From the Wikipedia page about the Fermi Paradox: Given the high scientific probability for alien existence, why can we find no evidence of their existence whatsoever?

A poem about loneliness

I pray that every woman finds someone that makes you feel like relationships really don’t have to be so hard. They don’t have to take such a big toll on you emotionally. You’re supposed to be indescribably happy

a short collection on catering to men. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012) A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (1879) The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (1993)

“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…” -Jorie Graham, in a conversation

This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of “civility”.

The kid and her lawyer were about the only humans there. For fucks sake, they’re kids.

HERE’S THE LINK TO SUPPORT HER WORK

aspects of emotionally abusive parent/child relationships that i still can’t believe they included in tangled:

https://www.gofundme.com/MsMajorRetirement

Here’s Miss Major’s gofundme. It’s hasn’t been completely funded in the 45 months it’s been open. 

“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass

In this essay, this writer will explore the implications of pretending that one’s own personal view is not part of one’s essay, and the inaccessibility of academia related to established custom of artificial detachment.

In this essay, I will demonstrate that the blanket ban on first-person pronouns in high-school and some university English classes is poorly understood and hastily adopted as a result. I will further illustrate that it is a mere substitute for explaining to inexperienced writers that excessive use of phrases like “I think” or “I believe” is unnecessary and rhetorically weakens academic writing, and that opinions expressed in an essay are already assumed to be those of the author. Finally, I will address strategies for effectively conveying that information to students, who often find it difficult to grasp.

In this essay, passive voice will be used throughout in order to distance the work done from any researchers, or, in reality, kind of imply all experiments were done by magical lab gremlins and the results were simply recorded. 

in this essay, enlightenment will descend upon you without the agency of any living being. you will know things, yet know not how you know.

prepare yourself. it begins.

I NEED HELP FOR MY SISTER AND HER SON

My name is Monica. And this is my sister Wiola and her six years old son Jakub.

Few months ago my sister’s husband left with another woman and has move to another country. We don’t know where excacly. He doesn’t pay for anything, he doesn’t send any money. He is a piece of shit. He was homophobic towards me, he cheated on her when she was pregnant. But my sister stayed with him because of the child.

Also she had to leave the place they live for the last 9 years because it was bought by his parents and they told her to move out. They never liked her and us to be honest because my family is poor.

She is back now in our parents home where I sill live too. There’s only two small rooms in the house, kitchen and one bathroom. All of this for 5 people now. They sleep on the floor in my bedrooom.

She wants to find a place to rent because right now she is stuck wth Jakub with me in my small room. She was a kindergarden teacher but the place got shut down because there was not enough children to teach. She is now unemployed with a son and tons of debts.

I don’t know how else to help her because I’m unemployed at this moment due to my severe depression. Please we can’t live like that for much longer.

Even a dollar makes a difference. And if you are not able to donate, please reblog.

In three weeks my nephew class is going on a trip to the sea for two weeks. Everyone except him is going. My sister doesn’t have 500zł to pay for the trip. I know it’s not super important but the kid been throught a lot and I know how he is gonna feel is he be the only one not going. Trust me, I’ve been there. But it’s not only that. His clothes are way too small, as the kid his age he grows fast and doesn’t even have good shoes right now. My sister doesn’t have enough money to pay for lunch in school every month and the director of the school keep calling out on that. Because everyone needs to pay.

RIGHT NOW SHE NEEDS $3,000.

We had yourcaring page but now it’s the part of gofoundme and that page doesn’t work in Poland so we can’t no longer use it. For those of you keep commenting that you saw this post before, yes it’s been around for three months but we only get 800$ last time and it’s now all gone.

So if you want to donate, this is our PAYPAL: monicakil@mail.com

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UPDATE ON FRIDAY MAY 25: OKAY I’M REALLY DESPERATE HERE. RIGHT NOW MY SISTER HAS 120ZŁ ON HER BANK ACCOUNT. SHE NEEDS GO TO THE DENTIS WITH KUBA, SHE NEEDS TO PAY PHONE AND ELECTRICITY BILL AND FOR SCHOOL LUNCH. I’M NOT ASKING FOR 3000$ RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW SHE NEEDS $650. AND SHE NEEDS THOSE MONEY TO THE END OF NEXT WEEK! WE HAVE TWO DONATIONS IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS AND NOW WE HAVE $200. PLEASE YOU DON’T HAVE TO DONATE A LOT. JUST A DOLLAR OR TWO. I DON’T WANT THAT KID TO BE HUNGRY IN SCHOOL AND IN HOLES IN HIS SHOES. PLEASE, PLEASE IF YOU CAN SPARE SOMETHING, PAYPAL: monicakil@mail.com

my art peaked wen i was 4 or so and would just throw whatever shit i could find (juice, rainwater, plants, moss, shells, dirt, sugar, soap, rocks, milk, toys etc.) in2 a bucket n stir it with a wooden spoon 4 hours sitting in th garden n wen som1 would ask me wot th fuck i was doing i would b like “Potion”

on my way to steal your garden veggies 

what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them? Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too

look at this shit

They radiate peace

capybaras are friend shaped

I love this post

This is actually a cool thing I know about!

In the wild capybaras live in large groups so naturally a female capybara will take care of not only her own offspring, but all of the other offspring in the group. So capybaras are super great mothers who will adopt pretty much anything and take care of it.

Lots of places that rescue different animals will give a group of baby animals to a capybara to raise if they have one.

Like puppies

Ducks

Deer

Emus

They are just super calm animals so they’re naturally great at mothering or just existing in a group!

mom shaped

Can’t wait for Hozier to return and put his big bad bitch of the forest foot back down on ed sheerans windpipe