Day: August 1, 2017

murphmanfa:

sandvichette:

vigilantespanties:

Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech – 1997

Our neighbor didn’t die, he was just needed someplace else.

He took a moment that was about recognizing him and turned it into a moment to recognize everyone who was there and everyone who made it possible for him to do what he does. If you want a perfect example of why he is so fondly remembered and such a great person, it’s tough to find a better one than this.

Source: 3rdheart

selchieproductions:

seals-cats-and-random-stuff:

counting-sinful-stars:

seals-cats-and-random-stuff:

How did I miss this before?! 

I never understood this part, someone explain please?

When Shakespeare is flirting with Martha, the doctor says “We can all have a good flirt later”, and Shakespeare takes this to mean all three of them. He seems pleased at the prospect of flirting with the Doctor, suggesting he’s Bi As Heck™, and the Doctor picks up on this, mentioning the 57 academics thing, which is referring to academics who argue that Shakespeare was bisexual.

It’s a good scene. 😀

I mean yes, it’s definitely that, i.e. Shakespeare being bisexual, but it’s ALSO because Martha is black, and each and every time an academic argues that the dark lady was a black woman – most likely Black Luce, an African woman who ran a brothel in London back in the days – half of the ivory tower has a hissy-fit, and the other half, which only barely survived being shown multiple proofs of him having been bisexual, goes into cardiac arrest, because “not our precious Shakespeare”. 

I once wrote the following line in an essay during my BA studies in English;  

Shakespeare also lets the reader know that his
mistress […] presumably is a black woman, 

and followed it up with seven footnotes, quoting some of the world’s foremost Shakespeareans, and my marker still had the audacity to write “is this really plausible” next to it, but I digress.

Source: seals-cats-and-random-stuff

selchieproductions:

You know that feeling when you really need to clean your flat, but you’re just not in the Mood™, so you’re sitting their in the shambles of what used to be a nice home, wondering what happened to your life. Like, where did you go wrong, there’s an empty bottle of coke on the floor and you have a washing machine, pick up those dirty socks, like.

autismus-obscurus:

I would be the absolutely worst witness in crime history.
Police: Can you describe the face?
Me: Uhhh I didn’t really look at the face.
Police: You said you talked to them for ten minutes ?!?
Me: That still doesn’t mean I looked at their face.

girlgrowingsmall:

qjusttheletter:

dysfunctionalqueer:

telegantmess:

pragnificent:

betheothergirl:

outsider-my-ass:

via [x]

[Loni (Literary_zealot) Tweeted: “It’s a privilege to just laugh with your friends and say, ‘There’s always Canada’. Not everyone has that option.”

Coffee Spoonie replies:  Literally, Disabled folx cannot immigrate to Canada.
They don’t get that I cannot ‘lol move to Canada!’, bc Canada doesn’t want my crip ass.”]

This is something a lot of people are not aware of. Canada will deny people permanent residency on the basis of certain health conditions if they cause ‘stress’ on the healthcare system (or if they are a danger to public health or safety). It’s an attempt to prevent people taking advantage of Canada’s universal healthcare, but unfortunately even if someone is immigrating for legitimate reasons, there’s a good chance they’ll be denied (it may be overlooked at times, but that doesn’t change that a family of refugees could be denied immigration if a kid has down syndrome)

We’ve still got a lot of shit to work on here

Many countries have similar laws. 

New Zealand does.

iirc so does the UK

“an attempt to prevent people taking advantage of Canada’s universal healthcare” i know people will argue economics and all but if someone has a need to “take advantage of” this country’s healthcare, they have a need to immigrate here. healthcare is a right, despite the way it’s treated as a privilege.

Holy shit, this is huge news for me. I’m planning to move there in 2-3 years. I need to do some research. Thank you for posting and sharing this info.

Source: outsider-my-ass

humanitiaes:

shoutout to the students who, in their pursuit of education, cannot afford to even go see a film at the cinema

shoutout to the students who had to give up their dream schools because they couldn’t afford it

shoutout to the students who recycle their stationery year after year

shoutout to the students illegally downloading books and textbooks because they can’t afford even the e-book versions

shoutout to the students living on the cheapest coffee

shoutout to the students who have sewed their bags/backpacks over and over again because they can’t afford a replacement

shoutout to the students working part time and full jobs to make ends meet and pay their bills

shoutout to the students who have to give up their passions, indulgents and going-outs because extra money is hard to come by

shoutout to the students affording to go to school, but too poor to do anything else

shoutout to the students that run themselves thin in the process of getting an education

shoutout to the students that prevail despite all this

shoutout to the students who need to take a break from all of this

you’re great

thefamilyspinster:

teamrcket:

nope:

correctdichotomy:

(image credit to Dan Hoare on twitter)

I ONLY JUST LEARNED ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THIS MUSHROOM????? WHICH ERUPTS FROM AN EGG BEFORE UNCURLING HELLISH ARMS, EXPOSING ITS STICKY MASS OF SPORES TO BE SPREAD BY FLIES ATTRACTED BY THE SCENT OF ROTTING FLESH???

Admittedly, I am easily won over by all organisms that attract flies with the scent of rotting flesh. But the octopus stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri) also has tentacles, a freaky egg stage, and blackish goop, so it’s my favorite now.

i want to die

Ik @salocinogul gonna wanna c this

@glumshoe this seems up your alley

Source: correctdichotomy