Sometimes I wonder if native English speakers appreciate how much more comfortable the internet is for them than for the rest of the world

Like, you can go on tumblr and simply read stuff in your mother tongue? Amazing. Go on youtube and you don’t have to replay some sentences ten times to try to understand what they’re saying? Incredible. Look for practically anything on google and know that there will be a fuckton of results that you can read without having to spend half the time looking up words in a dictionary? Fascinating. Make a post or send an ask without panicking that you’ll make a silly mistake or that they won’t understand what you meant? Unbelievable.

Show some respect, people.

THANK YOU

The story of Balto is interesting. He led a team of sled dogs across the Alaskan wilderness in the dead of winter with diphtheria antitoxins to stop an outbreak in Nenana Alaska. Diphtheria is a deadly infectious disease that could wipe out a third of a town’s population. It is mostly unknown to the public today because of vaccines. Balto’s body is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

He’s a big hero of mine!

Let’s not forget Togo! Who, at 12 years old during the serum run, lead his team 200 miles through much more dangerous conditions during the first leg of the journey before Balto ran the last 55-mile stretch.

Togo and Balto didn’t bust their asses for dying children for you to turn around and not vaccinate your damn kids

sis... your education, career, and money will never wake up one day and decide to leave you

Needed this

white people have to stop thinking about non white languages like they’re mystical ethnic tongues, getting a tattoo in mandarin or arabic doesn’t make you more spiritual, putting tamil in your old (european) gods aesthetic post is weird, and google translating your poetry into farsi is painful to look at. this is just how we communicate please be normal

gay😔irl

Wendy Carlos

For people who might not know - Wendy Carlos is a trans woman who was deeply influential in early electronic music and hugely involved with the push to have synthesizers seen as real instruments.

Some of the movies Wendy Carlos did the soundtracks for, that you may know:

She has three Grammys, and a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.

Oh and she also takes photos of eclipses that are so good Nasa uses them.

Her discography is here!

And here is a more recent photo of her with her cat, Pandora:

I hope he knew the impact he had on the lives of countless people around the world. I hope he knew how much he was loved and how many people admired his talent. How many people - little boys, little girls, men, women - looked up to him.

I can’t fight the tears that come stubbornly, I can’t actually believe that that is true but I know I’m finding comfort in knowing that Chadwick Boseman will literally live forever through the legacy he leaves behind, and that he’s already a legend and a symbol of hope and a symbol of power for forever.

Rest In Peace. Rest in Power, King.

here’s a twitter thread of charities related to colon cancer that you can donate to in honor of chadwick boseman (x)

here’s a suicide hotline for if any of you are in need of immediate support (x)

please take care of yourselves and your friends tonight everyone

black people, please take care of yourselves. please take care of your health. please take care of your mind. please take care of your spirit.

i understand if your soul is not at peace. i understand if you are exhausted. just, please take care of yourselves in these dark, hateful times and surround yourself with people who understand why.

any black followers and friends, a thread of mental health resources if you need them can be found here!

here's a carrd I just saw on Twitter too:

things you don’t point out about people:

don’t do it

don’t

let me add

• their smile- you have no idea how this can fuck someone’s self confidence up

• their nose - just don’t. ever. not even as a joke.

• if they wear long sleeves or pants in the summer.

• clothes - let people wear what they want to wear

• height

please be kind

A rule to live by: If it can’t be fixed in 5 minutes, don’t say it.

Ohh that’s a good rule

even if you’re joking, these things can stay with a person! loads of my insecurities are things i didn’t even realise until my friends pointed them out 

— michelle obama reminding you all TO VOTE. AND VOTE EARLY IF YOU CAN. 

My heart is broken, Congressman John Lewis, last of the big 5 Civil Rights leaders has passed away at the age of 80 after a fight with cancer. Now he belongs to the Ages. Go and cause some good trouble. 

The therapy we needed 💕 

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VOLUME UP!!! VOLUME UP!!!!

YOUR HEART AND EARS WILL THANK YOU!!!

Oh so wearing a facemask is an ‘attack on your human rights’ but children being kept in cages by ICE is perfectly acceptable to you. Okay.