The Whale… If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
An Unarmed Black teen was just shot dead by police on #BlackOut Day.
19-year-old unarmed teen, Tony Robinson, was shot and killed by police in Madison, Wisconsin last Friday night. According to several news sources, Madison Police Chief Koval said they received calls looking for a man who had committed battery and was jumping in and out of traffic One of the police officers, Matthew Kenny, spotted Tony and then proceeded to follow him into his apartment and forced his way in after claiming to “hear a disturbance inside”. the unarmed teen then “got into an altercation” with the Officer who then shot him 5 times in the chest, and dragged him out to the street while he bled out. He was later rushed to the hospital where he later died.
Large Protests have already begun in Madison and are quickly spreading all over.
#StayWoke #BlackLivesMatter
Sorry to ruin #BlackOutDay but this is why it exists in the first place.
This whole “trust Tumblr blindly” thing is eventually going to kill someone, as I became pointedly aware of on one occasion I was making fun of how poorly a particular bleach-based drain declogger was working on my sink and got a chorus of really dangerously misinformed people telling me to pour vinegar in after it because all cute little cool kid diy home care blogs they’re following talk about vinegar like it it’s the big secret the cleaning companies don’t want you to know.
And I cringed knowing that someday, some Well Actually expert who read a blog article once is going to give that advice to someone who unfortunately didn’t take high school chemistry and isn’t aware that MIXING VINEGAR AND BLEACH MAKES CHLORINE GAS.
holy fucking jesus tits reblog to save a life
i genuinely did not know this holy fuck that’s terrifying
I’ve been hearing that the asian community is planning something similar to blackout. It’ll be in May (Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month). So unlike #yellowout, it wont take away the spotlight from blackout. Hopefully #asianinvasion will have the same support and success as #blackout and maybe there’ll be more movements from the other POC communities.
#blackout inspired other marginalized POC to embrace and share their beauty.
Thank y’all for scheduling in May! Let us shine 🌟🌟🌟
A new Iraqi immigrant was shot to death in Dallas, Texas while taking pictures of snow. He came to America for a better life…They say there’s no evidence that it was a hate crime but I mean come on. If it wasn’t a hate crime, what was it?
so FUCKING infuriating that white supremacists are getting away with these “alleged” hate crimes and murdering innocent people trying to better theirs and other people’s lives. like they move here for a better life, to escape terrorism and danger, only to be murdered while being amazed and seeing snow for the first time and touching snow for the first time. he was shot for the wonderment of nature inciting curiosity within him and his need to capture it. he was killed because someone saw that happening and felt fear and anger and hatred instead of love and compassion and understanding. he died because white supremacy is still rearing it’s ugly, intolerant head with movies like American Sniper. he died because of ignorance. He died in vain and that is unacceptable.
