remember in school when we had to put these orange covers over the keyboards when practicing our typing skills so we wouldn’t be able to peek at where the letters are?
no… what the hell kinda school did u go to? prison??
A pastor says donations of bottled water to his Flint church have dried up in the past month.
Donations poured in from across the nation in the weeks and months after it was learned that Flint’s drinking water was contaminated with lead. At times, the response nearly overwhelmed the effort to distribute water to Flint residents.
Bishop Roger Lee Jones’ north side church parking lot used to be filled with pallets of water, but now the flood of donations has slowed to a trickle.
this is the most sophisticated phishing e-mail I have ever received and if they had sized the logo correctly and actually proofread the fucking thing I probably would’ve clicked that button
actually please reblog this because someone else got it too. do not click on the links in this e-mail if you get one like it, just forward it to spoof@paypal.com and delete it
Of the 1,864 women murdered in 2010, 91% were killed by men. (by contrast, of the 3,872 men murdered, only 9% were killed by women). Of all the women murdered (by either sex), over a third were killed by a husband or boyfriend. women have legitimate reason to fear men, even the ones they know.
Of the 3,327 white people murdered in 2010, only 13% were killed by black people. 3% were killed by other or unknown races. white people do not have a statistically legitimate reason to fear other races.
women’s fear of men is based in reality, not bigotry. white people’s fear of other races is based in bigotry, not reality.
This came up on my facebook feed and I am so excited to see how generation Xers and Baby Boomers will find a way to use this to shit on millenials anyways
nice okay we’re off to a good start
oh boy do i have something to tell you about millennials, working, and debt that’s gonna absolutely blow your socks off
banksy’s family found this article
Why old people so mad.
It’s funny because millennials can pretty much multitask like it’s second nature simply because it’s necessary to keep up with society, while baby boomers whine about reading subtitles and can’t seem to program anything more complicated than a VCR.
But sure, ok, the kids are lazy and have entitlement complexes
Older Generations: -Make comics about kids not knowing how books work-
Millenials: -Read more books than anyone else-
Older Generations: …no we changed our minds reading a lot is lazy and entitled now
I had a professor, way older, talk at a great length about how his generation is more well read than Millenials. When it was brought up that our generation reads more, he literally came out of nowhere with “Well, that’s not the point. See, my generation was better informed. You kids don’t know what it is to actually sit down and read for information. This generation is the least informed of any previous generation! Other generations sat and read, listened to the radio for information. There’s access, but are any of you *actually* informed? No. If I wanted to know what happened in Finland to make it a country, I would go to the library, speak to another human being, and check out books to read on the subject. We were happy to do it.”
A girl a few seats behind me goes, “Bullshit. If I want to know that, I can Google that in a few seconds depending on my signal. I can youtube or Netflix a documentary on Finnish History. I can listen to podcasts made by Scandinavian historians. I can use Duolingo to get a better than basic understanding of the language, and use Amazon same-day to get a book in my hand by my last class of the day, delivered to the class. I can order Finnish food on my ubereats app, find a language partner chat app to video with people in Helsinki, use Google Earth to visit, patronise interactive museums, and stream the most popular films from the country *right now*. If I so desire I can take an opensource course from a highly accredited university about the same subject and apply to study abroad with a trusted program with the click of a button. I can use Tinder to find me someone there to get some with, I can buy plane tickets and find a top rated hotel for a good price with great reviews and stream their local radio stations with an app. I can buy train tickets, bus tickets and rent a car. We aren’t less informed. We just don’t learn things we don’t give a shit about or need just to say we did all smug about it. Stop sneering at us for the access your generation dreamed of giving us actually happening just because your old ass doesn’t know how to use it.”
Synonyms are weird because if you invite someone to your cottage in the forest that just sounds nice and cozy, but if I invite you to my cabin in the woods you’re going to die.
My favourite is explaining the difference between a butt dial and a booty call
a jewish kid was murdered by a nazi last week in california and almost none of the articles about it are mentioning that he was jewish or that his murderer was a nazi
he was taken into the woods by someone he thought was a friend and killed. hits pretty close to home bc multiple relatives of mine, including my great-great-grandfather, were taken into the woods by their own neighbors and killed during the holocaust
I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?
But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?
Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)
Or any sentence containing the word “finally”.
If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.
Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.
Out of the post I just reblogged I want to specifically hold this screenshot up as like…
I think Shiro gets a lot of his compassionate supportive traits played up as all that he has, and, don’t get me wrong, they’re there in force, but I feel like it’s astonishingly easy for the fandom to forget the part where Shiro is a high-strung perfectionist who… in all honesty reads pretty OCPD.
In early s1 he’s fairly hard on Lance because Lance is goofy and sociable and Shiro is hellbent on making a good impression, on Allura, on Rolo’s gang, on basically everyone they encounter not the galra. And that’s not a condemnation, it’s not “oh, poor Lance” because Shiro definitely hits his stride and eases up on Lance as early as the start of season 2, but, like…
Especially when he’s stressed, Shiro is really not good with things going off the rails. He wants things to feel neat and manageable and under control, and it’s that tendency that- somewhat ironically- leads to him clashing explosively with Slav and Slav’s OCD. Because both of them are trying to cope by seizing control of their situation at the minute level, and Slav’s rituals, and Slav taking control of the situation, challenge Shiro’s control of the situation.
Overwhelmingly, Shiro knows his fussy high standards aren’t always fair. And his natural empathy and desire to take care of others, he prioritizes their happiness over whether he thinks their hair is parted the right way- his standards of appearance he mostly only applies to himself.
He even, in my opinion, reacts guiltily in all subsequent interactions with Slav after blowing up at him that first time, but that’s even more to the tune of what I’m talking about- if Shiro gets the shoe on the wrong foot as a first impression he tends to act like it can’t be salvaged, it’s all or nothing.
But frankly, when things don’t live up to Shiro’s standards, and especially when something falls short of his moral standards, Shiro’s incredibly quick tempered and quick to flat-out snarl. Aforementioned empathy and kindness, while powerful forces in him, take a bit of time to kindle in people, and while he will value people’s lives no matter what he thinks of them, he also pretty much came to despise Lubos with every fiber of his being just knowing what the guy had been up to.
I’m not saying this to suggest Shiro is an unforgiving demon or that the guy can’t chill, but, I think the fandom really needs to find a good middle ground between compassionate nurturing Shiro and Shiro the short-tempered perfectionist because frankly, they’re both major pieces of him.
