INTJ|Libra|Slytherin

Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.

White supremacy and colonization really forced that male/female binary forced onto so many communities, lands, and cultures, huh?

I’m noticing that trend ☝🏾...a lot of cultures historically recognized more than the binary system that they’ve been shoving down our throats for centuries. Because they came and pushed their beliefs on everyone and made them assimilate. Come to find out that they were wrong...about a lot of things. But the irreparable damage they’ve caused 🤧.

YEEEEEEESSSSSSSS

Only in 2020 would someone engineer a bola for someone’s face

Me in the store: *sees someone take their mask off for no reason*

Me: …

Me: NOT TODAY— *fires maskinator*

Dr. Doof would 100% make this

This image is cursed, but not toward you, rather against any that try to wrong you.

THIS IMAGE IS A WARD

Didn’t they have to put her on suicide watch? When things got *really* bad? After she nearly threw herself out a window?

You *all* very nearly drove a young vulnerable woman to her death.

Over some stupid extra-martial fling. 

Let’s think about that.

She was 19 years old. Let’s also think about that.

At best, what she did was stupid. Let’s think about all the stupid shit we all did when we were 19.

At worst, what Bill Clinton did to her was rape. He was in an extreme position of power over her. Calling what he did to her coercion is being lenient.

She was 19 years old. Society nearly drove a 19 year old girl to suicide because she was coerced into oral sex by a grown, married man who could have been her father. We like to talk about far away countries that kill girls who are raped and how uncivilized that is. We did the exact same thing.

She is still looked at as a joke (“he Monica Lewinsky-ed all on my gown”).

We continue to do the exact same thing, to her and to others. We need to be better.

I remember to this day the image of her leaving a restaurant surrounded by male reporters grabbing her and groping her and jerking her off her feet. Predators.

In her TED talk (link) she talks about how, when the scandal first erupted and her life fell apart, her mom spent every night by her bedside and insisted that she shower with the bathroom door open. For months. Her family was terrified that if she was left alone she’d try to commit suicide. 

The whole second season of Slate’s Slow Burn podcast is a deep-dive into the scandal and resulting fallout. It’s really well-done and educational (especially since, for most of us, we either hadn’t been born yet or were too young to really be aware of it at the time), but I had to stop after two episodes because it was making me so incredibly angry.

The extent to which this young woman was betrayed by people she thought she could trust, abused by a system that claims to be a paragon of justice, and abandoned by a general public that was apathetic to her plight at best (and actively relishing/contributing to her abuse at worst) is, frankly, overwhelming. It broke my heart.

We treat her story (and Anita Hill’s, and many more) as though it’s the product of some sort of bygone era. As though we’ve evolved. That’s such a fucking joke - as anyone who watched the Kavanaugh hearings knows, something exactly like this could (and, in all likelihood, will) happen again tomorrow

This display in Ashmolean Museum shows how touching artwork affects material.

This is why museum staff get really upset when visitors touch stuff Please don’t touch the collection objects!

she’s that perfect combination of extremely judgemental and supportive

“god you fucking dumbass hope you feel better soon bud”

“Po from Kung Fu Panda is a himbo,” I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

“They’re right,” they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 5rd row stands: Jack Black himself

5rd

we all know Jack Black is not limited by our simple universe

this post is such a rollercoaster

WHITEWASHING doesn't only mean making someone's complexion lighter or paler. its in the way you change their nose to pointier one, the way you make their face smaller, the way you draw their chin like its "delicate." whitewashing means to take away ethnic features poc have.

Homosexuality explained in a German Children’s Book

my eyes are blessed 

just an additional note that the way Frank is described - “sein Freund” - the translation says “his friend,” but that can mean either “his friend” or “his boyfriend” in German. So the translation of “his friend Frank” might be creating a distinction in English that isn’t felt in German about how the narrator sees Frank. The narrator (and, by extension, the children reading it) might understand that Frank is his boyfriend from the beginning, or the distinction between friend and boyfriend might not be as strong as for us.

i wish birds brought ME presents

No, but think about this.

The crows she feeds obviously have their own little lives. They go about their business, and they spot *pretty thing* or /unique thing/ in question. What gets me is that the *first* thing on their minds as recipient of this thing is the little girl that feeds them.

They spot a thing, and immediately must think, “that nice girl with delicious foodstuffs must have this to show my gratitude.”

It’s actually more than that, though, if you read the articles or watch the videos. This has taken place over YEARS- it started with these birds following this little girl around because she was a messy eater and it has turned into a ritual for the family. They have a water station and food stations where they daily set out things for these birds and sometimes (but not always), these birds leave ‘payment’ behind for the food.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE

These birds are not just taking food and leaving shinies. These birds are watching over this family now. Their lives have become involved. These crows are keeping track of this girl and her mother even when they are out of the yard. How do we know?

One of them is a photographer, and one day while she was photographing some stuff on a bridge, she dropped her camera’s lenscap over the edge. There was no way she could get it back, so she left it. When she got home, the lenscap was sitting on the edge of one of the feeding stations, waiting for her.

Not only were the birds following and watching over her, they were smart enough to realize she dropped an Important Thing and cared enough to bring it back to her.

I could not have asked for more

At least now we know why Trump stormed out of his interview.

Stahl opened the book.

She.

Opened.

The.

Book.

Trump went through the expense of having a thick book bound… of blank paper.

Then handed it to a reporter. Not Hannity. Not Tucker. Not Ingraham. Not Bartiromo.

A reporter.

Trump’s been living in fantasyland for so long he’s forgotten that people in the real world don’t reflexively believe the shit he says.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-healthcare-lesley-stahl/

If you read the snopes article there are some facts I want to point out. The book is said to be 2500 pages. They call it his “health care plan” The PDF released by the white house claiming to be the contents of the book, is 512 pages. The PDF is not a proposal for healthcare, it is a copy of 13 executive orders and 11 “other pieces of legislation” enacted under the 45th president. The same paragraph says that is every bit of healthcare he has signed. “On top were pages…” Implies that it was separate, and there does seem to be a skinny little book she’s holding under the big one, when they mention his plan for the future. I’d say it’s 50-75 pages. So they padded the look of the pages by almost 500% and claimed it was a health care plan, when in fact it is a copy of all the things he’s done to try and repeal or damage the ACA. Look, it’s not entirely blank. Just horrendously padded. It’s not a health care plan, it’s the list of ways he’s tried to kill people by removing health care. This entire thing… Look if locking him in a room and swearing at him would make things work better I’d yell at him until my body gave out on me. Go vote for someone whos supporters don’t fly the Nazi flag.

From a 9th century Irish manuscript, the phrase ‘massive hangover’ (Latheirt) written in the ancient Irish text Ogham. The monk must have been having a very rough day…..

Source 

The exact translation is “ale killed us” which is somehow better

Mary Oliver, from “The Gardener”, A Thousand Mornings

My uncle, who grew up a poor immigrant on a pig farm, became a heart surgeon and keeps marrying into wealth.  His third wife is from old money.  She’s very sweet and I do love her to death but she’s completely out of touch with anyone who is not born wealthy.  She told me “Oh you simply MUST rent a villa in Italy for a summer.  It’s so great.”      Bless my uncle, he just started laughing his ass off and said, “Joan, normal people don’t do that.” 

She was so confused.  

Same energy as when all my coworkers were asking if I’d ever been to Cancun and when I said no they were like “oh, you really should go sometime!”

It’s not that ever going to Cancun is necessarily super extravagant, either, it’s that some people live in a world where they assume everyone around them is able to pick up and just do that. Weird

I think we need to apply this to older movies as well:

The homophobic gag in that rom com,

the racist side character in that coming of age story,

don’t just brush it of as a product of the time, acknowledge that it was bad then and remains a terrible aspect of the film today

[ID: a response to the tweet ‘What’s your hottest literature take?’ (By @cxcope). The reply is from liv / @boredromantic and says:

“ young women’s criticism of the (violent) misogyny in “classic” lit should be taken 100% seriously. if a teen girl says the rapey overtones of 1984 ruin the whole book for her, she’s not less intellectual. this goes double for girls refusing to read classics that are misogynistic”]

[ ID: Two screencaps from Buzzfeed Unsolved. The first shows Shane and Ryan, and the second is a zoom in on just Shane. The text reads: It’s very easy to condemn from our vantage point in history, and so we do condemn! Wholeheartedly! ]

Society doesn’t just hate poor people, it hates people who dare to “look poor” by refusing excessive consumption.

I’ve been watching these youtube videos of this girl in her 20s who lives in a van. She does so by choice; she first moved into her car out of desperation but, upon realising how much money she was saving and that she didn’t really need a house, she kept doing it and eventually upgraded her vehicle. She keeps obsessively tight financial accounts and works as many jobs as she can get in whatever area she happens to be in at the time so, naturally, she saves more money than most of her demographic who rent a house or apartment tied to one location.

And the comments on her videos are vicious. People just will not accept that she’s living in a van. People hate her for daring to have a nice phone and proper dental care, for daring to afford makeup, and still live in a van. “If you really lived in a van you wouldn’t spent money on makeup!!” people comment at the bottom of a 15-minute video of her explaining how she can afford more things because she lives in a van. They accuse her of “faking” her “lifestyle” and actually living with her parents who they imagine are really rich and pay for her stuff (they assume that she’d be bludging off them for some reason and never accuse her of renting her own place), they say that if she can afford a house it’s cruel to “appropriate homelessness” (???), they lecture her on how she’s wasting her youth and she’ll be “homeless for real” when she’s old if she doesn’t settle down with a job and an education (at the bottom of a video where she talks about fitting her 2 jobs around college) and then someone says it’ll be fine because she’s going to settle down with a sugar daddy and make him pay for everything. The only “evidence” for any of these claims is that she lives in a van, is pretty, and owns some nice things. How dare she choose not to give her money to a landlord?? The nerve!

Thing is, there are a LOT of youtubers who live in vans. They have pretty, modded vans with room in the back for their snowboards and skis and they moved into them to “embrace the minimalist lifestyle and get away from the hustle and bustle” and things like that. Those sorts of youtubers don’t get this kind of hate. It’s okay if you’re rich enough to turn your life into a semicontinuous holiday and travel the world in a fashionable way; it’s not okay to do it to save money or because you think renting or mortgage is a con game. It’s the eco-friendly, reduce-food-wastage, off-the-grid, mason-jar-minimalism stuff all over again and I’m just sick of seeing this message where it’s okay to reduce costs or recycle so long as you look like a rich person on a whim while you do it. But if you dare to do it otherwise, if you dare to not be terrified of looking poor, you must be a horrible person.