I never even knew this and I’ve fed bread to ducks multiple times! D: Definitely reblog this so everyone knows!
POOR DUCKS OMG.
I PROMISE TO NEVER EVER FEED YOU BREAD EVER.
Bold Black & Bitchy: So they're casting a black man as James Bond...and let the great erasure of the English people, their culture and...
Seriously, I said this before with Lancelot and I’ll say it again, James Bond was not black! If we cast a white man to play a historically black character, everybody would be up inarms about it. Funnily…
“Those opposing the treaty argue that it would then potentially change U.S. law on issues, such as abortion and home schooling.”
Yes, you read that correctly: the GOP is so insensitive that 38 of them refused to sign a treaty on rights for disabled people because it might “violate US sovereignty” or [positively] impact standards for home-schooling disabled children. Or maybe something something abortion something. By the way:
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities essentially makes the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act a non-binding international standard. It requires no change to U.S. law.
(via current)
Some people have sent me Asks questioning why this happened, and this is more or less the explanation. “Uhhhhh it might hurt Christians home-schooling their kids or prevent us from overturning Roe v Wade, so no, no disabilities treaty for anyone.”
(via stfuconservatives)Colin Powell (via our-eloquent-incoherence)
“Okay, so here’s why girls don’t get flattered when guys comment on their bodies.”
Frost Flowers Blooming in the Arctic Ocean
Here’s a magical view of “frost flowers” blooming over the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Frost flowers form when newly formed ice “sublimates,” or changes directly from a solid to a gas without going through the liquid stage in subzero air temperature (-22C or -7.6F).
Browser Extension of the Day: Introducing Pop Block
In the age of information overload, there’s gotta be at least one thing you’d rather not see or read about when browsing the Internet. Enter Pop Block, a Google Chrome extension app that will block out any unwanted keyword for your optimized browsing experience. The app was created by Greg Leuch, an NYC-based designer and member of the culture-jamming group F.A.T. Lab, following the popular reception of his precursor projects like Shaved Bieber and Tinted Sheen.
Because I don’t think the Smith family gets nearly enough credit for diversifying the imagery of black people, the above is a photo collage of all the sci-fi, horror, and other genre media the Smith family has contributed to over the years.
And here are a few upcoming sci-fi/fantasy projects and other genres we don’t see nearly enough people of color in, to be produced by Big Willie’s Overbrook Entertainment:
- After Earth (formerly One Thousand A.E.) After a crash landing, a father and son explore a planet that was evacuated by humans 1,000 years earlier. (imdb)
- Untitled Angela Davis Documentary
- The Last Pharaoh the story ofTaharqa the Nubian king
- Amulet based on the popular steampunk children’s book it’s set to star Willow and Jaden Smith
- Monster Hunter a child psychologist is able to see the monsters that terrorize his patients
- Angelology based on the novel of the same name, a nun and an angelologist who go against those harnessing the power of angel/human hybrids
For those who think the Smiths’ are overrated. BOOM.
Having survived two assassination attempts, Mexican mayor found beaten to death
- Maria Santos Gorrostieta had been stabbed, beaten and burned
- She defied Mexico’s powerful drug gangs, who twice tried to gun her down previously
- She was kidnapped in broad daylight in front of her terrified daughter
- The former mayor leaves behind three children
This is an absolutely heart-wrenching and tragic story. If anybody ever dismisses wanting to end the nonsensical US drug war and the cause of drug legalization as something frivolous and self-serving to potheads, make sure you link them this article. 50000 Mexican people have died in cartel violence since 2006.
How in the world do people anywhere in the world find this acceptable?
The violence of the drug war is an everyday reality for Mexico. Yet, these stories are rarely found in American media.
Just this weekend, 20 bodies were found in a mass grave, asphyxiated, beaten or shot in southeast Juarez, which borders El Paso, Texas.
Drug war violence has claimed more than 50,000 lives in Mexico since 2006.
The next person to make a punch line out of legalization gets slapped on the face.
i wanna gobodleian library, oxford, england
