loliitalostinthehood:

I was on yikyak and words can not express how badly we need more people like this in the world.

chaotic-neutral-comics:

Actual thing actually said to me by more than one family member. And at the same time I was constantly dizzy, weak, and foggy headed.

Spoiler alert: Don’t say stuff like this. Losing weight isn’t always a good thing, and it shouldn’t be idolized!

mistercoventry:

Blossom knit them matching sweaters and BC’s trying to act like he doesn’t really like it (but he does)

priestmahad:

reverseracism:

postracialcomments:

reverseracism:

blueszoo:

Images that will change your Perspective on Life 📷

Never forget

Always remember this photo

this happened in 1964, St Augustine Florida

1964

Dont ever let people tell you that this stuff stopped 100 years ago. My aunt and uncle were already born. They are 52 and 50 years old. 

NEVER FORGET.

And that’s why those “haha black people can’t swim” jokes have never been funny. Because our parents and their parents and so on got attacked and harassed if they tried going to a public pool. So they didn’t learn how to swim. Learning how to swim isn’t a priority when your life is in danger.

oikawatouru:

#me when mom wants me to socialize

thankyougreenlantern:

What a wild adventure

empressofswords:

eatsleepblee:

theveiledwarrior:

hamburgerjack:

mothernaturenetwork:

Scientists successfully generate gasoline out of thin air
Breakthrough technology takes carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from CO2 and water in the air to create methanol and then converts it into gasoline.

We’ll never hear about this again. And we may never hear from those scientists again.

Amazing though.

Big Oil’s gonna be piiiiiiiiissed

Somebody go put these folks in the witness protection program before they get hits put on them by ExxonMobil

I’ve actually heard of a man mysteriously disappearing after he refused to the government to not go through with his making of a substitute of gasoline with water. So everybody needs to reblog. Seriously.

EVERYONE GET BEHIND THIS

bertholdtt:

I hate profiles

carryonmy-assbutt:

obytheby:

applecocaine:

myjamflavouredmindtardis:

megan15:

theybuildbuildings:

vintagegal:

Girls pose by a jail that recalls the witch trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Photo taken in 1945.

I recently learned that the water in Salem was contaminated with the fungus from which LSD is derived and a legitimate theory for the whole thing is that everyone in the town was tripping balls 

This might be the greatest thing ive ever seen on the internet

We did a whole massive thing on this in history. I believe the fungus in question is called Ergot and it’s terrifying. It makes your muscles spasm so when they had seizures that was the reason, not because they were possessed. One woman had to be strapped to her bed, she was seizing so bad. And, like ‘theybuildbuildings’ said, it had the same effects as LSD; as soon as you touch it, let alone consume it, it messes with your entire system. The worst thing is, you practically always had a bad trip. Many complained about bugs crawling under their skin or monsters emerging from the shadows to scratch and bite at them until they were screaming. It was a horrendous thing and the worst part is, Ergot is still around. It grows on crops and, if your wheat isn’t properly treated, it can be eaten and you’ll most likely experience the same as the women of Salem. 

god i love history

This is hella cool and almost correct… 

The effects on the people of Salem were probably from consuming bread with the fungus in it, not from contaminated water. And apparently rye is way more commonly affected than wheat. In fact, often the members of the clergy were able to afford nicer bread made from wheat and thus were not as commonly affected.

You don’t go on a spasm-y trip just by touching it. You have to consume it for weeks, which results in chronic poisoning. ( If you stop eating it early enough, you may recover. So when people suffering from these “demonic possessions” took refuge in churches and stopped eating low-grade rye bread they were sometimes miraculously healed. 

More interesting facts:

Ergot poisoning can result in convulsions & hallucinations, or it can cause gangrene, depending on which group of active alkaloids are present. (Horrifying, either way.) It killed a lot of people in Europe in the Middle Ages. 

In Europe, often there was a strong correlation between wet summers (which provide ideal conditions for ergot) and reports of witchcraft/ possession. And in Norway and Scotland, records of witch persecution are only found in areas where rye was grown and used to make bread.

And I just learned right now that one author dude translated the word “Beowulf” as “barley-wolf” which could indicate a connection to ergot. The LSD-like effects could be a valid explanation for stories of Old Norse warriors going into the a sort of trancelike battle rage.

(this is exactly the kind of stuff my herbology medicinal plants class is about, it’s so cool omfg. we had a lecture on ergot last week.)

if you don’t think this shit is tight then i don’t know what your on about

frowp:

i just want everyone in the whole world to see this and feel what i feel