feeds it is the one that Britain is the utopia of fair play. We have such a commitment to individual rights, we have such a commitment to common sense and decency that there is no systematic racism in Britain.”…

Bunce said it was not just politicians, but wider British society that would rather not dwell on the less palatable.

Bringing this one back, while I’m reminded.

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Hero Rats

@jitterbugjive

THEY’RE SO CUTE AND GOOD AND SMART AND HAVE JOB

I’ll always reblog hero rats!

this same species is also trained to identify tuberculosis in samples by smell, meaning they can test for TB at a rapid rate with a high accuracy :)

The organization that trains the rats is APOPO 

You can sponsor a rat and you will get adorable personalized emails telling you how well “your” rat is doing! I did this for my sister a few years ago and she’s still getting emails about Martok the HeroRat’s mine-clearing successes and called it the best gift ever.

SPONSOR  A  RAT

I wanna sponsor a rat. I wanna do it

Great gift idea

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Folks in the comments are saying these tweets are from October 13-14, 2020. Super recent. Sharing for folks in the Baltimore area.

Remember how the community pulled up and defended that woman being harassed by her neighbors? We need that same energy here.

It is literally not the police’s job to do their job.

Or rather, what we are led to believe is their job so we don't all get angry enough to do something about them.

im doing my laundry which means im not mentally ill anymore!!!!!!! see y'all depresseds later!!!!!! you bitches can't even SPELL neurotypical!!!!!!!!!

The Muse’s Revenge, Ilya Milstein

So I’m just going to leave this picture of an old Pablo Picasso here for reference.

#I recognized the reference but had assumed it was more of a general influence however they used the same molding and everything#I’m sure it’s supposed to be more of a general statement rather than being about any one artist and I’m sad there’s no caption on her site#but Picasso was certainly one of Those Artist Dudes#which is to say he was an abusive douchebag to most of the women in his life (x)

yeah fuck this dude

Not to be dramatic but this is absolutely the right way to deal with creepy old men whose “art” is just pictures of naked women

By the way if you like cubism but really dont want to look at Picasso, check out Francoise Gilot. She tends to do a lot of really stylized paintings of women but… Yanno. Without the abuse.

She’s also one of Picasso’s exes and consequently one of his muses. She’s spoken at length about her experience. And thus far, she’s had some pretty sweet revenge. She’s free, her artwork is simply gorgeous, and she’s still alive today (as of 2020) at the age of 98!

Edit: i would also like to add that Gilot was already an accomplished artist when she became involved with Picasso, and he completely sabotaged her career when she left him. He discouraged museums from showing her work, and he unsuccessfully tried to block the publication of her memoir, Life with Picasso. To my knowledge, she’s the only one of his “muses” who is still alive, so let’s maybe take this time to explore and celebrate the work of a woman who was overshadowed by her abuser.