you can’t deny the existence of rape culture when our judicial system is ran by these gross ass men who justify it
I’m so fucking done with this country. We aren’t even going backwards in time, we are going to a whole new level of ignorance, hate and evil.
WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT
21-year-old Baltimore Country man dies after being beaten up by police officers.
Tawon Boyd, a 21-year-old man from Essex, Maryland, was hospitalized after a fight with police, where he was later pronounced dead.
Police were called at 3AM on Sunday to the first block of Akin Circle in Middle River on a report of a disturbance. Boyd was found “confused and paranoid, sweating heavily.”
According to the police Boyd refused to obey orders and began fighting officers, but victim’s family and Deona Styron, his fiance, tell a different story:
“He on the ground, 5 other officers on top of him, and not only that, one police officer got his arm around his neck like this, punching him, punching, him and throughout the whole thing he’s like I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe…”
There is no way you can twist this story to justify the police beating this kid to death. Police were called to help, but they ended up killing the guy. There is no excuse - they’re supposed to serve and protect and they have to be able to deal with all kinds of people. Not everyone is mentally stable, not everyone is white, but that does not give you the right to beat them to death!
#TawonBoyd #BlackLivesMatter #StopPoliceBrutality
#StayWoke #Amerikkka
over how much time?
Per year.
This is genocide.
The women of NASA
Very important to see and share…
Respect
Who cares what they have to say about you? Just do it
❤ let’s empower ourselves and our girls ❤
Plz like the video on YouTube !
A lot of people think the girls in the video are actors. they’re actual arab athletes, the first of their kind in their countries. First female Emirati parkour coach @leap.of.hope first Jordanian female boxer @arifabseiso first female Tunisian fencing Olympic bronze medal winner @ines_boubakri and First female Emirati figure skater @zahralari (Instagram handles)
the video doesn’t have enough likes and it’s disgusting and shameful how arab societies deem female empowerment as something to be “disliked” ..
please support the video and “like it” !!!! our girls deserve to feel empowered !!!!!
Superdeluxe im screaming this is incredible
i’m so in love with this. i can’t even. ah. my favourite feeling in the world is putting your head beneath the water and entering an entirely different place, so peaceful, so quiet. what i miss more than anything when i’m living away from the ocean is being able to duck under and leave all my worries on the surface.
This is extraordinary
not only that, but they say only about 5% of ocean depths have been observed. And around 70% of Earth is covered by water. I just think that’s mind-blowing.
Summer before my senior year of high school I decided I really wanted to be a champion. I wanted to win, I wanted to be that athlete that always got articles in the newspapers and medals at every meet. That summer I trained the hardest I ever have in my whole life. Every morning I would wake up at 6:00 am to run 8 miles, or do a workout. On the weekends I would do a long run, my longest being 15 miles. I was totaling at least 50 miles each week and each day I would train by myself. Quietly hoping to come in that fall and be great. The first race of my cross country season I ran a 5k in a PR of 20:45. After that things went downhill. I got plantar fasciitis and struggled to simply walk around school. When I would run, my body was constantly fatigued and my foot would be in so much pain. I consistently ran around a 22-23 minute in all my 5ks and was placing no where even close to the top girls. I felt like my entire world was falling down around me. I gave up so much for this, I made so many sacrifices in every aspect of my life, especial socially, and it just wasn’t paying off. As indoor track started the plantar fasciitis went away but the fatigue in my body worsened. I hoped to break my PR of 12:02 in the 3200, but that season I struggled to break 13 minutes, only doing so a couple times. As I went into indoor track, I decided to see a doctor. Something wasn’t right. Sure enough I was anemic due to an iron deficiency. I started taking iron pills and my times got faster and faster and I got stronger and stronger. The picture shown above is me after I won my first race ever. That’s all I ever wanted… all of the passion, dedication, hard work, the early mornings of my pushing myself to run 6 mile repeats on the track alone, the nights of saying no to hanging out with my friends so I could get my sleep, finally it all paid off. It’s silly, I won the 1600 at a small meet with only a few teams running a 5:48 (pretty bad I know) but the whole feeling of winning was something I had always wanted. I couldn’t help but break down into tears after finishing. I am now in my freshman year of college and ran a 5k this season in 18:45. I go to a D2 school and came in hoping I would be top 7, but I am the 3rd place runner on my team right now. I have become a stronger and faster runner. I am proud of myself for continuing to dream even when it was hard. Things seemed hopeless, but you should never ever give up. It may take some time, sometimes years, for your hard work to pay off, but it will. This, right here, is why I run. I want the feeling of winning again and I am so determined to do it. I have 4 years in college to make it happen, and I know I can.
An edit to this: I ended my cross country season as an all american, placing 35th at d2 nationals. So far this indoor track season I have ran a 9:58 3k, 5:08 mile, and 17:28 5k. It’s amazing what can happen if you just believe!
WOW I love this so inspiring!!!!
This gets ne every time it’s so damn cute oh my god
you go girl!!
i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:
- i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live
- most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person
- im not a pissbaby
my white friends that have reblogged this give me life
4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP
If ur white and like this post I fux with u
^absolutely
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this
6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death
Waits for my white mutuals to reblog😌
yesyesyesyes
7. if I expect dudes not to “not all men” me how can I rly “not all white people” since it’s asking for the same exemption
Girls hit your hallelujah
Girls hit your hallelujah
GIRLS HIT YOUR HALLELUJAH
CAUSE CUTE SMALL DOGS GON GIVE IT TO YA
puptown funk
Stop.
Wait a minute.
Here’s my bowl:
Put some kibble in it
Golden Retriever shows puppy how to use slide
BEST THINg eVER
THE OLDER DOG GRABBED THE LEASH I’M GONNA CRY
I WANT A DOG ALREADY
reblog this if ur the friend that walks in the grass when the sidewalk is too small
The Morning After I Killed Myself
The morning after I killed myself, I woke up.
I made myself breakfast in bed. I added salt and pepper to my eggs and used my toast for a cheese and bacon sandwich. I squeezed a grapefruit into a juice glass. I scraped the ashes from the frying pan and rinsed the butter off the counter. I washed the dishes and folded the towels.
The morning after I killed myself, I fell in love. Not with the boy down the street or the middle school principal. Not with the everyday jogger or the grocer who always left the avocados out of the bag. I fell in love with my mother and the way she sat on the floor of my room holding each rock from my collection in her palms until they grew dark with sweat. I fell in love with my father down at the river as he placed my note into a bottle and sent it into the current. With my brother who once believed in unicorns but who now sat in his desk at school trying desperately to believe I still existed.
The morning after I killed myself, I walked the dog. I watched the way her tail twitched when a bird flew by or how her pace quickened at the sight of a cat. I saw the empty space in her eyes when she reached a stick and turned around to greet me so we could play catch but saw nothing but sky in my place. I stood by as strangers stroked her muzzle and she wilted beneath their touch like she did once for mine.
The morning after I killed myself, I went back to the neighbors’ yard where I left my footprints in concrete as a two year old and examined how they were already fading. I picked a few daylilies and pulled a few weeds and watched the elderly woman through her window as she read the paper with the news of my death. I saw her husband spit tobacco into the kitchen sink and bring her her daily medication.
The morning after I killed myself, I watched the sun come up. Each orange tree opened like a hand and the kid down the street pointed out a single red cloud to his mother.
The morning after I killed myself, I went back to that body in the morgue and tried to talk some sense into her. I told her about the avocados and the stepping stones, the river and her parents. I told her about the sunsets and the dog and the beach.
The morning after I killed myself, I tried to unkill myself, but couldn’t finish what I started.
I needed this tonight
If you’re looking for a sign not to then this is it. My inbox is open if you think talking to a stranger will help.
This is devastating and precious. Wow.
If anyone needs this, here you go. Just remember that somebody, somewhere always cares about you.
shit this gave me goosebumps
I needed this. Tomorrow’s a new day
Popular apps perfect for students
Staying on top of all your to-dos, errands, tasks and due dates can get complicated but luckily there is an app for everything! If you’re looking for app to wake you up in a morning, manage your priorities or soothe your anxiety, you’ve come to the right place. Here is a list of all the top apps that students are using:
Organisation
- Wunderlist
- Planner Pro
- 24me
- Remember The Milk
- Google Calendar
- Pocket Schedule - Class Schedule, Homework Planner
- AwesomeNote2 - All in One Organiser
- AnyList
- The Homework App - Your Class Assignment & Timetable Schedule Planner
- My Study Life
- Calendars by Readdle - Event and Task Manager
- Class Timetable
- Countdown+
- Due - Reminders, Countdown Timers
- Do! - The Best of Simple To Do Lists
- Workflow: Powerful Automation Made Simple
- Glass Planner
Productivity
- RescueTime
- Streaks
- Forest
- ToDoIst
- Tide - Stay focused, be peaceful
- Focus Keeper
- Habitica
- Productive habits and daily goal tracker
- Plant Nanny
Note taking
- Microsoft OneNote
- Evernote
- Quizlet
- Notability
- Byword
- Flashcards+
- Goodnotes
- Outline
- Boximize - Structured notetaking, personal database, form builder, manager and organiser
- RefME - Referencing Made Easy
Sleeping
- Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock
- Sleep Genius
- Rain Rain
- Pillow: The sleep cycle alarm clock for sleep tracking
- Sleepytime Sleep Scheduler
Mental health and self care
- Headspace
- Stop, Breathe & Think: Meditation and Mindfulness
- Pacifica - Anxiety, Stress, & Depression relief
- Centered
- Buddhify
- Calm: Meditation techniques for stress reduction
- Moodnotes - Thought Journal/Mood Diary
- Colorfy
- 7 Cups Anxiety, Stress & Depression Chat & Therapy
- Companion
Health and fitness
- Sweat with Kayla - Fitness & Bikini Body Workouts
- Yoga Work Out
- Freeletics
- 7-minutes workout
- Waterlogged - Drink More Water, Daily Water Intake Tracker and Hydration Reminders
Finance
- UNiDAYS
- Pocketbook Personal Finance Expense Tracker
- Splitwise - Split bills and expenses the easy way
- Pocket Expense - Personal Finance Assistant
- Daily Budget Original Pro - Saving Is Fun!
- Mvelopes
- PocketGuard
- Mint
- The Coupons App
- Groupon
Hope this helps! x
Just to put things in perspective