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discoverynews: Ugly Animals That Need Saving Too The recently...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:50:37 -0400

Ugly Animals That Need Saving Too

The recently formed Ugly Animal Preservation Society (UAPS) is, according to its president Simon Watt, “dedicated to raising the profile of some of Mother Nature’s more aesthetically challenged children. The panda gets too much attention.” Watt, who is also an evolutionary biologist, and his team definitely did not showcase cute and furry pandas at recent UAPS events held at the Edinburgh Science Fest and Bristol’s Big Green Week. Media attention instead was paid to animals such as the appropriately named blobfish.

They’re so ugly, they’re cute. Save ‘em! (My favorite is the naked mole rat — looks like this specimen had a particularly rough night out)

searchingforknowledge: knowledgeequalsblackpower: thenapturalon...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:53:42 -0400

searchingforknowledge:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

thenapturalone:

diemeowderkatze:

I AM SORRY BUT THIS IS WHY I AM EMBARRASSED TO BE AN AMERICAN. IF A HIJAB THAT DORNS THE AMERICAN FLAG PATTERN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BUT SKIMPY ASS BIKINIS OR WEARING THE FUCKING ACTUAL FLAG IS ACCEPTABLE, JUST BECAUSE THE PERSON IS WHITE, I WANT TO FUCKING THROW UP.

(I don’t have a thing against Audrey Kitching, she was just merely and example).

But this fucking disgusts me right here. It makes me want to say, fuck this country and its racism and double standards.

I LITERALLY FUCKING CAN NOT

Give her a bullet to the head for walking down the street, minding her own business?? And they think SHE’S the terrorist.

white ppl.

losers-count-sheep: Okay no. I saw this video on facebook...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:50:36 -0400

losers-count-sheep:

Okay no.

I saw this video on facebook yesterday and I wanna clear something up.

This rabbit is not relaxed. Throughout the video, the rabbit is stiff as a board.

When rabbits are flipped onto their backs, they go into tonic immobility, which is a natural state of paralysis that rabbits and some other animals sink into. This is a protective, stress-induced behaviour that would protect them from potential threats, much like ‘playing dead’.

This is not a cute video of a rabbit enjoying a bath. This is a video of a rabbit showing stress-induced behaviour that has been known to kill rabbits. In this state, the heart and respiration rates of the rabbit lower significantly and if left for a long period of time - such as having a ‘nice relaxing bath’, can cause suffocation or indeed, a stress-induced heart atack.

A study led by Dr. Anne McBride of the University of Southampton found that rabbits show signs of extreme stress after an episode of tonic immobility. Another danger of placing a rabbit on his back is that he could break his back if he struggles against being turned over.

Never purposely place your rabbit into tonic immobility unless for medical reasons - meaning, if you’re a veterinarian or an EXPERIENCED rabbit handler or groomer. Intentionally inflicting severe stress on your pet to gain views for your cute video is fucking disgusting and abusive.

dweeb-prince: theuppitynegras: awetterversionoftheskies: th3sk...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:24:42 -0400

dweeb-prince:

theuppitynegras:

awetterversionoftheskies:

th3skinny:

If you’re not a feminist, you either don’t know what feminism is, or you’re a bag of dicks.

That is all.

good caption

imma let y’all finish but

commentary is a+

excepppppppt the “bag of dicks” thing bc no

The Wretched of the Earth: fuckyeahcracker: Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:05:28 -0400

The Wretched of the Earth: fuckyeahcracker: Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like...:

fuckyeahcracker:

Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:

Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet

I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this

Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:

Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions

White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism

More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are

Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs

Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly

White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects

Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy

Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown

Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism

NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t

White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism

Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism

Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism

Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!

Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.

Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana

Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?

But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(

westendblues: While you let your “inner black woman” out and start rolling your neck and ‘mhmm’-ing...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:11:45 -0400

westendblues:

While you let your “inner black woman” out and start rolling your neck and ‘mhmm’-ing everything allow me to let out my inner lapd officer and beat the shit out of you.

cleophatrajones: yannickbrouwer: This little company from...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:28:48 -0400

cleophatrajones:

yannickbrouwer:

This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis

How glorious is this?! Upcycling at its finest…

assfcuker: white feminists writing 33 paragraph essays on microaggressions they faced at work where...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:12:34 -0400

assfcuker:

white feminists writing 33 paragraph essays on microaggressions they faced at work where someone called them “mrs” instead of “miss”

but they wont even write a sentence about how feminism was founded on a platform of racism and how mainstream feminism is actively racist and trans*phobic

o

k

Photo

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:06:56 -0400

It alarms me

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:23:22 -0400

thatlupa:

how easily ya’ll can sympathise with:

Zombies
Mutants
Vampires
Aliens
Werewolves
etc

But simultaneously fail to sympathise or be moved by the real life struggles of PoC. Like, an hour into X-Men you appreciate the dynamics & pitfalls of an improperly integrated mutant/human society, perhaps why there are strong, sweeping resentment issues.. but not ever will you attempt to give us the same courtesy.

O k a y.

"‎’Slut’ is attacking women for their right to say yes. ‘Friend Zone’ is attacking women for their..."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:49:06 -0400

“‎’Slut’ is attacking women for their right to say yes. ‘Friend Zone’ is attacking women for their right to say no.”

- And “bitch” is attacking women for their right to call you out on it (via sourmilf)

This. One fucking thousand times this.
(via ostentatiousnarcissism)

nowinexile: On May 15, 1948, 65 years ago Jewish...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:18:58 -0400

nowinexile:

On May 15, 1948, 65 years ago Jewish Zionist militias launched a massive attack on the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine to ethnically cleanse them from their land in order to establish Israel as their Jewish state. This lead more than 750,000 Palestinians to flee their homes and become displaces as refugees in the neighboring countries. Most of the families that fled did not even have time to pack their belonging or anything in fear of being massacred by the vicious Jewish militias who went through villages massacring its inhabitants who refused to leave, most of whom were poor villagers and unarmed farmers.

“We must do everything to insure they never return. The old will die and the young will forget” David Ben-Gurion – First Prime Minister of Israel, 1949.

We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. And one day, soon, we will return!

aperfectsonnet-or-afoolishline: magical-marijuana: angryfacemeo...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:51:32 -0400

aperfectsonnet-or-afoolishline:

magical-marijuana:

angryfacemeowmers:

feminismordeath:

caitedge:

Holy fuck, this is disgusting. Absolutely and completely vile. The dudes that take these “creep shots” are fucking SCUM.

These women have no clue they’re being photographed. They’re just living their lives while some piece of shit takes photos of them.

The shit bags that take these photos hate women.

THIS IS RAPE CULTURE.

I feel really sick

Because she’s…wearing pants?

Because merely existing as a female in a public space = begging to be violated.

I honestly want to vomit.

every one needs to block/report : creepshots and send in an email to tumblr support.

A L B: Twitter vs Female Protagonists in Video Games

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:21:36 -0400

A L B: Twitter vs Female Protagonists in Video Games:

ohmygil:

femfreq:

Thanks #XboxOne #E3 press conference for revealing to us exactly zero games featuring a female protagonist for the next generation.

— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq)

June 10, 2013

Above is a tweet I made this afternoon in reaction to the fact that…

still life with fat girl: (TW: RAPE) Horrible realization about men creepshots gave me that actually has me in tears

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:07:31 -0400

still life with fat girl: (TW: RAPE) Horrible realization about men creepshots gave me that actually has me in tears:

beccabae:

feministartdegree:

feministfeels:

theroguefeminist :

It’s not about sex - they have porn, they haveas much fucking porn as they could possibly ask for

they have billboards and ads and primetime tv shows and hollywood movies and websites free videos magazines they have porn channels porn movies with sexy images of women

they have girls on websites who are paid to webcam with them

there are girls who post sexy pics of themselves online for them

none of this is enough, none of this is, at the bottom of it all, what they want

creepshots specifically says this isn’t enough - they don’t want pics of girls knowinglyposing (i.e. giving consent)

they want to violate, they want to rape, they want to own every woman walking down the fucking street

they want your teenager daughter, they want your mom, they want you

when you don’t know it, when you can’t say no, when you’re on the bus, when you’re walking down the street, when you’re at the beach

they get off on your violation, they want more proof that women exist for them and them alone

it’s sexy because it’s embarrassing, humiliating; they say it themselves

this is rape culture in its purest form

because women saying yes on screen, women saying yes to their faces, saying yes on their computers, on their phones is not what they want

that’s not “hot” enough

what’s hot is violating your consent, what’s hot is demeaning you, what’s hot is owning a piece of you against your will

and they won’t stop until we are all pornography

I firmly believe that anybody who uses or accesses Creepshots is a rape apologist and probably a rapist.

That anybody who takes photographs on the street of unwilling perceived women (to submit to Creepshots or not) is a rape apologist and probably a rapist.

Anybody who tries to defend Creepshots for whatever reason is a rape apologist and probably a rapist.

Anybody who sees Creepshots as anything other than an invasive, predatory, disgusting violation of our right to exist in public is a rape apologist and probably a rapist.

These people have given me zero indication that they could possibly be any other way and I have no obligation or duty to not see them as a threat to my safety and the safety of others around them.

From their About Us:

Picture Removal: If you happen to stumble across your picture on this site, you can two things. (1) You can admire the fact that there is something about you sexy enough that somebody wanted to creep you and send it in. If you fall under this category, then maybe leave a comment under the pic and be proud you made it! (2) If however, you wore something sexy, tight or revealing and are shocked, ashamed, belittled and embarrassed that you were creeped and posted on here, then contact us at the email above and include the link and description of the picture. Your request will be reviewed and if found legitimate, the picture will be removed.

BECAUSE THERE ARE ONLY TWO REACTIONS: 1) Flattered for being violated or 2) Ashamed for leaving your house at all. And wow, if they “review” your complaint maybe they’ll take it down! I hope these fuckers die in a fire. I could fucking vomit right now.

fashioninspirationdiary: Dress Pretty Oroma Elewa

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:58:14 -0400

fashioninspirationdiary:

Dress Pretty

Oroma Elewa

Photo

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:31:59 -0400

routinestabbings: writeswrongs: girljanitor: ghostdaddotcx: S...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:19:02 -0400

routinestabbings:

writeswrongs:

girljanitor:

ghostdaddotcx:

Self reblogging to add a thing I found:

http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-208/feature-malcolm-harris/

The account @Anti_Racism_Dog didn’t last long. Twitter suspended it quickly, a fate reserved only for the most aggressive, abusive and hateful users. What could a dog – an anti-racist one, at that – do to deserve it? @Anti_Racism_Dog had one real function: to bark at racist speech on Twitter. The account responded to tweets it deemed racist with the simple response ‘bark bark bark!’ Sometimes it would send wags to supporters but that was pretty much it.

For the short time it lasted, it was amazing to watch how people reacted to @Anti_Racism_Dog. The account would respond mostly to what the sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva would call ‘colour-blind racism’, that is, racisms that are generally right-libertarian in orientation and justified through appeals to supposedly objective discourses like science and statistics. It’s a notoriously insidious white-supremacist ideology, a virulent strain evolved specifically to resist anti-racist language. Colour-blind racism defends itself by appeals to neutrality and meritocracy, accusing its adversaries of being ‘the real racists’. Although its moves are predictable, they’re hard to combat rhetorically since they’re able to ingest the conventional opposition scripts. Colour-blind racists feed on good-faith debate, and engaging with them, especially online, is almost always futile. But when they’re barked at by a dog, one whose only quality is anti-racism, they flip the fuck out. They demand to be engaged in debate (‘Tell me how what I said was racist!’) or appeal to objective definitions (‘The dictionary says racist means X, therefore nothing I said was racist’), but @Anti_Racism_Dog just barks.

@Anti_Racism_Dog inverted the usual balance of energy in online dialogs about race. Precisely because the dominant global discourse is white-supremacist, it is rhetorically easier to make a racist argument than an anti-racist one. Look at almost any comment thread or discussion board about race and you can see anti-racists working laboriously to be convincing and to play on their opponents’ ‘logical’ turf, and racists repeating the same simple lines they were taught (‘I didn’t own slaves’, ‘I’m just stating the facts’, ‘The Irish were persecuted too’, etc.) ‘Trolling’ as a certain kind of internet harassment is tied to time: the successful troll expends much less time and energy on the interaction than their targets do. It’s the most micro of micro-politics, an interpersonal tug of war for the only thing that matters. But have you ever played tug of war with a dog?

A true troll doesn’t have a position to protect because to establish one would leave it vulnerable to attack, and playing defence takes time. @Anti_Racism_Dog, by fully assuming the persona of an animal, was invulnerable to counter-attack. You can’t explain yourself to a dog and you look like an idiot trying. The only way to win is not to play but this is the colour-blind racist’s Achilles Heel: they’re compelled to defend themselves against accusations of racism. It’s the anti-racist argument that gives them content; theirs is an ideology that’s in large part a list of counter-arguments. After all, white-supremacists are already winning – their task now is to keep the same racist structures in place while making plausibly colour-blind arguments against dismantling them. @Anti_Racism_Dog was empty of anything other than accusation and so left its targets sputtering.

The account served a second purpose: as a sort of anti-racist hunting dog. @Anti_Racism_Dog quickly attracted a lot of like-minded followers who understood the dynamics at play. Whenever it would start barking at another user, this was a cue to the dog’s followers to troll the offender as well. There’s only so much one dog can do alone. Colour-blind racism is particularly dangerous because it isn’t immediately visible as such. It provokes good-faith discussion from liberals about what counts as racism, muddying the water. But @Anti_Racism_Dog’s strategy draws new lines about what constitutes acceptable discourse on race, placing colour-blind racists on the other side by speaking to them like an animal. What would be taken as totally insane in flesh space can be infuriatingly clever online.

THIS ARTICLE HAS TEETH

I WANT ANTI RACISM DOG BACK

fuck twitter Im going to go delete mine

useless piece of shit it is

Brilliant.

albinwonderland: lipstick-feminists: [TW: SEXUAL...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:14:42 -0400

albinwonderland:

lipstick-feminists:

[TW: SEXUAL ASSAULT]

clitoracy:

dead-starks:

makhbro:

delarealidadd:

Cop Sexually Assaults Woman Then Arresting Her For Protesting

As if that wasn’t enough for them, they sent her child to protective services and put the mother in jail for “making false allegations against a police officer”, which is actually not a crime. Now that it’s been revealed she was telling the truth, not only is the cop fired, but even the judge who sat there and let it happen is under investigation.

never forget, acab.

physically painful to watch.

this news station actually just used a trigger warning though!

fucking gross

I can’t believe the judge just fucking sat there and played with the woman’s child. She should be fucking fired too.

I was kind of iffy on reblogging this because it’s very disturbing, but I think it’s important. Notice how she was bullied to the point of recanting her story, because she knew if she was arrested her daughter would be taken from her. That’s important. This kind of thing happens to women a lot, where a lot of women stay silent because they know if they speak up about the harassment they’ve faced their life will be made difficult or their safety (by extension, their family or children’s safety) will be threatened by those who would prefer they stay silent.

"They’re not spying on us to prevent crimes, they’re spying on us to retroactively convict us of..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:28:31 -0400

“They’re not spying on us to prevent crimes, they’re spying on us to retroactively convict us of crimes once we’ve pissed them off.”

- Twitter / claytoncubitt

I mused this a few days ago, before I saw the (must watch) Guardian video of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, where he specifically confirms it, at 7:10.

(via claytoncubitt)