Fun facts
Hyenas have a better hunt:kill ratio than the African “big cats.”
Which explains why the Pride Lands went to shit so quickly.
This nature documentary
“Grazing on open ground is dangerous [for a mouse]. There are eagles around.”
audio: *hawk call*
so familiar…
I can’t be the only person who looks at those things and sees these:
(Source: scarfofcumbersaurus, via kimithegreat)
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John Barrowman in the back there really got a kick out of that.
j OHN
looks like he’s getting a little bit more than a kick
john pls
I envy this woman’s ability to keep a straight face.
(via a-sensitive-psychopath)
“It was publicized that I ‘voice’ Smaug, and I thought, Fucking hell. My voice, my motions—I worked my ass off to create that dragon!” (x)
Why can’t the next movie be out now.
(Source: bbatchs, via a-sensitive-psychopath)
"Nonviolence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. It ignores that violence is already here; that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy; and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or pacifists achieve that legendary “critical mass."
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-Peter Gelderlos, Why Nonviolence Protects the State- Nonviolence is Racist (via tahlalaliaaa)
Note gelderloos is white and an activist who went to jail and learned a lot from within the system. Learned a lot from poc in prison and is pretty young too. I think he makes a lot of credits to poc and Black people make a large part of the biblio of this book from what I remember
(via strugglingtobeheard)
“…to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence…”
It’s soul crushing. It’s integral, it aches so far back into our genes we can feel it threatening to ache our cells asunder. And when cruelty comes under the guise of professionalism, even and often niceness, we are treated like volatile, fire-spitting, unstable people who are overreacting to what we painfully learn is considered nothing - just like our lives and our well-being is considered - because somehow polite words are enough to sweep under the rug unconscionable horrors.
(via rebelion-silenciosa)
I’ve been trying to articulate this all semester.
(via thenewwomensmovement)
Yep. Nonviolent movements are great if you can do them. However, we’ve got this weird social dialogue going on that nonviolence is inherently the only acceptable type of protest. Which is really fucked up. The oppressor has set the terms and decided “No matter how justified your views are, we won’t talk unless you act in these specific ways.” Then when individuals try to stay within those bounds they are often ignored, or maybe they’re put on CNN for a few minutes between car chases and whatever celebrity bullshit is going on today. But when the frustration boils over and people do rise up, the media/society immediately labels them wrong because they aren’t expressing their views “correctly.”
(Source: fuckyeahradicalquotes, via mellydraws)
"one tiny thing that just struck me:
How far the show went out of its way to make it clear that Holmes wasn’t sexually pressuring Irene. He offered her his “bet,” and I can imagine a zillion other shows that just would have left it there as a sexy “edgy” flirtation, but no - Holmes stopped himself in the middle of the flirt to make it clear that he was not conditioning his silence about her thefts on her going on a date with him.
Similarly, when he came to see her after she refused to go out with him again, obviously someone somewhere was afraid he’d look like a stalker, and so he began his speech by making it very clear that he understood it was her right to refuse him - I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a show actually spell that out in words before, because we’re all supposed to understand that the romantic couple is meant to be and therefore all’s fair, etc etc."
How far the show went out of its way to make it clear that Holmes wasn’t sexually pressuring Irene. He offered her his “bet,” and I can imagine a zillion other shows that just would have left it there as a sexy “edgy” flirtation, but no - Holmes stopped himself in the middle of the flirt to make it clear that he was not conditioning his silence about her thefts on her going on a date with him.
Similarly, when he came to see her after she refused to go out with him again, obviously someone somewhere was afraid he’d look like a stalker, and so he began his speech by making it very clear that he understood it was her right to refuse him - I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a show actually spell that out in words before, because we’re all supposed to understand that the romantic couple is meant to be and therefore all’s fair, etc etc."
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giandujakiss [x]
in a media landscape where men pressuring women and violating their boundaries is portrayed as natural in many ~innocent and romantic~ relationships and pretty much obligatory in ~edgy dangerous~ dynamics, I still love this to ABSOLUTE PIECES
(via mswyrr)
This is Elementary, right? I might have to watch this show. I keep hearing good things about the gender dynamics.
(via pervocracy)
Apparently Hearthfire comes with tragic orphans. I need a house stat.
iamburdenedwithgloriousfandom:
The scary ass monsters of Doctor Who, ladies and gentlemen
(via a-sensitive-psychopath)
ACTUAL MESSAGE OF (500) DAYS OF SUMMER THAT NO ONE ACTUALLY REALIZES
(via a-sensitive-psychopath)
A Health Ministry inspector poured bleach over pots full of food in a Sudanese restaurant in Tel Aviv Sunday night.
The inspector, from the ministry’s district office for Tel Aviv, was participating in a raid by police and municipal inspectors on illegal businesses owned by African migrants. Altogether, the raid shut down 10 businesses in the city’s Neveh Sha’anan neighborhood, confiscating their equipment and welding the doors shut. The equipment was then loaded onto vans by other African migrants who had been hired as contract workers.
Many diners saw the inspector pouring bleach on the food, and one, asylum-seeker Aladin Abaker from Sudan’s Darfur region, posted photos of the incident on his Facebook page. He also described his feelings of humiliation.
“Everyone − except the destroyers − was in tears from the humiliation,” he wrote. “The waitress told us, ‘I’ve seen very harsh things in my life, like torture in Sinai, but this humiliated me more than what happened to me in Sinai.”
Abaker accused the inspector of “insensitivity to people and their culture, which sees food as a sacred thing that must be respected,” and said the raid was aimed at “embittering our lives so we’ll return to Africa ‘voluntarily.’”
Altogether, he said, more than 200 kilograms of meat, chicken and fish and over 500 prepared meals were destroyed.
The inspectors said they didn’t know where the meat came from and therefore feared for the diners’ health, Abaker wrote. “We told them: But this is the only place we’ve eaten all our meals for four years now, and none of us ever had stomach problems. Even whites eat here.”
The Health Ministry responded that inspectors had discovered “deplorable sanitary conditions, food stored under unsuitable conditions and temperatures, and food from unknown sources. In order to preserve the public’s health and that of the diners themselves, it was decided to destroy the food immediately. As part of the process of destroying the food, chemicals suitable to this purpose are used. It should be noted that this was a routine process of food destruction that is no different from other destructions of food/meat.”
Tel Aviv’s deputy city manager, Ruby Zelof, said the raids were carried out “to eradicate the undesirable phenomenon of businesses operating illegally, with sanitation and safety problems and illegal connections to electricity and water, and sales of alcoholic beverages without permits.”
Haaretz | Photo credit: Aladin Abaker
Israel is deporting Africans and also planning to put tens of thousands into detention camps.
Knesset Member Miri Regev — a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud Party — called the refugees “a cancer in our body” and Danny Danon — also a Likud Knesset Member — wrote on his Facebook page referring to the Africans as “infiltrators”. Interior Minister Eli Yishai said the African asylum seekers threaten “the Zionist dream,” adding, “Jobs will root them here.”
See also:
- Why is the birth rate in Israel’s Ethiopian community declining? Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel were coaxed into agreeing to injections of long-acting birth control drugs, or told they would not be allowed into the country
- Israeli woman has her photo taken with Africans, titles the Facebook album: “Late night tour of the Tel Aviv Safari”, captions the photo: “There are no signs forbidding taking pictures with the animals. There were no signs that forbid feeding, but we passed on that.”
Stupid fucks
israel would you fucking stop.
(via cptnsexy)
Iron Man 3
Was really good. For the most part. The end was shaky—it felt like they got lazy about the epilogue. But for the most part it was filled with all sorts of things I find interesting about Iron Man: the fact that Tony Stark is a regular dude who can make amazing things, but is ultimately human and definitely not a superhuman; Pepper Potts being awesome (anyone who disagrees get the fuck out); and beautiful acting. About the only thing I didn’t love, aside from the rush ending, was that it seemed like Tony’s PTSD was being treated sort of like a joke sometimes. I couldn’t tell whether the tone on those panic attack scenes was supposed to be funny or serious, or funny because it’s true… idfk. In some ways I had to laugh because yes the most random things can set them off and the scene with the kid was perfect because people are actually like that. “Oh, that’s freaking you out? Let me continue to talk about it. Why won’t you stop freaking out? God, just calm down already.”
But otherwise! Yes. Fun all around. (Esp the Mandarin reveal. Come at me, internet dudebros.)
